Red Mosquito

4/5 wrote:

spike wrote:but masks are annoying

Am I allowed to admit that I'm dreading the thought of being fully vaccinated but having to wear a mask while I try to teach next school year?

Yes, it's fine to feel however you'd like. Just don't be a massive prick about it.

B wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:All the dates on those links seem to have an endpoint of late summer. Did they realize they couldn't jerk themselves off over cotton face coverings anymore when cases exploded again in the fall?

No, masks stopped working this past September.

You're so close

It's just weird to me that the whole "fuck masks" argument is based on Fauci & the surgeon general making a mistake last year - a huge messaging mistake that they have admitted to, and ended up with the result we knew it would.

How do you explain the same trajectories in states with completely different mitigation approaches?

verb_to_trust wrote:How do you explain the same trajectories in states with completely different mitigation approaches?

The same way that one lazy-ass kid gets an "A" on a group assignment.

Bi_3 wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:How do you explain the same trajectories in states with completely different mitigation approaches?

The same way that one lazy-ass kid gets an "A" on a group assignment.

Nonsense

I think verb got his teeth whitened or a nose job around this time last year. must be hell not being able to show that work off.

verb_to_trust wrote:How do you explain the same trajectories in states with completely different mitigation approaches?

I don’t think the trajectories are all the same. Different states have different circumstances. Florida can be a bit loose because it’s summer there year round. Michigan shows it can get out of control for a while irrespective of what’s going on elsewhere. At the end of the day, you’re the one arguing that covering your face (the two holes in your body that usually take in the germs) does nothing to help.

And to be clear no one here has ever argued it’s the end all be all. No one ever argued it solves Covid. It’s called mitigation. It’s one easy thing we can do to “slow the spread” so things like treatment and vaccines can help us get back to normal. Why is this not easy?

verb_to_trust wrote:

B wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:All the dates on those links seem to have an endpoint of late summer. Did they realize they couldn't jerk themselves off over cotton face coverings anymore when cases exploded again in the fall?

No, masks stopped working this past September.

You're so close

Rob wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:How do you explain the same trajectories in states with completely different mitigation approaches?

I don’t think the trajectories are all the same. Different states have different circumstances. Florida can be a bit loose because it’s summer there year round. Michigan shows it can get out of control for a while irrespective of what’s going on elsewhere. At the end of the day, you’re the one arguing that covering your face (the two holes in your body that usually take in the germs) does nothing to help.

And to be clear no one here has ever argued it’s the end all be all. No one ever argued it solves Covid. It’s called mitigation. It’s one easy thing we can do to “slow the spread” so things like treatment and vaccines can help us get back to normal. Why is this not easy?

because masks are annoying

BurtReynolds wrote:

couldn't this simply be explained by a bunch of vaccine needing to be pulled out of circulation? seems more time's needed here, once J&J is back in circulation.

JuanHamm wrote:

4/5 wrote:

spike wrote:but masks are annoying

Am I allowed to admit that I'm dreading the thought of being fully vaccinated but having to wear a mask while I try to teach next school year?

Yes, it's fine to feel however you'd like. Just don't be a massive prick about it.

If you stick to the front of the classroom, assuming there is a fair distance, would you consider dropping the mask and using a face-shield? I do this when I started running tours again at the brewery.

edit: dropping the mask as in pulling it down to your chin available to put back on in close proximity to others.

When do you think we will stop wearing masks?

Anders wrote:When do you think we will stop wearing masks?

When should we? March 2022. When will we? May 2021.

Hope for October.

Bi_3 wrote:

Anders wrote:When do you think we will stop wearing masks?

When should we? March 2022. When will we? May 2021.

Lol

We will probably ditch them by mid to end of summer, right or wrong.

If it also means the end of the pandemic on a large scale, I can not wait.

oasisfan35 wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:

4/5 wrote:

spike wrote:but masks are annoying

Am I allowed to admit that I'm dreading the thought of being fully vaccinated but having to wear a mask while I try to teach next school year?

Yes, it's fine to feel however you'd like. Just don't be a massive prick about it.

If you stick to the front of the classroom, assuming there is a fair distance, would you consider dropping the mask and using a face-shield? I do this when I started running tours again at the brewery.

edit: dropping the mask as in pulling it down to your chin available to put back on in close proximity to others.

Our school district has a no face mask or gaitor policy currently. I would prefer either of those to a mask. I mean, really, I'd hope that I can just be a person, but if not hopefully they adjust that policy. *shrug*