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1. With the BA.2 wave here in MA, it is worth asking what the @CDCgov "community levels" tells us to do, when it will tell us to do something different, and what this means. I'll look at Suffolk County, which includes Boston. 🧵— Jon Levy (@jonlevyBU) April 15, 2022

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1515074816801398791.html

Hospitalizations doubled in MA and current CDC risk level is “medium” with proposed measures being talk to your doctor about wearing a mask if you’re immunocompromised

Nobody could have foreseen this

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Same, same. I'm not a fan of being in a stuffy mask all day, especially when it's getting warm outside again.

    On the other hand, a coworker who told me two weeks ago "why don't you take that damn thing off?", referring to my mask, just tested positive for COVID for the second time on Friday.

    :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      jesus. i have yet to have someone ask me why i don't take my mask off, but i feel like it's inevitable at this point in the Built Back Better / Post-COVID world. So far, at least, the leaders of the institutions i am accountable to have said publicly and repeatedly that "people who still want to wear masks should be respected".

      But i've seen looks and i'm sure when i'm challenged i'll say something erudite like, "why don't you go fuck yourself?" in a mirrored tone.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, it's probably good to have something in your back pocket lol. I think that was the third time I've been asked, twice from strangers and once from the coworker.

        I played the coworker one off since I'm a supervisor and have to maintain the consent of the people I'm responsible for by telling my coworker "well, then I'd have to smile".

        For the others, it was two random chuds in public. One was said in a condescending fashion telling me to take it off because the mask mandate was over. "Do you believe everything the govt tells you?" was my response. The other was in line at the grocery store and some wrap around sunglasses guy starts volunteers information about 5G COVID masks and shit and I just tried to out-conspiracy him by telling him I wear the mask because there are facial recognition cameras everywhere trying to track me. If I wasn't in public, I would've probably been more dismissive.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I wear the mask because there are facial recognition cameras everywhere trying to track me

          lol, i like the phrasing of that because it implies they are trying to track you, specifically.

          this is making me think of other cool answers. like a Bane exchange "What would happen if I took off your mask?" "It would be very painful. For you "