Originally Posted by
LesterOfPuppets
I never stopped masking indoors. Some reports say that the vaxxed can carry and spread, so best to mask up to stop the spread.
In some ways the vax is probably bad for the COVID situation. Whole lot of vaxxed just went out and partied like 1999 as soon as they got the jabs.
It's all about probability. Let's say you're 90% less likely to become infected if exposed to the same dose of virus, and 90% less likely to spread to others if infected. So, compared to someone unvaccinated in the same situation, your chances of becoming infected and spreading the infection would be 0.1 x 0.1, which means you're 100 times less likely to spread the disease, and the likelihood you'll spread it to someone vaccinated is another 10 times less. That's why CDC said vaxxed didn't need masks.
BUT it turns out the amount of virus of Delta-infected is 1000 times higher than earlier variants AND it's still high in asymptomatic, infected vaccinees. AND some places are full of idiots who are afraid of being magnetized or some damn thing,
so now we the vaccinate need to mask because of the idiots.