{"id":1479,"date":"2021-07-12T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2021-07-12T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:54:04","slug":"upcoming-family-reunion-should-i-wear-a-mask-since-many-attendees-dont-believe-in-masks-or-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming family reunion: Should I wear a mask since many attendees don&#8217;t believe in masks or vaccines?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0In anticipation of a big family gathering in a state with a lot of non-vaxxers (including members of my family!) and a high occurrence of the new variants, how cautious should we be? \u00a0Should those of us who are vaccinated be wearing masks, given the \u201cothers\u201d who don\u2019t believe in masks OR vaxxes? \u00a0How at risk are all of us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0While vaccinations\u00a0are highly effective, they are not 100% effective.\u00a0I think you are right to be concerned\u00a0about being in a big gathering with a lot of unvaccinated individuals who\u00a0will not themselves be wearing masks.\u00a0 If it were me, I&#8217;d wear a mask in indoor settings. I would likely forgo the mask in outdoor settings, unless the setting was very crowded or an unvaccinated cousin was a close talker. \ud83d\ude42 Remember, it&#8217;s the 3Cs&#8211; crowded places, close contact settings, closed spaces&#8211; that carry the most risk of transmission.\u00a0 Again, your risk as a vaccinated individual of contracting COVID is minimal, but in the situation you&#8217;ve described, I&#8217;d take precautions to further\u00a0protect myself, including by wearing a mask.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0In anticipation of a big family gathering in a state with a lot of non-vaxxers (including members of my family!) and a high occurrence of the new variants, how cautious should we be? \u00a0Should those of us who are vaccinated be wearing masks, given the \u201cothers\u201d who don\u2019t believe in masks OR vaxxes? \u00a0How at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,100,60,17,64],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-masks","category-risk","category-risk-reduction","category-vaccines","tag-3cs","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-photo-3957989.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}