In my state, North Carolina has not dropped the mask mandate completely, masks still must be worn on public transportation, hospitals, child care, and nursing homes...Along with that any unvaccinated people must still wear a mask anywhere in public...Its an honour system in a way, and of course some unvaccinated are going to shed the mask, it is expected...
I went to town twice yesterday and entered in two different shops and there were plenty of people still wearing masks, and I did not wear a mask...At this point personally I am trusting the vaccine and along with that I live in a rural area, a low population of people, nothing like a big city...If I get covid so be it, the symptoms will be mild as evidence has shown for vaccinated people, very rare cases have been serious and those people likely had other pre-existing conditions...
Why get the vaccination but live as if we are not vaccinated, if we had to wait until more people are also vaccinated we may be waiting a long time given the resistance of vaccinations in the US...We may see a surge in new infections in the coming weeks but I think it will hit a plateau rather quickly with half the population vaccinated and more of those cases will likely be mild...I was all for mask wearing when we were vulnerable and without any vaccines, but things are different now and the vaccinated are no longer as vulnerable, if at all...I trusted the vaccine enough to get the shot, so now I'm trusting it to do what it intended to do...
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