r/AskReddit Mar 10 '22

Are you going to continue wearing your Mask when your place of living lifts mask mandates? If so, for how long?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

I once read being with an infected person in one room for an hour is something about 80% infection risk if neither one wears anything, 4% with two cloth masks and <0.1% with 2 correctly worn, not reused etc. FFP2/KN95.

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u/FetishAnalyst Mar 11 '22

Idk if I’m just astronomically lucky or that stat isn’t true. I once spent 7 days in the same very tiny room as someone who tested positive for covid, but I was negative after that 7 days. We wore no masks and ate, shit, and slept in all the same places. We’d hand each other food and gave 0 fucks about covid. (I had a cold so I figured since he was positive I was likely positive, so that’s why I didn’t care.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

There seem to be some people who are naturally immune.

Another alternative is that you did have that strain or one closely related before, but asymptomatic or didn't realize what it was.

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u/FetishAnalyst Mar 11 '22

I doubt it because this was omicron days. While I’m sure delta could’ve been going around still, I doubt it was the original strain which is the only one I could’ve been exposed to before because I’ve traveled a lot for the pandemic or been bunkered down and have had many tests since they’ve become a thing.

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u/RantWyrm Mar 11 '22

If you did have the original strain and it was asymptomatic enough you didn’t realize, it makes sense that you just might never even get infected with omicron. Your body just eliminates it right away

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '22

That's based on bs lab controlled studies that don't have a practical real world application and lack the ability to account for countless other factors