Great explanation for why I continue to wear a mask, even though I'm fully vaccinated.

[Bleacher Creature]

This is exactly where I am right now, and it's from a Trump appointee of all people! That said, Gottlieb has been pretty good throughout the pandemic.

Link to tweet

[Budi]

1. Me too. & pollen

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. His position is absolutely irrefutable! Kudos, Scott Gottlieb. ♥

[DBoon]

3. We wear masks to make it acceptable for others to wear masks

[uponit7771]

4. "I make others feel less uncomfortable", unnnn ... don't know about that.

[samnsara]

5. same here. I even bought mask holders..like for glasses to hang around my neck..

..pretty jeweled ones. I will wear my mask into an establishment and ask them what their policy is..then I will make a decision to remove it or not. I think its just plain polite.

[Treefrog]

10. Where'd you get the pretty ones?

I have just a regular old black cord, but I’d like something with a bit more color!

[zipplewrath]

6. Etiquette

A long lost concept.

[Texaswitchy]

7. My last two weeks are up on Tuesday.

I still will wear my mask.

[liberal_mama]

8. When I went to the grocery store a few days ago, you could tell masked customers were much more

comfortable around other people with masks. They would avoid the unmasked people like they were scum and nod and say hello to other masked shoppers.

[Noodleboy13]

9. Oh I don't wear the mask for Covid.

I'm actually horrifically ugly. You should really think of trying it out.


I'm gonna miss carrying that one in my back pocket
(I'm actually more on the dapper "man-pretty" side of things)

peace,
Noodleboy

[ItsjustMe]

11. I am going to continue wearing a mask

But I am going to switch to these masks.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181516381

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. I am also still wearing a mask indoors

[radicalleft]

13. Nope...

Biden's own CDC and the Michigan governor have stated that if I am fully vaxxed, I'm good to go, so that is what I will do! If others are so easily upset, then stay home and let the rest of the world get back to normal!

[Hekate]

14. KnR

😷.

[Shrek]

15. Then we'll never be able to take them off

Because there's always going to be somebody who prefers to wear it, and apparently those sensibilities are the ones to follow.

[NickB79]

16. If you can get the shot, but choose not to, I don't want to make you comfortable

I want you as uncomfortable as possible, to exert peer pressure until you do get your shot. Because a mask is far less effective than the vaccine. It made sense to mask up when that's all we had, but with the results we've been seeing from the vaccine, it's not even close.

And I get that there are many people who can't get a vaccine due to medical conditions. A coworker and friend is one such person I know personally. It may be a year until his bone marrow transplant fully takes and he can get vaccinated, if ever.

But unless your doctor told you not to get it, you've got no excuse anymore. Vaccines are free and ubiquitous across the nation. My wife has been throwing away unused vaccine shots at work DAILY. After losing over 500,000 Americans and a year of our lives to this disease, this infuriates me.