vaccine.
So as a public health advisory their best practice is to get vaccinated now.
They've also said that the risk of catching COVID is still there, though greatly reduced
Which is a non zero risk - as no vaccine is fool proof
Because no vaccines are fool proof wearing a mask is still very helpful in:
- not catching it when you're already vaccinated
- by not catching it, not spreading it to those that aren't vaccinated (most kids)
- catching other infectious diseases


But in addition to that outside of the CDC let's take into consideration:
- adjusting, Jesus Christ we've been wearing masks in near most settings for over a year now, allow people time to adjust to comfort
- solidarity with what people have been through for the last year, there's a huge stigma now associated with unmasked people, you're not going to automatically look at someone and assume they have a vaccine, you're going to think the same thing you thought about them last week
- the variants that exist now, and the ones that will come.


You don't have to know better than the CDC to take best practices and incorporate what fits into your life. And also, the CDC is health science and making health science statements, what they're not is anthropologists or sociologists ... and all in all this pandemic, this virus, these masks are bigger than a health issue ... it's been a huge fissure in our country. Changing mask guidance to affect the spread isn't going to change what masking or not became.