Masks are not required here but because of this thread (and other PC threads I used to view) and because of what is happening in my community, I wore a mask when I went grocery shopping yesterday and at church on Sunday. Most of the people in church and most of the cashiers at the grocery stores I shopped at were not wearing a mask. Hopefully they were vaccinated or have natural antibodies. I don't want to go back to never going out of my house like before (online church and grocery deliveries) so I feel like masking is the best compromise. I pray that our communities make it through this new wave. When I attended a church across town (my son agreed to meet me there ), one of the members said that her brother and wife (in their 60s--never got vaccinated) recently died of COVID and their son (in his 40s) was hospitalized recently but survived. COVID is real.