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In a effin airport where people are wearing masks everywhere
I was traveling recently and got so many dirty looks for wearing a mask, only one at O'Hare.
And then I didn't wear it enough and caught covid for the first time. (I should have known better in cramped tourists spots). Then I had a reason to wear it, especially while temporarily homeless.
Masks certainly do work. Hospitals used them for decades pre pandemic for a reason.
Monster Magnet are cool.
Please do! Love music. Love new stuff.
The thing is that they hear doctors say "Masks don't reliably protect against disease" and go "masks don't work", but what the doctors say is "they aren't 100% reliable, so don't use it as the only method of protection".
But if wearing a mask vs not wearing a mask lowers your risk of infection by 50%, that's a huge deal! And with the way infections spread, that's millions of prevented points of infection.
A friend's kid brought home Covid and they didn't catch it because they masked up for a few days in their house.
It does both. Others more than you, yes, but it does help both ways.
Huh, looked it up, TIL. Blame the disinformation campaigns 🤷♀️
I had actually bought masks in 2018 because I was tired of getting sick every third flight. And then chickened out and didn't wear them because it just wasn't done at the time, at least outside of Asia.
Ended up donating that box to my primary care when supplies were short at the beginning of Covid.
Yeah a friend of mine noted one good thing out of COVID was that wearing a mask would be normalized here in the US. (She is susceptible to respiratory issues, so she has to be careful.)
Unfortunately........we did not see the current idiot backlash coming.