And this poo-pooing of people who want to continue wearing one is weird. People are coming off as anti-maskers almost.
I'm comfortable wearing a mask. Putting it on has become a second nature, muscle memory thing. I haven't had a single cold since I started wearing one. I go to the gym everyday and feel safer wearing one. Not just against Covid, but everything else you can catch there. I mentioned this in another thread, but I was at a restaurant yesterday. About 60 people, all indoors, no masks. I noped out to an outdoor table.
Are all those people vaccinated? I doubt it.
Furthermore, even if we are vaccinated, we can still contract it. And even if I'm asymptomatic, what if I pass it on to someone who isn't vaccinated or who is especially vulnerable? Don't I have a responsibility here?
I'm all about science in all things. I like tangible evidence. The fact of the matter is, we really don't know everything about the virus. Not by a long, long way. We know quite a bit, but there are long-term unknowns involved.
So why the sneering about simple caution? It's my choice, and my choice harms no one. People in Asian countries have been wearing masks for a long, long time now. It's part of their culture. I saw Asian immigrants wearing masks long before Covid. Should we be giving them lectures, too?
And the idea that there isn't a massive amount of political pressure to begin reopening is either naive or disingenuous. There is massive, massive, massive, massive political pressure to get back to normal.
Also, "In Fauci we trust," was always creepy. That kind of veneration for one single human who is as fallible as the rest of us never sat right with me. I think people latched onto him because he was the anti-Trump during the pandemic. Fine. But, still, creepy.
These anti-mask posts are starting to get really weird.
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