Once you have the vaccine will you wear a yellow armband to let people know you are safe?

For the most part ... the mask protects others from you ... gives the message that you care about them. How will you communicate that you are now safe with the vaccine? Curious. And this assumes you care .... of course.

A recent survey showed that less than 50% plan to get the vaccine. How do you know who got it and who didn't? I expect the mask policy at stores, etc. to continue well after the vaccine is available. I don't wear a mask if I am outside, but I do at public places. I would continue to do that.

I would continue to wear a mask until the infection rate drops to levels deemed safe by the infectious disease specialists. I don’t have a problem wearing a mask, it’s a very minor inconvenience that offers significant benefit. I also always buckle my seatbelt when driving. What in the world is the big deal about wearing a mask? Seriously.

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This is still a free country. People here in the villages cannot even abide by simple, easy deed restrictions and I am tired of being ordered about. Get your vaccine and believe those “experts.” Why would anyone wear a mask if they are getting the vaccine? You people are sheep and ready to be herded just like Europe was by the Nazi’s.

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We know it, too.

"I wear the thinnest mask I could find. Not for protection, but to make scaredy cats feel safe when I am around them. And I just smile at the folks in Publix or Walmart that are maskless. Of course they can't see my smile. Since 99.4% of those infected recover from the virus, I figure I have a better chance of getting bit by a poisonous snake and dying."

Since one of the primary focuses of mask-wearing is to protect others, one would think that even when the vaccine is available, continuing to wear the mask is a good idea. While the vaccine may be 90% effective, there is still that 10% and you may be one of those; so, continuing to wear the mask as a protection is still a good idea. It is all a matter of all of us banding together to keep eachother (especially our family & friends) protected and safe.

Yes.

I wear a mask now and I don't complain about it. But I'm not going to go through the rest of my life wearing masks and restricting my movements and interactions once I've been vaccinated. That's not living.

This is from WHO, which got it from the CDC:

"First, no vaccine is 100% effective. To make vaccines safer than the disease, the bacteria or virus is killed or weakened (attenuated). For reasons related to the individual, not all vaccinated persons develop immunity. Most routine childhood vaccines are effective for 85% to 95% of recipients."

85 - 95%. Are we going to run scared because up to 15% of those who were vaccinated might still be susceptible to viruses?

Presumably most people who live in TV are well into the latter part of their lives. Do we all want to live the rest of our lives sequestered and limited in our interactions after being vaccinated?

There was one man who died in one of the vaccine trials for Astra Zeneca and it was made known that that man did NOT receive the vaccine. He received the placebo.

Please provide a link that people in trials have died. I have not heard anything to that effect.

Those statistics do not seem reasonable.....at all. Please provide a link so I can read those skewed numbers like you did.

I do not plan to wear a mask once I wait enough time after the the second injection. I would like to see a button people can wear, similar to the "I Voted" stickers that says, "I had the Covid vaccine". I will put that button on my purse and let everyone know I am no threat to them. I'm also hoping there will be some sort of card that can be carried on your person that identifies someone as having been vaccinated for Covid.

Oh thank God …… ANOTHER THREAD ON MASKS!!!! :a040::clap2::MOJE_whot:

I am a huge proponent of mask wearing indoors but I will be ready to ditch the mask after I have been vaccinated and wait the proper amount of time for immunity to kick in.

I will continue to do what the experts say to do. If they say wear a mask after I get the vaccine, I will. If they say just wear it for a certain amount of time I will.