Anyone going back to double masks or KN95s bc of Delta?

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Anonymous wrote:What's more effective against Delta- one Pfizer or J&J? I read that one Pfizer is 94% against hospitalization.

2 Pfizer like any sane person would get

That's not the question. One Pfizer is 94% effective, 2 is 96%.
And this is for someone who had an allergic reaction. Prob not worth dying for a 2% increase.

If you had an allergic reaction, you shouldn't be asking for advice here.

Allergy to what component?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What's more effective against Delta- one Pfizer or J&J? I read that one Pfizer is 94% against hospitalization.

2 Pfizer like any sane person would get

That's not the question. One Pfizer is 94% effective, 2 is 96%.
And this is for someone who had an allergic reaction. Prob not worth dying for a 2% increase.

If you had an allergic reaction, you shouldn't be asking for advice here.

Allergy to what component?

No idea. But they can't get second

[Anonymous]

Why not triple mask? Or quadruple? Better safe than sorry, right?

[Anonymous]

I wear a cloth mask when I’m generally out and about
I wear a surgical mask at work (I teach Kindergarten, and will be teaching summer school this summer)
I ate in a crowded restaurant today, completely comfortable with the current positivity rate being less than 1%, but if it starts rising again, I might reconsider indoor dining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not triple mask? Or quadruple? Better safe than sorry, right?

+100000
I am actually buying a military grade gas mask to protect myself.

[Anonymous]

I have been the most crazy, most paranoid person throughout this whole pandemic. I know how to sanitize groceries with the best of them. But even I have never had two masks on my face at once. If my kn95 isn’t going to protect me, a piece of cloth over it sure isn’t going to help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wear a cloth mask when I’m generally out and about
I wear a surgical mask at work (I teach Kindergarten, and will be teaching summer school this summer)
I ate in a crowded restaurant today, completely comfortable with the current positivity rate being less than 1%, but if it starts rising again, I might reconsider indoor dining.

How dare you? As a teacher you are supposed to protect children around you. Instead you are looking for more ways to catch covid. Selfish!

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccinated fully since early April. I had a few months of relaxing - coming and going as I pleased. I've always masked but had relaxed - one cloth mask. Now with all this talk about Delta and how quickly it's spreading (30% of US cases are now Delta as opposed to 10% a week ago) + how you only need a few seconds of exposure + how if it breaks thru the vaccine people still get really sick (so the vax doesn't guarantee asymptomatic or mild) + combined with the fact that life is resuming, I'm expected to be in office buildings and elevators etc. while most people are stopping masking (or maybe only 40-50% are masking in any situation), is it time to go back to double masks or KN95?

Or is the vax (mRNA) still holding up enough that this isn't necessary? I mean I figured I'd be back to double masking in the fall - not in the heat of the Virginia summer.

Who cares about the heat? It is better to be safe and alive. You are going to protect yourself and the community.

But I did protect myself and the community, by getting vaccinated as early as I possibly could (in my case, in late January).

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Anonymous wrote:We should ALL wear masks. I cannot believe you are NOT afraid of catching covid. How would you feel if you get it and pass it to your elderly relatives or kids? I will feel so much shame and guilt! I am going to double mask for the next few years, or maybe it is just a new normal and we should always wear masks and become a society that cares about each other. People are so selfish. It makes me sick

My elderly relatives, who stayed quite isolated all throughout 2020, are very happily going to restaurants unmasked to eat indoors with friends of theirs, because they're all fully vaccinated and they don't want to stay home now that it's not necessary. And my kids are at very little risk even if they did somehow get covid from me, which is unlikely since I'm also fully vaccinated. So no, not particularly afraid.

[Anonymous]

This fall gonna be .... all masked and distanced up again and all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wear a cloth mask when I’m generally out and about
I wear a surgical mask at work (I teach Kindergarten, and will be teaching summer school this summer)
I ate in a crowded restaurant today, completely comfortable with the current positivity rate being less than 1%, but if it starts rising again, I might reconsider indoor dining.

How dare you? As a teacher you are supposed to protect children around you. Instead you are looking for more ways to catch covid. Selfish!

DP
I hope this was a sarcastic post.

ES Teacher

[Anonymous]

I never double masked. I was fully vaccinated in February and wore a mask whenever inside public places until the VA mask mandate was lifted. I teach an ES grade and wore a mask while at work through the end of school of course. I keep a mask in my pocket in case I go somewhere that requires one, but most places are requiring a mask right now.

I figure there will always be variants. I'm in Fairfax County and we have daily case counts in the low single digits to 0 most days. If we can't start going without masks now when will we?

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Anonymous wrote:This fall gonna be .... all masked and distanced up again and all.

Nah, we’re not going back to that. People won’t do it again, especially since we already have vaccines so there’s nothing else to wait for. Most people are not willing to go into indefinite covid purgatory.

[Anonymous]

I suspect the mask requirement will be removed for planes by late summer.

[Anonymous]

Hell no.