Not to start a mask debate (feel free to go through the hundreds of pages of "M word" debate on the News and Rumors board), but the immunocompromised (and all other "at risk" people) need YOU (and everyone else within 6 feet) to wear a mask. I'm used to wearing one all day at work, but I do understand how it is new and strange to most people.
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This is all I'll say because I actually have no interest in a debate because just like in everything- people can and need to come to their own conclusions based on the information they have or find, but I figured I would get some heat for my comment of not wearing one regularly anyway.
I appreciate your view as one who is more in the middle of it that I am. I am not caring for anyone with Covid, those are the recommendations from The WHO on which healthy people should wear one. I also do not live in a densely populated area like NY City.
But there is so much conflicting information on whether or not mask wearing stops you from spreading and/or the "asymptomatic" cases are actually contagious. In fact, a recent study said
"we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak." Some even say a mask gives a false sense of security and people are touching them all day long, bringing the virus to your mucous membranes.
And while everyone wearing a mask to keep everyone else safe in theory is good, we (non immunocompromised) the regular folk actually NEED daily doses of bacteria and viruses in order to keep our own immune systems working properly, or we will have more immune issues in our populous.
I am a different sort though, I had home-births and my doctor is a functional medicine doctor, so my idea of normal healthcare starts with my own natural immunity and then works out to conventional medicine as needed instead of jumping to drugs as a first resort except in dire need.
But I will not wear a mask at Disney just because the CDC thinks I should (conflicting with The WHO by the way).
So we are prepared to cancel in a year if that is still a requirement based off my own research and judgement.
I do have people in our family that would not fare well with Covid, both of them have had lung disease, so we are keeping our distance from them as a precaution, so I am not blind to the spread of Covid, but staying away is safer than wearing a mask and getting up close.
