Should you wear your muzzle? 😷

Now that muzzles aren’t required in a lot of places like stores, should you wear it regardless? I don’t know, that’s a personal preference based on your assessment of risk. You could argue it should have been that way throughout winter, especially for vaccinated individuals.

I know for the time being, I’ll probably wear my muzzle for grocery shopping but maybe it will depend when I run in to get milk at Stewart’s or run inside at a gas station. For now they are still requiring muzzles at work when one is away from their desk, but I expect at least for quite a bit longer I’ll wear my muzzle in the elevator even if it’s not required. Regardless I’ll need my muzzle to ride the bus, so it makes sense to wear in the elevator.

It seems like the muzzles helped a lot pre-vaccination but nowadays with Omnicron, I’m not sure how effective muzzles really are. Relatively few people outside of New York wore muzzles during the past winter. There has been a lot of promotion of those disposable N95 masks as being better but honestly I don’t think it matters that much. I know a handful of people who have gotten a break through case of COVID-19 post vaccination haven’t gotten real sick. Most of the people I’ve known who got real sick from COVID-19 skipped on the vaccination – sucks to be them, choosing to do it the hard way.