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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the end game now? Originally, it was to mask and social distance until the vaccines were widely available. Now there seems to be no end in sight. I don’t think “zero covid” is achievable at this point (if it ever was). Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Deaths aren’t high. So what’s the goal here?[/quote]

This really is the rub, isn't it?  We have safe and effective vaccines that over 100,000,000 Americans can get by just walking into a pharmacy with no wait and no appointment yet they refuse to get them.  Now Delta is causing severe disease, mostly in the unvaccinated and we have to mask up again.  This is, quite literally, never going away.  With new variants coming out from time-to-time and anti-vaxers refusing not only the vaccine but no doubt any future boosters against the variants, we will continue to see flare-ups in the country and community.  Why should we mask for people that refuse the vaccine?  [b]I don't want to mask for them.[/b]  If we are to mask for them, at least make it based on hospital utilization and not just because the numbers are getting bigger.  [/quote]

I'm not masking for them.  I'm masking for people who got vaccinated but don't have robust immunity because they are very elderly, or immunocompromised.  I'm masking for kids who can't get vaccinated yet, including my own.  And frankly, I just don't think it's that big of a deal.  Masking indoors is a fairly minor imposition, all things considered, and if it means that things can be open and school can be in person, I'm completely fine with it.  Once kids can be vaccinated, I might feel differently, but right now there is a large group of people who cannot get vaccinated, through no fault of their own.  That is going to change, probably by the end of the year.  [/quote]

I can see a an argument to say we are masking for the unvaccinated children (even though they typically get mild covid).  Later this year when vaccination is open to them as well, we will continue to see cases flare up and new massive peaks with new immune avoiding variants.  This isn’t a temporary thing.  COVID will be with us forever now.  People need to vaccinate and if they don’t, I shouldn’t modify my life for them.[/quote]

It is with us because people refuse to behave in a manner that will help us get rid of covid.  Thank them.

Our kids are not vaccinated!!!  How is it even a question that we should be concerned about their health?  They don't have invisible bubbles around them to protect them.

The vaccine is more like a flu shot.  You can still catch and transmit covid and its been said since the start of all this.  If you don't mind getting covid, great.  If you don't mind your kids getting covid, great.  But, some of us would prefer not to get covid.  We are very tired of people behaving selfishly and then complaining about COVID.  If you are living your life as normal, covid has no impact on you so stop complaining.[/quote]

DP but you are misunderstanding- many of us have done all the right things, followed the rules, got vaccinated and now we hear vaccination isnt enough and it’s frustrating and depressing.  And like PP said if this is until kids get vaccinated, ok. But at that point people have made their choice re:the vaccine and should get to choose whether they mask forever or not.

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