I am talking about generally being outside, not popping in and out of businesses and even there I find most remove them when they leave one place and put back on to enter another one.

Or you're being courteous to others who take this pandemic seriously. As someone involved in medicine and know folks with family vulnerable to COVID, I will wear a mask to prevent spreading the virus ( if I have it asymptomatically) and to help people psychologically. If I'm alone outside or with friends, I won't wear one, but I would have one handy just in case we encounter strangers.

Politics are the last thing I would think when it comes to something that's a public health issue. COVID could care less if someone's a Democrat or Republican.

COVID has cut out certain activities like sporting events, museums, restaurants, etc. but it's no big deal. It's just changed the types of activities I engage in. It has put things in a holding pattern though. Making long term decisions is harder when so much is up in the air still.

You're in medicine so expectations/ optics on your part are different than the general population who is not obligated to alter lifestyles to placate irrational fears...if they are vaccinated.

Meanwhile, in SF. Zuck would be proud.

https://twitter.com/VivekJainMD/stat...468525056?s=20

but most of the time you're outside is because you're walking in between places... obviously if you're just taking a stroll for the sake of it that's different.

So regarding the wearing of the mask after being vaccinated while outdoors....

It’s not that I have a problem with you wearing it.

It’s not that I think anybody has any right to stop you from wearing it.

It’s really just that....knowing the science (and most people don’t, they just use the word ‘science’ like a political buzzword) and being in healthcare and knowing the true harm..........

.....the people still insisting on masking in the above scenario are basically just sassy little whiny bitches at this point. I will be polite with them, probably never say a word to them, but...in my mind I will roll my eyes

But you're assuming they're wearing a mask for a reason you disagree with. This is the part I don't get. If you saw me with a mask on, your assumption would be wrong. You'd be rolling your eyes because you're making an incorrect assumption instead of minding your own business.

^ I believe in purely rational thinking.

I am minding my own business. But I’m also a human being, so of course I chuckle to myself at the dumb shits who still are masking outdoors despite being vaccinated.

And how about that....after a year of wanting mandates that force people to shut down their businesses and alter their lives, now YOU are telling people “Mind your own BEESWAX”

But you can't evaluate another person's reasoning if you don't understand it. You think person X is doing action A because of reason B. But person X is doing action A because of reason C. So you're chuckling because you think person X is doing it because of reason B, but in reality you just didn't understand why they're doing it. It's a classic assumption hazard scenario.

^ Person A isn’t doing it for any rational reason (which is all that I care about).

Hence they are by default doing it for something emotional, political, or something of that sort.

I'm noticing things are quickly exploding here in Chicago. I had to try 10 restaurants tonight in the West Loop just to find an open spot I could grab some food and a drink or two.....

The amount of energy in the city is increasing day-over-day, and super amazing to see unfold. Maybe it's the weather, or maybe it's the pandemic ending, or maybe it's both.

Also noticing the amount of mask wearing I am seeing is going down a bit one day at a time.

I think they do. No one here has ever worn a mask outside, and even the people I know who wear them in New York are doing so just to not have to deal with some Karen shouting at them.

There has never been any actual public health benefit to wearing a mask outside in 95% of situations (only exceptions being when you are actually shoulder to shoulder with people on a train platform or something, but with social distancing it’s pointless). It has always been about virtue signalling. Look at me, I’m wearing my mask.

No. I think it's pretty universal here in the US. These are the same people who lamented those refusing to wear masks/ get vaccinated as ignoring the science but now they are doing the same by insisting they and everyone else should continue to wear them despite the CDC's new recommendations. It's political theater, not science.

I've been in New York for the entirety of the pandemic. I have never seen a single person make issue out of someone not wearing a mask outside.

I still don't get it, this entire time the anti-maskers wanted the personal choice to not wear it and to have this choice in general. Now that they do have this choice (if vaccinated) they are furious at those making the choice to still wear it (without knowing why). They finally got one of the things that they wanted and they are angry at people for acting on it. WTF
These people only followed the science the day after the CDC said it was, since they confirm the science for the American population. They were anti-science when they didn't like the CDC's guidance, essentially.

^ No one is complaining about anyone wearing masks by choice. I’m complaining about people who think they have the right to tell another person that they should be wearing one, especially outside. But personally I have no problem telling an old lady to go fuck herself in that scenario.

And I’ve had a friend tell me they were scolded by some middle aged woman (i.e., Karen) for running without one in Prospect Park.

Did they yell back or be a chump and take it? Do they look like an anti-vaxxer? If they look like an anti-vaxxer it's acceptable, same as it's acceptable for you to yell at people for wearing a mask.

What are you talking about? Plenty of comments even on this thread (just go back a page and look at Urban Politician) complaining about people choosing to wear a mask. Who really gives a shit. I cannot believe all this anger about having to wear a mask, anger about people not wearing a mask and anger about people wearing a mask. Really? And that is pretty brazen of this "karen" if anybody approached me about wearing or not wearing a mask outside they're going to be sorry. If a mask is required indoors I will wear it and if not I won't.

Yeah, I don't buy it. I was just in Prospect Park this morning and saw maybe two or three masks out of hundreds of people there exercising.