Fear porn ads on TV and radio are still a thing. States have brought back indoor mask “recommendations” (but not mandates). My parents are still nuts about the entire thing. So much so that my father obsessed over the state’s “death count”, and uses it to slam me for “not caring enough”…
My grandmother has had, like, four booster shots (because fear). My cousins rarely ever go out, and almost never without a mask…
But it’s not just my family. Someone told me today that he is no longer doing his job for the year, and all his colleagues have taken “an extended break until next year”, because “Covid means we are focusing on only essential services, not anything else”. And this is in the healthcare sector…
It’s insane. It’s been nearly three years. Less than 500 people have died, here. And yet, still this continues…
“Hospitalizations!” “Daily infection numbers!” “One more person died!”
I honestly don’t see them giving this up, or masks and boosters going away, probably like ever, here…
Which is just sad, frankly.
I assume other parts of the world have moved on, largely?
Certainly not Asia, notably, or fucking New Zealand of course, but I would hope that other parts of the world have, at the very least…
Here in Seattle I would guess 50% are voluntarily wearing those worthless masks everywhere. On the bus it's probably more like 80%. These people bought into the narrative big time, they're living the covid dream.
These lefty 'revolutionaries' are the most compliant suckers I have ever seen.
Oh wow, that’s much worse than here, then…
Last bus I caught, it was probably less than 30%, but admittedly the fear porn has ramped up since then, so…
Yeah, sounds like it’s still largely worse there, then, lol.
It's a very mixed bag in America. For example, where I'm at it is probably less than 1% that wears a mask. To be honest I'm just saying 1% because I can't remember the last person with a mask I saw in public. Which is so damn gratifying because I know there are definitely retarded gullible leftists who would love to still be wearing one, but they don't because they know they'd probably get tons of weird looks.
I'm currently in a major Dem stronghold hanging out with insane lefties. The city has recently attempted to reinstate a mask mandate, and nobody even noticed. When I crack jokes about the absurdity of coof, carefully crafted to not directly insult the branch covidians, the former mask police laugh.
You're doing God's work.
Most of the people I know don't wear masks anymore, and don't mention COVID. Around town, I still see some people in stores wearing a mask, probably fewer than 10%. Occasionally I'll see a lost cause walking down an empty sidewalk wearing a mask.
I know a few people, though, who are completely broken and probably not coming back. The wife of a friend has probably left the house less than six times in the last year. She met up with a mutual friend and asked her to stand farther away when they were walking outside. This was long after peak COVID.
It pains me to realize that the people who perpetrated this psychologically damaging campaign of fear will never be held accountable for their actions.
Nope. The only place I encounter anything is at the doctor's. No one else gives a fuck.
The fact that they're still conducting that charade just reinforces my plummeting opinion of the entire medical profession. I don't know what I'm supposed to do if I get a serious injury or illness.
I expect
youto die, Mr. Bond.Seriously, I've made my peace with the inevitability of death, and it has been... liberating. Not running off to the doctors any time I've got the sniffles (not that I've had them, since my bout with the original bioweapon). I'm okay with kicking off at 70 instead of 85, especially since I don't have children.
Yes, everyone is still wearing them where I live, but nobody seems to be bothered that I don't. NPCs everywhere, especially in restaurants.
Huh, guess I underestimated just how ubiquitous this still was, then…
Thought it was just here, but sounds like other places are worse…
Europe or North America, lol?
Aus here as well. Somewhat. Some do, some don't.
As for when it ends? It never will. There are people who STILL insist on doing things that have been proven beyond reasonable doubt to be useless, if not themselves harmful (like masking), and while that's their personal freedom to do that if they so wish, so long as there are enough people like that and they make enough noise, the government (regardless of which "side" is in power) will use it as an excuse to continue to hold onto power.
Thankfully I gave up on TV and radio a long time ago. I still get exposed every now and then. I would say that I couldn't imagine your brain on that shit all the time, but I can, because we clearly see the result of round the clock propaganda and what it does to people.
I remain convinced that MK ULTRA came back with very important information for the alphabet agencies, and that's the power that fear has on control over people. And lo-and-behond, there have been decades of fear porn. War on drugs, war on terror, global cooling, global warming, climate change, cold war, iraq war, covid, etc, etc, etc. Each and every effort has been an abject failure EXCEPT in granting the government more and more power because of fear of what might happen if we don't. Fear that was put in place by the very people demanding more power.
This isn't just about covid. This whole thing is about control, and always has been. Fear is explicitly used against you because the powers that be know it can be used to control you.
Fuck off. It's been Aussie forever.
In the big city? Maby 15% - 25% of people wore useless masks when the media and government drummed-up fears of flu / covid / whatever. Very depressing.
Went to shops outside the big city and haven't seen a single maskturbator clenching their magic talisman.
Children activites before Christmass started and thank God the "elves" and Santa were normal.
Enjoying the bits of normalcy while they last.
Masks and general virus hysteria are a permanent part of life in blue zones now.
It stopped in Ireland largely because of Ukrainians. Only a few weeks before they started arriving en-mass I was barred from public life, not allowed in pubs or restaurants because I was a great threat to society. Then we had to take in all these unvaxxed Ukrainians and suddenly the unvaxxed weren't a problem. It's beyond disgusting to treat people like dogs, yet never expect them to bite back.
One the places I get sent to work still has a mask mandate, and I thought only healthcare facilities were still that retarded. I only follow it when they enforce it and they're really inconsistent about it.
People who live in the real world where I live, live in the real world. Those that don't, don't. Which seems self-evident, but what it boils down to is: People who work in real jobs for a living, don't mask. People who work in fake jobs, or don't work, always mask.
You can generally tell if someone is an actively contributing member of society by whether or not they've got a mask on. Of course, some of those are retired people, but that still isn't contributing. Workers with masks on are generally "influencers", HR workers, or "inclusion" consultants.
Only people I see wearing masks are the odd person now and then who could be big lefties (It's great i can identify the brainwashed lefties and how many there are, thankfully far and few between) and employees at supermarkets which it seems is optional
Then again the latter is dealing with the general public constantly, I'd want a mask and taser for that job!
No more than 1 in 100 wearing the magic face napkin even in the city. I'm sure if I tried to seek out leftists I could find more. I've barely heard about Covid in 6 months. This is Texas though.
I still see people wearing them while alone driving their cars
Canada. I'll pretend you're shocked
Noone but the kooks and immunocompromised wear them in the glorified city that I live in. People were glad to be rid of them.
On the west coast of canada, and I'd say it's about 10% afraid and 90% not with the majority of that 10% being white people. There are still people who wear masks constantly even while driving, or have freak-outs in walmarts demanding others put on masks/show their shot status (I had one come after me and even have her boyfriend threaten to slash my tires, only for me to record the incident/send it to the police and have them issue her a ticket for disrupting the peace). Parts of here have moved on, but there are some who refuse to let go. While the covid debacle may have polarized people, it made it easier to identify the mentally unhinged and avoid them at all costs.
I’m in Texas and the vast majority around here aren’t
I live in the midwest and even the few people here who ever gave a shit about Covid have stopped. Yet despite this, every time you walk around a grocery store there's an ad every 2-3 minutes for "Get your updated COVID-19 booster shots at the pharmacy!" The last time I saw anyone wearing a mask it was in the Emergency Room line back in August, when some old lady came in to "get covid tested." She was wearing the mask in her car alone when she pulled up. Plainly neurotic. I can't imagine whole cities half full of those people - they get roundly mocked here.
Wow, the contrasts here, even within the US, are insane, then…
That sounds like the exact opposite of what others said for West Coast US…
Friggin’ weird times.
Enjoy that, then. It hasn’t been like that here for at least two years, sadly. Perhaps longer, by now… 😑
I think there might be some cause for concern regarding long-term impact, just because the thing can be a nasty piece of work in terms of what kind of effects it can leave behind, but I think the "official" course of action has been just as damaging (if not more) and incredibly foolish to boot.
There needs to be far more emphasis on looking into actual, non-pharmaceutical treatments and solutions to help the body heal and recover itself. Sadly this isn't likely to happen because of what an idiotic, corrupt, and greedy clusterfuck the world's medical and pharmaceutical industries are.
And then of course government officials and politicians, who are all in favor of employing tyrannical tools, have no interest in letting go of such a lucrative option.
Mostly older (40%), Asian (80%) and black people (70%) of people I’ve seen still wear masks. They don’t wear the cloth ones but straight up medical and painter masks.
What can I say? People want to be whipped and demand the government to enslave them.
I’ve only seen two recent examples here in the Midwest: the first was a man bun soy boy faggot at a donut place who asked his girlfriend if she was social distancing; this was about six months ago. The other was an old bitch at a pharmacy who held up the line because she couldn’t get it thru her dumbass head to go online and it will have all the answers to your stupid ass questions you dried up old cunt.
Side tangent: if anyone asks me why I don’t believe it was as bad as the media tried to convince us it was my argument is if it was so catastrophic then you wouldn’t have had a bunch of cunt nurses dancing around for TikTok vids like a bunch of stupid ass millennials and gen z’rs. Yeah it’s so bad but you still have time to dance like chimps for clicks. Fuck doctors and always remember: trust the science is the new opiate of the masses.
Here in the UK we've reached the point where the populace largely can't be bothered with it any more - with exceptions, quite a few Oriental types ("Asian" means something slightly different in Britain) do seem to wear masks when out, if you're going to hospital for some reason then, yes, mask, but other than that, no. It's no longer required on public transport, for instance; it takes quite a bit to get Brits marching in the street - though that's happened over this as well - you're far more likely to find quiet noncompliance once people have reached the point of just being done with it.
Just before Thanksgiving a memo was posted where I work saying they are monitoring the 'case levels' of our state and if they go up to some arbitrary number they'll reinstate a mask mandate for the plant. This is in reaction to several of the front office staff getting runny noses.
Aussies have no God; you now have what substitutes. Leftist holes are like that.
The solution will seem laughable: repent.
Here in my small German city nobody wears masks outside anymore.
Masks are still mandatory in public transport, though. And some people wear them in supermarkets but only around 5%.
There used to be test centers everywhere, e.g. in shops that went out of business or in containers they set up in busy areas). Those seem to be all gone now.
Dunno about fear mongering on TV or radio. Haven't tuned in decades.
It's probably worse in big cities (it certainly was a year ago). Luckily I rarely go to one so no idea what's it's like there now. Tried checking a few webcams but only found out that the tards from the local government are flying a Ukrainian flag at city hall.
small city in a purple state here. I see maybe two masks a week.
Every workplace has 1-2 people still masked out here in Midwest USA, but its otherwise not even talked about other than people referring to why all their favorite small businesses are gone.
Aus as in Austin?
leftist areas and big cities are still pumping up fear porn of course. thats your problem, you live in the least Texas city in Texas. Austin is more California than Texas at this point.
Aus as in Straya!
I would say most of this country is about as “liberal” as Austin, though… By US standards, at least.
City I live in currently is much smaller than Austin, though. More like… Anchorage size, or something.
'Straya is owned by the chinese even more so than Canada or the US. Your country does what China wants, including ramping up the fear porn
Sound like you live in melbourne
Most people don't where I live, but the ones who do, do it religiously.
I am living in a blue city in a red state. I barely see masks or covid stuff around, as the only people I see wearing them are the odd asian.
Where I am, the government is fighting a couple for custody of their baby, because they want unvaccinated blood to be used in his surgery, and the majority of the public support THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
So yeah, I dunno about Covid, but they’re definitely brainwashed lemmings who can’t fling themselves over the cliff fast enough as far as I’m concerned.
Nope, only time I ever have to wear a mask is visiting any kind of clinic which is rare, other than that everyone has moved on from it. Only person I know is my friend's dad who is a far left idiot and literally quit his job because he was upset that they removed the mandates lol