BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

You assume too much.

So do you have empathy for those who find indefinite masking less "mild effort" than you or not?

Absolutely. Especially when they’re not trolls posing as someone that has an issue with masks.

Not sure why you think I'm a troll, my aunt is hearing impaired. Luckily for her she doesn't live here though. I just get tired of blanket statements about masks being "easy" and "no effort" and only selfish people don't wear them, blah blah blah. Some of you should stop and think before posting blanket statements.

People are supposed to wear masks when they return to activities after being COVID positive and for 10 days after a known exposure. In addition, wearing a mask if you have symptoms but a negative test is also courteous (if you have to go out at all). We can't get rid of COVID, but we can try to keep it at manageable levels of community spread. The more out of control the virus is, the more people will opt to wear masks, whether that is based on personal risk assessment or as recommended by the CDC following a positive test or an exposure to a positive person.

Living with COVID should not mean ignoring the virus or COVID-like symptoms, but that's what the majority of the population seems to want.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

You assume too much.

So do you have empathy for those who find indefinite masking less "mild effort" than you or not?

Absolutely. Especially when they’re not trolls posing as someone that has an issue with masks.

Not sure why you think I'm a troll, my aunt is hearing impaired. Luckily for her she doesn't live here though. I just get tired of blanket statements about masks being "easy" and "no effort" and only selfish people don't wear them, blah blah blah. Some of you should stop and think before posting blanket statements.

People are supposed to wear masks when they return to activities after being COVID positive and for 10 days after a known exposure. In addition, wearing a mask if you have symptoms but a negative test is also courteous (if you have to go out at all). We can't get rid of COVID, but we can try to keep it at manageable levels of community spread. The more out of control the virus is, the more people will opt to wear masks, whether that is based on personal risk assessment or as recommended by the CDC following a positive test or an exposure to a positive person.

Living with COVID should not mean ignoring the virus or COVID-like symptoms, but that's what the majority of the population seems to want.

Good. Majority rules.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

You assume too much.

So do you have empathy for those who find indefinite masking less "mild effort" than you or not?

Absolutely. Especially when they’re not trolls posing as someone that has an issue with masks.

Not sure why you think I'm a troll, my aunt is hearing impaired. Luckily for her she doesn't live here though. I just get tired of blanket statements about masks being "easy" and "no effort" and only selfish people don't wear them, blah blah blah. Some of you should stop and think before posting blanket statements.

People are supposed to wear masks when they return to activities after being COVID positive and for 10 days after a known exposure. In addition, wearing a mask if you have symptoms but a negative test is also courteous (if you have to go out at all). We can't get rid of COVID, but we can try to keep it at manageable levels of community spread. The more out of control the virus is, the more people will opt to wear masks, whether that is based on personal risk assessment or as recommended by the CDC following a positive test or an exposure to a positive person.

Living with COVID should not mean ignoring the virus or COVID-like symptoms, but that's what the majority of the population seems to want.

DP- wearing a mask in situations like you describe (when Covid positive or exposed) makes sense. But pretty sure there is a vocal contingent who wants everyone masking everywhere, all the time. That’s a harder sell at this point.

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I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

Oh hey yeah I wear one of those. But I see people coughing all over the train that are not wearing anything at all. And wiping their hands all over those seats. It’s a fabulous experience highly recommend! You can call it anxiety but the truth as people are disgusting. We were nasty vectors before Covid and Covid certainly is not enhancing the situation. Be gross, be you.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

Oh hey yeah I wear one of those. But I see people coughing all over the train that are not wearing anything at all. And wiping their hands all over those seats. It’s a fabulous experience highly recommend! You can call it anxiety but the truth as people are disgusting. We were nasty vectors before Covid and Covid certainly is not enhancing the situation. Be gross, be you.

BREAKING NEWS: Local Woman Learns that Going out in Public Means she has to be Part of Society.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

Oh hey yeah I wear one of those. But I see people coughing all over the train that are not wearing anything at all. And wiping their hands all over those seats. It’s a fabulous experience highly recommend! You can call it anxiety but the truth as people are disgusting. We were nasty vectors before Covid and Covid certainly is not enhancing the situation. Be gross, be you.

BREAKING NEWS: Local Woman Learns that Going out in Public Means she has to be Part of Society.

You really have no concept of what it is to be compassionate human being.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

Oh hey yeah I wear one of those. But I see people coughing all over the train that are not wearing anything at all. And wiping their hands all over those seats. It’s a fabulous experience highly recommend! You can call it anxiety but the truth as people are disgusting. We were nasty vectors before Covid and Covid certainly is not enhancing the situation. Be gross, be you.

BREAKING NEWS: Local Woman Learns that Going out in Public Means she has to be Part of Society.

You really have no concept of what it is to be compassionate human being.

Also your sarcasm is weak sauce.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

Oh hey yeah I wear one of those. But I see people coughing all over the train that are not wearing anything at all. And wiping their hands all over those seats. It’s a fabulous experience highly recommend! You can call it anxiety but the truth as people are disgusting. We were nasty vectors before Covid and Covid certainly is not enhancing the situation. Be gross, be you.

PP you are responding to. If I had symptoms, I would totally wear a mask if for some reason I had to ride the train anyway. If I could I would stay home. But I am not wearing a mask when I have no symptoms at all, not even if I was "exposed" by someone other than a household member. It's very unlikely, verging on impossible, for you to catch Covid from an asymptomatic person if you are wearing a well-fitted N95.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

Both of the bolded above are ignorant statements based on your personal experience, and a lack of imagination about others.

I take a train to work every day and it is the only way to get there (I do not own a car). The train takes 40-60 minutes. I also have to mask at work. Wearing a mask on the train means wearing a mask for 10 hours a day, plus unlike at work, on the train it is hard to take a break if I need one. At work I can go outside for a few minutes. On the train I can maybe go in the bathroom, but if the issues is needing fresh air, this doesn't help!

What I do is look for the emptiest car I can and sit as far from other people as I can, so that I can sit without my mask. If this isn't possible, I will wear a mask. And of course if I have symptoms I wear a mask, even if my Covid test is negative. But especially during my commute at the end of the day, my mask fatigue is real and intense, and when they finally lifted the mandate for masking on the train, it was such a relief to finally be able to take it off when I wanted to, when I had no symptoms.

I also test weekly (PCR) for work, so it's not like I'm being cavalier. And the thing is, I'm not even that worried about getting Covid (triple vaxxed, young and healthy) but I don't want to give it to anyone I work with or my family. I'm very cautious in general, but I do take a calculated risk on the train because from a mental health standpoint, I am at my max and can't do it anymore.

This is part of the problem with people who mostly work from home in white collar jobs dictating what the precautions should be. You all don't HAVE to work in person, take public transportation or travel a lot, deal with the public. It is so easy to say "Wear a mask! It's not hard!" when you only have to do it occasionally for short periods of time! Some of us have born the brunt of these restrictions for two years while you were comfortable at home, and now you want to complain about us for wanting to be allowed to make our own choices about risks that we face and you don't. It's really frustrating. I don't want Covid but I also don't want to spend every waking minute masking up to prevent it either, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to. I'm a person and this is inhumane.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

Both of the bolded above are ignorant statements based on your personal experience, and a lack of imagination about others.

I take a train to work every day and it is the only way to get there (I do not own a car). The train takes 40-60 minutes. I also have to mask at work. Wearing a mask on the train means wearing a mask for 10 hours a day, plus unlike at work, on the train it is hard to take a break if I need one. At work I can go outside for a few minutes. On the train I can maybe go in the bathroom, but if the issues is needing fresh air, this doesn't help!

What I do is look for the emptiest car I can and sit as far from other people as I can, so that I can sit without my mask. If this isn't possible, I will wear a mask. And of course if I have symptoms I wear a mask, even if my Covid test is negative. But especially during my commute at the end of the day, my mask fatigue is real and intense, and when they finally lifted the mandate for masking on the train, it was such a relief to finally be able to take it off when I wanted to, when I had no symptoms.

I also test weekly (PCR) for work, so it's not like I'm being cavalier. And the thing is, I'm not even that worried about getting Covid (triple vaxxed, young and healthy) but I don't want to give it to anyone I work with or my family. I'm very cautious in general, but I do take a calculated risk on the train because from a mental health standpoint, I am at my max and can't do it anymore.

This is part of the problem with people who mostly work from home in white collar jobs dictating what the precautions should be. You all don't HAVE to work in person, take public transportation or travel a lot, deal with the public. It is so easy to say "Wear a mask! It's not hard!" when you only have to do it occasionally for short periods of time! Some of us have born the brunt of these restrictions for two years while you were comfortable at home, and now you want to complain about us for wanting to be allowed to make our own choices about risks that we face and you don't. It's really frustrating. I don't want Covid but I also don't want to spend every waking minute masking up to prevent it either, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to. I'm a person and this is inhumane.

Thank you for saying this, PP. Please continue to do what makes you feel the most comfortable and ignore the noise.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

Both of the bolded above are ignorant statements based on your personal experience, and a lack of imagination about others.

I take a train to work every day and it is the only way to get there (I do not own a car). The train takes 40-60 minutes. I also have to mask at work. Wearing a mask on the train means wearing a mask for 10 hours a day, plus unlike at work, on the train it is hard to take a break if I need one. At work I can go outside for a few minutes. On the train I can maybe go in the bathroom, but if the issues is needing fresh air, this doesn't help!

What I do is look for the emptiest car I can and sit as far from other people as I can, so that I can sit without my mask. If this isn't possible, I will wear a mask. And of course if I have symptoms I wear a mask, even if my Covid test is negative. But especially during my commute at the end of the day, my mask fatigue is real and intense, and when they finally lifted the mandate for masking on the train, it was such a relief to finally be able to take it off when I wanted to, when I had no symptoms.

I also test weekly (PCR) for work, so it's not like I'm being cavalier. And the thing is, I'm not even that worried about getting Covid (triple vaxxed, young and healthy) but I don't want to give it to anyone I work with or my family. I'm very cautious in general, but I do take a calculated risk on the train because from a mental health standpoint, I am at my max and can't do it anymore.

This is part of the problem with people who mostly work from home in white collar jobs dictating what the precautions should be. You all don't HAVE to work in person, take public transportation or travel a lot, deal with the public. It is so easy to say "Wear a mask! It's not hard!" when you only have to do it occasionally for short periods of time! Some of us have born the brunt of these restrictions for two years while you were comfortable at home, and now you want to complain about us for wanting to be allowed to make our own choices about risks that we face and you don't. It's really frustrating. I don't want Covid but I also don't want to spend every waking minute masking up to prevent it either, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to. I'm a person and this is inhumane.

I mostly work at home and am very COVID cautious, and I applaud you for doing the right thing. I wish more people would be like you in terms of erring on the side of caution if exposed or symptomatic. I'm also a big masker, but fully acknowledge that my hour in an N95 in the grocery store is my choice, but no one should be subjected to 10 hours in an N95 day after day. I've done it a few times when I had to work in person and I was a close contact of a positive family member, and it was absolutely brutal.

Of course, that also cuts both ways. Given how challenging wearing a high-quality mask for extended periods without a break is, should personal masking really be a reason for all of society to completely disregard all COVID measures, including testing and masking when symptomatic? Its like, "I can't wear a mask on the train for 10 days if my spouse has COVID because it's suffocating. However, you can feel free to wear one everywhere for the rest of your life."

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

What do you mean by "they can find alternatives"? They shouldn't ride the train? I don't think that's a fair suggestion given the current guidance. I think you are the one who needs to get herself a really tight-fitting N95 and stop worrying what other people do. That's what the CDC says.

Oh hey yeah I wear one of those. But I see people coughing all over the train that are not wearing anything at all. And wiping their hands all over those seats. It’s a fabulous experience highly recommend! You can call it anxiety but the truth as people are disgusting. We were nasty vectors before Covid and Covid certainly is not enhancing the situation. Be gross, be you.

I think you need to take a bit of your own advice and find an alternative mode of transportation if your fellow riders make you uncomfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s a big ask for masks on public transportation. It’s not a huge part of the day but it’s where many of us risk the most exposure.

If the earlier poster can’t comfortably do that they can find alternatives.

Both of the bolded above are ignorant statements based on your personal experience, and a lack of imagination about others.

I take a train to work every day and it is the only way to get there (I do not own a car). The train takes 40-60 minutes. I also have to mask at work. Wearing a mask on the train means wearing a mask for 10 hours a day, plus unlike at work, on the train it is hard to take a break if I need one. At work I can go outside for a few minutes. On the train I can maybe go in the bathroom, but if the issues is needing fresh air, this doesn't help!

What I do is look for the emptiest car I can and sit as far from other people as I can, so that I can sit without my mask. If this isn't possible, I will wear a mask. And of course if I have symptoms I wear a mask, even if my Covid test is negative. But especially during my commute at the end of the day, my mask fatigue is real and intense, and when they finally lifted the mandate for masking on the train, it was such a relief to finally be able to take it off when I wanted to, when I had no symptoms.

I also test weekly (PCR) for work, so it's not like I'm being cavalier. And the thing is, I'm not even that worried about getting Covid (triple vaxxed, young and healthy) but I don't want to give it to anyone I work with or my family. I'm very cautious in general, but I do take a calculated risk on the train because from a mental health standpoint, I am at my max and can't do it anymore.

This is part of the problem with people who mostly work from home in white collar jobs dictating what the precautions should be. You all don't HAVE to work in person, take public transportation or travel a lot, deal with the public. It is so easy to say "Wear a mask! It's not hard!" when you only have to do it occasionally for short periods of time! Some of us have born the brunt of these restrictions for two years while you were comfortable at home, and now you want to complain about us for wanting to be allowed to make our own choices about risks that we face and you don't. It's really frustrating. I don't want Covid but I also don't want to spend every waking minute masking up to prevent it either, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to. I'm a person and this is inhumane.

Thank you for sharing this perspective.