I did some research on the picture and its the Democratic members of the Texas legislature fleeing Texas to prevent legislation what they believe will take away peoples voting rights (different subject we do not need to debate). given there political leanings its very likely they all have had the vaccine but your right Paul, the picture proves nothing as it is a snapshot taken out of context and we don't know if anybody came down with the virus afterword's.
A couple weeks ago my company had an event were may of us went to an SF Giants baseball game together. We met at a pub first where they have a private balcony reserved for us and there were about 20 of us, it was good to see may of my friends and coworkers in person for the first time since March of last year, if felt ok, it was outside and not too crowded and I trust that my coworkers have had the vaccine (we were told a photo of our vaccination card was required). At the game was a bit different, they do have different sections in the stadium, socially distanced ones for those without the vaccine and non socially distanced ones for those with the vaccine but they did not check our cards, we were in one of the latter and it felt really weird being around all these people where only a very few had masks on. But this is San Francisco, California has a higher vaccine rate than most of the country and the SF Bay area has a higher rate that most of California. My first time out in public at a big event and it felt very weird, I have been good all this time, trying to prevent myself catching it so I don't pass it on to my wife and her mom who has more than her share of health issues, it made me feel uncomfortable and I ended up leaving before the end of the game (along with a coworker I had car pooled with who was not into the game). Nothing bad happened, I have not heard of any outbreaks in the area linked to people going to baseball games, if we go to another I will probably feel safer.
The point I think of my story is not that you should always wear a mask, it depends on the context, have you had the vaccine? How likely is it that there are people there who have not had the vaccine who are not wearing masks.
What got me started in this conversation was Ben's statement:
Which as a statement has a grain of truth but is completely misleading, the vaccine will stop you getting and spreading the virus MOST of the time, but not all of the time. There are those with legitimate health issues that may make it unwise for them to get the vaccine, but everyone else should get it.The vaccine does not stop you getting COVID. The vaccine does not stop you spreading COVID.
Joe I am not going to say much about the wild conspiracy theory involving Dr Fauci and the Wuhan lab in 2014, but even if something happened at that lab that contributed to the virus's spread, it may be of interest for researchers trying to figure out how the outbreak started and how to prevent it in the future, but at this point, for us as civilians its irrelevant, the horse has left the barn and we need to do what we can to keep each other safe.