Loftwings and Demons

I don't think masking is overall as necessary outdoors unless someone thinks it's likely they'll be in a large crowd, but for various reasons I don't go outdoors without masking up.  I joke about being neurotic but there are also practical considerations in my case that I think make it more important than it might be for the average person.  

But in general, being outdoors considerably lowers transmission risk for airborne diseases like covid.  This is because virus particles have much more air to disperse through and it's generally much easier to physically distance yourself from other people. I'm also fully vaccinated and have had a booster shot, but my understanding is that even that doesn't prevent people from getting covid or getting long covid, it just reduces the likelihood of severe adverse effects like hospitalization and death.  So I still take full precautions, both because I don't want to catch covid and inadvertently pass it to someone else and because I'm worried about the possibility of adverse effects even with the vaccine (especially long covid which doesn't yet seem to be well understood).

Personally, I've continued to take the maximal possible precautions for covid-19 that I'm capable of despite being fully vaccinated.  In particular, this means I typically double mask and wear a face shield whenever I leave my home as well as employ physical distancing from other people, and avoid all unnecessary trips inside public buildings and transit.  The last is especially important as lack of adequate ventilation is one of the biggest risk factors for covid-19, and it's one that's largely outside of my control as an individual.

I get all my necessities delivered or mailed to me (though I avoid those services that deliver from restaurants and grocery stores due to how much they exploit their workers and how expensive they are).  I rely primarily on produce and pantry foods now as a result, though I can get the occassional refrigerated good ice-packed and delivered to me. I check out ebooks from the library.  While I go out regularly now, it's only to outdoor spaces like parks. 

I don't really even miss things like eating in restaurants anymore, though I wouldn't be opposed to if I felt it was safe again.  Though I have no idea when I'll think it's safe again.  I'm glad I have the added protection of being fully vaccinated, but given that one or more vaccines are known to be slightly less effective at preventing people from catching the Delta variant of covid-19 and we don't yet know how long immunity from the vaccine lasts even for the original version of the virus, I don't think it's a bad idea to be cautious.  I'd rather be overly cautious than not cautious enough.