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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]N-95 in public places like grocery store, metro, flights and medical setting.

Flu shot for the entire family, asap  (at least 2 weeks before school opens.)

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Covid is very smart. It only strikes at doctors offices, grocery stores and on the metro! This virus is so smart! What CAN'T it do?

Most Covid is spread in the home, but you do you. Keep masking, at least us normal people know who to avoid in public![/quote]

NP- you’re obviously not very smart if you don’t get it. No one said they can only get it in those places. The difference is that if some of us are going to get a virus that could potentially take us out for weeks or longer, [b]we would rather get it from someone we know and care about[/b] as opposed to some @sshat stranger on the metro. Also it’s called risk REDUCTION, not taking out risk altogether. Serious idiots on this forum.[/quote]

Omg these words came out of your mouth and you’re the one calling people idiots?!?

Oh wait. You’re right. The Covid from the people you know and care about is much less severe that the @asshat stranger variant. My bad. [/quote]

Risk reduction, moron.  Taking precautions in public places  and small indoor spaces is just the logical balance of continuing life as usual while reducing the chance of infection.  Read that twice if you need to. [/quote]

These people don’t understand risk reduction - it’s kind of pointless to engage with them but sometimes I get sucked in to the idiocy.[/quote]

The “risk reduction” justification makes little sense for a virus as contagious as covid. It’s not a matter of if, but when, you get covid. And unless you're willing to take rather extreme measures for a large percentage of your interactions with others, you're not even going to significantly change how often you get infected.[/quote]

Many of us who are practicing risk reduction are masking inside with others, and socializing without masks outside. I will occasionally make an exception if family members are willing to test right before socializing inside at our houses.

Those who don't want to do anything like this, then don't. The rest of us don't care what you do anymore. You get what you get. [/quote]

OK, but if you're truly masking when socializing/working indoors with family/friends/coworkers, then you fall into an incredibly small group.  And, as you said, that's fine, as long as you're not ultimately restricting what, say, your kids are able to do.

My point was more that, at least historically, there was a larger group of being that attempted to justify decisions like masking at the grocery store, but not at work or with friends, on the basis of risk reduction. Decisions like that don't make sense, from a relative risk perspective.
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