Given that the nose is the main entry point for infection (with the eyes probably in second place) and one of the main sources if you are infected, if you are wearing your mask below your nose you may as well not be wearing it in most cases. If you are talking or singing aloud a mask below the noise would still be better than no mask, but still deficient compared to a mask covering the nose.
Infection rate around here is way down. Being vaccinated I feel confident going unmasked. Are your areas still high and that is why you are so concerned about masks?
In my country there is still a mask mandate indoors, the rates are still high but quickly decreasing thanks to most of the population vaccinated. People who are registering now are getting the Pfizer vaccine because of increased supply and a large donation (thanks USA!).
I understand that in the US there is no longer a mask mandate and most stores don’t longer enforce mask wearing, but regardless of mask mandates, if you are wearing a mask for extra protection to yourself or to protect vulnerable people, you should wear it correctly, otherwise it will do next to nothing. The coronavirus is partly airbone and has been airbone since day 1, it’s not a new development.
Around here in Michigan roughly 50% of population is vaccinated, yet the state no longer has any mask mandates in place. It’s an honor system - you’re supposed to wear a mask if you have not been vaccinated, but pretty much nobody wears a mask at a grocery store anymore while statistically only half of the customers there have been vaccinated. And so I still wear a mask when indoor shopping, even though I am fully vaccinated. Vaccines are not 100% effective, and I don’t trust other people’s honor. Those who don’t believe in vaccines are usually the same ones who don’t believe in masks.
If you wear a mask below the nose because your glasses fog then don’t expect your mask to do much. If you only wear a mask to comply with some rule then it’s a different matter. Of course if the fogging causes an actual safety issue you must rectify it by any means as it will be more dangerous than the virus.
Masks with good fit will fog your glasses way less than poorly fitting masks. I find that a N95 or a good fitting surgical mask will fog my glasses much less than a KN95 with earloops or a cloth mask (I don’t have any KN94 to compare).
I had to look down when he passed me so he couldn’t see me Smirking
Around my area cases are way down and things are pretty much back to normal as normal can get — I was totally floored today going get a massage that they required mask and took my temp —- The therapist just kind of nodded in the room that it was cool to take it off
It has been circulating here and in other countries for (at least) 3 weeks now.
A news on BBC (Delta plus India: Scientists say too early to tell risk of Covid-19 variant) on the 23rd June states:
Still, by that time it was still too early to assess it’s threat level.
I got my 1st dose of vaccine this morning. :partying_face:
It was from Pfizer, and the 2nd dose is scheduled for the 6th August.
So far so good, I don’t feel effects other than on the place it was received, that sometimes reminds me it is there, specially when lifting the arm up (which has been a common thing among my friends and even girlfriend).