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   David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 11:14:54 JST David McMullin

   • Ducky 🇨🇦

   Why am I still wearing a mask in 2025? For exactly the same reasons I wore it in 2021. Because nothing has changed.

   Except maybe the way people look at me. But funny looks don’t transmit viruses. Inhaled aerosolized particles do.

   From: @ducky
   https://mstdn.ca/@ducky/114094800072331423

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     David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 16:54:16 JST David McMullin

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     • *_jayrope

     @jrp
     Each time you get COVID, maybe nothing bad happens, and maybe you get permanent disabling fatigue or a heart attack or brain damage. The more times you roll the dice, the more the chance of a bad outcome. If I’m wrong, I will have worn a mask and been thought a weirdo for nothing. (That’s what I hope!) But if I’m right, 25 years from now I could be one of the only healthy people of my generation still around.

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     David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 16:54:17 JST David McMullin

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     • *_jayrope

     @jrp
     I used to follow the data and statistics closely but I don’t anymore, because even when the level of COVID transmission is relatively low, it’s not low enough for me to go around unprotected then come home to care for immunocompromised family members in their late 80s. Just in my own life I know multiple people who catch it more than once a year, and several times since the pandemic “ended.” That’s enough reason for me to keep wearing the mask.

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     *_jayrope (jrp@hub.kliklak.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 16:54:18 JST *_jayrope

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     @David McMullin I totally lost it on this one. What are the current Covid statistics in the US looking like, especially in comparison with april 2020 or slightly later?