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Originally Posted by blueash
You are assuming that after you are vaccinated you are not going to get Covid and therefore you cannot spread it to others. Wearing a mask as you are well aware is to protect others from your potentially infectious material. If getting the vaccine 100% meant you could not have Covid in your breath droplets then your position of not needing a mask would be justified. However the best vaccine is 95% effective against clinical disease and of unknown but certainly below 100% against sub-clinical disease. So you have a 5% risk of not being protected from Covid even after you complete your shots and additional risk of spreading Covid if you are sub-clinically infected.
That is why people are writing that it is better to continue to wear your mask even after you get your shots until we reach the point when Covid is not widely circulating.
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My only answer is "Covid fatigue". I know that is probably not good enough but at least I have been doing my part since the beginning of this pandemic. There are hosts of people that have not done anything at all to help quell the transmission of this virus.
I live in a retirement community so most everyone in my community will be eligible for vaccination against Covid pretty much in the same time frame. I'm going by that fact that most of my community will have the opportunity to protect themselves from Covid by being inoculated with the vaccine. If there are those folks who will not take the vaccine because they are simply anti-vaxxers, I am not about to worry about protecting them. Sorry if this is an unpopular stance but it is the one I will make once I am immune.