For the last ten months I have sat in a crowd at least once a week unmasked.
i have sat in four concerts unmasked.
i eat at least once a week in my favourite cafe unmasked..although it would be a bit difficult to eat masked.
i have travelled on packed trains and buses unmasked...( yes I have on occasion not worn my mask on Welsh transport).
Nothing has happened.
I have not got Covid.
No one I have been with has got Covid.
And as someone up the thread has asked -how did vulnerable people live before Covid?
Finally I won’t find myself dashing back to the house because I have forgotten a mask(which last week caused me to miss the bus).
My masks will be confined to History.
Now to avoid WW3....
Four of our relatives are dead from COVID.
My wife and I got Omicron about 6 weeks ago. It was a complete nightmare.
COVID is a pneumonia form.
Anyone who tells you that pneumonia is not serious or is the same as the flu is lying.
And COVID is a lot more serious and a lot more dangerous than just any pneumonia.
If the world had just a regular pneumonia outbreak, masks would make sense. For decades, people in Asia have been regularly wearing them, just as general protection against getting colds.
Err on the side of caution.
When did that advice ever get outdated?
Governments just want the economy to open to keep the cash flowing. And they will push any lie to make that happen.
Masks are an impingement to freedom? Really? Are we babies now, that wearing a little scarf over our mouths is the end of freedom?
Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.
COVID is over? Daily death totals in the US are still around 2000 dead per day. That is one 9/11 per day. And COVID is over?
Be cautious, stay cautious. Don't have to live in a cage, but stay cautious.
And if you are over 60? Oh, much more dangerous. By far.
And any debilitating medical conditions? Oh, much more dangerous, by far.
Don't let anyone sucker you into contracting a potentially deadly disease. Be careful.