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maxsolomon

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10. This isn't Day One, though.

Reply to Orrex (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 17, 2022, 08:30 PM

Oct 2022

This is somewhere around day 975.

I just got home from an hour on light rail and bus transfer. I wore a mask the entire time. Many of my fellow passengers, most of whom are substantially younger than I, did not.

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Met Opera, NY Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall drop mask mandate [View all] pstokely Oct 2022 OP

You're right: don't leave home without it peppertree Oct 2022 #1

If you want to wear one, wear it. maxsolomon Oct 2022 #2

Literally the exact sentiment voiced by anti-maskers and anti-vaxers from day one Orrex Oct 2022 #4

This isn't Day One, though. maxsolomon Oct 2022 #10

But the thinking is the same Orrex Oct 2022 #14

At least outside, there are few reasons TO wear them. maxsolomon Oct 2022 #15

But we obviously weren't talking about outdoor transmission Orrex Oct 2022 #16

That's not how pandemic management works. NullTuples Oct 2022 #6

When you go to a place without a mask mandate, you can choose to wear one. maxsolomon Oct 2022 #9

would you wear one if asked? pstokely Oct 2022 #12

Of course I would. I have been doing that for years. maxsolomon Oct 2022 #13

Doing the absolute minimum as required by law Orrex Oct 2022 #3

Really bad timing. nt Samrob Oct 2022 #5

Just in time for the holiday tourism season pstokely Oct 2022 #8

They can drop all the protections they want -doesn't mean its going away anytime soon! n/t Peregrine Took Oct 2022 #7

That's what Endemic means. maxsolomon Oct 2022 #11