Back to mask wearing...AGAIN...(good thing I didn't throw them out)...

[Ms. Toad]

35. I never stopped.

Vaccination rate in my county is still less than 50%. Mask wearing indoors is about 5%. That means a whole heck of a lot of people who are (or are capable of) spreading COVID 19.

Noting to do with undue alarm - just Dr. Acton's swiss cheese layers of protection. Vaccination is a good, solid layer. But it's not perfect - so when there is a high chance of exposure it makes sense to add another layer. Right now chances of exposure are pretty high ( under 50% vaccinated + highly contagious Delta variant, 15% of the population not yet even eligible for vaccination) - so masks continue to make sense.

I fundamentally don't understand the attitude around here which treats vaccination as if it was an impermeable shield - I especially don't understand the vitriol, and accusations of being anti-science, which have been directed at those of us who have been encouraging continued indoor mask wearing and (at a bare minimum) the need to implement something other than the honor system for ensuring that the unvaccinated will wear masks when indoors.