have you seen anyone wearing a mask lately?  

I live in Australia and I haven't seen anyone wearing a mask as yet..well apparantly there is enough vacccines here in Australia for everyone but I won't be getting one...I won't have injections, so I will be giving it a miss....

The H1N1 flu scare (or presence?) is not "felt" nowadays as it was 3 or 4 months ago. I saw very few people wearing masks in some places during that time. In July when I felt I was weak and feared it was that virus, I went into the hospital. I saw most of the people wearing masks there. I had the flu then and the hospital doctor told me that I can just rest at home rather than risking myself being contaminated with the other patients having the virus. At that time, they had the whole fourth floor of the hospital dedicated for patients who had even slight fever. I had the fever on and off for 2 weeks ... must have been the H1N1 virus then.

I am in the US - and I have seen several people wearing a mask - though I don't know if it was because of the flu or just having a cold in general. I was going through the hosptal lobby where they were having a flu vaccine clinic, and I actually saw a couple kids in masks . . . for what - I don't know for sure. Sometimes I feel like telling people with masks to just stay home!! We, as a family have chosen not to get the flu vaccine. With what we hear in the news, I don't know what to think - honestly.

hi cher913... i`m from chile and we just ended winter time, let me tell u that we used a lot the mask this past winter, it suposed that this flu is very dangerous and it can kill.. this mask won`t prevent u to get the flu, it`s only for people who allready has it to prevent to give it to other people...
the stadistics says it killed some people here in my country(chile) but honestly... IT JUST A FLU!!!!!
take good care of ur health, eat a lot of oranges, and all the vitamin c u can get... hahaha... well, not all.
from my family three kids got it, and u get fever very high and vomits... after the medication everything it`s ok.
as u well know take care of chidren, they get it before and they ussualy spred the virus at school and then at home...
i hope nothing happend to u or ur family..

I think that people are over reacting. The regular season flu is just as bad as this, and it takes just as many lives, and nobody says anything.

I have not seen any one wearing a mask here in Tennessee, In the U.S. yet

The only people that i have seen wearing a mask is the dentist,but they have always done that.I have not seen anyone else wear one at any other time,i am sure the drs as well as hospital staff will all soon be wearing them as they say there is alot more of the swine flu about now than there was.

I've seen a few people wearing them, I think nothing of it as we don't know why they are wearing them, maybe they have a cold, and they are wearing it for the sake of others, or they could have a weak immune system, or just get sick easily, they might be afraid to get sick, as a lot of people don't take measures to prevent the spreading of germs. Sometimes we just don't know.

I think SOME people are over reacting, just as there are people that think they are sick after watching a special on Discovery Health, about some sort of sickness that someone had. Or reading about it, the internet is a scary place when you aren't feeling well, goggling your symptoms is one of the worst things to do, I think.

Having the regular flu is terrible, but H1N1 has taken lives, which is a tragedy. I personally don't wear a surgical mask, I don't see the need to, if I get sick, I get sick, I take precautions to prevent it,(wash my hands, keep my hands away from my face, take vitamins) but if I get sick, I get sick, no biggie, I myself try not to go out when I am sick, as I just feel awful and want to stay home.

I see people all the time at walmart wearing the mask..I do not think people are over reacting at all.. It is a scary flu to get, so many have died from it.. I do think however that it is a way for the govt. to control the population....Lori

Ever since the flu came about I have never seen anyone wearing a mask here in the UK, and I live about 25kms from the capital so you'd think I'd see them, but NOT one person have I seen, so what does that say? Maybe it's different dependent on the country, the cultures, the people? They did state that the flu would be more prevalent this time of the year but I don't know whether it's me but it seems to have taken a back seat in the paper and the news and you don't hear about it much. Apart from the vaccine, compared to when it first started you heard about it all the time and it dominated the news, now you only hear snippets about it. So I don't know what to believe in all honesty with you.

Hi cher


well i have seen one guy wear a mask like that, but then it wasn't for H1N1, if it was such a case then it could well cause a panic among others, he ways probably wearing it for some laboratory work i guess... i hope.