Today I didn't know I needed to wear a mask and nearly made myself have a heart attack. [I Social Anxiety]

We just got out of a three day lockdown and I assumed that we no longer needed to wear masks. I don't watch the news because it makes me feel sad so this one is on me. I was the only one not wearing mask and I felt 100x worse than I usually do. Everyday when I go out I feel like people are looking at me and judging every little thing about me. Today it was a reality and I felt something coming on like an anxiety attack. I felt like a bad person and that I deserved punishment. I will never forget this day, never. The looks on their faces and the gossiping, I'm scarred with that for the rest of my life.

Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

What people forget is though there are 90 something million Americans who are fully vaccinated, there will be just under 5 million of them who the vaccine does not work on. They don't know who they are neither does anyone else. They can easily pick up this more transmissible version of the virus and give it unknowingly to a bunch of people.