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Put a mask back on today. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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I only gave it up a year ago after COVID had begun, but suddenly everyone around me is snorting and hacking, and apparently very few people bother covering their mouth when they do anymore. It's just for crowded spaces but 1 in 65 people in Canada have COVID right now, and while I'm super ultra vaccinated I don't want to catch anything in general. It feels strange.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You can do it, but honestly, the point of masking was primarily to slow the spread so we didn't have one massive surge as a world with no resistance got the disease all at once and had its healthcare capacity get overwhelmed. We did that. But we didn't stop the disease from spreading. COVID-19's been all over by now. It's endemic. Sooner or later, everyone will get it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Viral infections aren't purely binary though. It has been shown that the peak severity of infection is correlated with how big of a viral load you are initially exposed to.

    So a mask can help decrease the severity of the inevitable infection by decreasing how much viral bodies you inhale.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Also it's mostly to protect other people in the case of covid specifically from what I remember the doctors saying.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, yeah, the medical masks are. You can get N95 respirators, which weren't what people were generally wearing, and those are aimed at that. Might actually be possible to buy some this time around; the shortage was pretty extreme in 2020.

    I managed to get a reusable N95 3M respirator and filters early-on in the thing, before it was really in the news and everyone was rolling out the door of hardware stores with N95 respirators to ship to China and the like.

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