I can’t believe people still act like putting a tiny piece of fabric on your face is even an inconvenience.

I can't believe in 2024 a person would act like a fabric mask does anything.

The science is out there now, you have to have a very tight-fitting new and clean n95 to have any chance at slowing down covid. Those are inconvenient and still expensive and if I was regularly masking properly it'd be a huge expense.

And if you're not masking properly, you might as well wear a plague mask as your protective fetish.

Why anyone would do proper masking "preventatively" when you're vaccinated and just a low level general risk of catching what is mostly a bad cold is honestly crazy to me. We now understand how covid works, who is at risk, what settings we can make a difference (ie indoors with extended exposure). There's no reason to remain so scared anymore.

And I'm not anti-mask--I was early to mask, first with n95s later I had a fabric mask before switching back to n95. And I masked while indoors a lot longer than most people even after I was vaccinated because my GF's mom was undergoing chemo summer 2021. But I occasionally still see people masking outside, in dirty reused surgeons masks and it really makes no sense.