@keks partially masking, in particular in crowded/badly ventilated places as you probably did, massively reduces the overall intake of pathogens. Congrats!
I regularly got #FOSDEM flu and/or #Chaosseuche and... nothing... since I started masking there.
In fairness, I did catch #COVID at #KubeCon #Japan, but I was next to two coworkers who I knew were sickly for several days in a badly ventilated venue. I was stupid, and I learned from it.
@RichiHRichard "RichiH" Hartmann @keks selectively masking is an underrated superpower. People treat masking like an all-or-nothing binary choice. Like you take off your mask for one second and you're f*cked.
But that's not the case at all. Every bit helps, obviously. But at the end of the day it's a game of probabilities and viral load and you get to stack the cards very much in your favour.
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