I am seeing more people in stores wearing masks

[edhopper]

and I am wondering if the maskholes now worry if they are seen without a mask, people will assume they are vaccinated.
And God forbid anyone confuse them with rational people.

[Baltimike]

1. I am fully vaxxed and still wear a mask, but not two like I was before my vaccine

I do it just so others can be comfortable, and to help mitigate things in the event there is a variant

[Deuxcents]

3. Me, too.

I have no problem wearing my mask. I’ve had pneumonia n this year was flu free. I’ll wear it until I feel comfortable..until whenever that is!

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. I wear one so others don't think I'm a republican.

Fully vaxxed here.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. I Expect To Be Wearing One Indoors Through At Least October

Probably longer, depending upon the circumstances, and where I am.

[StClone]

4. It is about 60%+ now masked yet here in Central WI.

I wear a mask but am really getting comfortable about the idea we are close to going without: I am vaccinated, as I am for Small Pox, Polio, etc.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Dramatically fewer in NE Ohio.

Prior to the CDC announcement - about 95% were wearing masks indoors in most of the stores I patronized. Same stores now - fewer than 50%.

[GulfCoast66]

6. Maybe 50% here. Was 100% 3 months ago.

Our county is over half vaccinated with at least one dose. One of the best in Florida.

I no longer wear mine unless requested. I carefully followed the Medical recommendations, as did the wife and it kept us safe. Figured I’d keep doing the same now that we are fully vaccinated. But I’m cool with people doing what they want.

I’ll probably wear mine in crowded places if we have a bad flu season this winter.

[tishaLA]

7. Our relaxed guidelines for masks take effect June 15 in Los Angeles

but when I'm out walking on the street, I like to wear it chin-strap style because I'm vaccinated, etc. but I always feel guilty because in my neighborhood ~98% of the people are still fully and correctly masked, so I bow to peer pressure and pull it up

[totodeinhere]

13. Why would there be peer pressure for a fully vaccinated person to wear a mask?

That doesn't make any sense. The CDC said we don't need masks in most places if we are fully vaccinated.

[Mariana]

9. They're scared that the vaccinated people will give them cooties.

Yes indeed. They imagine we're "shedding" some mysterious bad stuff and they're terrified of it.

[maxsolomon]

10. I'm seeing Seattle finally relax and stop masking outdoors.

Still 99% masked in Costco.

My fully vaxxed neighbor is still wearing a serious N95 mask driving her car by herself down our empty street. She's taking it a bit too far.

[GulfCoast66]

11. That's her call. No criticism from me.

I don’t wear mine much anymore, but I’m not going to criticize those that that do.

[maxsolomon]

16. the 2 recent NYT articles on the CDC outdoor-transmission risk changed my perspective.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/briefing/CDC-outdoor-covid-risks-guidelines.html

the CDC originally said that there was a "less than a 10% chance" of transmission outdoors. 1 in 10 is a really high risk, and we all masked just walking around the neighborhood and parks, socially-distanced from everyone. turns out, the risk was less than 0.1% outdoors. a hundredfold less.

so sure, she can do anything she wants; it's a free country. if she isn't comfortable with ANY risk, even 0.1%, she's like many Americans.

[totodeinhere]

12. I am following CDC guidelines and not wearing a mask in most situations.

I think it's hypocritical to go around criticizing science deniers on the right, then when it is not convenient for us we too deny science. Science says that as a fully vaccinated person I am safe without a mask in most situations.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. It's only about 50% in my part of SW Ohio now...

... when it was previously 100% at most places prior to the CDC announcement of May 13th, and Ohio later not mandating them in public.

[Meowmee]

15. Here the large majority are still masking where I shop

There are a few more without the past few days, some employees, but most patrons are masked. Doctors offices, hospitals etc. of course are still requiring masking and doing health screenings prior to and on the day of appointments regardless of vaccination status. I am happy about that.

We took my father to an appointment and they asked for his vaccination card which I had brought with me. He received his second pfizer shot this week and had another reaction. He had 101.3 fever after the first shot and is running in the 100.1 range this time. He is also having an exacerbation of his other covid and covid long hauler symptoms such as mental distress, weakness and confusion from his previous infection in January.

We will continue masking until infection numbers are greatly reduced and vaccination rates are hopefully much higher. Time will tell what will happen with the new policies when the fall comes and upsurges and variants may start to cause more problems. It will be hard to judge the number of breakthrough infection rates since the cdc decided to stop reporting all cases except for those requiring hospital stays and resulting in deaths. Breakthrough infection rates up until now were imo affected by the large majority of people still masking.