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If you contract covid will you stop wearing the mask outside?

• nikolay 4y ago
  Not really unless we have decent antivirals and knowledge - I got used to it. Out of 4 people in my household, 2 had it only once this summer (BA.4 or BA.5) - it was contracted outside on a sunny August day and from a large distance - 20-30 feet from our neighbor, but my son and I wore masks at home and didn't catch it (I trust PCR tests, we've had several). People do stupid things! I observe and wonder how can call us intelligent species! For example, I see the following scenarios: - only some people in a family wear masks in a closed space. - people wear a mask inside but take it off to eat or sometimes talk to others. - people talk in each other face outside, but wear masks inside. - people wear surgical masks without any certification (such as ASTM) and wear the same masks for days (you can tell from how dirty their masks are) - not only they are not protected from COVID-19, but they can bring bacteria, fungi, and microplastics straight into their lungs! I do not participate in circuses - if I do something, I do it properly, and in a meaningful way! XBB.1.5 is as contagious as measles, i.e. it's the most infectious virus known to science! And new variants could go beyond the r0 of measles soon (r0 has only being going up so far)! You cannot act the same way as this is the flu with a much lower basic reproductive number, which is very-well studied, has decent antivirals, yet still kills a lot of people and costs trillion dollars to the global economy each year!