my thing about this is, I do believe that all the medical evidence so far suggests it is, in fact, very safe for fully vaccinated people to be indoors in close quarters with other people without masks. but I also think it's a huge mistake to announce that people can quit masking.https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1392904329368117253 …
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if "refusing to wear a mask or get the vaccine out of weird loyalty to a racist, fascist, filthy rich rapist who doesn't care about them" weren't a political/religious commitment for so many people, this wouldn't be so hard.
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but "wear a mask if you're going to be around a lot of strangers/it's flu season/you feel a little sick or have a cough or sneeze going" is also a very good social norm! we should want that! we shouldn't want to be "freed of masks".
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and it's absolutely good to end most restrictions on outdoor activities, because transmission risk outdoors, even unmasked, is extremely low; but most indoor restrictions should remain in place until case rates are way, way lower.
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