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How are the popular N95s with glasses?

I’ve settled on classic nurse masks for now because they seal well around the nose and dont cause my glasses to fog.

If your glasses are fogging with an N95 then it definitely doesn’t fit properly.

given the hysteric reaction of the American public to mask mandates I don't want to know what happens if the government tells people to shave. It sure does smell of politics but not from the CDCs side, they just have to make guidelines under consideration of how the public reacts

Within 10 minutes you'd probably have discrimination claims from angry hipsters, barbershops and a dozen different religious groups or something.

I really don’t see the point unless you’re immune compromised or at some other high risk. Omicron is the evolutionary result you wait for, better at spreading and less health impact so it significantly outcompetes other variants (it has, something like 95% of infections). Peak omicron is coming withina master of days or already passed across the US. It’s virulence is such that you can only delay not expect to forever avoid or extinct the virus.

It’s time to admit defeat and plan for what that looks like and stop pretending like anything at this point is going to make this virus go away. It’s here, it’s going to kill about one person in a thousand of those left, and if you choose to not get vaccinated that’s your choice and if you’re not young you’re taking a significantly higher risk of death.

But unless you work in healthcare or care for the elderly you’re not going to do anything but slightly delay exposure to your neighbors because the new variant is so easily spread.

The moral issue is passed, the chance to save anyone but the most vulnerable is passed, and any efforts are only going to marginally delay the inevitable. You want to gamble and not get vaccinated, go for it.

People will be in denial about this for a long time and beating the morality drum for a long time, but in a hundred years a covid strain will still be around and people will be telling their children about how great grandpa got covid in 2020, like I just heard tell of my great grandfather getting the 1918 flu preparing to go out to WWI getting treated in a bed outside because there was no hospital space. That flu is still around this century and covid still will be next century.

Sorry, we lost, there are still going to be consequences but I can’t imagine anything changing regardless of what you do besides a matter of weeks of when you get exposed. Fauci said as much, that everyone being exposed was now more or less unavoidable.

If you disagree what long term changes do you think can be realistically achieved by doing anything whether or not it’s practical?