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I am not asking you to wear a mask when you're outside taking a jog, but wearing a mask in high-risk situations (crowded or poor ventilation) such as schools, public transit, and concerts can significantly reduce your risk of infection, and you should consider doing it.
Not getting sick protects your friends and family from getting sick. It is a social responsibility that other societies practice but our own society has forsaken since 2022.
I do not think there is a psychological cost to fearing COVID, because the fear is rational and justified (especially for in immunocompromised people). Fear is an emotion that keeps you away from danger. One way to keep yourself away from danger is to wear a mask and to avoid high risk situations whenever possible.
Personally, I will not stop wearing a mask until COVID is eradicated in my area. The long-term risks of COVID infection are simply too high.
That's a really clever way to blame those with legitimate fears, including serious health problems.
If you had an asymptomatic infection, and mask, you'd be saving those around you and those who live with those around you.
You're asked to put a mask on in crowded conditions. All that is irrelevant.
I fear for my health and safety, and my families health, when someone comes near me, indoors, unmasked. I've given up so many activities since the unmasked people started joining even when we had mask mandates. So if you're cool with terrifying and threatening others, go on. I guess I can't force empathy on you.
I can ask a question and yet push back against bullshit. People's lives and health is literally at stake.
That is aggressively ignorant and you should selfcrit immediately for saying something so dangerous. The room is large, air moves around, there are higher quality masks. Why are you arguing against sound and well proven medical advice?
That's all the effort I'm putting into debating a lib answer.
This lib take is kind of flirting with the rules of this comm I think.
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Sorry for all the work I'm making you do. And thanks for making this a safe community.
Fair, I was more so making it known to the poster that they may want to back off this hill. Too late tho, haha.
hey friend you know what lowers that risk significantly?
wearing a mask