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Poll: Are you still wearing a face mask in certain settings?

The public is still advised to wear a face covering in settings such as public transport.

THIS WEEK THE Department of Health announced it would no longer publish daily updates on Covid-19 figures.

While this represents another step out of the emergency period of the pandemic, health officials are still urging the public – particularly over the bank holiday – to follow advice and socialise safely.

Mask wearing is still advised on public transport and in crowded settings.

So we want to know: Are you still wearing a face mask in certain settings?


Poll Results:

Yes (13975)
No (6298)

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    May 2nd 2022, 9:55 AM

    It’s interesting, so far the poll is in favor of “yes”, but strikingly clear from observation the overwhelming majority of people are not wearing a mask in any situation, like: bus, train, luas, shops (both grocery or retail), on the street, in pubs/restaurants.

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    Mute Andy O'B
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:21 AM

    @Alan Wright: ooooor the people that read and vote on these are more likely to comply than those who don’t!

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    Mute Michael Nolan
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:22 AM

    @Alan Wright: maybe the yes side don’t do them places

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    Mute Ally Collyer
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:40 AM

    @Alan Wright: I voted “yes” because I’m required to do so when I need to attend either my GP or attend a hospital appointment.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:42 AM

    @Andy O’B: Ah, but what’s to comply with? There’s no mask mandate anymore, so people are choosing (as is their right), but its not about complying.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:45 AM

    @Ally Collyer: Wow, so you reduced it down to the two remaining areas you are compelled to wear a mask. It’s like saying, do you wear a seat belt in most areas and you answer “yes” when I’m in a car. This is the reason poll cannot be trusted, especially on the Journal with the their typical reader.

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    Mute Mirabelle Stonegate
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:51 AM

    @Alan Wright: the only time I’m not bothering with a mask is if I’m popping in to pick up a takeaway order. Mainly because I’m not gonna be in too long waiting, as its already been called in.

    Outside of that, I still wear a mask in line with mandates.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:03 AM

    @Mirabelle Stonegate: I get it, “you” wear a mask in most situations, but when you’re out, are you seeing the overwhelming majority of people not wearing a mask? That observation is in contrast with this poll result and my point is, polls of this caliber cannot be trusted as it clearly shows a bias of the Journals typical readership.

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    Mute GClare
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:23 AM

    @Mirabelle Stonegate: no mandates

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    Mute Kevin O' Brien
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:01 PM

    @Alan Wright: people are definitely not necessarily on favor of mask wearing. I wear 1 most times i ride the subway. Early in the evening I mightwear 1 lying an Uber to

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    Mute Joe_X
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:32 PM

    @Alan Wright: I think it’s the wording ” in certain settings”. One person may wear them on public transport but not a shop, while another might do it the other way around, or as far as I know, everyone has to wear them in a medical setting. I wonder what the result eould be if the listed the settings and allowed multple answers.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    May 2nd 2022, 1:16 PM

    @Joe_X: I agree. It appears to be a biased question (or set up with an agenda attached). Or just more laziness from the Journal journalists.

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    Mute Mirabelle Stonegate
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    May 2nd 2022, 2:23 PM

    @Alan Wright: in my town, yes actually. I got an unpleasant shock in other places, but my town is still largely wearing them.

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    Mute Mirabelle Stonegate
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    May 2nd 2022, 2:23 PM

    @GClare: there were mandates. I’m still following them.

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    Mute GClare
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    May 2nd 2022, 2:43 PM

    @Mirabelle Stonegate: yes there were, however in your responses you are very much giving the impression you believe there still is. By the way, I wear my mask when I enter any buildings for any duration of time (bar residence) and would on public transport if I used it.

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    Mute Peter Denham
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    May 2nd 2022, 3:18 PM

    @Alan Wright: why do you keep saying “most areas” and the poll clearly says certain situations? You have to wear one in a medical situation so that equals a yes vote. You are deceptively trying to say the poll says most areas to further your own agenda.

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    Mute Jackass World
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    May 2nd 2022, 5:54 PM

    @Alan Wright: this is clearly a gaslighting article. I see what’s in front of my face day in and day out. In town, shopping malls, trains; all the same. Not even 5% wearing masks.

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    Mute Joe_X
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    May 3rd 2022, 4:51 PM

    @Jackass World: Depends where you are I think. One commentor was saying that it was an accurate portrayal of their locality. A few weeks ago around here, I would have said 50:50, but its only about 25% or so around here now wearing masks.

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    Mute Liam Dunne
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    May 2nd 2022, 9:48 AM

    It hasn’t gone away, you know.

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    Mute Ron
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    May 2nd 2022, 9:52 AM

    @Liam Dunne: either has the cold or flu!

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    Mute Terence Martin
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:01 AM

    @Ron: Exactly, wearing masks should stop the spread of these also. Well done for pointing it out.

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    Mute lelookcoco
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:01 AM

    @Ron: And wearing a mask prevents the spread of these too.

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    Mute lilolil
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:07 AM

    @Terence Martin: if we start hiding behind masks for everything the body will never build up an immunity to anything. Fair enough if you are immunosuppressed but I have had more flu’s, coughs, colds with all this mask wearing than ever in my life so I don’t agree with them continuously worn.

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    Mute Rian Lynch
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:10 AM

    @lilolil: you might want to change your mask every now and again. most of them are designed for single use

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    Mute lelookcoco
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:11 AM

    @lilolil: The poll says certain settings, not ‘continuously’. Don’t over-exaggerate to try to make your point.

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    Mute Bryan Smyth
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:15 AM

    @lilolil: 100%

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    May 2nd 2022, 10:15 AM

    @lilolil: I hope you change your undercrackers more regularly

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    Mute Andy O'B
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:23 AM

    @lilolil: you’ve actually gotten influenza from wearing a mask?! Wow…

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    Mute Mirabelle Stonegate
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:55 AM

    @lilolil: pre pandemic, I would get colds twice a year. Each lasted 1 to 2 months.

    I recently got my first cold in 2 years, and it lasted 3 weeks. No time off was needed, compared to multiple weeks previously.

    I firmly believe the lessened impact is down to masks and the like.

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    Mute DK
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:03 AM

    @lelookcoco: I’m sure you were championing mask wearing pre 2020 for flus and colds

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    Mute GClare
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:27 AM

    @lilolil: flu was out of circulation for a long time with covid, you seem to be extremely unlucky. No offence intended, but maybe you should get your immune system checked

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    Mute Zmeevo Libe
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:07 PM

    @Mirabelle Stonegate: I think it was more to do with lockdown than masks. Didn’t have a single cold when working from home, and had flu/cold twice since returning to the office in October, despite diligently wearing my mask.

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    May 2nd 2022, 12:07 PM

    @lilolil: definitely sounds like you might be immunocompromised if you’ve had lots of flu and colds in the space of two years when these viruses were probably at their lost levels in decades. Are you sure you didn’t have repeated bouts of Covid?

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    Mute Joe_X
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:35 PM

    @Terence Martin: the restrictions did diring the flu season 2020/2021. They were out last flu season though, but nowhere near as bad.

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    Mute Paul Whitehead
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:48 PM

    @lilolil: imagine!… you got flu from wearing a medical device designed to help stop the spread of infection.

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    Mute Mirabelle Stonegate
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    May 2nd 2022, 2:25 PM

    @Zmeevo Libe: I was the person interacting most with other people I our house during lockdowns. I was doing the shopping and running all the errands.

    I haven’t even caught covid at this point.

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    May 2nd 2022, 5:24 PM

    @Ron: If by now you do not kno the difference between covid-19 , the flu and a cold. whats the point. Besides masks stop that as well.

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    May 2nd 2022, 5:25 PM

    @lilolil: It is already been proven, you cant build up immunity to covid, the flu or the common cold. So what is you point about exactly. except a wild swing and a miss.

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    Mute lilolil
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:07 PM

    @lelookcoco: read it how you will but you know exactly what I mean

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    Mute lilolil
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:08 PM

    @Rian Lynch: hillarious

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    Mute lilolil
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:10 PM

    @JustBEERbarry: really should consider a job in comedy … not.

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    Mute lilolil
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:16 PM

    @GClare: we were all out of circulation tbh. I had Covid once but up to that rarely got a cold. My immune system is fine and has been checked tx.

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    Mute lilolil
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:21 PM

    @Gary Kearney: my point is my immune system was stronger when I just got on with it. In 20 years I’ve had two flu’s where I had to stay at home and just recover. In the last two years I’ve had more cough and colds than in 20 year. I never said I had immunity to anything wherever you got from!

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    Mute alan scott
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:29 PM

    @lelookcoco: a medical mask prevents it, not a cheap mask out of the euroshop

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    Mute Philip Keaveney
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:12 PM

    Wearing a mask is becoming a symbol of stay away from me. I’m going to wear them in shops etc for the rest of my life!

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    Mute Joe_X
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    May 2nd 2022, 1:01 PM

    @Philip Keaveney: One way to get some peace and quiet when out!

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    Mute Rosa Lopez
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:13 AM

    I still keep distance from people wearing masks and the elderly, but I don’t wear one myself. The result among 1500 people so far doesn’t reflect reality, it makes you wonder how trustworthy studies based in opinions/questionnaires are.

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    Mute Alan Wright
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    May 2nd 2022, 1:44 PM

    @Rosa Lopez: That’s what I also said earlier. After reading this article and seeing the results, I was out at the supermarket (both Lidl and Supervalue) and as an exercise I counted the amount of people I saw with a mask. Total was 3 people, that was at 1pm on Talbot St. Dublin City centre. I do not know where the rest of the mask wearers are.

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    Mute Rosa Lopez
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    May 2nd 2022, 9:22 PM

    @Alan Wright: ridiculous, by now there are nearly 13.000 votes with 2/3 of them wearing masks. In this case anyone with eyes can see how far from the reality this is. But what if this was about something we could not check by ourselves? As opinions on Irish neutrality not long ago published in here. Looking at this poll it wouldn’t be too difficult to manipulate results.

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    Mute Sean
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    May 3rd 2022, 9:15 AM

    @Rosa Lopez: “certain settings” is very vague though. Dentists still require masks to be worn in waiting room for example. It should have said “settings where they are not already mandatory”.

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    Mute Heisen berg1
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:49 AM

    I think it was the most ridiculous thing that was imposed on us, it did nothing to stop coved, now the flu has taken over again,

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    Mute Mirabelle Stonegate
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    May 2nd 2022, 10:53 AM

    @Heisen berg1: pre pandemic, if I got a cold, I would be off work for a month, and sick for up to 2 months.

    I recently got my first cold of the pandemic. It lasted 3 weeks, and didn’t require any time off.

    I firmly believe that masks and the like helped lessen the impact of the cold. And lessen it drastically.

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    Mute Paul Furey
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:04 AM

    @Heisen berg1: no it wasn’t. It would have been far worse if we hadn’t been wearing masks along with social distancing, in lockdown, sanitising and eventually the vaccination.

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    Mute pat seery
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:16 AM

    @Heisen berg1: Yes because A lot of People stopped wearing Masks
    Bring the Mask Back

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    Mute Tomo
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:25 AM

    @Mirabelle Stonegate: Then we should encourage symptomatic individuals to wear masks. Whether they be symptomatic with the cold, flu, COVID, or whatever. It makes most sense. Although we don’t have that sense of community in Irish culture where we view the limited resources we have and share economically.

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    Mute GrumpyAulFella
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:09 PM

    @Heisen berg1: are there are statistics to prove that mask wearing did nothing to stifle the spread of Covid?

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    Mute Joe_X
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:43 PM

    @Heisen berg1: Actually it hasn’t. For example, relatives in Carlow are telling me Covid is rampant around the town, not the flu. You symptomatic by any chance? Too nervous to take a test? Or is the antigen shoeing negative? ( after my uncles I would not use an antigen)

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    Mute Paul Whitehead
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:52 PM

    @Heisen berg1: Well Thankfully we didn’t ask your opinion on public health measures during this pandemic. Scientists on the other hand know that masks help in the prevention of covid transmission.

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    Mute Steve
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    May 2nd 2022, 1:20 PM

    @Heisen berg1: you are correct, masks do absolutely nothing to prevent the spread of germs or viruses, that’s why you’ll never see surgeons wearing them when they perform operations.

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    May 2nd 2022, 5:27 PM

    @Heisen berg1: Please oh great one, what do you know that the best medical experts in the world do not.

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    Mute Mrs Doyle
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    May 2nd 2022, 12:37 PM

    I’m a frontline health worker so I wear one always at work. I answered yes, even though I don’t wear one outside of work.

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    Mute Jimmy Chickens
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    May 2nd 2022, 2:53 PM

    The missus is mad into the masks and all that kind of stuff.. oh sorry that’s a different poll

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    Mute Liam
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    May 2nd 2022, 4:34 PM

    Poll says a lot about the Journal audience, vast majority of people not wearing masks now.

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    Mute Joe_X
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    May 2nd 2022, 5:47 PM

    @Liam: as I said to Alan earlier, it depends on the “certain settings.” You may wear it in one place and I might wear it in another. Yet if we met on the street, neither of us may be wearing it and think the poll result is wrong. It needs further breaking down.

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    Mute Aiden Burke
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    May 2nd 2022, 7:47 PM

    1) Very crowded places, public transport for myself.
    2) As a courtesy to others who are wearing a mask – particularly the elderly.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    May 4th 2022, 3:57 PM

    @Aiden Burke: Likewise, and I think it’s not fair to the hard working indoor staff if people can’t be bothered. There were plenty of bugs going around before Covid-19, easily caught by people who have to work there.

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    Mute alan scott
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:28 PM

    Absolutely not.

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    Mute Gerry McCaughey
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    May 2nd 2022, 6:40 PM

    I still wear it on public transport which I take daily. I also wear one in chemists as they’re often frequented by older or ill people. Otherwise I am glad to not wear them anymore.

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    Mute Keth Warsaw
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:36 PM

    Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Covid has displayed the true character of so many.

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    Mute Dave Moran
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    May 3rd 2022, 7:13 AM

    Only in docs surgery dont use public transport

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    Mute Paddy Geoghegan
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    May 2nd 2022, 11:19 AM

    Yes and make masks legal on public transport planes taxis hospitals at all times

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