It doesn't bother me one bit that my wife and I seem to be the only people masked in the airport. I mean, I wish people were being more careful, but I have no problem being the "odd one." Masks aren't a guarantee, but I'd like to be the one feeling healthy and not putting others at risk on the plane, at my destination, and at home. #WearaMask
@augieray I'm happy to use my white male privilege to set the right trend so I mask up everywhere when I leave the house. It is better if other people people mask as well. Anyone who is exhaling virus will get much of it caught in their mask, so everyone else's mask has less work to do. It improves the odds for all of us. Sadly most don't see it that way.
@augieray I travel frequently and I'm usually they only one with a mask. If anybody asks, I tell them COVID still exists, and in addition, I haven't had a cold in more than three years.
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Sat mostly masked in a restaurant for less than an hour last week, removed it to eat, of course. Counted nine coughs and three sneezes from people tightly packed in the small dining room where we ate. My lunch partner said he hadn't noticed it...
@augieray it's a generally good procedure, even when you're the one that's sick. Most Asian countries (i. e. Japan) have done this since way before the pandemic to take care of themselves and not to bother their pairs.
@augieray Good for you, Augie. It doesn’t bother me a bit to be the rare one wearing a mask either. But truly, before the pandemic I’d see occasional travelers wearing masks and never thought a thing about it. If I thought about it at all, it would be “oh, maybe they have a cold and don’t want to spread it or maybe they don’t want to catch a cold…good on them.”
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For most my life I swam a mile a day, ate plant-based (zero coronary calcium score in my 60s) & practiced daily lucid dreaming for brain plasticity
Neither a glue sniffer nor a covid snorter, I'll mask at least until I see efficacy #s on transmission risk of next gen intranasal (mucosal) covid vax
Besides #LongCovid known even among the immune uncompromised, ~60% of all who've had COVID likely have viral spikes hiding in their skull, meninges & brain, yikes!
@augieray my husband and I still mask in public indoor spaces, to protect him and his 99 year old dad, who are both asthmatic. We are the only people who do in our little tourist town and are comfortable to keep doing so.
@augieray thank you for still masking in public spaces. COVID is still a threat to immune compromised and high risk people like myself, and we appreciate your efforts
I also ware a mask when shopping and at other crowded indoor places (which I avoid; only with my mother and 2 friends who never seem to get it, am I indoors without mask). Currently I also wear the mask again in the corridor of the small house where I live, because the is "a cold" in this house, and in the houses left and right .. Some day I will get it, but I avoid it (too much reading and examples of long covid, longterm risk).
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