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[-] Bipta@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

This was a lot more appealing before COVID.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago
[-] chocoladisco@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

Vaccines exist. COVID is not a thing anyone I know worries about anymore. I keep getting surprised on the internet.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: first working vaccines were created during first months of pandemic.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it took ages for them to be manufactured in large numbers.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I wore a mask had the vaccine and a booster and social distanced and still got it.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact. None of those things are perfect except staying away from everyone and your entire household doing so as well. Cloth masks work better when both/everyone wears one; that lowers the chance of getting infected to 3%. If only one person wears a mask, there's a much higher risk of infection. The vaccine and booster are great, but again, not 100%. It is good to stack things in your favor, but stuff still happens. To take the small percentage where people still get sick and use that to decide masks don't protect anyone at all is ridiculous.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Literally the only person I know that didn't get it was my mom and we were all masking, vaccinated, washing hands, etc. All those precautions did nothing but delay the inevitable.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, sure, but if you hadn't used those precautions you would have gotten it sooner, likely spread it to more people who would have them spread it to more people, ect. The point wasn't to prevent infection for eternity.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Getting it sooner would have gotten it out of the way sooner and the whole ordeal would have been over with after it ran it's course instead of dragging it out for 2 years.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily. I know several people who got it several times within that period. And we dragged it out on purpose to not overwhelm our hospitals.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The mask isn't to protect yourself, it protects everyone else from being infected by you.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, it does have to be a mask that will actually protect you.

If you didn't pay, a pretty steep price at the time, for the right mask (like something that will protectv you from paint fumes) then you were wasting your time.

Source: When I mask up I use N95's. I use best judgement, haven't gotten covid. Not too late to protect yourself. I don't think I'll be able to keep it up forever, but I'm banking on new vaccines kicking covids ass.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

So "masks" don't work. Specific masks work. No one was mandating n95 masks it was all those shitty paper ones then acting like that was sufficient.

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