In Lidl this week and in my workplace yesterday struck by how many are still using masks, as am I. Any sense more widely how that is going ? IEL noted in comments in one post primary school masks were conspicuous by their absence - my own sense from another was that students were mostly wearing them but teachers weren't. And from a third, an FE sector college that most students there were still wearing them too.

Then there's this:

Teachers and parents support the wearing of masks by older primary schoolchildren, while the children themselves are evenly split on the experience, research commissioned by the National Public Health Emergency Team shows.
A requirement for children aged nine to 12 to wear masks in the classroom was introduced in November and is being dropped from Monday, along with the requirement for secondary students to wear masks.

Three primary schools – one urban, one suburban and one rural – were surveyed for the research. Some 38 per cent of nine to 12-year-olds said they were happy to continue wearing masks, while another 7 per cent were in favour but for reasons such as protecting others. Almost 46 per cent said they wanted to stop wearing masks.
Describing the children's answers as "divided, nuanced and qualified", the report said some added practical suggestions they would like to happen while wearing masks, while others qualified their willingness to continue wearing masks with requests for more mask breaks, or more mixing of pods.

A majority of parents have supported the measure since it was introduced. However, the proportion of parents who felt mask-wearing by children aged nine to 12 was appropriate fell from 65 per cent in December to 56 per cent in mid-February. By that stage, 39 per cent felt the measure was not appropriate.
Seventy per cent of parents said their child had adapted well to the mask-wearing requirement.

Which suggests that many voices so vociferously raised against mask wearing in the media appear to be broadly unrepresentative (though this has been notable from Amarach polling in the last few months for the government). Makes one wonder given significant adherence even still why the government was so keen to abandon them as a measure.