Originally Posted by
Stitchnripper
of course - if one stays home no need for mask. If one lives in area with low case (or sickness) rates and high vaccination rates less need for mask. If one lives in a place like we do with minimal masking, people not social distancing, government rules prohibiting any safety requirements, hospitals full with COVID patients, unvaccinated dying at much higher rates than vaccinated then some of us will opt in to the mask. I don’t want to be even a little sick. Breakthrough infections very rare and deaths from breakthrough rarer yet. No vaccine is going to be perfect.
i don’t think a lot of people understand that wearing a mask is for everyone, not just themselves. Our provincial govt declared the pandemic over and opened everything up at the end of June despite the data that told us Delta variant was on the rise. Most people wanted to believe it so stopped wearing masks, social distancing, etc. Last evening the same government admitted they were wrong and among several other restrictions masks are now mandatory again. Our ICUs are over capacity, HCW are burning out, deaths are way up, vaccinated rate is lowest in the country. Wearing a mask is for the benefit of everyone.