Current Events > This new mask mandate is gonna be a disaster

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If you are not an idiot, please keep wearing your mask. We aren't even close to herd immunity

Imminent doom brought to you by the people who said doom was imminent

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i mean, i feel better about not wearing my mask when i visit my parents who are vaccinated.

but im still wearing it when i go out to stores and work, not only for the requirement, but you never know. dont wanna be patient zero for SUPER COVID ULTIMATE REMIX ARCADE EDITION 2021

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Mezcla posted...

but im still wearing it when i go out to stores and work

this. but maybe take it off if allowed just for 10 seconds so the worker can understand my voice to order food.
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mandate?
MAN DATE?!??!!


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kingdrake2 posted...

this. but maybe take it off if allowed just for 10 seconds so the worker can understand my voice to order food.

Please don't. Just enunciate and speak up. Food workers don't have the resources to deal with covid.

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grocery stores might still have the mask mandate in effect. businesses still have the right to decide to lift it or not. don't worry.

55% of my county is vaccinated against covid.
washington/multnomah have the higher rate of vaccine.
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Not just the mandate, but the womandate and the childrendate too

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If you are vaccinated, wearing a mask does basically nothing in preventing you from getting the virus or spreading the virus. I guess you can keep wearing one though and be a science denier.

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We should still be locked down, not be saying unmask.. this will bite us down the road

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

If you are vaccinated, wearing a mask does basically nothing in preventing you from getting the virus or spreading the virus. I guess you can keep wearing one though and be a science denier.

The CDC recommendation is just for when you're with other vaccinated people. A mask is recommended when around the unvaccinated.

Yeah we're fucked. We were getting so close to the end of this and now we're just going to get setback again because of all the fucking idiots.

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ButteryMales posted...

The CDC recommendation is just for when you're with other vaccinated people. A mask is recommended when around the unvaccinated.

This is not true, please stop making up CDC guidelines.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

Fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

If you are vaccinated, wearing a mask does basically nothing in preventing you from getting the virus or spreading the virus. I guess you can keep wearing one though and be a science denier.

This isn't really true. Masks are still extremely effective. The vaccine efficacy (based on number of doses and which brand you got) could be anywhere from like 50% up to 98%, so there's still some chance of infection. It's just that cases will be mild and not nearly as transmissible if vaccinated people do get infected.

It's more like we're moving to the point where we've accepted this thing will run through the population forever, but can be made not especially dangerous, than that the vaccine is a step towards eradication.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

If you are vaccinated, wearing a mask does basically nothing in preventing you from getting the virus or spreading the virus. I guess you can keep wearing one though and be a science denier.

I don't think the virus becomes immune to masks if you get vaccinated. If someone is worried about being in the percentage of vaccinated for whom the vaccine fails, masks will still lessen their chances. Not saying the fear is necessarily justified, but masks will always work as intended: a buffer against airborne disease

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Lmfao at doomers who want to wear masks the rest of their lives

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ThunderTrain posted...

Yeah we're fucked. We were getting so close to the end of this and now we're just going to get setback again because of all the fucking idiots.

Yeah, this is going to be a disaster.

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SK8T3R215 posted...

Lmfao at doomers who want to wear masks the rest of their lives

What I want is people with vaccines in their arms

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SK8T3R215 posted...

Lmfao at doomers who want to wear masks the rest of their lives

Just like those idiot doomers who thought this whole coronavirus thing would be any worse than the regular flu, am I right?

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masterpug53 posted...

Just like those idiot doomers who thought this whole coronavirus thing would be any worse than the regular flu, am I right?

Those people wouldn't be doomers...

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If you want to side with science on this, then accept that the risks aren't actually very significant if you're vaccinated, and the reality is it that we would most likely literally never stop wearing masks again until the end of civilization if we waited for any better benchmark than "Your trip to the grocery store in your car is about as dangerous as your exposure to the other people there."

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https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1393305234366107648

there is absolutely no reason for this to be happening already especially given how a large portion of the country will just not wear a mask and lie about being vaccinated

The vaccine effort has saved literally millions and millions of lives. It's truly a remarkable achievement by mankind, to get it produced so fast.

Takeoff the mask if youre vaccinated, unless youre showing symptoms. Live your life and stop being so paranoid. Even Fauci said its time to take them off.

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JoeBurrow posted...

https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1393305234366107648

there is absolutely no reason for this to be happening already especially given how a large portion of the country will just not wear a mask and lie about being vaccinated

if people want to remove themselves from the gene pool thats on them honestly. No reason to make vaccinated people feel like they got the vaccine for nothing

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JoeBurrow posted...

there is absolutely no reason for this to be happening already especially given how a large portion of the country will just not wear a mask and lie about being vaccinated

And it won't affect you if you're vaccinated. If you're not, you're still advised to wear a mask.

Also, I think you're probably greatly overestimating the number of people who will do this, and the densest public spaces are probably still going to require masks anyway.

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Akagami_Shanks posted...

if people want to remove themselves from the gene pool thats on them honestly. No reason to make vaccinated people feel like they got the vaccine for nothing

You aren't thinking ahead. If it spreads among the unvaccinated long enough a covid variant immune to the vaccine you took could happen.

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I'm done with masks unless a business still requires it. Hopefully that will be over with soon though.

People who take it serious are protected now. No reason to wear a mask to protect the unvaccinated who are ok with the risk.

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Yeah I'll still be wearing my shit for a while even after I'm fully vaccinated (I get my second tomorrow)

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doomcrusader posted...

I'm done with masks unless a business still requires it. Hopefully that will be over with soon though.

People who take it serious are protected now. No reason to wear a mask to protect the unvaccinated who are ok with the risk.

BlueTigerLion posted...

You aren't thinking ahead. If it spreads among the unvaccinated long enough a covid variant immune to the vaccine you took could happen.

Akagami_Shanks posted...

if people want to remove themselves from the gene pool thats on them honestly.

at this time. i have to agree. they opened the doors to the elderly and worked down the age group for all to get a chance at the shot.
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Whose shitposting alt is the TC?

ym

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I'm forever going to be wearing my masks.

doomcrusader posted...

I'm done with masks unless a business still requires it. Hopefully that will be over with soon though.

People who take it serious are protected now. No reason to wear a mask to protect the unvaccinated who are ok with the risk.

Plenty of people have not gotten the opportunity to receive the vaccine and anti-vaxxers can still hurt them. They can also take up space in hospitals and morgues.

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BlueTigerLion posted...

You aren't thinking ahead. If it spreads among the unvaccinated long enough a covid variant immune to the vaccine you took could happen.

And please tell me how literally zero change to the mandated behavior of unvaccinated people affects this? Like do you think that there are just millions and millions of people who wear their mask every day in every interaction but have just been waiting for the chance to pretend they are vaccinated so that they can take their masks off around their friends and expose them?

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But I thought this presidency believed in the science!

I see numerous threads like this being posted and I think people should know what the vaccine does and what it does not do.
What it does;
It gives you full immunity.
What it does not do;
It doesn't make your body unable to still catch the virus.
You can still get covid but you won't develop symptoms.

So with that in mind, non-vaccinated people who are around vaccinated people will still get covid and because they don't have the immunity, they will get sick.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

If you are vaccinated, wearing a mask does basically nothing in preventing you from getting the virus or spreading the virus. I guess you can keep wearing one though and be a science denier.

Is the vaccine 100% effective?
If not,
shut the fuck up.

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Flamer_Blue posted...

I see numerous threads like this being posted and I think people should know what the vaccine does and what it does not do.
What it does;
It gives you full immunity.
What it does not do;
It doesn't make your body unable to still catch the virus.
You can still get covid but you won't develop symptoms.

So with that in mind, non-vaccinated people who are around vaccinated people will still get covid and because they don't have the immunity, they will get sick.

I wouldn't make such an absolute statement as "full immunity", but it was effective enough that zero people in the clinical trials required hospitalization if they caught COVID (note that this would be about 1% of people who get COVID in the general unvaccinated population). The highest vaccine efficacy (after two doses) is about 95-98%, so it's not like no one who is vaccinated will ever be infected. However, it's going be more like getting a cold if you've been vaccinated, as you'll have mild symptoms, be less contagious, and generally won't suffer much more than inconvenience from needing to stay home for a bit.

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hockeybub89 posted...

They can also take up space in hospitals and morgues.

we need to tell that to the ones who refuse to vaccinate. they're hogging the hospital and the morgue.
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