[Leica] IMG: Demasking at Monkstown

[tmanley at gmail.com]

Here in South Carolina where only 48% are vaccinated, they have quit counting Covid cases so we can report our numbers as low. (In reality, our numbers are still very high.) Nobody wears a mask, indoors or outdoors. I still wear mine and get a lot of hostile glares.  My granddaughter is the only one in her 4th grade class wearing a mask. She has been getting a lot of bullying but refuses to take it off.  Supposedly, the variant that is in Europe now is headed this way. It will be impossible to get people to wear masks again. 

It’s still better than living in Ukraine, though!!

Tina

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> On Mar 19, 2022, at 2:00 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> Here in Spain, masks are still required in all indoor public spaces such as supermarkets and shops, offices etc. and obviously on public transport. In restaurants, you keep your mask on until seated at your table. If you leave the table (e.g. to go to the toilet) you put it back on. They have not been required outside since the spring/summer 2020.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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> YNWA
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>> On 14 Mar 2022, at 04:02, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> I do not, either, when out in the open, I only use them in closed,
>> relatively crowded public spaces (shops, malls, stations, airports) - but
>> not, say, in a club where I go daily for a spot of billiards, and
>> definitely not in a bar or a restaurant! :-)
>> 
>> It is high time we start treating Covid as an endemic disease rather than a
>> pandemic one, to take common sense precautions and not overreact.
>> 
>> At least here in the tropics we comfortably have learned. over the
>> millenia, to coexist with a laundry list of endemic diseases, including the
>> biggest consistent killer of them all, malaria, for which, not
>> surprisingly, hardly any research is done to find a vaccine, because it
>> primarily attacks only the world's poor and destitute in low income
>> countries. No money in it, only charity. Charity does not drive stock
>> prices or employee's options - even in India.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
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>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:19 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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>>> People are not wearing masks in the outdoors any more, just when shopping.
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>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Demasking+at+Monkstown.jpg.html
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>>> Sony A7II with Sonnar FE 55/1.8. Can be seen Larger.
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>>> Douglas
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