Undoubtedly true, but I’m still curious.
I’m trying to think of a dumber response than this. I’m sure it exists, but that’s a real head-scratcher.
I’m still going to need to wear a mask at work unless they drop the requirement. Same at church. (Our church is tiny so masks make sense.) In town, I dunno. Depends on how crowded it is? And how quickly businesses drop the requirement?
Saw an article where a lady said she had saved a lot of money over the last year wearing masks because she didn’t wear lipstick with a mask. Though I didn’t realized lipstick cost that much.
And she was not looking forward to all the creepers telling her to smile because it would make her look prettier.
While I have seen a lot of women who can totally change their appearance with a smile, I never say it out loud.
So what percent of people will now be claiming they are vaccinated if proof is not required to go maskless?
I’m guessing as soon as Walmart drops the mask mandate around here, 99% of people will be maskless while less than 50% of people will be vaccinated according to the state figures.
Lipstick is usually the only makeup I wear, and I’ve missed it. I don’t tend to use it that quickly tho.
That’s about what I expect.
I did enjoy reading about Jake Tapper and Biden’s COVID tzar discussing why Biden continued wearing a mask in the press room since he is fully vaccinated and everyone else in the room is fully vaccinated.
Interesting spelling choice.
I mean, that’s their choice? The evidence is strongly in the ‘the US approved vaccines protect against illness and spread’ camp, so if they get sick, that’s on them. They aren’t very likely to get you sick; and if they do give you some of the virus, the odds of you spreading it are also very low.
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Yeah, I tend to throw lipstick out when it starts to smell bad, not when I’ve used it all up. But I’m an old married 
. I might go through it faster if I was a young party animal.
I don’t think I wore makeup when I was young. I can’t remember.
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I’m going out to dinner tonight, and going to a soccer match on Saturday including pregame tailgating with strangers.
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The issue would be spreading it to people who can’t be vaccinated.
Like you’re a jerk if you choose not to get the MMR because you could pass measles to an infant too young to be vaccinated. Or an immunocompromised individual.
So we require kids to be vaccinated to attend school. I think the question is whether it makes sense to apply a similar logic to Covid-19 and at what level? School only? School and work? Military? (They’re required to get a ton of vaccines, but I think all have FDA approval, not just EUA.)
My hair might not be quite that gray if I didn’t color it. I’m only in my 40s. But still…
I read an article a month or more ago about the low uptake of the vaccine among the military and how one Senator was suggesting that Biden waive the rule that the Military can require non-FDA approved vaccinations.
I assume FDA approval is in the works, no? Any idea on the ETA for real FDA approval? I have no clue… just wondering.
I wonder what it would do to recruitment to require the vaccine. It would probably make the military more attractive to some and less attractive to others but the latter group is probably larger. But how many in each group would change their minds re: signing up.
You give up so many rights when you join the military. Even if people didn’t want the vaccine, I doubt a lot would decide against military service over that.
This is my concern, too. And not just at Walmart, but pretty much everywhere. I doubt that masks make vaccinated people a lot safer for others than not-masks, but I’m cranky about this rule because the impact will be that infected vaccine-deniers will all stop wearing masks.
This is my thinking as well. Among the folks who would actually change their mind, the first group (people who would find the military more attractive) might actually be larger than the second.
I was in a serious long-term relationship with an Army officer for several years. There were a lot of other vaccines he had to have. Yellow fever, hepatitis A & B, meningitis, typhoid, anthrax, and probably a bunch of others that I’m not remembering. Adding Covid-19 would barely be noticeable.
Plus, of course, he had to have proof of, or get all the normal vaccines like MMR, polio, TDAP, etc.