Mixed messages on COVID suck

[royable]

4. I don't have to act like everyone else. Almost every I do in public now is mask-optional

and very few people wear them. But as for me, I've got my trusty N95 strapped tightly to my face.

I haven't gotten COVID yet (crosses fingers, knocks on wood) or even had a cold since COVID hit in early 2020, most likely due to my wearing an N95 when out in public anywhere, and lots of hand washing and trying to curb the habit of touching my face and eyes.

Yes, I luckily don't (ordinarily) have to hang out in close quarters with the coughing, sniffling unmasked masses, but it seems that what I've been doing has helped, considering how often I'd get colds before that.

I don't care at all if I'm the only masked person in a crowd, and on the very rare occasions over the past almost-three years I've been asked why I'm wearing a mask, I patiently explain that it's for their health as well as my own.

(Then I proceed to lower my mask and cough all over them... Joke.)