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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe because SCIENCE.

They are staying 6' (think fingertip to fingertip) from others? They are already vaccinated?  They are at vanishingly low risk of serious illness based on their age and health history?
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This. Totally pointless to wear mask once vaccinated or outdoors away from others. Being extreme and unscientific just creates backlash. [/quote]

Actually there is no data on the variants with regard to masking and vaccines yet. So your stance is quite unscientific as well. Contact tracing shows that the more transmissible strains are infecting people within a matter of a few (not fifteen) minutes indoors with masks. If you are outside in cold weather, aerosol lingers for longer than in warm weather. Would need to see data first to draw conclusions about best practices. And pretty much everyone agrees there will be boosters for the variants at some point this year.

Honestly, I think it’s very rude to be using a public space — outside or inside — without masks. That whole attitude is what has drawn this out. There was a new study that the US could have avoided 40% of its deaths if they had encouraged masks instead of politicizing this and spreading conspiracy theories. Is that scientific enough for you?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy

I avoid playgrounds with parents who don’t mask, and I do notice who is out there with one and without one. It’s a matter of doing your duty to help others. If you can’t do that then don’t, but don’t make excuses about why.[/quote]

You really think Covid is dragging out because people won’t mask outdoors? Do you understand that masks are modestly effective indoors, and that one is 20x less likely to spread the virus outside? Moving activities outdoors is the intervention that works.

Covid is dragging on because a vaccine isn’t widely available. Covid drags on because low wage workers worked when they were infected, and sent the virus home with their coworkers. Many of them live in small, cramped spaces with other essential workers.

For some people, their thinking has not evolved from the days of “if everyone wore a mask we would be done with Covid.” That’s not how it works. Structural inequities are driving most of the spread. And blaming people for becoming infected with a virus has a very sad history. When all is said and done, we will realize the mask debate kept us from trying to implement policies that would save many lives. [/quote]

+1.  Americans are obese and unhealthy.  Our country does not allow all people access to healthy food or have systems that support healthy lifestyles for all.  Obese and unhealthy people are at much higher risk of dying from COVID.  Science points to this as one of the primary reasons we have been hit so much harder than countries like India and some in Africa.  Wish people would invest more energy in campaigning to make healthy food available to all people rather than splitting hairs over some people not masking up outdoors.  [/quote]

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