{"id":5170,"date":"2022-10-08T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2022-10-08T23:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:43:57","slug":"20221008-still-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2022\/10\/08\/20221008-still-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"20221008 Still masking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In New York and New Jersey in September, I was surprised by how many people were still masking. And not just indoors, but outdoors as well. It wasn’t a majority of the people, to be sure, but it was a decent proportion. On the PATH trains the majority of people wore coverings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in Oostzaan, masking is effectively at zero. I confess that I didn’t wear a mask when I went to pick up Fiona from Schiphol on Thursday. I forgot. I felt bad. I was masked up when I went shopping this afternoon, though, and for the first time in ages<\/em> someone threw a negative comment at me. “Trek toch dat mondkapje af,”<\/em> (“Just take off the mask”) a man said as he passed me in one aisle. I ignored him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, nah. The Dutch public health authorities have scaled way back on tracking and reporting. The dashboards<\/a> are only being updated a couple of times a week, and only selective parts of them. At least they acknowledge that “de najaarsgolf is begonnen.”<\/em> (The autumn wave has started.) The waste water analysis charts probably paint the most reliable overall picture right now, and it’s not exactly rosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still, my behaviour is different now than at earlier points along that chart. I may be taking more <\/em>risks now than before, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to take all<\/em> the risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In New York and New Jersey in September, I was surprised by how many people were still masking. And not just indoors, but outdoors as well. It wasn’t a majority of the people, to be sure, but it was a decent proportion. On the PATH trains the majority of people wore coverings. Here in Oostzaan, … <\/p>\n

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