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[CLKD]

What annoys me is when non-masking wearing people reach across me in a store  .  I need to learn to growl, loudly  or wear stilettos?

[jaypo]

Even before the pandemic,I hated when people coughed all over the place without so much as covering their mouth,bugs me even more these days.

[CLKD]

Yep. 

[Pennyfarthing]

fantastic news today!  Went to our medical Practice and masks no longer have to be worn from today!  As soon as we went in I saw the receptionists weren’t wearing theirs so we didn’t put ours on and a nurse told us we didn’t have to. 👏👏

[Marchlove]

Great news indeed! I especially hated seeing young children being forced to wear them. xx

[C.C.]

fantastic news today!  Went to our medical Practice and masks no longer have to be worn from today!  As soon as we went in I saw the receptionists weren’t wearing theirs so we didn’t put ours on and a nurse told us we didn’t have to. 👏👏

Here we are close to the mask mandate being lifted by the provincial govt for medical buildings, public transit, and LTC. But, the bigger hospitals in the city are going to keep the masking mandatory.  The doctors don't think its a good idea just yet.
My supervisor has been going without a mask for a few weeks now (I'm still wearing it) but she came into the school this morning wearing one. She said her son and daughter and their partners went to a huge concert with over 30,000 people, all unmasked and now her kids are sick. They both tested negative but they are experiencing some covid sympttoms.    

[ATB]

I went to Stafford hospital yesterday and there were plenty of maskless people. Nobody cared.

[jaypo]

Was at hospital on Monday but EVERYONE was wearing one 🤷‍♀️

[getting_old]

What annoys me is when non-masking wearing people reach across me in a store  .  I need to learn to growl, loudly  or wear stilettos?

That always has annoyed me, and always will. There's no reason for people to invade others personal space, when being patient for a minute would yield the same result. It's not like they need the item so urgently.

The other thing that annoys me is people judging others for their choices to wear a mask, as it reallyu doesn't affect them in any way. 

[Marchlove]

I agree getting old, if people feel safer wearing them that’s up to them.
But I take great exception to children being bought up in a fearful way.
Most of us are approaching or are already in our twilight years and therefore , understandably, some  will want to take more care.
But our children are not to be sacrificed for the sake of us. That’s only my opinion and I will fight for every individual to choose what’s right for them according to their own circumstances. X

[getting_old]

I agree getting old, if people feel safer wearing them that’s up to them.
But I take great exception to children being bought up in a fearful way.
Most of us are approaching or are already in our twilight years and therefore , understandably, some  will want to take more care.
But our children are not to be sacrificed for the sake of us. That’s only my opinion and I will fight for every individual to choose what’s right for them according to their own circumstances. X

What I find interesting, at least with the children I know, is that they aren't viewing the masks negatively. Maybe it's just how their parents have approached things but the ones I know (ages 8 - 14) aren't fearful in any way. They are actually quite blase about mask wearing, and just see it as normal that they put a mask on sometimes. I think it's because their parents haven't made a big deal about it.
Do you actually know children who are being brought up in a fearful way, as honestly I don't think I do. I have seen people talk about children suffering social anxiety as they haven't been in school, but again the children I know seem to have adapted to being around others now.

[CLKD]

I think that because parents were caught on the hop with regards keeping children from school, adult anxiety filtered down.  None of us knew where this Virus was taking the World plus there is so much accessible news across all age groups.

Then as the World opened up, schools were taking children/not which caused problems for carers/parents to get child care ......... = more anxiety.

Certainly the majority of children locally seem OK.  Watching them going to school, some wear their masks with others that don't, some carry them ......   Those that could accept ZOOM teaching probably felt better than those low-income families without access to more than 1 computer, I remember companies stepping in to provide laptops etc. as well as teachers taking food parcels to those in need.

Children are in general more resilient than adults, if those adults are calm about situations.  I think many problems stem from adults not explaining clearly and calmly.  They are more connected: when we were in school we didn't see each other until the next day or Mondays ......... we didn't have a home phone for example.

I love my mask 

[ATB]

I mean, they have actually done studies on the affects in children. I don’t know what people think anxiety in kids is meant to look like when they walk around, how would you know if they’re ok or not? Yes I’m sure adult anxiety affects kids but it would be hard not to feel anxious about the whole thing, including the affects of school shut downs on our kids. We spend so much time on the forum understanding anxiety, it’s surely understandable during this pandemic that people get anxious, including children. Considering half of us have anxiety anyway, none of it surprises me. The worst impact on children though is not the masks, it’s the at-risk children who were locked in with their abusers.

I love not wearing masks! Each to their own

[Ju Ju]

On an aside about the affects on mask wearing on children.

My grandchildren live in the USA. They have had to wear masks at a very young age. My granddaughter started school wearing a mask. We think she might be on the autistic spectrum. Her comments were that wearing a mask meant that she didn’t have to smile if she didn’t want to and she was relieved that children weren’t allowed to cuddle!  School had to start as part time in small bubbles and the rest of the week was home learning. For her, it helped ease her into school, which she now loves and she has lots of friends. So not all bad!  My grandson is just 4. Masking wearing was normal for him. He didn’t know any better. Everyone else wore a mask and his had dinosaurs on it!

I think it is more of an issue for older children, who are very aware of why they are wearing masks, just as we were aware of the possibility of nuclear attack during the Cold War. I had a friend who was terrified and had nightmares. We can’t protect older children from knowing about all the awful things that happen. Parents can only be there to listen, hear and discuss their fears.

As to wearing a mask, it is something we can do to protect others and maybe ourselves when levels of infection are high. I’m relieved that I don’t have to wear one at the moment, as I found it added to breathing difficulties, but I did when I had to. However, I now have several boxes of masks, gloves etc that I rescued from my mother’s house before we got the house clearance in! Hopefully we won’t need them!

[Katejo]

fantastic news today!  Went to our medical Practice and masks no longer have to be worn from today!  As soon as we went in I saw the receptionists weren’t wearing theirs so we didn’t put ours on and a nurse told us we didn’t have to. 👏👏

I had a hospital appt. last week and still had to wear a mask throughout the appointment. The consultant had one on so I felt I had to keep mine on. There were 2 patients without masks in the waiting area but maybe they had exemptions.