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Excuse Me If I’m Not Ready to Unmask
The Atlantic ^ | May 19, 2021 | Dana Stevens

Posted on 05/19/2021 5:37:27 PM PDT by DoodleBob

...But excuse me if I, like many of the people I see around me, am not yet quite ready to expose my lower face. Early on in the pandemic, I made a vow with my family that we would set a high standard for COVID-19 avoidance. Not only were we not getting this virus ourselves, if we could help it, but we were taking no chances of inadvertently spreading it to anyone else, even if that did make for a long and lonely year without indoor gatherings and travel to see family and friends.

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The vaccines are remarkably effective, but not 100%. Breakthrough infections among vaccinated people have occurred (witness the cluster of cases among the New York Yankees), and the science about whether and how the virus can be transmitted by the vaccinated to the unvaccinated is not yet certain. Putting aside the hard science for a moment, wearing a mask in public spaces—especially indoors, where transmission is more likely—serves a broader social purpose: It says to those around us that, whatever our vaccine status, we value community safety.

When I walk outside my door into a densely populated neighborhood, I know as little about the life circumstances of the people I encounter as they do about mine. Are they, like me, fully vaccinated? Or are they in between shots, still looking for an appointment, or never planning to get a vaccine at all? Might they be in chemotherapy, or otherwise immunocompromised in some way that would prevent them from either getting a vaccine or experiencing its full benefits?

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But if...some of us simply find comfort in going around with a scrap of cloth on our face, we can be forgiven for choosing to leave it there until the world feels like a safer place for everyone.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danastevens; masks; theatlantic; virtuesignaling; whatshisfrnick
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To: DoodleBob
It says to those around us that, whatever our vaccine status, we value community safety.After translating from Karenish to English, that reads as "Don't bother me with facts, I'm virtue signaling here!"
41 posted on 05/19/2021 6:02:59 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: DoodleBob

I’d love to take some 2 inch duct tape and make it count. Around their head a dozen times.


42 posted on 05/19/2021 6:05:43 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: DoodleBob

I’ll just venture a wild guess that she supports killing innocent babies in the womb.....


43 posted on 05/19/2021 6:06:13 PM PDT by Old_Grouch
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To: DoodleBob

I’ve always said that the only good thing to come out of Berkeley was Unix.


44 posted on 05/19/2021 6:06:26 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: DoodleBob

“The vaccines are remarkably effective”

They don’t stop you from contracting the ‘rona, and they don’t stop you from passing it to others.

Just exactly how are they “effective?” And how did these low IQ tubs of dog crap weasel their way into public life?

People scorn the notion that the vaccines are biological weapons. I have to wonder why they are so intent on giving everyone an experimental substance. Especially conservatives.

If I knew any leftards they wouldn’t want me to have an effective vaccine. They would want me to contract the ‘rona and die before I have a chance to vote again. So why are the leftards so intent on vaccinating everyone?


45 posted on 05/19/2021 6:08:14 PM PDT by dsc (Paul? Paul Revere? Are you out there?)
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To: DoodleBob

I’m going to START wearing a mask.

I need one to hide my I-told-you-so smirk as I watch President*’s policies crash and burn.


46 posted on 05/19/2021 6:09:34 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Deplorably Neanderthal)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Good one!

:)


47 posted on 05/19/2021 6:09:52 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught (president FRAUD of the divided states of China)
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To: DoodleBob

Who cares?


48 posted on 05/19/2021 6:10:07 PM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: DoodleBob

I hereby pre-excuse Dana. I didn’t even read her piece.


49 posted on 05/19/2021 6:10:45 PM PDT by familyop (Third world slaves are misled to generalize distrust against friendly learners.)
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To: DoodleBob

She is a dumb ass.


50 posted on 05/19/2021 6:11:12 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: DoodleBob

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.


51 posted on 05/19/2021 6:12:59 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold,them to be. dead, fingers.)
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To: MNnice

risk-averse people don’t want to..

——it would be just fine if they ‘do their own thing and wear masks’, but having to listen to them congratulate themselves for being idiots is getting to be too much.
Just STFU and STFA (STAY TF AWAY)


52 posted on 05/19/2021 6:13:37 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: DoodleBob

She can wear a mask if she wants to. I really don’t care. Hell. She can wear a full burka, for all I care.

Just DO.NOT.EXPECT.ME. to wear that crap and we will get along just fine.


53 posted on 05/19/2021 6:19:14 PM PDT by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS! #Texit)
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To: dsc
They don’t stop you from contracting the ‘rona, and they don’t stop you from passing it to others.

Vaccines are not 100% effective but that's not what she said. There are about 200 deaths total from breakthrough infections compared to 600 a day from COVID and over 3000 a day at the peak. That is what I would call "remarkably effective"/

54 posted on 05/19/2021 6:24:36 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Noumenon

“Choke on it, stupid. Because you will.”

Not nearly soon enough to suit me.

L


55 posted on 05/19/2021 6:24:54 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Noumenon

I hope the vaccine made her sterile. Idiots like this don’t deserve to reproduce.


56 posted on 05/19/2021 6:25:24 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Rummyfan

Doctorate in 2001, writing Surfergirl in 2003. Two years to get that gig with a PhD?


57 posted on 05/19/2021 6:25:38 PM PDT by CA_soon_gone
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To: DoodleBob

I hope libs continue to breathe in 50% CO2 for the next couple of years.

This one is scared of her own shadow I see. LOL!


58 posted on 05/19/2021 6:28:24 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: a fool in paradise

I’m sure this stupid cnut was all in favor of the faggot hookup apps remaining operational and unhindered.


59 posted on 05/19/2021 6:28:27 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: DoodleBob

Better get used to it, there are a lot of them. Who cares?


60 posted on 05/19/2021 6:33:51 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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