Please help me out here!

[polmaven]

With all of this talk about towns/cities/states "lifting the mask mandates because the number of covid cases have dropped".....I have to think that maybe the cases have dropped BECAUSE of the mask mandates!! Am I wrong??

[pandr32]

1. You are not wrong

I am really worried about dropping required masks in school. Even if parents ask their kids to wear them peer pressure is powerful. We will regret this. Cases will rise again.
I think there must be intense lobbying to end the mandates.

[lagomorph777]

7. Some of that intense lobbying is right here on DU.

Extremely disappointing.

[pandr32]

12. You may be right

...but I was referring to the big industries. They really don't care about us--just their bottom line.

[dchill]

2. Bingo!

[Leith]

3. I think you are right

Last July, covid cases dropped enough that I went out to eat with family. Within a week, when mask mandates were rescinded, covid cases rose significantly. I went back to grocery shopping at 6am and avoiding people.

I believe that the same will happen again this time. Please let me be wrong.

[Xoan]

4. No place for Critical Reasoning Theory ...

in Freedonia.

[2naSalit]

5. I'm still wearing mine when I go out.

Don't give a shit what anyone else thinks.

[crickets]

8. You and me both. nt

[Totally Tunsie]

11. Ditto! n/t

[Patterson]

13. If anyone says anything about it, I plan on saying...

“I’m wearing it so I can stay alive long enough to vote for that MF traitor, Donald Trump.”

[2naSalit]

14. I don't waste my breath...

I just make more distance between us. Funny though, the gruff guys who look like they have a problem with my mask, if I say something nice to them, they suddenly smile and say something nice back. Kind of surprised me the first couple times, but they aren't tourists either.

[electric_blue68]

15. Yup. NYC is close to 3% bc so many/most people masked up etc

[TheBlackAdder]

6. I think it's both mask mandates protecting most and the past infection of those not wearing masks.

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Treat all as a possible infection vector, but treat those without masks as a high-risk infection vector.

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[hamsterjill]

9. It was a while before I got vaccinated and I masked.

I am convinced that masking works. I am now vaxxed AND boosted and I still wear a mask at all times when I am away from home.

It’s just stupid not to do it if it provides any protection at all.

[Shermann]

10. We're just going to surf these waves of infections together

We'll mask up on the way up and ditch the masks on the way down.

[GoneOffShore]

16. I don't wear a mask on the street unless in a really crowded situation.

People here are still required to wear masks in shops, government offices, etc., though the mandate will disappear soon. I'll be interested to see how many continue to wear them.