# Your social comfort level once vaxed

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 31, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-social-comfort-level-once-vaxed/939087 "2021-03-31T13:09:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-social-comfort-level-once-vaxed/939087/155 "2021-05-10T14:48:40Z")

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As a sorta-counterpoint to my own post 4 posts ago, here’s me in a similar thread from just after my first Moderna. In which I take a more permissive tack.

While I believe I’m careful, I sure didn’t / don’t do the [hide indoors alone for a year seeing nobody and doing nothing in public] that so many Dopers seem to have embraced. I’m adjusting my post-vax behavior from a very different pre-vax baseline than those folks will (or won’t) be doing.

> [@How long will you continue to wear a mask when you’re fully vaccinated and immunized?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-you-continue-to-wear-a-mask-when-you-re-fully-vaccinated-and-immunized/937964/164):
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> This. There’s a lot more to social distancing than standing 6ft apart. IMO It’s mostly about minimizing any extended contact with other humans except a very small pod who all only interact with each other and with nobody else. I’m about like you. I wasn’t big on loud crowded places before COVID and I won’t be after COVID’s become just another background risk of life. Yesterday I was a patient at my dentist then wife & I had dinner at an outdoor restaurant with about half the tables occupi…

See also the post 2 down from this one for more (self-serving?) rationale.

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