CG anyone that has worn a mask while sanding drywall (even the incredible N95 ooooooo) knows they don’t work barely for that. Virus particles are smaller. I am staunchly Anti-Mask and have always been. The situation we find ourselves in now, in Michigan, is Pandemic Addicted people still running around mask shaming after their side has said the “Science and Data” has proven masks are not needed. Perhaps I was a bit nuanced but, the chance to call these Far Left Snowflakes “Trump Supporters” is by far the worst insult you can hurl at them. It makes them question the propaganda they’ve been spoonfed for over a year.
No insult intended for Trump supporters. And after all the Virtue Signaling Abuse that’s been heaped on Trump supporters for the last year I am thrilled to return the favor and insult these hypocrites. As for the vaccines...that’s a personal choice. Masking is a personal choice. Will I unleash on anyone that tries to coerce through social shaming or other means. ABSOLUTELY.

Science? What a science? Why are we vaccinating kids with a 0.2% chance of fatality and an even lower risk of infection? When government tells me what I must do to be healthy, I’m skeptical. “I swear by my life and my love of it.....” please don’t wear a mask for me.

Trump supporters telling you that you should be wearing a mask? I suppose some might be but it is the Democrats who are rabid about mask wearing.

Generally the Trump supporters were more inclined to be anti-mask, or at least anti-mask regulation.

There are anti-vax people on all sides of the spectrum -- they are pretty strongly represented here.

Probably true, however the vaccine is specifically designed to trigger a reaction to the "spike" protein which is the aspect that makes it most dangerous. Any mutation that doesn't include that will probably be less dangerous and any mutation that does will still trigger the enhanced immune response.

What your immune system decided was the important characteristic is anyone's guess. You might be more susceptible to a variant than someone who was vaccinated.

We aren't wearing masks in my town unless we want to.

I had Covid in January for 6 days. I just had a test and was negative. Are you saying I need the vaccine? My system is swimming in more antibodies than you have from your vaccine.

tldr; The pandemic is over, and I was sick of it long before it ended. :)

I have no idea what motivates them. I wore a mask and worked a staggered schedule to level the curve. We levelled the curve and averted a hospital crisis in Wisconsin. Then the bar moved to reducing infections. I didn't agree with that, but I understand it's like how it was hard to find a panel of electronics experts to say it was safe to use electronics in commercial aircraft below 10,000 feet, even though we knew it was almost certainly safe. Both my kids were in elementary school when this started. Now one kid goes two days a week to middle school, and hopefully the other one starts middle school in person next fall. That's a lot of time when you're kid!

This past winter my wife staggered her staff to have only one person in the office at any one time, with everyone working from home. We had propane heaters in the dead of winter to do signings in the garage with the door open.

I got my first Pfizer shot in Feb. I started working more in the lab; I hate working from home. My older kid stepped up; we sent our 10-y/o kid to a camp that practices reasonable precautions. Staggering work schedules is the pits. My 12 y/o will get his rona shot in the next few weeks. This crap is over! Tonight my wife took our 10-y/o to one of those jump playlands for the first time since the winter of 2019-2020.

I'm happy to wear a mask if someone around me has a concern, but it's time for normal life to return. I want tech lunches and happy hours with no mask requirement. I want the library open. I don't remember what's it's like to go to UU services (church for atheists with kids :) ), but I don't see why we're not open.

I don't get this mask thing. I don't want to club them over the head. I want to know why on earth we can't accept this risk as we accept car accidents, as we accept the long-term costs from cars in the form of global warming.

My colleagues are reasonable, working together in the lab, happily wearing masks if there's a reason, but mostly taking care of business. It feels like the rest of the world, though, is like the engineers afraid to be the one to sign off on a big decision.

So it's ok to go without a mask if you agree (under threat) to sacrifice your health for Big Pharma.