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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I plan to keep on wearing a mask because it has helped my pollen allergies in the spring AND helped me not get a cold or flu the past two years.

I don't care what anyone else does or doesn't do, this has been a life changer for me. [/quote]

Just be aware that immunologically you are not doing yourself any favors by avoiding exposures for the rest of your life. By the time you are old you might die of a simple cold your grandkid or your fellow nursing home resident gave you.[/quote]

+1. And all those parents that are thrilled to keep their babies/kids home, masked etc are doing a serious disservice to their child’s immune system. [/quote]

This is simply not true. To have a strong immune system, you need exposure but a "limited exposure" so that your body can fight various microbes as well as produce antibodies against it to protect against future infections.  [b]However, if it is a particularly virulent and terrible microbe then more exposure only serves to increase the "viral load" that your body can not handle and you are basically gasping at the ventilator.[/b]

Think of your immune system as the Capitol Police.  If a bad element tries to come inside the Capitol, they can easily overpower that criminal.  However, if  thousands of armed criminals, traitors and insurrectionists  try and capture the capitol and kill our elected representatives, just so a fair election can be overturned and they can subvert democracy - then the Capitol Police is basically up the shitz creek.

By wearing a mask, you are still getting some particles of all kinds of microbes in your body.  However, your exposure is so low that not only your immune system can handle it, but it will actually become  stronger by this exposure.   This is especially true for kids, elderly, people with weak immune system or comorbidities.

Which further translates into - to be healthy in the time of pandemic -  have a healthy lifestyle, socialize and meet people using common sense,  wear masks, get vaccinated/boosted, and remain cheerful and connected with others.  There is zero reason to be maskless in indoor public places like grocery stores or cinema hall - where you are not going to socialize with others.

What about schools and offices? Restaurants?   I would personally wear the mask indoors in schools and offices, since that has not impacted work.  I am still skipping sitting inside restaurants, but we are very much dining outdoors without masks. The servers are masking and so as a courtsey we all mask too when they are taking orders or bringing out food.

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Kids, vaccinated or not, are extremely low risk of ending up on a ventilator, and so are adults who are vaccinated. Especially with Covid, where the risk rises exponentially the older you are, it is not in healthy children's best interest to be shielded from a virus that is going to be around for the rest of their lives. It certainly isn't in their interest to be kept at home and shielded from all exposures of all respiratory viruses, nor is it necessary to lessen their viral load with a mask.

And your assertion that wearing masks at school "has not impacted work" is highly debatable and anything but settled science.[/quote]

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