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In reply to the discussion: Covid numbers up a lot already at my campus [View all]Dorian Gray
(13,490 posts)I think a lot of people have a different level of comfort in taking risks than others do.
Covid obviously isn't over.
But we have tools that we didn't have at the beginning and deaths and hospitalizations are reducing like crazy.
I have doctor and nurse friends. They are going to parties without masks now. THey've been vaccinated and had prior infections, and they feel like they are in a good place now.
I wear my mask in crowded environments, but I will take it off in social situations where I know everyone.
In households where people have had prior infections and are fully vaccinated and boosted, I can see why they'd forego their masks.
My daughter isn't wearing a mask to school this year. I know what the risks are with that, and we've decided to take those risks for quality of life. She'll put the mask on if she's exposed for the amount time recommended.
When my 83 year old father got covid he was really really sick. We were worried. But with Paxlovid, he turned around within 24 hours of his first dose. We have the tools to protect the vulnerable.
These things didn't exist in the past.
Of course people are making different calculations now.