Is it necessary to wear a mask after recovering from the Corona Virus?
Is it necessary to wear a mask after being vaccinated against the Virus?
I suspect the answer is no. Won’t this make it impossible to enforce mask mandates? I see this as either the end of mandates or an opportunity for the authorities to push a vaccination passport tracking device on everyone.
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unless the mask was never about the disease, which it doesn’t
Everything I can find out about the vaccine (and I’ve been reading the medical journals, as I’m a nurse) shows that the only thing the vaccine has been tested for is creating antibodies when confronted with infection. This means that if you get coronavirus AFTER you are vaccinated, you will be primed to create the antibodies needed to suppress the symptoms. That does not mean that you won’t still become infected with coronavirus or that you will be incapable of spreading it, just that you won’t be symptomatic. Even the NYT published an article going over that very fact.
So, my take is that they will continue mandates AND force a vaccine pasport.
Having just been hospitalized for the virus last week, nothing has changed for me. If somewhere I have to go makes wearing a mask a condition of dealing with them, I will, if I want to deal with them badly enough. After all, it’s their right to set the conditions for our interaction. If it’s not important enough to me, I’ll go somewhere else or forgo that action entirely. Because I have that same right.
I don’t care what mandates may come, I will do the above.
You have to wear a mask in public until the “chosen ones” say otherwise. Just don’t shake anyone’s hand before you wrestle them, that’s not being safe.
Just don’t shake hands and you may do what you like.
Since when does necessity have anything to do with mandates?
You are no longer infectious after 10-14 days from the start of symptoms, or 48 hours after the fever breaks, which ever is the longer.
However it is worth noting that you can catch a different strain of the virus. A friend of mine nearly died from COVID but recently caught a different milder strain after their child brought it home from school.
Is the virus serious for some? Yes. Is it going to affect 90% of people to any great degree? Unlikely. Protect those who are vulnerable, and let the rest of the world get on with it.
I personally think that mask wearing shouldn’t be politicised (it’s been done in Japan for decades as a general case with even the sniffles since it’s a way to not spread it in dense urban areas); and it ought to be by choice.