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It's not a question of 'stay inside for weeks' or 'go out' though is it? It's a spectrum and there are a lot of basic precautions like masking possible that people refuse to do.

Personally I live my life but will continue wearing a KN95 until Covid stops being in active circulation. You can call this paranoia but I haven't caught anything since I started doing this and taking other basic precautions like distancing - no covid, no flu, no colds. So I'm benefiting from it and by doing this I'm less likely to spread a disease to someone immunocompromised.

Earlier during covid I saw a lot of people doing the same, which I appreciated. Now I'm the only person doing this and it makes me a little sad, because if I spread a cold or flu or covid to somebody's grandma, they might die even if the virus is no problem for my younger immune system.

In other countries it's conventional to wear a mask any time you're remotely sick or have symptoms that might indicate illness, but we don't do it here. Instead, people go to work while sick and make their coworkers sick.

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the point was not to get into a mask debate but "In other countries it's conventional to wear a mask any time you're remotely sick" should ring as BS to you, because those countries have flu and cold just like any other country.

AND if you ask them, they don't do it to prevent others from getting sick (not that that works unless you are gasping air through an n95), but they do it to protect themselves. This is especially true in China where there is also air pollution to consider.