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Tsk Tsk
So anyways, back to the masks. I also think there's obviously something physical about it, hence my security blanket statement before. You feel a mask protecting you, you don't feel the vaccine after the initial shot. It's not like I feel some armored protection coursing through my veins or anything. I guarantee if you could FEEL it working, people would be able to break through the mental barrier quicker. In fairness, I think a lot of people are traumatized from the whole thing and letting their guard down just doesn't feel natural. Maybe they lost loved ones or know someone that got long Covid or lost their sense of taste/smell for months and that extra bit of the protection the mask provides in their mind helps cover the final % chance of getting it that the vaccine doesn't.
I don't really mind anyone that wants to wear it for personal reasons but it's kind of crazy how the majority of people I know are are ignoring the science for why the CDC was comfortable in issuing new guidelines. I made the mistake of asking my local post office if they're keeping mask requirements in their, I figured maybe because it was a government building they'd be forced to keep on longer. Anyways, I got an earful of how the CDC doesn't know what they're talking about and the post lady knows someone that got Covid after being vaccinated. She said they'd consider removing the mask requirement at the end of summer. We had 12 new cases yesterday in our county of 386,000. It's probably going to be 0 within 2 weeks.
Either way, I'm going to be fascinated watching the tide turn the other way. It was so weird when I first wore my mask out shopping when this whole thing started and again it was weird today going maskless inside a store for the first time in over a year. I'd say 80% were still wearing masks but I was happy to see I wasn't the only one not. No one gave me any looks or ran away from me. It was rather nice, I've been smiling all morning.