I can’t speak to SOA/CAS meetings specifically. But, in general, I think mask wearing has been normalized and people who choose to wear a mask aren’t made to feel uncomfortable. Just my experience. Just my experience in the liberal af Northwest.
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Im not entirely consistent with my judging of others who wear masks. At a work event including soa type meeting im in a everyone should do what makes them comfortable mode. Going to a big work one similar to an soa one shortly. I expect a mix with most not wearing masks.
For a funeral i went early this year, i judged the hell out of the one weird family that were all in masks. Seemed really impersonal. Nobody else was and nobody caught covid.
I went to a “masks required except when standing next to the coffin and speaking to the group” funeral. Seemed personal and meaningful to me.
the funeral was gravesite only and therefore all outdoors. it was weird.
then we had lunch as a group at a diner. they wore the masks to lunch only lowering it to take bites. i hadn’t seen these cousins in decades and was curious what they even looked like. that part was indoors, but still weird. i didn’t even recognize this cousin at first cause of the stupid mask.
The one i went to was also outdoors and graveside.
I don’t believe in requiring masks at outdoor events. Find that odd.
This funeral was also in late February, 2022. Cases were on a steep decline in nyc at that point.
Remember: One of the first high-profile super-spreader events was a Champions League match in Italy.
I don’t bother masking up in regular outdoor situations, but I have considered wearing one in outdoor crowds (like sporting events).
this wasn’t a huge crowd of people. i have a pretty small family and it was mostly just family at this funeral. it was 3 cousins who are siblings and their offspring. one cousin and her family were masked. the others weren’t. it was a turn off for people i hadn’t seen in years and actually wanted to see.
and should we mask at every small gathering? at what point does this just become weird? this pandemic has been around for almost 3 years now.
“one of the first” in 2020 does not equate to 2022 where we have better drugs to combat covid and have vaccines.
Never, I hope. People have all kinds of good reasons to mask up, even still.
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I believe in respecting the wishes of the primary mourners at funerals. If they want something that makes you really uncomfortable you don’t have to attend. But if you attend, you do what they ask and don’t complain. IMHO.
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Masks weren’t required at the funeral i attended, just one family wore them. If it was required id still find it weird but would comply. Would be rude not to. Never claimed otherwise.
Sorry but it already is weird in many situations
I don’t think so. I still see them all over.
Being weird is my normal.
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The only time I think it’s weird is when I still see folks who are wearing a mask wrong, not covering either the nose or mouth or both. If someone wants to wear a mask in public still I have no problem with that but wearing it wrong when so many people no longer mask is just weird.
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I wasnt the only person at the funeral who found it weird that this ine family had masks at the gravesite and then ate with a mask at lunch
Posting this from a plane where im one of the few wearing a mask
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Not looking to my flight next month. I imagine I’ll be disappointed.
My cab driver from Newark was not wearing a mask and coughing a lot and probably gave me covid. I of course didnt tip him. Jackhole
I don’t mind being weird.