Residents vs. Tourists

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People just seem willfully ignorant. How are you one year into a once-in-100-years pandemic and not be bothered to understand how masks work, how Covid spreads indoors, etc?
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Have you bothered to look at the types of "masks" people are wearing and how they are wearing them? Why isn't everyone already dead if one needs to wear a mask to survive?

I think we have a lot of factors going for us. Geographic isolation, pre-travel testing, warm weather, open-air homes and activities...  Add masks (even poor ones) to that and you limit how far virus spreads. Most masks don't offer the wearer much protection anyway, but they protect other people and stop you from touching your face with contaminated fingers, etc. It's also been shown that smaller initial exposure (thanks to PPE, air flow, etc) leads to less deadly or asymptomatic cases. Finally, Covid's death rate was somewhere around 1%, so "everyone" was not going to die. But if your mother or beloved auntie or immune compromised friend was in that 1%, it's 1% too many. That's why we wear masks.

I do agree that lots of people still wear bad masks (like thin neck gaiters or handkerchiefs) and wear them poorly. They also apparently think you can't catch Covid when eating or drinking, like it's some kind of loophole. I guess the rest of us are protecting them, even if they are not returning the favor.