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i am really not ready to embrace an indefinite world of pandemic restrictions. At some point it's gotta end, this can't just be what life is now. I'm vaxxed, boosted, and have had multiple direct exposures to covid, and I am now personally behaving like the before times.

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Jan 28, 2022

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Aella

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Jan 29, 2022

tbf I *like* mask wearing in higher risk scenarios and would have liked this to be culturally normal *before* the pandemic, so I'm happy to do this. I also am careful around immunocompromised people, but I was already careful about this before covid.

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i mean something like, "I'm going to see an immunocompromised person soon, time to wear a mask for a while." Or like, I wore a mask in stores for a week before I was supposed to go to a conference I would have been devastated to be too sick for

3:07 AM · Jan 29, 2022

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Also if I know I'm sick (like with a cold) and I have to go out (say grocery shopping), I'll wear a mask now. Seems like just a basic courtesy.

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Exactly, I avoided people before Christmas, I’ve worn N95 masks in shops too. I’m tempted to ditch the masks now, I’m be triple vaxxed + prior infected with (v.likely) omicron, highly unlikely to either catch/transmit over next few months.

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OK that's more fair, I was under the impression you meant places like conventions and clubs, and I would disagree there. I do agree that wearing a mask if you're sick or have high-value temporary reasons not to want to be sick can be sensible.