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Title: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 06, 2021, 06:13:59 AM
Lockdown last couple of weeks mainly due to idiots and a mess of a government and state government here in Sydney NSW.
Been going in office most days and you got to wear a mask while working. Desk job coding but I can tell you its not fun :(
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 07, 2021, 02:20:12 AM
Another week of Lockdown :(
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: zpyder on July 10, 2021, 21:30:03 PM
Meanwhile in NZ I'm getting increasingly nervous for when covid inevitably gets in and stays in. We've been so sheltered from it the world will have moved on when NZ is learning to deal with it. Like most things here, we're years behind heh.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 11, 2021, 13:38:26 PM
The latest variants are not specifically more dangerous, but due to sheer numbers of people infected the variants have become more infective.

UK government has been particularly ineffective on purpose, bribing friends' companies rather than companies that know what they are doing. The only good thing they have done is buy as many vaccines as possible, but even that was a gamble. Distribution was left down to the NHS and volunteers, nothing to do with Boris and co. Vaccines though are not 100% effective, there is always going to be people who get the disease even if they don't show it. The idea is to reduce that number so it dies out, which the government is not helping with.  Not blocking travel from India means we have a very highly infective variant. Entirely down to government stupidity, or more precisely Boris Johnson and friends.

Wearing a mask might not be pleasant, with fibromyalgia I overheat very quickly during summer anyway without one, but it helps protect you and everyone else. I am fully vaccinated but still wear one whenever I leave the house. This is not a short term item as the Tories claim.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 12, 2021, 01:09:05 AM
Meanwhile in NZ I'm getting increasingly nervous for when covid inevitably gets in and stays in. We've been so sheltered from it the world will have moved on when NZ is learning to deal with it. Like most things here, we're years behind heh.
Where are you in NZ again?
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 12, 2021, 01:11:00 AM
The latest variants are not specifically more dangerous, but due to sheer numbers of people infected the variants have become more infective.

UK government has been particularly ineffective on purpose, bribing friends' companies rather than companies that know what they are doing. The only good thing they have done is buy as many vaccines as possible, but even that was a gamble. Distribution was left down to the NHS and volunteers, nothing to do with Boris and co. Vaccines though are not 100% effective, there is always going to be people who get the disease even if they don't show it. The idea is to reduce that number so it dies out, which the government is not helping with.  Not blocking travel from India means we have a very highly infective variant. Entirely down to government stupidity, or more precisely Boris Johnson and friends.

Wearing a mask might not be pleasant, with fibromyalgia I overheat very quickly during summer anyway without one, but it helps protect you and everyone else. I am fully vaccinated but still wear one whenever I leave the house. This is not a short term item as the Tories claim.


It will not be long before they stop the work. Big business has kept shops like Harvey Norman open as they really control the state and governments. A lot of the case spread have been...


1. People visiting family when they been told not too and stay at home.
2. People going non essential shopping
3. People going out and about when they know they are sick.


It has been funny as there is the news interviewing people out and about with people saying "We should stay at home..." blabla and they are not wearing a mask and also out and about! lol.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 12, 2021, 14:34:28 PM
A lot of it is people refusing to wear masks or be vaccinated because of gross misinformation. A lot of that has come from the Republican party in the USA and evangelical Christians. In the UK the Tory government itself has been spreading misinformation by putting out contradictory messages, it seems their business backers would rather have people die of covid than have a profit drop.

The issue though is worldwide and relates to every country that allows effectively unchecked air travel from other countries. What about the next variant? Could they stop a far more fatal version before it gets out of control?
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: knighty on July 14, 2021, 17:10:45 PM
idk why anyone makes a fuss about a mask, doesn't bother me at all, if anything a mask is the least of the problem, better to keeps the masks and relax other stuff
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 15, 2021, 00:34:58 AM
idk why anyone makes a fuss about a mask, doesn't bother me at all, if anything a mask is the least of the problem, better to keeps the masks and relax other stuff

when I was reasonably capable I would fully agree with you. Some people do have health issues wearing masks. Just walking around the shops causes me to overheat at the moment and become exhausted fast, the mask makes it worse. I still wear it.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 15, 2021, 02:29:25 AM
idk why anyone makes a fuss about a mask, doesn't bother me at all, if anything a mask is the least of the problem, better to keeps the masks and relax other stuff
True but stuck in an office at a desk wearing one for an entire day pretty much for over a week now and for another 2 weeks unless they stage 4 us and we can not even leave our house... Not fun times here in Sydney at the moment.
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Post by: soopahfly on July 15, 2021, 09:02:22 AM
https://twitter.com/asaelliott/status/1393087186174611458?s=20
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 15, 2021, 14:08:09 PM
https://twitter.com/asaelliott/status/1393087186174611458?s=20

Obviously took the Boris alternative 'truth' option. Normally I won't leave the house either but sometimes you just have to go out.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 20, 2021, 00:26:45 AM
https://twitter.com/asaelliott/status/1393087186174611458?s=20 (https://twitter.com/asaelliott/status/1393087186174611458?s=20)
LOL, and out and about. That is here.


The last few days have been 20+ community transmission so people still visiting others and going shopping etc and not wearing masks to get infected. Over 200 fines issued by police each day to show people not following the rules here. And we are 100 cases a day.
From Tuesday you are SUPPOSED to work from home and business can be fined $10k now if people can work from home so that is us. Boss needs a day to sort but that should be us now, the possible fine has finally triggered him.


The main one is that retail other than essential finally shutting I think it was them and the CEO's pulling strings on the State Gov to keep them open. Although you were initially only allowed essentials lots of people still shopping. Then it was no browsing but people were still doing that.


Main issues are out west as well so they have locked down certain areas from traveling as well.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 20, 2021, 09:20:12 AM
Meanwhile the UK government insists on almost fully opening up everything and removing restrictions while the infections go up above 50,000 a day.

The Tories are loons, why the people voted for Boris I have no idea.

Signs in supermarkets claiming that empty shelves are due to demand, far more due to no transport due to the EU drivers and farm workers going home. Again Tories to blame with the worst possible Brexit deal and encouraging racist behavior.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on July 20, 2021, 09:52:30 AM
I guarantee we will be back in Lockdown in no time.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: soopahfly on July 20, 2021, 13:04:00 PM
Meanwhile the UK government insists on almost fully opening up everything and removing restrictions while the infections go up above 50,000 a day.

The Tories are loons, why the people voted for Boris I have no idea.

Signs in supermarkets claiming that empty shelves are due to demand, far more due to no transport due to the EU drivers and farm workers going home. Again Tories to blame with the worst possible Brexit deal and encouraging racist behavior.

People don't vote for policies, or people.  They vote colour.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 21, 2021, 12:52:47 PM
Meanwhile the UK government insists on almost fully opening up everything and removing restrictions while the infections go up above 50,000 a day.

The Tories are loons, why the people voted for Boris I have no idea.

Signs in supermarkets claiming that empty shelves are due to demand, far more due to no transport due to the EU drivers and farm workers going home. Again Tories to blame with the worst possible Brexit deal and encouraging racist behavior.

People don't vote for policies, or people.  They vote colour.

Only a few, and you have to include race and religion in that. Most vote simple soundbite policy. At the last election it was "get Brexit done!" Except it isn't done and probably never will be as long as we are outside the EU.

Which is the whole issue of Brexit, it was never simple and nobody understood it. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn and all the rest of them simply lied.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on July 21, 2021, 13:26:27 PM
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: matt5cott on July 24, 2021, 11:39:57 AM
All politicians are snakes and the system is irreparably broken, it's a waste of time hanging onto every word they say as seemingly so many in the UK do, honestly I think they could claim that they're in charge of ensuring the sun comes up in the morning and lots of UK mugs would applaud the excellent job they're doing  :lol:

None of them are fit to run a bath nevermind tell ordinary people how to live, regardless of your feelings regarding re-opening people are once again free to choose, not quite ready yet? Don't go out, nobody frogmarches you to the pub.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on July 26, 2021, 04:02:07 AM
All politicians are snakes and the system is irreparably broken, it's a waste of time hanging onto every word they say as seemingly so many in the UK do, honestly I think they could claim that they're in charge of ensuring the sun comes up in the morning and lots of UK mugs would applaud the excellent job they're doing  :lol:

None of them are fit to run a bath nevermind tell ordinary people how to live, regardless of your feelings regarding re-opening people are once again free to choose, not quite ready yet? Don't go out, nobody frogmarches you to the pub.

And it is the same for every country.
Most governments are out of touch with reality and even if they are they are then hand tied by SOMETHING be it the fact they are governed by big business, have 2 parties that ultimately have to agree (and hardly ever do0 and have too many in leadership putting spanners in works or making their own mandates that profit them and their mates.


Australia had 6 months of a vaccine that was supposed to be going to over 60's and care and health workers (And not). The government did not push the role out here or get stock in. If they had actually pushed things from the start and got the population as much as possible vaccinated then if cases or a variant kicked off (like now) we would not be f***d as we are now :(
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: zpyder on July 27, 2021, 09:25:21 AM
Meanwhile in NZ I'm getting increasingly nervous for when covid inevitably gets in and stays in. We've been so sheltered from it the world will have moved on when NZ is learning to deal with it. Like most things here, we're years behind heh.
Where are you in NZ again?

Rotorua. Auckland has had a few mini lockdowns, the rest of NZ has gotten off quite lightly. It's been interesting seeing the Australian workers when they finally were able to come back when the bubble opened, how much more "trained" to Covid they were compared to the Kiwis.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Dave on July 27, 2021, 18:53:44 PM
idk why anyone makes a fuss about a mask, doesn't bother me at all, if anything a mask is the least of the problem, better to keeps the masks and relax other stuff

Yeah, that's what bugs me too, well I can understand it being a bit annoying for long periods of time (then again dentists and surgeons have to wear them) - but the amount of moaning about just having to wear one for 15 mins in Tesco or on your train/bus journey where you'll be sat down and hardly doing anything physically active is just ridiculous.

I've got two pro-"freedom"/libertarian mates who hated lockdowns and were so keen for the government to open up - the problem is that they also opposed/mocked stuff that would reduce the chance of lockdown - like getting angry about masks and contact tracing last summer. It's so self-defeating + now one of them is anti-vax too FFS!

The government (and to be fair SAGE too) were slow on masks (it's not like the SNP in Scotland or Labour in Wales were doing anything differently here either early last year) - this was annoying as it was so obvious - I ordered a respirator mask back in January 2020 +  a load of online food deliveries as the supermarket shelves were bound to get stripped at some point, had a bunch of KN95s too well before they were mandatory - it annoyed me that even when I went for a hospital appointment there were hospital staff walking around indoors with no masks on (the new rules hadn't come in at that point) - clearly they will have spread it like crazy among themselves and no doubt infected a bunch of patients on the non-covid wards.

The problem is by the time they did the u-turn on masks there was so much conflicting info in the press and a bunch of people were hostile to them so they implemented a half-arsed approach whereby anyone could just declare an exemption - the major supermarkets played a part here, claiming they didn't want to enforce mask rules. this is a cop-out for them as they're perfectly capable of telling a group of chavvy teens they can't buy fags or booze and they seem to be quite happy to police women's clothing (see the regular press story from some seaside town where a young woman has been turned away form some supermarket for wearing a bikini top or short shorts).

The exemptions just created a load of entitled people - anyone who wanted to could claim that they can't wear a mask because of anxiety or asthma etc.. -conversely there are very vulnerable people with severe COPD or people with CF who have had a lung removed etc... quite keen to wear masks because they're genuinely vulnerable. It was a complete cop-out - given that the basic surgical or cloth masks don't restrict your breathing. There was a doctor on Twitter who filmed a video hooked up to an oxygen monitor to demonstrate this, it's purely a psychological thing - despite the social media nonsense about CO2. The respirator style ones do a bit (KN95/N95/FFP2) but they aren't required - I choose to wear them as they offer much more protection.

I asked my sister (a doctor) if she could think of any legit reasons why someone really couldn't wear one, she thinks it's BS too, can't think of any. I was curious about whether this was even a thing when she was at medical school - out of the hundreds of students there back when she was at medical school pre-pandemic did any of them not wear a mask because of some claimed "medical reasons" or had she ever heard of such a thing - the answer, nope - it just wasn't a thing pre-pandemic.

She's in a medical speciality now but also carries out some surgical interventions + had done a bunch of different surgical rotations as a junior doctor and when putting training on hold to work overseas in Australia - she had never seen any doctors or nurses claiming they're unable to wear a basic surgical mask during an operation.

Yet when the mask requirements came in, I could look around my local Tesco and about 25% of people weren't wearing masks, plenty of them young or middle-aged people happily walking around and talking normally, clearly not out of breath etc.. It was total BS - the government should have simply required mask-wearing indoors on transport and supermarkets and simply told supermarkets to enforce it just as they enforce ID for alcohol purchasing + fine them if they don't enforce it... either the security guard at the door refusing entry or the cashiers refusing service to anyone not wearing a mask.

For the sake of completeness, assuming there are a tiny tiny portion of people with very serious breathing difficulties or severe mental health issues and really do struggle with masks (need full-time carer support etc..) then home deliveries of food etc.. should have been provided for them - I mean frankly if your breathing was so bad that even a basic cloth mask is going to cause issues you probably shouldn't be in a supermarket and mixing with others.

Anyway, random rant over... I do miss forums sometimes, can't post a big rant like this on twitter LOL
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Rivkid on July 27, 2021, 23:07:45 PM
idk why anyone makes a fuss about a mask, doesn't bother me at all, if anything a mask is the least of the problem, better to keeps the masks and relax other stuff

Yeah, that's what bugs me too, well I can understand it being a bit annoying for long periods of time (then again dentists and surgeons have to wear them) - but the amount of moaning about just having to wear one for 15 mins in Tesco or on your train/bus journey where you'll be sat down and hardly doing anything physically active is just ridiculous.

I've got two pro-"freedom"/libertarian mates who hated lockdowns and were so keen for the government to open up - the problem is that they also opposed/mocked stuff that would reduce the chance of lockdown - like getting angry about masks and contact tracing last summer. It's so self-defeating + now one of them is anti-vax too FFS!

The government (and to be fair SAGE too) were slow on masks (it's not like the SNP in Scotland or Labour in Wales were doing anything differently here either early last year) - this was annoying as it was so obvious - I ordered a respirator mask back in January 2020 +  a load of online food deliveries as the supermarket shelves were bound to get stripped at some point, had a bunch of KN95s too well before they were mandatory - it annoyed me that even when I went for a hospital appointment there were hospital staff walking around indoors with no masks on (the new rules hadn't come in at that point) - clearly they will have spread it like crazy among themselves and no doubt infected a bunch of patients on the non-covid wards.

The problem is by the time they did the u-turn on masks there was so much conflicting info in the press and a bunch of people were hostile to them so they implemented a half-arsed approach whereby anyone could just declare an exemption - the major supermarkets played a part here, claiming they didn't want to enforce mask rules. this is a cop-out for them as they're perfectly capable of telling a group of chavvy teens they can't buy fags or booze and they seem to be quite happy to police women's clothing (see the regular press story from some seaside town where a young woman has been turned away form some supermarket for wearing a bikini top or short shorts).

The exemptions just created a load of entitled people - anyone who wanted to could claim that they can't wear a mask because of anxiety or asthma etc.. -conversely there are very vulnerable people with severe COPD or people with CF who have had a lung removed etc... quite keen to wear masks because they're genuinely vulnerable. It was a complete cop-out - given that the basic surgical or cloth masks don't restrict your breathing. There was a doctor on Twitter who filmed a video hooked up to an oxygen monitor to demonstrate this, it's purely a psychological thing - despite the social media nonsense about CO2. The respirator style ones do a bit (KN95/N95/FFP2) but they aren't required - I choose to wear them as they offer much more protection.

I asked my sister (a doctor) if she could think of any legit reasons why someone really couldn't wear one, she thinks it's BS too, can't think of any. I was curious about whether this was even a thing when she was at medical school - out of the hundreds of students there back when she was at medical school pre-pandemic did any of them not wear a mask because of some claimed "medical reasons" or had she ever heard of such a thing - the answer, nope - it just wasn't a thing pre-pandemic.

She's in a medical speciality now but also carries out some surgical interventions + had done a bunch of different surgical rotations as a junior doctor and when putting training on hold to work overseas in Australia - she had never seen any doctors or nurses claiming they're unable to wear a basic surgical mask during an operation.

Yet when the mask requirements came in, I could look around my local Tesco and about 25% of people weren't wearing masks, plenty of them young or middle-aged people happily walking around and talking normally, clearly not out of breath etc.. It was total BS - the government should have simply required mask-wearing indoors on transport and supermarkets and simply told supermarkets to enforce it just as they enforce ID for alcohol purchasing + fine them if they don't enforce it... either the security guard at the door refusing entry or the cashiers refusing service to anyone not wearing a mask.

For the sake of completeness, assuming there are a tiny tiny portion of people with very serious breathing difficulties or severe mental health issues and really do struggle with masks (need full-time carer support etc..) then home deliveries of food etc.. should have been provided for them - I mean frankly if your breathing was so bad that even a basic cloth mask is going to cause issues you probably shouldn't be in a supermarket and mixing with others.

Anyway, random rant over... I do miss forums sometimes, can't post a big rant like this on twitter LOL

Largely agree with this, but I do have to dispute one area. Whilst I've worn a mask religiously since we were asked to, in all circumstances (shops, busy area's, on a 4.5 hour flight etc) - as an anxiety sufferer I have to say it hasn't been easy. Nothing wrong with my breathing so the 'you probably shouldn't be out and about' argument doesn't wash for one second with me I'm afraid  - but as a psychological issue whilst I've been able to fight through it, it hasn't been easy and there's been multiple times when I've had to fight off panic attacks. Honestly if you've never suffered with anxiety firstly let me say thank god because it sucks, and secondly its not something you can just switch off.  Particularly bad when queuing I found - when your brain has time to wander...  My case these days is fairly mild, so I can imagine people with severe anxiety will likely have really struggled with masks and it makes me very uncomfortable thinking of them being made to feel bad about it.

That said - fact is I've managed - I've never once made an excuse and not worn one, and actually I agree the amount of people I've seen not wearing masks has been laughable/depressing as there's no way they've all had a genuine medical reason. Strange how its frequently 3/4 members of the same family too....
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on July 27, 2021, 23:18:37 PM
I actually like wearing a mask, it keeps most cretins away from you and you can pretend you're some kind of wasteland warrior  :lol:
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Dave on July 28, 2021, 20:24:38 PM
Honestly if you've never suffered with anxiety firstly let me say thank god because it sucks, and secondly its not something you can just switch off.  Particularly bad when queuing I found - when your brain has time to wander...  My case these days is fairly mild, so I can imagine people with severe anxiety will likely have really struggled with masks and it makes me very uncomfortable thinking of them being made to feel bad about it.

I'm familiar with anxiety, it might well have been a struggle, I'm not denying that - the point is though that it doesn't prevent someone from wearing a mask. It's not like dentists and surgeons are all immune from anxiety, they still wear masks, this just wasn't a big thing until the notion of being exempt from masks was introduced.

Though on the subject of anxiety think about, for example, an elderly or immunocompromised person with anxiety and how having to do their shopping when people around them aren't wearing masks can equally affect their anxiety too.

I'd see the tradeoff there as being:

anxiety of mask + no actual danger from it < anxiety of being around maskless people + actual danger from infection

Then throw in just the general increased risk for everyone by having these maskless people around - plenty of whom are just anti-social distancing measures in general and so higher risk of being infectious too and it becomes an easy choice. I think the default should have simply been that masks need to be worn, we had limited treatment for this thing, no vaccines and yet we were pandering to people to the point where they merely needed to declare they were exempt, that was bad.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on July 29, 2021, 16:10:08 PM
I actually like wearing a mask, it keeps most cretins away from you and you can pretend you're some kind of wasteland warrior  :lol:

Remember when there was protests about women wearing masks? If everyone has to wear one that is not an issue anymore.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: knighty on July 31, 2021, 00:12:30 AM
locally... no masks in sight (not that I get out much)

at work I popped out to the shop, grabbed some masks because was running out in my car... lads at work asked what I was doing saying no-one is bothered anymore, not in shops, busses, trains etc. etc.

got to the shop and I was the only one in there with a mask on, it was busy too, good dozen people in there
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on August 03, 2021, 01:17:03 AM
It's getting worse. Government is putting all hopes on the virus not mutating and becoming more dangerous.

Then I went to the local Iceland a couple of days ago, almost every customer had a mask on, but the staff didn't.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: zpyder on August 03, 2021, 22:29:36 PM
Was in a shop the other day and passed a lady talking to someone else saying jokingly she had a cold the other lady better keep her distance.

In NZ the mantra has been if you're sick stay home. Has been for the last 18 months. Urgh. Its hard but it's what has kept us safe so far...

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Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Rivkid on August 05, 2021, 15:04:39 PM
the point is though that it doesn't prevent someone from wearing a mask.

Actually you don't sound that familiar with really bad anxiety. Anxiety isn't just being a bit nervous about something (i.e as you describe the old lady who is anxious about getting her groceries). If you've got severe GAD the physical symptoms of that are absolutely crippling and most certainly could prevent someone from wearing a mask. Like I said I was lucky that my really bad anxiety days were behind me (hopefully forever) way before COVID hit, and so the symptoms and attacks I've had to fight off due to a mask have been mild (hence I've always managed to wear one). However if this had been in 2017 I could barely leave the house without the world swaying and twirling and going blurry, feeling faint and unable to focus - there is no way in the world I could have worn a mask back then I'd have passed out.

I do think we're largely on the same page - I've worn mine religiously and still think its the right thing to do, but I couldn't denounce someone for not wearing one because I know there was a time I couldn't have.

Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: soopahfly on August 06, 2021, 11:03:24 AM
the point is though that it doesn't prevent someone from wearing a mask.

Actually you don't sound that familiar with really bad anxiety. Anxiety isn't just being a bit nervous about something (i.e as you describe the old lady who is anxious about getting her groceries). If you've got severe GAD the physical symptoms of that are absolutely crippling and most certainly could prevent someone from wearing a mask. Like I said I was lucky that my really bad anxiety days were behind me (hopefully forever) way before COVID hit, and so the symptoms and attacks I've had to fight off due to a mask have been mild (hence I've always managed to wear one). However if this had been in 2017 I could barely leave the house without the world swaying and twirling and going blurry, feeling faint and unable to focus - there is no way in the world I could have worn a mask back then I'd have passed out.

I do think we're largely on the same page - I've worn mine religiously and still think its the right thing to do, but I couldn't denounce someone for not wearing one because I know there was a time I couldn't have.

Are you getting help for that?  An old friend of mine suffers in a very similar way, and a couple of years ago made an attempt to take his own life.  Unsuccessfully thankfully.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Rivkid on August 06, 2021, 12:25:43 PM
Are you getting help for that?  An old friend of mine suffers in a very similar way, and a couple of years ago made an attempt to take his own life.  Unsuccessfully thankfully.

Yes mate thanks for checking. Went to the GP in 2018, put on a course of CBT (unsure if this helped) and been on 50mg of Sertraline a day ever since - the sertraline changed my life. It hasn't magically made it vanish, but it's managed it down to a point where attacks are now few and far between and generally triggered by something specific (claustrophobic situations when driving are a particular trigger). Finally well enough now that I actually resigned from BT after 17 years last month and start a new role with Shropshire Council on the 23rd. Still nervous but I simply couldn't have faced this a year or two ago!

Hope your friend is ok, I know what that's like I definitely started to have some dark thoughts back then - but I have a great wife and great friends who made me get the right help.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on August 06, 2021, 13:39:37 PM
Congratulations on your new role and I'm glad you're not in the same place you were many years ago with your anxiety :ptu:
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Cornholio on August 09, 2021, 13:28:48 PM
Try working on a hot as balls hospital ward for 12 hours a day with a face mask on. It's absolutely horrendous, and I've had to go home early a couple of times due to heat exhaustion. I know, I know, I have to wear a mask to protect myself and patients but honestly, it f**king sucks and I can't wait until I don't have to wear one.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on August 09, 2021, 19:49:45 PM
Try working on a hot as balls hospital ward for 12 hours a day with a face mask on. It's absolutely horrendous, and I've had to go home early a couple of times due to heat exhaustion. I know, I know, I have to wear a mask to protect myself and patients but honestly, it f**king sucks and I can't wait until I don't have to wear one.

Just a shame that the UK government seems to have been more interested in profit for their rich chumps and killing pensioners off than protecting the public.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Cornholio on August 10, 2021, 16:51:08 PM
Try working on a hot as balls hospital ward for 12 hours a day with a face mask on. It's absolutely horrendous, and I've had to go home early a couple of times due to heat exhaustion. I know, I know, I have to wear a mask to protect myself and patients but honestly, it f**king sucks and I can't wait until I don't have to wear one.

Just a shame that the UK government seems to have been more interested in profit for their rich chumps and killing pensioners off than protecting the public.

Indeed. Shame they don't come and do a stint on a hospital ward themselves, if they saw the things I've seen they'd probably change their tune.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: neXus on August 30, 2021, 07:42:15 AM
Try working on a hot as balls hospital ward for 12 hours a day with a face mask on. It's absolutely horrendous, and I've had to go home early a couple of times due to heat exhaustion. I know, I know, I have to wear a mask to protect myself and patients but honestly, it f**king sucks and I can't wait until I don't have to wear one.


Feel for you on this one for sure!


To all...
My post was not anything around not wanting to, not doing the right thing or anything like that. But an office job sitting a desk and having to wear a mask where the office air circulation is not great and so on.. Hints to what Cornholio has to go through (but no where near to that scale) when you are not used to it as I said - Just sucks.


I have been working from home since this now for like 6 weeks and its been better with my office setup and no mask at home needed.
Have had to come in this week though so masking it up again.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on September 04, 2021, 11:55:58 AM
[Seems a lot of care workers are switching to companies like Amazon who pay better and don't ask for their people to have been vaccinated.

A lot of the vaccination issue seems to be politicians not telling the truth or outright lying mixed with media doing the same. Apparently news outlets do not have to tell the truth, even if they know it.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Bacon on September 07, 2021, 15:43:57 PM
I guarantee we will be back in Lockdown in no time.

Lockdown incoming in October, ive been telling Clock'd One its been on the cards for months.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: zpyder on September 08, 2021, 22:42:31 PM
I guarantee we will be back in Lockdown in no time.

Lockdown incoming in October, ive been telling Clock'd One its been on the cards for months.
But what's the point?

Are lockdowns here to stay? The country is what 80% vaccinated now, and so many people must have been exposed... At what point is the decision made that the country has reached max immunity and it is what it is?

I'm not advocating not locking down... Its something I've been pondering about for NZ... Once we reach the target vaccination level and they start to open up, are they going to tolerate it in the community or are we going to be bouncing around for the next year or two or three...

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Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on September 09, 2021, 09:23:37 AM
Given:

1) Not everyone is or will be vaccinated
2) The vaccine will need a booster every six months from the looks of it
3) The vaccines don't stop spread or stop you catching it
4) People are no longer wearing masks generally. Mask wearing is now the exception
5) People are mingling and no longer distancing
6) Covid cases are still regarded as high

I'd say lockdowns aren't going to go away for some time, it's become cyclic.
Title: Re: At work with a mask on - Sucks
Post by: Serious on September 18, 2021, 16:38:41 PM
The vaccines simply stop you suffering bad symptoms and in most cases stop people needing hospitalization or dying. Which also means the virus will continue to mutate under the radar.

However, the Tory government have the country in a bad enough state as it is, so they will try to avoid any lockdown unless it is extremely severe.