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?

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

    Lol that's not how I intended the question to come across. I always viewed masks as not primarily meant for protecting yourself, but for protecting those around you (if everyone else is properly masked up). The reason I wear a mask is to protect those around me. But if literally no one else around me is wearing one, I viewed the act as futile. Not only is my mask like shooting a pea at a tank, I also open myself up for confrontations from the people I deliver to. I work in a 99.999999% white rural area, with coal-rolling trucks, confederate flags and flags supporting right wing militias, and people that like to throw their weight around at someone they think they can intimidate.

    But I do also want to protect myself and my diabetic son, so if it's better than nothing, I'll keep wearing it.