I work as a delivery driver for a takeout restaurant. Inside, we can have up to ten or eleven employees working around each other and not a single one wears a mask. I would say 30-40% are likely vaccinated, most of them are high schoolers who don't see covid as a big deal.

If only one person out of 10 is wearing a mask, that's essentially useless, isn't it? It's my understanding that the point of the mask is to get enough people wearing them to grant group protection. If I'm not actively sick and I'm vaccinated, there isn't much of a difference if I wear one or not, right?

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    COVID isn't a binary yes/no - total viral load transmission is directly linked to how sick you get from it, how likely you are to transmit the virus, and the amount that you do transmit. That means that with a mask on, if you do catch it, it will be less worse, and if someone else catches it from you, theirs will be less worse.

    If I’m not actively sick and I’m vaccinated, there isn’t much of a difference if I wear one or not, right?

    Wrong. Remember, people are infectious for two weeks before they show symptoms.

    • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Thanks a lot for this comment. I often fall into the thinking of seeing it as an all or nothing situation, even though I know that it's not.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You're welcome comrade :rat-salute: now cover that pie hole