No the biggest justifiable reason is still covid lol. High risk due to disabilities and age is super common; even in tech not nearly everyone is young and healthy.
Strong disagree here. Unless you and all of the occupants of your domicile are still maintaining strict isolation protocols, office work is no more of a risk factor for COVID than going grocery shopping, visiting family, or your children going to school or playing with their friends. No one is stopping you from wearing a mask at work and frequently sanitizing everything.
I trust the people in the office to not come in if they're sick.
I don't trust all the people I meet in the train and subway to do the same. A mask does mitigate it, but not to the levels when everyone was wearing one.
"If you can't do everything you should do nothing" never was a reasonable guideline and still isn't. Risk isn't binary, reducing one risk vector even if you can't remove all others is still valuable.
You must be past retirement age for Covid to be a risk factor more than flu is (especially well vaccinated), so it might not be the strongest argument anymore. I myself strictly mask up in cases where folks have traveled and have never tested positive, but I don’t think it’ll be easy to convince others that they should take this as seriously as I do.
> I know many people under 50 who were vaccinated who lost smell or taste for most of a year, or had other cognitive dysfunction for weeks afterwar
I am not going to take your word for this, lol. Personally, I know many people who weren't vaccinated who have cognitive dysfunction - and unvaccinated people who also experienced death.
