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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are talking about being vaxxed and boosted as though they are at maximum protection.  Most adults in this area got their boosters in November and December of 2021, which means you are quickly approaching 3 months out where booster effectiveness shrinks down to about 50%.  So you shouldn't die, but you're probably not as protected as your vaccine card is making you think you are.

Kids should have a little more time -- mine were boostered in early January, which gives us through early April -- just in time for Spring Break and all the travelers coming back from Spring Break.

My kids are in middle and high school and report that masks haven't been that terrible.  According to them, it's not that hard to wear them, and they feel like they are helping others by doing so and for now, for them, it's an easy choice.

[b]I don't anticipate wearing masks forever[/b], but I just don't understand the extreme upset over a safety precaution that is actually saving lives in the face of a disease that is still not completely understood.  The large number of people here who are just not concerned with the increasing number of risk factors resulting from even mild cases of this disease (2% of your brains guys, but okay) is a mystery to me, and yet you are explaining demasking as totally "reasonable."  Meanwhile you criticize people like me for not being in touch with reality and having too cautious of an approach.

My parents grew up as the children of coal miners in the 1930s and underwent all manner of deprivation during the war in the 1940s.  Knowing their stories, I look at this attitude of some people towards masks as some sort of terrible impediment rather than an amazing safety tool (23% fewer infections!) and I do not understand the anger at masks.  Younger children who need to see lips to learn reading and special needs children I can understand.  But the average middle or high schooler, let alone adults, I do not understand your risk calibrations for yourselves and others in your community, though I recognize you are free to make those choices. [/quote]

You're intent to not get covid.  So when will you unmask?  For many of us, we don't want to get covid either.  But that is no longer the top priority in our lives affecting every decision.  One decision point in life is masking.  For people where masking is genuinely no big deal, great!  Wear them even when community spread is low just in case to ensure you never get covid.  A lot of kids, tweens, teens, and adults don't feel that way.   My younger son wears glasses and hates the mask and always has.  My tween doesn't mind wearing one at school too much but would like to take breaks while at school and wants to have friends over to the house and unmask and have normal interactions.

I think framing it as a generic..."saving lives" also makes it difficult to know when you will ever take your masks off especially if you live in an area with good medial care, high vaccination rates, etc.  As long as covid exists on this planet, you're saving lives, right?  So it would seem you will be wearing masks for a good long while.  Which if you don't mind wearing them, no big deal I guess.

So like you, I don't quite understand your position but I also strongly believe we are at a point where it should be optional and everyone should do what feels right for them.  So I think we are where we need to be and we all just need to allow each other to do what feels right. [/quote]

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