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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stopped a month ago, but have a cold so am wearing one until the cold passes (yes I tested for covid).[/quote]

Thank you for doing that. Have noticed a lot of the few unmasked ppl visibly ill lately (wiping noses, hacking cough) and I appreciate your respectful gesture during this bizarre time. [/quote]

It's the normal, reasonable thing to do. The binary pro-mask anti-mask thing is idiotic. Are you sick? Wear a mask if you have to go out. Are you feeling 100% healthy and well? Don't wear a mask. Do you have pollen allergies and are sniffly, but know it's allergies because you've experienced identical symptoms for the past 30 springs? Don't wear a mask. Do your allergy symptoms seem a little weird suddenly? Might be considerate to wear a mask until you figure it out.

Being able to assess situations is what normal, reasonable people do. Being pro or anti mask as an ideology is truly bizarre.[/quote]

I wear a mask when I'm in a crowded public indoor space with people who I don't know for sure are vaccinated. In my office, where we're required to be vaccinated and boosted, I usually take my mask off. Anywhere else indoors, I wear one, even though I feel fine and/or have identical allergy symptoms from every spring. Wouldn't say it's an ideology, but the cost to me of wearing a mask while I'm in a store for 20 minutes is extremely low, and the benefit (I probably won't give anyone covid) is pretty high.[/quote]

Given that you you probably won’t give anyone Covid even if you don’t wear a mask, I don't see how that’s a benefit of mask wearing.[/quote]

Since I don't find wearing a mask for a short trip into a store to be a burden at all, preventing even the smallest chance of giving someone else covid is enough of a benefit to justify it for me. Public policymakers and others are welcome to make different choices, obviously. But even if there's no benefit to me, why would anyone else care? Doesn't harm anyone if I'm wearing a mask.[/quote]

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