Worse thing about a face mask!

Advantage: I don't have to remember to check for those pesky stray chin hairs to pluck before going out in public.

Roy- this video is a really good visual of how well a mask works. Yes, some vapor goes through it, but the mask blocks most of it and keeps it from travelling very far.

https://www.reddit.com/r/saskatoon/comments/js86wj/use_saskatoons_cold_air_to_show_how_masks_work/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Vaccines do not necessarily eradicate a virus. Some viruses eventually weaken and may disappear over time. I read that polio, while there are still isolated incidents of it in some parts of the world, actually largely disappeared all over the world at the same time, regardless of whether there were mass vaccination programs in those countries, or not.

What vaccines do is save millions of lives until such time as a virus peters out or so many people are vaccinated that it ceases to be a deadly threat. Some viruses never peter out, like the common cold or influenza. But there are different categories of viruses that behave differently. Covid is not in the same category of viruses as influenza and the common cold. So hopefully, maybe it will mutate into something that is simply a stay at home for a few days feeling lousy disease.

I have a friend who has been in a wheelchair since she was 4 years old. She contracted polio during the 50's polio epidemic before the vaccine was available. She could have lived a normal life had she had the opportunity to get a vaccine.

BTW, the Omicron variant is not "going after vaccinated people". That's a really ignorant statement. It is going after everyone, vaccinated or not- it seems to be capable of breaking through the vaccination, as are all the variants, but the vaccinated are much less likely to contract it, if you actually read the science instead of whatever right wing bs you read.

"However, for unvaccinated people, the symptoms are worse and many are ending up in hospital. Dr Coetzee said that in South Africa, “on a hospital level… between 88% to 90% (of people) are unvaccinated.”

Meanwhile in the UK, former vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said Omicron will be especially devastating for the unvaxxed. “The variant is so infectious, it will seek [unvaccinated people] out”."