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Post by aj2hall on Mar 3, 2022 18:35:52 GMT
I thought this was a great opinion about how we're fighting individual battles with Covid. And for some, the war might be over before others. I can't wait for my wow, remember that moment when covid is really in the rear view mirror. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/03/when-covid-became-over-for-me/That disjunction isn’t new. Since the beginning, we’ve been experiencing the same global event in vastly different ways. One person’s pandemic meant canceled plans and extra takeout. Another’s meant the intensive care unit and isolated mourning.
Now it seems our pandemic eras will end not just in different ways, but also at different times.
I might not be afraid anymore, but I understand that others are and should be. For them, I gladly wear a mask and flash my vaccination card
Maybe it will take seven years for all of us to get there post-covid, but I can see it now: the moment a friend of mine told me she longs for, when we find a mask in a coat pocket and think, “Wow, remember that?”
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Post by scrapmaven on Mar 3, 2022 19:15:56 GMT
Though it's nice to be going back towards normal, I'll be wearing a mask and using my gloves for the forseeable future. High riskers have a different situation. Who knows when the next variant will rear it's ugly head?
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Post by dazeepetals on Mar 3, 2022 21:22:46 GMT
Masks were lifted for our county 2 weeks ago. I haven't worn one since, expect when I flew to ID that weekend. Masks were lifted for schools as well. I gave my 8 and 5 year old the choice for what they were comfortable with and both are going without masks.
Full disclosure. I am vaxxed x 2 (not boosted) as is my DH. Kids have not been vaxxed. We ALL got COVID in Jan while wearing masks.
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Post by simplyparticular on Mar 4, 2022 3:06:37 GMT
Mandates are all lifted here.
I’m the only person choosing to wear a mask in groups of people at work, socially distanced or not. I did eat out with a group of 6 vaccinated people earlier this week and was surprised to learn half of them haven’t gotten boosted because they were unhappy about their reaction to the second shot. Only the ones whose work required boosters had gotten them.
Our tween is not masking at school - he has sensory issues and is on the autism spectrum. We feel lucky we made it this long.
Teen is choosing to mask and is one of the only ones, even with musical rehearsals.
DH works from home now and masks in public, as he is immunocompromised. He is also prone to ocular shingles when his system is overwhelmed, which has happened twice in the Mar/Apr period. So a nasty bout with COVID could literally blind him in one eye. A mask seems a small sacrifice.
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Post by gorgeouskid on Mar 4, 2022 3:47:35 GMT
I'm in SoCal. I continue to wear a mask when dealing with people. My PT office lifted the mask mandate, but I will still wear mine (last time [Monday] my PT didn't wear his mask but did today, don't know why- he offered to wear it if I preferred).
I don't fucking trust people. I feel like people who are cavalier with masking will not be safe people for me to unmask around.
Our schools are lifting mask mandates mid-March, but I will continue to wear masks because I don't fucking trust people.
If I'm around people, I will wear a fucking mask.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Mar 4, 2022 4:02:17 GMT
Except for a brief hiatus during the “vaccine honeymoon,” my state has had a mask mandate. So, like forever. It was dropped this week. I’ve been in a few stores and all employees and most-to-all customers wore masks, as did I.
(I have no intention of turning this into one of THOSE Covid threads, but none of the epidemiologists I source believes there’s any reason to believe the pandemic is on its last legs. Could happen, they say, but so could many other turns-of-events. With them, I’ll wait and see.)
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