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Let's talk about masks. When and where do you wear them, if at all? Has that changed over the course of the pandemic? If so, what's changed?

I continue to wear masks indoors everywhere--in France it's still mandated inside any business or public space so nothing has changed. I can't believe the lax attitude in the US and it makes me glad I'm not there. I don't always wear a mask outside if I'm just meeting my friend for a walk or am out walking with family and we don't have any contact with anyone else. But I do wear the mask even outside if I'm in the town; most other people don't though. Last week I was invited to dinner and I went, though I struggled with myself about how to manage the mask issue: I ended up not wearing one because we were sat right away at the table with drinks and snacks and it was just a student apartment so there wasn't much other sitting space...I felt really uncomfortable the whole time. I won't do that again. Today we are invited to lunch, but it will be outside--I feel like I should still wear a mask because of the transmissibility of the delta variant--at least when we're not eating. It's hard to know what the best practice is.