This is what I understand:
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work in a way that they don't think
will prevent you from getting an infection in your nose. It won't spread
anywhere else. As a result, if you're exposed to covid, even after being
vaccinated, they think there is likely going to be a few days where you are
contagious, but not know it since you don't have any symptoms other than
some minor sniffles. I.E. just like it is today, except it won't progress
to a bad infection.
So, for right now, they're saying to keep wearing masks even if you're
vaccinated. That way those that are not vaccinated yet will still be
protected by everyone wearing masks.
What a lot of people missed and still miss (or choose to ignore) is that
mask-wearing is to protect others, not yourself. It also prevents
overloading of the health care system. If it was the other way around -
that you could wear a mask and not get infected and there wasn't the whole
overload the hospital thing going on then there likely wouldn't have been
any mask mandates at all - it would have been more "if you want to be an
idiot and not wear a mask and run the risk of catching this and dying then
that's on you" type of attitude. But since making the choice to not wear a
mask doesn't affect you, only others, the government kinda had to mandate
these since a certain amount of people tend to be self-centered idiots.
Add to that the disinformation going around and you're where we are today.
Because of the above, I have a lot less of a problem with a mask mandate
which has an intent to force people to not do stupid things which can hurt
others than some other rules which are more oriented toward preventing
people from hurting themselves.
I really expect that come mid-year when we switch from more people wanting
the vaccine than can get it to the government pleading with people to get
vaccinated that the mask mandates will start to quickly disappear as the
vaccine provides a way for individuals to nearly perfectly protect
themselves. At that point, the only way we'll see them back is if we end
up overloading the health care system again because of people not getting
vaccinated.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:38 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> he didn't say that either. The one I saw he said we didn't know yet
> whether you could spread it or not.
>
> Context and timing is everything.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 2/27/2021 10:20 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>
> He didnt say that, he said you can still spread and can still catch. He
> really needs to go, I think the new admin is trying to figure out how to
> get him to pasture and off CNN. It's a shame watching his downfall. What is
> it they say, pride cometh before the fall?
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 12:01 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the whole mask thing is to prevent the weirdness that would
>> happen when a non-masked vaccer encounters a masked non-vaccer. Until we
>> reach a point where we think we are knocking it out, it's best for everyone
>> to wear a mask to avoid the confusion. That is what I've heard from Tony.
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 2/27/2021 9:11 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>
>> Except ol Fauci keeps saying you're not safe, you still need to wear your
>> two masks, you're still at risk of catching it, you're still at risk of
>> spreading it.
>> Pretty excited about J&J, looks like their single shot will be approved
>> forthwith. We have a syringe shortage now so that will help. Europe is
>> starting to say astra zenica isnt protecting people over 65, odd that it
>> knows ages.
>> My dads going ice fishing in wisconsin with his buddy in a couple weeks,
>> his buddy got some strings pulled to get his 2 shots out of l eftovers. He
>> was super concerned cause everybody packs the restaraunts in the mornings
>> and the evenings so hes more comfortable. He runs an hvac company though so
>> I dont know how he hasnt caught it, I think hvac guys must be exposed to
>> everything in its decayed state that they get dead virus immunizations on
>> everything anyway. He cut me a break on a replacement furnace motor monday,
>> my squirrel cage was covered in decades of grime and disease from the
>> house. Guaranteed there was some dead covid proteins in there from when we
>> all had it.
>>
>> I should have kept the motor and charged people 10 bucks a pop to lick it
>> for immunity.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 10:42 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Nice to think that of all the things the will ultimately do us in, Covid
>>> probably is not going to be it now.
>>>
>>> *From:* Bill Prince
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, February 27, 2021 9:25 AM
>>> *To:* af@af.afmug.com
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT I am invincible
>>>
>>>
>>> Congratulations! We are going in for #2 on Wednesday. After we got #1,
>>> we both felt massive relief. When we passed the 2 week mark (when immunity
>>> is supposed to start kicking in, we felt another little morale boost. I
>>> suspect we will be feeling a bit like you after Wednesday.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bp
>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>
>>> On 2/27/2021 8:05 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>>>
>>> Got my second shot yesterday. Woo Hoo! Feeling less stress going to
>>> Home Depot every time now.
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