Fully vaccinated or not, many workers are still required to wear a mask in the workplace. We can do a small thing to signal our solidarity with other workers, even if they don’t recognize it.
I tried going without a mask at Costco today but felt crappy when I looked around and all the workers still are required to wear them. I felt better and more connected to my fellow workers once I put it back on.
Florida flat out dropped reporting daily numbers June 4th despite still having 1700 new cases a day. All the theme parks have gone mask free for vaxxed without being able to ask for proof.
Oh and almost all the counties have made school masks voluntary. We're gonna be fine, I'm sure.
My friends from Florida are all like "no one wears masks and nothing was shut down". I don't now how true that is, but OMG.
I just went to FL (not for vacation), can confirm no one wears masks.
We've been out of lockdown for a year now. And depending on what areas (red, heavy trump country) you were in, the sight of masks could already be pretty scarce. Now that masking is almost entirely voluntary, it's definitely 50%ish or below even in blue areas, and I'm occasionally getting dirty looks when I wear one out in red areas.
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Limit time indoors around heavily breathing people
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Ventilate indoor places if possible.
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Wear masks indoors
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Keep the 6-foot distance
Pretty much in that order. Form pods of people you interact with regularly so you can not kill your social/emotional well-being.
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have fun needing a booster and an entirely new vaccine in a year.
and dealing with the fact that if we continue to fuck up the pandemic response covid will be endemic everywhere but like... 10 countries.
on top of people having been talking for 2-3 months now about needing a 3rd shot of the current vaccines!
huh, I hadn't heard that yet
Wearing a mask is the simplest fucking thing and any time I see someone complain about it all I see is a toddler angry they have to wear pants. It's a tiny ass piece of fabric smaller than a post card. It takes literal seconds to put on and can be easily carried in your pocket. This is the easiest piece of clothing to wear and there is nigh zero excuse not to. Vaccines aren't immunity. You can still spread to the unvaccinated and immunocompromised. This is literally the smallest fucking inconvenience I can imagine. Just wear it and stop acting like a child
I honestly still don't trust people not wearing masks. I think the vaccines are fine. It's that people are willing to lie about it.
Plus I like the relative anonymity.
But this is an awesome reason to show solidarity. Thanks for the tip!
Also wear a mask because you can still infect people who aren't yet vaccinated
or people who are immunocompromised, who may not have sufficient antibodies despite being vaccinated
Thanks for bringing this up. My family member is a heart transplant recipient and found out he has 0 antibodies despite getting vaccinated.
I'm really disappointed how quickly it has almost become socially unacceptable to keep wearing mask.
I wanted to see it totally normalized like an east Asia. Not just because to would be good for public health but I enjoy the anonymity when I'm at the grocery or just doing other random stuff
It's definitely a regional thing. I live in new donk city and even now at least half of people(depending on the neighborhood) wear masks outside. Inside it's like 80-90%
I visited my family on the west coast recently post vaxx(desert part) and it blew my fucking mind how different it is. The delta variant is about to kill so many people and no one seems to see what's coming
Yeah I'm starting to wonder if we'll have another lockdown.
I think probably not, I don't think people will want one no matter how bad it gets. I think the summer might be ok, last summer was even without vaccines, but next fall will be bad.
I wonder how the media will cover it. Now the daddy joe and the vaccine has saved us I wonder if they'll keep being dismissive of it no matter how bad it gets again
I live in a fairly rural area in the south where hardly anyone is still wearing masks, even workers. I swear I've gotten death stares from lifted-truck, back the blue type white guy southerner CHUDS when wearing my mask the last few weeks, to the point where I almost feel like I should take it off, lest I be potentially confronted (I'm a non-passing trans woman, so add a x2 to that feeling) Idk maybe it's just my overall anxiety fucking with my head and making me paranoid, but it's to the point where I just don't know what to do. Maybe I'm just a pussy though.
Yeah out in the rural mountain west you sacrifice significant social capital if you go anywhere in a mask and are under 80. People will absolutely think less of you or, bizarrely, will take personal offense. It's a calculus you gotta do
My cousin's a virologist and she's bugging out over the delta variant bouncing around the UK right now. Apparently even the Pfizer vaccine offers little protective antibodies after six months against this variant, and new, crazier ones are sure to pop up. Wear your fucking masks folks.
I'm going to keep wearing my mask for a long time. This winter was really bad anyway, but for the first time ever I did not get a cold that made me want to shatter my skull and swirl a knife through my sinuses. I get to not inhale as much of other people's crap, and I don't get them sick.
Same. I don't usually get sick but avoiding illness at the low cost of wearing a mask indoors is a real win, and I'm going to keep doing it into the future to normalize wearing a mask when sick or around sick people.
At the rate things are going I doubt I'll be taking mine of for another year.
I will keep wearing mine for years to come. I've not had a cold or sore throat in over a year now and I am loving it
I'm vaxxed, in the most vaxxed county nearby, and I still wear one, because you know, I don't want to be a vector for spread towards the unvaxxed.
That's been my rule if thumb since I have no idea wtf I'm actually supposed to do. If the people working there are wearing masks I'm wearing a mask
I’m going to keep wearing a mask, as I like walking around with my mouth slightly open. 👄
with the delta variant spreading everyone should wear a mask regardless
I'm wearing a mask because even vaccinated this shit can still kill your ass
I dunno, it's hard to find accurate stats. They say Pfizer's is 95% effective against preventing illness, can't find anything on death tho. But whatever it is, wearing a mask cuts my chance of infection by 65%, so if the reduction in death rate is the same as illness, that drops my chance of dying from 5% to 1.75% and that seems like a pretty good tradeoff to me for the two seconds it takes to slap a piece of fabric on my gob.
