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If you got vaccinated you did your part. And now you're being asked to wear a mask so you lessen the chance of spreading a disease to people who didn't get vaccinated and could get very sick because of that personal choice. They made their choice and that's fine - but why should the vaccinated (who put an experimental molecule into their bodies for the greater good) now have to carry the burden for them?

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You are also masking to protect children and people who have immune conditions that make vaccination less effective/prevent them from receiving vaccinations. That's millions of people who are unvaccinated through reasons outside of personal choice.

> That's millions of people who are unvaccinated through reasons outside of personal choice.

Do you have a source?

> You are also masking to protect children

That's a weak reason. Only 349 people below 18 have died of corona in the US since the start of the pandemic.

Which is fewer than kids that died from H1N1 which was 358. Influenza killed 188 kids the year before Covid.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatr...

All 349 of them had serious preexisting conditions.

(Not to say that each of the 349 isn't a tragedy, only that the coronavirus is unequivocally not dangerous to children without preexisting conditions.)

Also - if you're considering it, please save the "long covid" histrionics. We used to call that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and there's no reason to believe "long covid" is different, scarier, or more prevalent than CFS. I have a strong suspicion that the patient's psychological suggestibility and media consumption are greater predictors of "long covid" than infection.

To put that in context: About 350 people (the vast majority children) drown in swimming pools each year in the US.

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