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1. Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie (geordie@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:49 JST Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

   They’re right but not for the reasons they think they are.

   • Adam ♿ (voltagex@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:40 JST Adam ♿

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     @geordie again, friends who were fully vaccinated (and also, what does fully vaccinated mean?) got very, very sick.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie (geordie@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:45 JST Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

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     • Adam ♿

     @voltagex so it’s a minimum. The only way to avoid Covid, the flu or etc. at conferences is not to go because a conference is the most contagious environment humans have. The best approach is to be vaccinated fully so getting it doesn’t matter.

   • Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie (geordie@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:46 JST Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

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     • Adam ♿

     @voltagex I’m in support of the option but not a mandate. They probably do a little bit to reduce the likelihood of getting a virus you should be vaxxed to the hilt against by now. The idea that a mask mandate is basic health and safety policy does violence to the idea of a health and safety policy.

   • Adam ♿ (voltagex@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:47 JST Adam ♿

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     @geordie OK good, that didn't need a vaguetweet though if you're in support of them.

   • Adam ♿ (voltagex@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:48 JST Adam ♿

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     @geordie would you care to elaborate?

   • Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie (geordie@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:26:48 JST Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

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     • Adam ♿

     @voltagex that is absolutely a bare minimum.

   • Mars Buttfield-Addison 🛰 (themartianlife@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 09:27:03 JST Mars Buttfield-Addison 🛰

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     • Adam ♿

     @voltagex @geordie 🙋♀️ 29F here with 36M husband. We’re both 5x vaxxed, did voluntary isolation well in excess of lockdowns, have avoided indoors and worn masks consistently for the duration of the pandemic.

     Still, my husband will have lifelong effects from the COVID he caught last year and the subsequent heart and lung damage it caused; just a few months ago, the hospital managed to intervene just in time to prevent a stroke. He’ll be on meds and managed lifestyle patterns for life.

     Acknowledging that vaccination is not a perfect defence is just science. Even if the difference from masking were “marginal” (it’s not), one would think people want to employ every measure available to them to keep the people around them safe.