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With COVID, flu and RSV surging, when and where should you wear a mask?
nbcsandiego ^ | 01/09/2024 | Sarah Jacoby

Posted on 01/10/2024 11:49:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The new year is kicking off with a spike in respiratory illnesses across the U.S., including COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus. Considering all the circulating illnesses right now, it might be time for masking to make a comeback, experts say.

"We're certainly in the winter peak of respiratory viruses," Dr. Albert Ko, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Yale School of Public Health, tells TODAY.com. A post-holiday COVID spike alongside upticks of the usual winter illnesses, like flu and RSV, make this surge "very much expected," he adds.

Amid this rise in the spread of illnesses, mask mandates are already back in some health care settings, including hospital systems in Los Angeles County and New York City. And many of us should probably follow suit, Ko says.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: covid; electionvariant; fearfearfear; flu; mask; masking; masks; rsvlmask; vaccinemandate; wuhanvirus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Halloween 6:00-8:00 p.m. as you go door to door?


21 posted on 01/10/2024 12:33:50 PM PST by G Larry ("XFKAT" We can't keep spelling out "X Formerly Known As Twitter"!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
should you wear a mask?

yES. When trying to impress someone or having relations with someone you don't want to know.

22 posted on 01/10/2024 12:39:11 PM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
when and where should you wear a mask?

If you're immuno-compromised due to chemo or whatever, it probably is a good idea, especially if you find yourself in crowded environments or around little kids, which are basically little germ monsters. In most situations, no, especially not in your car all alone or out jogging (which I've seen more than once).

23 posted on 01/10/2024 12:46:38 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

"With COVID, flu and RSV surging, when and where should you wear a mask?"

Well, never ... unless your goal is to die of a pneumonia instead. Next question.


24 posted on 01/10/2024 12:59:43 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Doesn’t everyone wear a mask, figuratively speaking?


25 posted on 01/10/2024 1:07:50 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, my scratchy throat at Christmas time got progressively worse and full blown at New Years. I’m lucky that it’s just congestion and coughing but I never realized it was RSV until I was able to talk to the doc on the 2nd of January. She put me on antibiotics and the doctor I talked to the other day put me on steroids. I tested negative for Covid, ran no fever but the saddest thing is I gave it to my Hub who spent 3 days in the hospital with RSV. He’s a double lung transplant patient and that could have been deadly for him. Thank God and His Grace that he made it through. I will stay home until I’m completely well and can get the RSV vaccine.


26 posted on 01/10/2024 1:08:48 PM PST by Dawgreg
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To: Dawgreg

God Bless


27 posted on 01/10/2024 1:09:34 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: so_real

Most masks don’t stop virus particles.


28 posted on 01/10/2024 1:10:32 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Halloween.


29 posted on 01/10/2024 1:38:16 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t know we had a surge, I’m not wearing a mask anywhere, if they require I won’t go


30 posted on 01/10/2024 1:59:43 PM PST by wild74
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If she works for the MSM, than her diaper should do the trick.


31 posted on 01/10/2024 2:02:49 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you EVER see me wearing a mask, IT MEANS I’M THERE TO ROB YOU!


32 posted on 01/10/2024 2:18:22 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you can smell a fart through your mask then it does nothing against Covid virions. The ‘mask’ is a sign of submission and compliance to authority. Nothing more.


33 posted on 01/10/2024 2:22:53 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I remember when libtards ordered their weak subjects to wear masks in their own house


34 posted on 01/10/2024 3:08:53 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Here is a mask as effective as any which people will be wearing in Lost Angeles or New Yawk City ...


35 posted on 01/10/2024 3:17:05 PM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wear it when participating in a “kill the Jews” protest on a college campus.


36 posted on 01/10/2024 3:19:43 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When robbing the bank!


37 posted on 01/10/2024 4:43:37 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Make the World Safe for Humanity--Kill the Terrorists)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In proximity to any politician.


38 posted on 01/10/2024 7:30:08 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

God Bless

Thank you so much. I appreciate it....you as well.


39 posted on 01/10/2024 8:40:23 PM PST by Dawgreg
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To: cuz1961

Literally LOL re Fauci mustache mask.


40 posted on 01/10/2024 8:43:18 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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