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No it's not. Not in the United States lol, unless you work at some hospitals. Get vaccinated and wear a mask to avoid the Delta strain and stay at home more. You don't need to know someone else's status when you've got your own protection.

Whenever someone tries to justify something with "but the collective" alarm bells should really start going off. You know that in Florida and other states where there are no mandates like those, cases have been declining since last year and things are back to normal right?

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Masks do not provide as much protection for the users as for other people. I have a right to use public spaces.

We all have a right to use public space. If the users are not interested in the vaccination or don't already have antibodies, that is on them. They will have reaped what they sowed. It's not your business to police that though.

And you ignored what I said about Florida and the other states where people have been going maskless for a long time without the numbers changing the trend.

You are free to cite to the statistics you are referencing. But I know in my community, cases did not fall until people started getting vaccinated en masse.

You can easily google “State covid cases” for any of the states that have gotten rid of mandates long ago and see the decline in covid cases. For many states.

You can easily google difference in differences.

> I have a right to use public spaces.

So do I, but you say I shouldn't because you're afraid.

Actually they could be safe from you if you were to vaccinate or wear a mask if you will not do so.

I never understood this logic.

The material on both sides of the mask are the same, no? A mask can prevent a virus from leaving your nose/mouth but not enter?

It is not logic, it is science. The mask prevents droplets from your lungs from dispersing throughout the air. It is not as good at sealing your respiratory system from droplets in the air.

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