Chuckanut
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I’m not sure how California is going to respond to the latest CDC guidelines. We have been wearing masks inside stores for a year now. If we remove the mandate, each store will have to decide what policy to set for their business. That puts us back to where we were at the beginning of the pandemic, when masks were not mandatory and each store had to come up with their own policy, alienating at least some customers regardless of which position they took.
It seems that the vaccines are good enough to protect the vaccinated from getting Covid, or at least a severe case of it. So going unmasked into a store full of unmasked people is now no more risky than doing the same thing in the middle of a pre-Covid flu season.
Unvaccinated people are rolling the dice. My guess is that once they see somebody they actually know well, who suffers and maybe dies from the disease, they will change their minds. Eventually, non vaccinated people will be like smokers - a small group of people who choose differently from the vast majority. (I will make an exception for those who smoke the occasional pipe or cigar. )
It is regrettable that much of the initial Covid advice was wrong and/or badly communicated. I think we are getting past that, though not completely yet. Some 'experts' seem to be getting it right more often than not these days. I've tracked the predictions of several well known 'experts'. Some (like Gottlieb) seem to be consistently on the mark. Others (names withheld) predicted tragedies such as a USA Covid hurricane in April. It's their shtick. And their shtick doesn't seem to allow for any joy in the populace.
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