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).
There were variants from the start but the really nasty ones started to take over at the time of the first vaccinations. But they were not caused by the vaccinations, they were caused by the huge numbers of infections in the world, mutation rate is a random thing so is lineairly related to the number of virus particles present.
What kind of a sane person would take a vaccine blindly without checking the background of the companies behind these vaccines… Really !!!
Read this if you dare:
18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine
Seems like some kind of mass hypnosis, or black magic or something !!!
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As for the “experiences” from these things called “vaccines” that I know of, our neighbor’s (3 buildings away) son in law - 35 years old - died 4 days after taking the vaccine in Dubai. He had 3 young children they are here now in Damascus, Syria with their mother.
Few months ago, a jeweler who went to the US also died after a week of taking the vaccine.
My uncle in Germany and my aunt in Austria and their families took the Pfizer, a sore arm and tiredness… my aunt is still tired most of the time… I hope nothing happens in the long term.
Few relatives in the US took the vaccines - haven’t asked them which ones - sore arms and headaches for few days…
Some friends and relatives have taken the vaccine in my country, we have AstraZeneca and the Russian vaccines.
one of my mother’s friends had the Trigeminal neuralgia.
Could it be from the PCR test swabs after so many tests ?!
As far as I know there are very sensitive nerves and bone in that area where they stick that long thingy inside people’s head !!
Please don’t assume that we are blind and/or insane. I’m sure that those here who have received it as well as those who don’t want it have researched it and arrived at their own conclusions. But that’s not a topic for a flashlight forum and should not be discussed here. This thread is for personal experiences only.
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