CDC: Fully Vaccinated People No Longer Have to Mask, Social Distance

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The CDC has announced that fully vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks, indoors or outdoors, or socially distance, with just a few exceptions. If you are traveling or using public transportation, you will still need to wear a mask and distance, and you will still need to follow any local mask mandates.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/health/cdc-mask-guidance-vaccinated/index.html

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Paxiled

I believe that if you travel you have to wear a mask, not should wear one. The CDC issues guidelines, not rules, so your rules are still whatever your local jurisdiction requires, and anyplace you go has the right to refuse service to you if they have a mask rule. There's a lot of controversy about this guidance as it seems to contradict pretty recent info, so let's all hold our breath a bit. No vaccine is 100% effective, and some are much less protective than others. A fair number of vaccinated people have still gotten covid. The main thing is, they don't seem to be getting very sick with a few exceptions and are also not passing the disease on, so the vaccines are working, but most people are still not vaccinated and the rest of the world is far behind the wealthiest few countries and variants are still arising. I personally feel this guidance was issued to encourage everyone to get vaccinated, and if it works for that, terrific. But I'm not sure it actually changes our reality any. Peace.

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