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The CDC guidelines are for individuals. As fully vaccinated individuals, you and I are safe to not wear a mask outdoors and indoors. But safe to go maskless ind
by zuminator 5y ago
The CDC guidelines are for individuals. As fully vaccinated individuals, you and I are safe to not wear a mask outdoors and indoors. But safe to go maskless indoors is not the same thing as free to go maskless indoors. That is up to the prevailing jurisdictional policy. As the CDC itself states, "[F]ully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance."
So the problem still exists of what communities will do, if anything, to protect their citizens, both those who are vaccinated and those who are not? One response to that is to just let people do what they want and let the chips fall as they may. Another response is for communities to be proactive iff there is a local outbreak, with the aim of preventing it from getting even worse. The option of leaving it up to businesses to individually decide to protect their customers or not seems untenable. A business will be just be asking for trouble to take it upon itself to verify which customers have been vaccinated or not.