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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Everyone ordered back to work in the office I’m in right now, guessing they’ll drop the mask requirements.

It’s funny because they JUST started giving us boxes and boxes of rapid tests to take home a few weeks ago feels like so they were concerned enough to take that step.
 
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hockeylover said:


Still wearing my mask on the TTC indefinitely thnx.
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I'm happy to stop mask bylaws in places where it's on theatre anyways. I'm starting to get annoyed by the whole "wear a mask when you get up to go to the bathroom in a restaurant" setup. But stuff like the TTC where you're packed into a low ventilation location with a bunch of strangers? Honestly it's going to be hard for me to ever go back to not masking up there.
 
UWHabs said:
I'm happy to stop mask bylaws in places where it's on theatre anyways. I'm starting to get annoyed by the whole "wear a mask when you get up to go to the bathroom in a restaurant" setup. But stuff like the TTC where you're packed into a low ventilation location with a bunch of strangers? Honestly it's going to be hard for me to ever go back to not masking up there.
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eh I've seen studies suggesting that most transmission occurs within like 6 feet of the infected person, so there may be more logic to the masking approach restaurants have taken than we initially gave credit for.

either way, don't know when I will be comfortable out and about with strangers maskless...
 
Actually - went to the office for the first time in a few months yesterday and took the ttc home. Holy fuck, they should be ashamed. Crowd control is still possible, yknow.

they must hire really dumb people.
 
hockeylover said:


Still wearing my mask on the TTC indefinitely thnx.
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I mean, I'm open to hearing the argument for this....but I don't see how this doesn't fly in the face of everything that we actually know about covid. The shit is airborn, masking is extremely effective against it, and we're still reporting about 2000 new cases per day.

Am I the only one this seems like absolute madness to?
 
MindzEye said:
I mean, I'm open to hearing the argument for this....but I don't see how this doesn't fly in the face of everything that we actually know about covid. The shit is airborn, masking is extremely effective against it, and we're still reporting about 2000 new cases per day.

Am I the only one this seems like absolute madness to?
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No, definitely not. But I think there’s an eagerness by the vast majority of people to declare this over and so I will do as I’ve been doing for nearly the entire pandemic and ignore recommendations from leaders entirely and create my own approach based on my personal situation, comfort level and risk tolerance.

For me that is:

Restaurants, yes.
Huge indoor gatherings with no masks, likely no for now.
Outdoor gatherings as it gets warmer, absolutely, bring on the fucking patio weather.
Masks on public transit.
 
Preston said:
2000 cases with estimates being 10x that! Glad to see deaths and hospitalizations slow down but that's a lot of long covid!
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That's what is getting me here...It's great to proclaim that we know so much more about covid today and how we're in a better place than when these mask mandates went into place...but we also know a lot more about long covid today and we're willfully ignoring it's long term impacts.
 
The studies that have come out just in the last month or two on long covid have been staggering in a very very bad way. I don't recall looking at any data on long covid and thinking "hmm this seems like it's overblown" (and my internal biases will always lean that way because it's what I want to believe). It's a full blown crisis and we're not treating it like one because we prefer to close our eyes and prefer to believe that everything is normal.
 
MindzEye said:
I mean, I'm open to hearing the argument for this....but I don't see how this doesn't fly in the face of everything that we actually know about covid. The shit is airborn, masking is extremely effective against it, and we're still reporting about 2000 new cases per day.

Am I the only one this seems like absolute madness to?
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no, what she actually means is "we are done trying to manage this pandemic and are just going to pretend it does not exist until we are forced to acknowledge it again"
 
Preston said:
2000 cases with estimates being 10x that! Glad to see deaths and hospitalizations slow down but that's a lot of long covid!
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I mean yeah wouldn't this 'lull' be close to the peaks of some other waves? Basically just letting vaccines and prior immunity do all the heavy lifting. Of course we know the foibles of that approach...
 
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