Thanks for the @
I remember hearing a recommendation for pregnant women to wait but that was months ago. I appreciate the updated info
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Lol wtf. That’s not a loan.
Lol dammit.
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Definitely sounds like you are embarrassed to be honest. Or at least socially insecure.
But don’t worry I am sure nobody will die from those 100 people. It’s all good.
Perhaps I am being too harsh. Most people are probably uncomfortable trying to set a positive example for other people. It’s fairly common. Just pretty unfortunate.
Like I said restaurants should pretty much be the last place to go mask off.
How do you eat and drink with a mask on?
I just got back from the liquor store where masks were not required and wore one. Masks weren’t required in most of Okalahoma for the entire pandemic and I wore one 100% of the time. I was so so embarrassed. Come on man that’s just a ridiculous argument 15 months in. An argument I shouldn’t be there at all makes sense. But acting like me, fully vaxed, not wearing a mask for the tiny amount of time I walk to my table somehow changes the risk in that place is beyond ludicrous.
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With news of Pfizer’s vaccine likely expansion to 12+, and likely upcoming expansion to 2+, this is amazing news:
In multiple analyses, the researchers found that the vaccine was 87 to 89.5 percent effective at preventing infection with B.1.1.7 among people who were at least two weeks past their second shot. It was 72.1 to 75 percent effective at preventing infection with B.1.351 among those who had reached the two-week point.
The vaccine was highly effective at protecting against the worst outcomes. Overall, it was 97.4 percent effective at preventing severe, critical or fatal disease from any form of the coronavirus, and 100 percent effective at preventing severe, critical or fatal disease caused by B.1.1.7 or B.1.351.
The second new study, which was published in The Lancet, was conducted by researchers at Pfizer and at Israel’s Ministry of Health. It is based on more than 230,000 instances of coronavirus infection that occurred in Israel between Jan. 24 and April 3. During that period, B.1.1.7 accounted for nearly 95 percent of all coronavirus cases in the country, which has vaccinated more than half of its population.
The researchers found that the vaccine was more than 95 percent effective at protecting against coronavirus infection, hospitalization and death among fully vaccinated people 16 and older. It also worked well in older adults. Among those 85 or older, the vaccine was more than 94 percent effective at preventing infection, hospitalization and death.
That is astounding shit. Like, beyond all best case scenarios good.
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I assume indoors, unmasked, surrounded by anybody would be pretty safe, because that’s the point of the vaccines.
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For the “keep wearing masks after vaccinated” crowd… when do you plan to stop?
That’s a fair question, but hard to answer. Depends on the facts on the ground, will see what community cases are like and how the vaccines appear to be holding up. At minimum I will be masking up until kids can be vaccinated, but probably moot here as mask mandates are here for the long haul.
To be clear, I don’t really have a problem with how anyone in this thread is acting individually. My lament is just there is no will to do anything as a community besides hope the vaccines work. I’m guessing Wichita would be happy to make more sacrifices than masking in a restaurant if we were trying as a community to either eliminate COVID or at least get case counts down to low levels. But since that isn’t a goal of the community anywhere here in the US, kind of hard to ask for more sacrifice at this point when we aren’t pedaling towards anything.
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Yup. Pretty much this.
When I get word they are no longer necessary from my state and the CDC.
So we agree this is good right? I saw most experts saying we should waive the IP… fauci was only worried about legal troubles.
Fuck bill gates.
We are outside tonight. Or we planned to. Then rain started falling. We moved inside. Both fully vaxxed. Staff was masked.
I concur that tossing on my mask to use the restroom probably does nothing, but I like the attitude it displays.
As far as when to stop wearing masks, I’d like to see very low case counts. Would be great to get to less than one per 100,000 per day.
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When everyone else does, probably. I’m kind of a sheep in that regard.
I like to do whatever doesn’t make me stand out, so I am more likely to get away with whatever crimes I may have committed by not drawing attention to myself.
Or just like… wear a mask…
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Bruce, could you please make this your avatar?
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I’m in the camp of thinking that masks only make sense if most people are wearing them and that they mainly protect others, so if I’m around people who won’t wear masks, then fuck y’all and I want to spread as much COVID as possible back at them.
Pretty please?
Kind of feel like my current avatar is my brand now.
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