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Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now
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They're normalized in some places. I see people wearing them and not just the "Covid isn't over!" folks.
I mean, COVID isn't over lol: It didn't go anywhere, we're just dying from it a little less often. Must be nice avoiding colds and flu if masks are common in your area though, getting sick sucks.
Is COVID over though?
Covid has reached a ubiquitous state where it's a constant presence around us. Similar to how cold and flu virus are. So in a sense, the high concern and detailed tracking is over. And we must simply accept that there is one more virus as part of our lives. It's not over in the sense that it's gone. That certainly will never be now.
It is over in the same way that the Spanish Flu is over, still around but not a massively infectious and deadly threat in the way it was originally due to vaccinations and herd immunity.
Which was what experts said from the start. Small chance it could get worse. But likely it'll become endemic? And when it does it'll just be like the cold. All we need to do is make sure we keep deaths low until it does by following some things like distancing and masking. Shut downs were terrible for many but it saved lives. Meanwhile everyone I knew kept telling me how they were lying about those steps and really it wouldn't be temporary it was ushring in a NWO under the WHO
Yes, it no longer impacts our comings and goings meaningfully anymore, so now it's just one of the boys (influenza, sars, those and more here) Let's hope, someday, it can join this list.
I wore a mask in crowded places for three and a half years without getting sick. Then I stopped and two weeks later I got COVID. It wasn't much fun and it took weeks to get over. Maybe that was coincidence, but now we're back into flu season I'm wearing masks in crowded places again. I figure each person who wears one makes it a little easier for those who would like to but don't want to go against the social tide.