What is your reasoning for going maskless?
Mine is that a person I live with a lot has been going maskless. When I go out with them, I feel there’s no point in wearing a mask if they’re not going to. If they catch an illness we’re both going to regardless. I’ve been criticizing people in my head about no one wearing a mask, but I have to admit, now that I’ve been out without a mask I can see the temptation of things “feeling normal.”
I got covid 4x (shoutout hospitality industry wooo), the first strain put me on my ass, even as a healthy young adult. Had a lot of trouble breathing, needed a rescue inhaler just to get by. The new strains didn’t, felt like the common cold.
It doesn’t really matter how I feel from the new strains, to someone who’s immunocompromised, the newer strains can be just as bad as I felt with the OG version.
Also, anecdotally, there’s a lot of pneumonia and RSV going around this time of year. Hospitals are packed right now, all my coworkers are referencing the same kinds of symptoms. Just wear a mask yo