Masks
#51
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 1,052
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.
#52
Power Poster
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
Posts: 11,314
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.
#55
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
Posts: 11,314
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#59
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: northern minnesota
Posts: 2,480
I was a bit bored today, so I looked at my states health departments covid data. Very interesting. The counties are colored by what percentage of folks are vaccinated, and another one for what the latest rate of infection is, and I previously I looked at the map of what counties voted republican and what ones voted democratic. Well, You could just about overlay all three and the colors would match up. The republican counties have the fewest vaccinated and highest rates of infection. Go figure. Me, I will keep wearing my mask and isolating although I do live in one of the counties with the higher rates of vaccinated and lower rates of infection. I have upgrade however for the most part to an N95 when I need to go to places, like dr's appts where there are a lot of folks. Our local stores now have a supply of N95's available for purchase. I see too many people wearing masks improperly. Oh, and although our state has about 73 % of people over 16 vaccinated, we are near capacity for ICU's. That is scary. I know, medical folks have quit due to burnout and a fair number have died. It is really sad....I am beyond anger anymore...just grieving for what did not need to be lost and the people who have lost a loved one.
#60
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,396
The unvaccinated makes a choice. That is on them. All the vaccinated I know that has gotten covid after vaccination so far haven't had to go to hospital but they got covid and have no idea how since no one else in the family had it or got it later. It's a gamble no matter how safe you are or think you are.