Editor,
It is too soon to discontinue indoor mask mandates. Have we learned nothing over the past two years? Irresponsible unvaccinated individuals will be the first to ditch their masks and willfully spread the still dangerous omicron variant to vulnerable individuals.
The vaccinated that go maskless can also be unwitting transmitters of the virus. Although vaccines are a powerful deterrent against developing severe disease, they are not a force field against infection. Without mask mandates,the opportunity for further spread by this highly transmissible virus could result in the emergence of other menacing variants.
Our understanding of omicron and its variants is far from complete. This is not the time for hypovigilance. Precipitously discontinuing these precautions seems reckless and short-sighted.
Adrienne Rothenberg
San Carlos
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(2) comments
Sorry, Ms. Rothenberg, but you have Dems ignoring their own mask mandates (to wit, Newsom, Breed, Garcetti, and see how many folks were ignoring masks at the Super Bowl) because they know what many of us have already known, that masks are just COVID theatre. Actually, instead of wearing ineffective masks, we should probably worry about where those billions of masks are being disposed. Perhaps we’ll have a giant floating mask-shaped garbage patch in the Pacific. Or maybe we can burn them to generate electricity.
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