I Wear Because I Care Currently, the CDC allows maskless activities for vaccinated individuals. However, I am of the camp that masks are an essential tool for curbing respiratory infection transmission, so I’ll be wearing one when interacting closely with anyone outside my vaccinated family pod.
Masks are useful and effective not only in decreasing transmission of respiratory illnesses, but they can also help individuals with asthma (by filtering triggering scents or fumes) and seasonal allergies (by filtering pollen).
Bottom line: We don’t know why any person is wearing a mask, and before COVID, it just wasn’t on the minds of the general American public.
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