Quote Originally Posted by inumbra View Post
i was rather convinced by those air flow vids and just feeling where air was coming out when i was wearing one. it makes sense that they will help decrease the spread. it's simply that since i have the vaccine now, i just don't know that i'm that much of a risk to the unvaccinated anymore... eventually the odds are small enough that i kind of say "this virus isn't going away anytime soon and we can't do this forever... we have a vaccine, these ppl can get one if they want and they don't want to, so..."

i would think spitting on ppl is pretty significant with covid... i feel like the mask rules/recommendations have been based on guessing (educated guessing) in an uncertain and ever-changing situation to some extent (sometimes all ppl can do is play something by ear). the trail of no, yes, no, yes on masks i don't feel speaks to great dishonesty... like i usually feel like i know why they are doing it... i think there can sometimes be a political component bc public health is unfortunately not just about the facts but all this PR crap. their latest turn is that the cases are rising again, and they know there is at least a little spread going on with the vaccinated, but it's just the cause here is the unvaccinated and i'm like, for how long should we go on? they are probably worried about the healthcare system getting overwhelmed.

when i was willingly wearing one it was bc i was trying to participate in preventing the spread... at this point though... it just seems covid is going to be with us for a while especially since the world is going so slowly on getting the vaccine available to everyone in every nation... toooooooo slow.
A few months ago health officials were saying that we were in a race against the delta variant to reach herd immunity. Obviously we lost that race. The delta variant carries a viral load that is over 1000x greater than its predecessor, making it highly transmissible. If you’re vaccinated, then the chances of you being infected and spreading the virus is smaller than if you were unvaccinated, but breakthrough cases are becoming more of a problem with delta being so contagious. People are settled in their ways. No amount of scientific data will convince the unvaccinated to move. Covid will drag on.