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Apple Drops Mask Requirement for Corporate Workers at 'Most Locations'
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I can only speak for our demographics here in the US, but our baseline metabolic health is so poor, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost were overwhelmingly elderly and metabolically sick. These same demographics are high risk with influenza. And I also agree, SARS-CoV2 causes more than respiratory illness, but what has killed people and landed most in the ICU is lung failure, not neurological or otherwise causes, although those do contribute significantly to the morbidity of the disease.
However, the Apple Studio Display firmware engineers have elected to wear their masks until they figure out how to fix their problem-plagued displays.
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I get to participate in my employer sponsored health plan. I make choices regarding my employment with these benefits in mind. I get to save more of my money, invest more of my money, pay less taxes, and have access to the world’s leading healthcare while paying a nominal fee.
It’s not a perfect system. People will fail. But almost no one can say they weren’t given an opportunity to succeed.
Covid still is a big problem.
Society just stopped caring about 100-500 covid deaths a day.
That's not true. Wearing a mask does not protect against an infected colleague. The mask protects others around you if you are sick.
Most of that is theatre, though droplet spread in someone actively showing symptoms may have a marginal effect. But mask mandates include people who don’t show any symptoms. There’s no evidence they do any good, or that wearing a mask protects the individual.
So you admit all your “evidence” is anecdotal. I’ve been “exposed“ to people who have come down with symptoms and haven’t gotten sick either.
How can anyone possibly even remotely care about this still? It's over, go home. 
"Society just stopped caring about 100-500 covid deaths a day."How can anyone possibly even remotely care about this still? It's over, go home.
It's nonsense to say that no one is thinking about COVID. First of all, the word "COVID" is plastered all over the UK local news. Second, the people who are thinking most about COVID these days (in UK or anywhere else) are typically the elderly and immunocompromised, including cancer patients. The reason is that the vaccines do not necessarily protect them - it's not simply an issue of having better healthcare coverage.
Yeah that sounds almost alright for a select few, until your employer decides you’re redundant or the market shifts and suddenly employers don’t need to offer medical to attract and retain top talent. And then meanwhile all the folks who can’t access affordable health care are, aside from suffering, creating strain on the economy, tearing apart families, destroying bright futures, adding to the homeless population, the negative impacts on your cherry life go on and on but hey: lower taxes feel pretty sweet when you look at your pay stub, so totally worth the collateral damage.
Amazing, they are finally realizing you cannot outrun a pandemic and continuing to mask indefinitely is not sustainable
This is the way to go. The virus isn't going anywhere and we can't be expected to wear these things forever.
Stay home if you're sick. Wear a mask if you absolutely must go out when sick. That's it.
Mandates drive a wedge between us in an already far too divided society. And I say this as a fully vaccinated, very liberal person.
Stay home if you're sick. Wear a mask if you absolutely must go out when sick. That's it.
Mandates drive a wedge between us in an already far too divided society. And I say this as a fully vaccinated, very liberal person.
Why should we take medical advice from a nobody on the internet?
You're not a doctor or medical professional. Why are you making these claims?
My comment did not make a judgment on the efficacy of mask use. Only that it should be up to each individual to do whatever they feel is best to maintain their health, and allow others to do the same.
In the US, the need to work no matter one's state of health, is a problem for a multitude of reasons. But if you have a sick individual in the office or at your workplace, it is technically the responsibility of management to dismiss them for the day, or until they get better. But this is veering off-topic.
I am still going to wear mine, too many close calls at work with colleagues testing positive.
They did show symptoms of Covid, got tested and came out Positive.
Well, you believe what you want to believe. I've seen people who thought like you until they were gasping for air in a hospital bed. But if you don't wear a mask, stay away from me.
Unfortunately, communicable diseases don’t quite work that way.
Don't want to catch the cold your coworker has? Do what you can to avoid catching it. That's on you.
But ask yourself, why is your coworker at work while sick? Why aren't they taking sick leave? That's where you should be directing your energy: at the regulations in place that allow a sick worker to be on the job, rather than being told to stay home until they get better.
Covid is in fact just a respiratory virus. It was, however, novel at the time. It is quite certain with all the immunity in the population, now just a respiratory virus.
Well, this pandemic is a giant IQ test.. but as we see in this thread, the world nowadays consists of many selfish *******s.
Surprised we are allowed to comment on this story. Happy to see people finally waking to up what I’ve been saying since April 2020.