I already responded to this. No need to argue about the wording. We have as close to a cure as we could have hoped for a year ago. This is a virus, so we have a vaccine. Like we have for the flu. The CDC (finally) acknowledged that vaccinated people can stop wearing masks. Some states have said that masks haven’t been necessary for months because they look at actual data instead of guessing. And those states have bounced back the fastest. You can’t deny the data.
Nope ha ha, I realized a few minutes later that although the entire casino is open, the poker room remains closed
I can’t deny that it exists. You shouldn’t deny that it’s meaningless. There’s no comparison to be made between NY and Texas - they’re wholly different places.
You think the data is meaningless? Wear a mask for the rest of your life. Doesn’t bother me. I will choose not to.
Dr. Fauci said this on live TV yesterday. He said it's OK for fully vaccinated people to go maskless indoors, no evidence they are "carriers." Fully vaccinated means 14 days after the final shot. I think most cases from vaccinated people were during that 14 day period or between 2 shots. Nobody ever said 100% effective, but the masks are coming off!!
Well, as long as you are safe I guess the rest of us are okay then.
You say this as fact. I'm not buying it... Explain the Yankees. They got the J&J, so the odds of their vaccines being mishandled is low. 8 or the 9 players that tested positive were asymptomatic. Meaning they were carriers. We only know that 9 were positive because they get tested weekly.
Will do ... I've been in a number of crowds since last summer. My daughter plays club softball and no one wears masks. Not one reported instance of infection. Certainly no one on our teams or parents of the players.
The johnson and Johnson vaccine is either 66% effective or 74% effective, depending on where you are. So basically that’s a shit vaccine. Even if it’s 74% effective, that’s ineffective for 1 in 4.
The latest data shows that out of 115 million Americans vaccinated, there have only been 1,136 cases of vaccinated persons who were hospitalized and tested positive - aka "breakthrough" cases. Of these, many (342) were asymptomatic - hospitalized for other reasons and tested positive but showed no COVID-19 symptoms.
People keep saying "I don't trust the government so I'm not getting vaccinated." But it's not like some random dude at FDA threw some dead virus in a bucket and started shipping it around the country.
This is FUD that I'm surprised still gets circulated.
I stopped at Wawa on my way home from poker Saturday night and put my mask on. When I walked in, it was pretty busy - mostly local students, and I'd say maybe 1/4 of the non-employees were wearing masks if that. I was definitely in the minority.
I had to google what a "wawa" was ... I'm glad it was safe.I hadn't noticed it on the way in, but on the way out I saw that the "Mask Required" signs were gone. So no mask for me next time I gotta have a Wawa.
Well first I'm not sure I agree with your premise that "so many people get the virus when they wear masks religiously." But if you're genuinely interested in a summary of the science as we understand it, here's a good evidence review.
Or positive flu tests were being tested as positive COVID tests. Or people were told to stay in their homes for the past 12 months, thus greatly reducing the possibility of transmitting the flu. Or the flu vaccine was highly effective this year. Lots of possibilities besides "masks are the answer."
Whaaa?
But masks are also part of the answer.
Not when you're vaccinated, according to the CDC
OK - I still believe that forcing the vast majority of people to stay indoors, working remotely, and scaring people to avoid any kind of face-to-face contact had much more to do with a mild flu season than masks.
Wash your hands
This has nothing to do with what we were referring to, but whatever.
Yes, we have discussed the viability of masks pre-vaccine. We all (mostly, anyway) conformed. Now we have a vaccine. So we can do away with the masks. You do whatever you want to do. Or whatever.
Logic, my man. It's interesting for everyone.
You have just proven how masks work. After they exhale, look at the inside part of the mask. You'll see a brown dirty looking stain. That is the water vapor from your breath your mask caught. The smoke is the aerosol that can get through. This is why you CAN still breathe through the mask and NOT pass out from oxygen deprivation or take on too much CO2. Virus just don't travel by themselves. They need spit, saliva, lung gunk from your cough, sneeze or rona laden heavy breathing to travel from one person to the next. The crappy cloth masks have woven fibers and catch a majority of the rona gunk that gets spread. Not all, but most. They NEVER were to protect you. They were to protect others if you had it and were asymptomatic. This isn't CNN or Fauci talking, it's 8th grade biology.
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