[rnk]

You should be wearing your mask over your mouth and nose though. There could definitely be someone there who because of a medical condition cannot be immunized. Like my own kid. Everyone wants to throw away their masks but what's going to happen for people they can't get immunized?

[tinus_hn]

People aren’t going to wear masks forever and COVID is never going away.

So what’s going to happen to people who can’t get immunized? They’re just going to have to choose between biting the bullet and taking on the risk, or safely stay inside forever.

Probably not what you want to hear but there simply is no way around it. Perhaps someone can invent a mask that filters air coming in so they can protect themselves but as of yet, it doesn’t exist.

[nate_meurer]

I have seen no evidence that covid can be spread via nasal respiration. Covid spreads through droplets and aerosols. Normal nasal respiration produces no droplets or aerosols, and even a very hard nasal expiration can produce only a few hundred droplets at most, and usually far less. Contrast this to a single sneeze or hard cough which can produce millions of droplets and a cloud of infectious aerosol. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293495/]

I believe evidence supports the role of masks as spit shields. But the whole charade of masking on planes and in restaurants is completely useless, since everybody removes their mask completely for every meal, snack, and drink.

[Ekaros]

They should isolate or use sufficient protective equipment. Rest of the world can't be forced to suffer for the few.