# Continuing to keep masking for your own reasons

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [May 11, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-to-keep-masking-for-your-own-reasons/941850 "2021-05-11T16:32:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-to-keep-masking-for-your-own-reasons/941850/18 "2021-05-11T18:03:26Z")

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I thought your vaccine protects you from catching it, but doesn’t keep you from spreading it if you’ve been unknowingly exposed. You don’t manifest symptoms and you don’t get sick, but, without a mask couldn’t YOU be the spreader regardless?

So I thought you’d still want to wear your mask to protect the unvaccinated.

Am I wrong?

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