With COVID-19 cases on the decline after more than 580,000 deaths and with more than a third of the U.S. population fully vaccinated, millions are deciding whether to continue wearing face masks, which were both a shield against infection and a point of heated political debate over the last year. People have myriad reasons for deciding to stop, or continuing to wear, a mask.Many are ready to put aside the sadness, isolation and wariness of the pandemic.
Like most others, Duckworth wasn’t wearing a face mask on an upbeat Friday that made the Quarter feel more normal than it had in months. Alex Bodell of Ithaca, New York, stood out in the crowd because of the black mask covering his nose and face, but he was more at ease that way.“I certainly feel a lot more comfortable, and I think I’m enjoying myself a lot more here being fully vaccinated and feeling that, you know, kind of regardless of my mask that I’m covered,” he said.
Near Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts, epidemiologist Vanessa Li isn’t past the two-week point of her second vaccine dose and is continuing to wear her mask even outside, particularly when lots of other people are around.
Uh, after SARS in 2003 many Asians in America wore masks for years afterwards. Why are we acting like this never happened before?
Like being alive? WILD
Dr dewine still makes us wear them.
Choice. It's a beautiful thing.
After seeing a 12 girl on news who had COVID, ventilator, organ failure (heart surgeries etc), & she got her first vaccine after months of being near death, I’ll wear my mask until there are no more deaths. Also during flu season. Also have poor immune system & both vaccines done
For months, I’ve been questioning if wearing a mask has any mitigation of virus spreading. More people wearing them and case count still going up.
It might be fine to do if everyone was getting vaccinated or the unvaccinated still wore a mask. But they (very vocally) aren't doing that and ruin it for everyone. As selfish people are wont to do.
If you’re vaccinated, there’s no medical reason to wear one.
Wearing a mask feels like a small price to protect fellow Americans from a virus. It’s also common sense when data is hard to decipher I hope it becomes more acceptable during flu season.
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