Vaccinated people spreading Covid

I wear a mask in most settings. I am required to at work. I still wear it in stores.

I see so many people at work I am very ‘afraid’ I could have it and be symptomless and spread it. They were never definitive about wether or not vaccinated people can spread it so I’ve been cautious.

I have socialized with vaccinated people without a mask, but I would have no issue wearing one if asked.

I stopped wearing a mask at stores three or four weeks ago. I regret it. Despite being fully vaxxed, I believe I have Covid. My rapid test came out negative, for a few different reasons, the general consensus is that I do have it. Even though it's considered a mild case, it sucks a lot! My symptoms started June 25th and have even gotten worse in the last few days.

I'm done wearing a mask unless it's required (which means I still have to wear one at work).

I still wear a mask when I go to the store. About half the people still do even though it's not required. I'm in Connecticut, and most people are vaccinated.

Honestly, I wear it for my own protection. I know it doesn't help much, but it still helps a little. I have a heart condition.

We all are vaccinated here, and we are super careful because DH is immuno-compromised.  He's going on Monday for a biopsy of his liver.  They found 2 suspicious areas to biopsy.  He's almost a year cancer-free (bladder/prostate cancer).  So, YES, we always worry and we always try our very best to still be very cautious and careful.  We behave like we did before there were vaccines for Covid-19.  We're THAT careful.  From what I've learned at the Cancer Center, even though DH got his vaccines, they aren't as effective as ours, and he still faces great risks of getting Covid, so we'll continue to be careful for him and for anyone else who might be at risk.

I'm vaccinated and will wear a mask where required.

I am vaccinated. I wear a mask to protect others and to protect myself.

Coworker of my husband tested positive yesterday. She was fully vaccinated. I think it is much more common than health officials are saying.

This is what I’ve been saying all along. Just because vaccinated people won’t die now doesn’t mean they can’t get it or spread it. I think a lot of people are walking around with a sense of false security because they’re vaxxed. I’m not going to really relax until all the kids can get the vaccine too.

I voted “still wear mask”, though it’s hard to say since it’s still mandated here. We have 80% of adults vaccinated in my area and very low numbers, but I think I would wear it in crowded indoor spaces, especially theatres, bars, concerts etc. I would do it as much for my protection as that of others.

Watching the news out of Israel I tend to agree with this. 

For those who think that if you get the vaccine you won't get Covid, that is simply NOT the case. They NEVER said that you wouldn't get it. They said that you were much less likely to be hospitalized or die from it if you get the vaccine. People, you CAN STILL GET COVID even if you are vaccinated. Ugh!  

With that said, no I'm not wearing masks unless it is mandated.  My work doesn't require it and MD lifted the state of emergency bc we have a 75% vaccination rate for those who are eligible.  

I was just in the outer banks and I only saw a handful of people wearing masks the entire week.

What all this tells me is that even though DH and I are fully vaccinated, we could still pick it up somewhere and unknowingly bring it home to our unvaccinated child if we don’t continue to wear masks and avoid unvaccinated people. My DH is one of those people who is totally over Covid. He feels like he has already done everything he needed to as far as masking and social distancing over the past year and a half, he got the vaccine and now feels like he’s invincible, ugh. He doesn’t seem to understand that he could get a very mild case of it and not realize he has it or be asymptomatic, and bring it home to our kid when he’s out and about living his best life.   He also fully believes he already had it back in February last year (which I fully doubt), so even before he got the vaccine he felt like he was immune.

Thankfully our state hit the 70% vaccinated mark last week and cases have gone way down in our county. But in spite of all that I don’t want to let my guard down yet. I’m very risk averse in general, so there’s that.

Exactly!

I work with kids, and as I have posted several kids in the camp who were supposed to attend last week didn’t because they and their parents tested positive.   Someone questioned if the parents were vaccinated and I am sure the people questioning that don’t believe that the parents were, but I 100% do.  One set of parents I have known for years and they are people who understand the difference between first dose, second dose, and waiting period after second dose.   They are not people who would say they were fully vaxxed if they were not.  

In any event, besides those kids (none of who came to camp this week) we had several more kids test positive last week and now we are shut down. All staff are vaccinated and we are all being tested, but those kids got it somewhere.   I am very confident that the parents in this area are vaccinated and cautious.   Mask mandate was just dropped a week ago, although we are all still masked when at camp.  The kids are getting the virus somehow and it is pretty likely that it is coming from their parents or the vaccinated teachers.   Even if one kid passed it on to the other kids, patient zero got it from someone. 

Until kids under 12 can be vaccinated I don’t understand why wearing a mask inside is so damn hard.  This virus is not gone.   Very few places are actually at the magic number of 70%.   Adults who have been vaccinated can still get the virus and thanks to the vaccine they will likely not even know they have it, yet they will be infecting other people.    Until kids can be vaccinated is it too much to ask for people to wear their masks when they are inside?