Maskless

Today the CDC announced that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks or distance themselves when they are out in public, both indoors and outdoors. My friends and I agreed that we will probably continue wearing masks and being cautious for the time being. And most of the comments on posts and things that I've seen regarding this announcement seem to share the same sentiment. My first thought was that this was another attempt to try to incentivize people to get vaccinated, although the CDC director said it's not, and that they are just following the science and data. I don't know - maybe, like I've been saying, I'll feel more comfortable when I see a sustained lower infection rate. Someone also raised a good point that as a parent, they will probably continue wearing a mask, because their young child is unvaccinated and can't be vaccinated, so it would set a weird example if their parents suddenly stopped wearing masks but they still had to.

I guess I should mention that the Pfizer vaccine was approved earlier this week for children ages 12-15, and the CDC signed off on it a couple days later. Some places already started vaccinating children following the FDA's approval, without waiting for the CDC. A lot of school districts are now implementing plans that they put in place to vaccinate students. If they start now, their second dose will be probably right at the end of the school year, and they can go back in the fall fully vaccinated! All my friends with kids in that age range are very excited to get them signed up!

And speaking of the unvaccinated, antivaxxers apparently believe that vaccinated people "shed" something onto them that will make them sick, so they are now talking about wearing masks around vaccinated people! I mentioned to a friend earlier, they're going to end up talking themselves into a circle and wearing masks and getting vaccinated themselves!