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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

The 58 percent figure for kids 5-11 surprised me. Eye opening. Not sure what they’re being protected from anymore.

Even if you have had it once, you still want to minimize the number of times you get it. Every time you get it it breaks your defenses down more in ways that you may not really see. I visualize this as russian roulette -- each time you get covid you pull the trigger again without spinning the cartridge, so the more times you get it the worse your odds are and at some point you will hit on a bad result.

That's not the way your immune system works for most viruses. We don't know anything for sure yet on this one, but generally the more your immune system sees a certain virus the easier it is to dispatch. Prior immunity (from infection or vaccination) is the main reason we didn't see more hospitalizations for omicron despite a huge number of infections.

It doesn’t sound like you have been following the research on the virus’s effect on T cells. If a body’s can mmunity response is insufficient, T cells are used to fight the disease off, and when this happens a large number of the bodies naive T cells get used up and converted into “fighter” type T cells. Once naive T cells are used up, they usually are not replaced except in the very young. This ages a person’s immunity response by like a decade or more, potentially cutting years of for their life.

So no, you don’t want to get covid over and over.

Are you misrepresenting this OPINION article again? https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.853606/full

"We can use the model to anticipate the possibility of worsening disease upon reinfection in cases where there is not adequate early control and a highly differentiated T cell repertoire. This does not mean all reinfections will be worse, rather that they will be worse when the parameters of this feed-forward model are met."

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

They want to be right.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

This whole thread started due to people talking about a mask optional policy. Optional. You are correct, no one cares what you do. They are optional and we are glad they are optional. But some people have been upset that they are no longer mandated.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

This whole thread started due to people talking about a mask optional policy. Optional. You are correct, no one cares what you do. They are optional and we are glad they are optional. But some people have been upset that they are no longer mandated.

But this particular thread on this post is about how someone is choosing to wear a mask to protect themselves so they won’t get Covid before they go on vacation. They were criticized by anti-maskers saying masks don’t work. So they do care but it’s not clear why. What skin is it off their nose?

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

This whole thread started due to people talking about a mask optional policy. Optional. You are correct, no one cares what you do. They are optional and we are glad they are optional. But some people have been upset that they are no longer mandated.

But this particular thread on this post is about how someone is choosing to wear a mask to protect themselves so they won’t get Covid before they go on vacation. They were criticized by anti-maskers saying masks don’t work. So they do care but it’s not clear why. What skin is it off their nose?

Sure, I went back and read and see your point. The beginning though was someone ranting about long covid and brains shrinking and new variants coming for us, etc. That doesn't feel like a person who is okay with masks optional and individual choice. So it spiraled from there.

So I guess what skin is it off anyone's nose goes both ways.

I do agree asserting that masks don't work is ridiculous. I think a lot of types of masks on a lot of types of people don't work very well at all. But I think motivated people people wearing masks can make a real difference for their own protection. I do think that a lot of motivated adults think they have motivated children/tweens/teens and they're very wrong. That's another topic I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

"Anti-maskers" in this area aren't triggered by other people wearing masks. They do not care. They are triggered by other people telling them that they are selfish, horrible human beings for not wearing a mask. They are triggered by people saying that their non-mask-wearing kids should go off in a room by themselves to be taught separately. They are triggered by people saying that they should be more worried about covid, long covid, catching covid multiple times, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

"Anti-maskers" in this area aren't triggered by other people wearing masks. They do not care. They are triggered by other people telling them that they are selfish, horrible human beings for not wearing a mask. They are triggered by people saying that their non-mask-wearing kids should go off in a room by themselves to be taught separately. They are triggered by people saying that they should be more worried about covid, long covid, catching covid multiple times, etc.

I am also triggered by the passive aggressive commentary.

We let Johnny decide what to do and he wants to wear a mask since he cares about others and the community.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

"Anti-maskers" in this area aren't triggered by other people wearing masks. They do not care. They are triggered by other people telling them that they are selfish, horrible human beings for not wearing a mask. They are triggered by people saying that their non-mask-wearing kids should go off in a room by themselves to be taught separately. They are triggered by people saying that they should be more worried about covid, long covid, catching covid multiple times, etc.

I am also triggered by the passive aggressive commentary.

We let Johnny decide what to do and he wants to wear a mask since he cares about others and the community.

Your skin is very thin.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

"Anti-maskers" in this area aren't triggered by other people wearing masks. They do not care. They are triggered by other people telling them that they are selfish, horrible human beings for not wearing a mask. They are triggered by people saying that their non-mask-wearing kids should go off in a room by themselves to be taught separately. They are triggered by people saying that they should be more worried about covid, long covid, catching covid multiple times, etc.

I am also triggered by the passive aggressive commentary.

We let Johnny decide what to do and he wants to wear a mask since he cares about others and the community.

If that type of a comment makes you feel bad, you should consider why that is.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, you've shown that masks actually prevent the spread of covid, but that doesn't mean we should mask HERE. It's totally okay to spread Covid HERE.

Nevermind about long covid. Nevermind that even mild cases of covid cause elevated heart risk issues in 3% above what's normal of the population post infection. Nevermind about this B2 variant that spreads more quickly and is more dangerous that B1 Omicron and is causing concern in other countries. If you're not okay with getting or spreading a little bit of covid at this point, your only goal must be zero covid or lowest covid possible and any sacrifices to get there must be worth it. Like some of us have other considerations besides physical health in mind when having an opinion. Such as, from earlier comments in this and other threads: Lipstick. Seeing people's beautiful smiles.

Right.

Covid spread is quite low here right now. If you aren't unwilling to unmask now, you're never going to be willing to unmask. One reasonable course of action is to unmask when cases are low and re-evaluate as you go along. If the B2 variant is coming for us, well I'll be glad I got a masking break and I'll put my mask back on.

The snark about it only being about lipstick and smiles is lame. If you can't see why humans don't want to wear masks all the time, then you don't see it. And if you can't see why it might not be great for kids to grow up for years on end wearing masks, then you don't see it.

I would be willing to unmask right now if I didn’t have a super expensive international trip coming up for spring break. Not willing to have the whole family go down over the next four weeks when we’ve made it this far. You have no idea why people are still masking. i know my reason is purely selfish and privileged.

Guess you haven't seen the research that masks don't work (except when perfectly put on a mannequin in a labratory - they don't in real life setting with real life humans).

Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break.

You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/)

I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc.

Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that.

My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID.

May whole family had covid. I had symptoms but never tested positive. Either I’m immune to covid or else I just don’t show positive.

OK cool story, I think the new feature where you can’t see the whole thread at once has people responding with random statements.

This started with me saying we are masking until spring break because we have a vacation planned. Someone else responded saying masks don’t work. I indicated that we do a shit ton of stuff inside with masks and family has never gotten Covid, but that was disputed because so many people in this area have apparently already had it. I responded saying that we test at least weekly, everyone in our household. We have never had Covid, we’ve never been sick this entire time. I have a severe immune system issues so we would have known. Maybe we were lucky, maybe the KN95s really work for us. Whatever, we’re going to keep masking due to our vacation and the bro dads/rage moms can keep being irritated by it.

It's bizarre that the anti maskers are so triggered by OTHER people wearing masks. I have a high risk condition so I need to wear masks indoors.

And my allergist just told me to wear my mask outdoors now because of spring allergens. Wasn't crazy about doing that but tried it and it does help. So now I will be wearing my mask outside too not for Covid but for allergies.

Why do other people care what I do?

"Anti-maskers" in this area aren't triggered by other people wearing masks. They do not care. They are triggered by other people telling them that they are selfish, horrible human beings for not wearing a mask. They are triggered by people saying that their non-mask-wearing kids should go off in a room by themselves to be taught separately. They are triggered by people saying that they should be more worried about covid, long covid, catching covid multiple times, etc.

I am also triggered by the passive aggressive commentary.

We let Johnny decide what to do and he wants to wear a mask since he cares about others and the community.

If that type of a comment makes you feel bad, you should consider why that is.

Sounds like the extent of Johnny caring about others is so that his long planned spring break vacation doesn't get ruined. So kind and caring he is.