• 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Everytime I go grocery shopping I will also be wearing a mask. I am kind of baffled by people who seem to think that corona has poofed out of existence.

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      1 year ago

      Out of sight out of mind. Hahaha

      Masks are good for everybody though. Even the percentage of getting infected by common airborne illnesses can be reduced by a simple mask.

      And also if you are ill, it protects others from you.

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      1 year ago

      It still exists but the main problem is solved. Hospitals arent full, the virus mutated to much less deadly variants and the majority of people is immunized. Right now, Corona is just another flu. Sure its not nice but the average joe will get it now and then.

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        1 year ago

        Good points, aside from equating COVID to the flu. Even with hospitals at normal census, the less deadly variants, and the vaccines, COVID is still less understood than the flu. Long-COVID, for example, is a serious problem, where as influenza rarely (if ever) has such lasting issues.

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        1 year ago

        To add to this outstanding display of rationalism. The vaccines are waaay more effective at preventing COVID than masks will ever be. Dump the mask (if you are a healthy adult) and get boosted!

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          1 year ago

          Actually, no. Vaccines are less effective at containing mass spread than masks and good hygiene. The deadlier variants did not spread enough for vaccines to become better than masks, and people got immunity from Omicron, including anti-vax crowd. That said, there is no hypothetical choice, so use your masks and vaccines.

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      1 year ago

      Same. Grocery, public transit, doctors office, cabs. I’ll also add public restrooms, although if Coronavirus disappeared tomorrow, I’d still probably mask up in public bathrooms. I don’t need to go back to inhaling that experience directly.