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KodyKeir posted...

And mask wearing, as you can still spread the virus if you have received both your shots. (Get ready for your third)

Eh, there's some room for debate there. Delta seems pretty decent at being transmitted despite vaccinations, but they nonetheless reduce that risk. Hence the CDC's announcement that fully-vaxxed folks don't need masks. Announcing that was ill-advised and hopelessly naive, but the conclusion that vaccinated people don't represent a major transmission risk is sound.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

for most of last year I got notifications a couple times a month saying someone at my site had tested positive. about once a month this year.

never caught it.

Okay? That doesn't mean you magically have a low chance of catching it, it just means the risk you do have wasn't realized. That risk was likely fairly low, but that's not so much because you're magically less likely to be infected for inherent personal reasons as because the exposure you did have to those positive people wasn't particularly high-risk, and most of that depends on countermeasures (distancing, masks, cleaning workstations...) that will ideally be lifted someday.

Reigning_King posted...

itp: low population density areas don't exist

Relatively sparse areas often have lower case counts, obviously, but without vaccinations, that's very much not something. It only takes one infected tourist to start a cluster, and if people aren't practicing countermeasures to prevent that cluster from growing (which is not something we want to rely on indefinitely) and the area isn't anywhere close to achieving herd immunity, it's going to grow.

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