"You don't need to wear that anymore," a friend stated confidently last month, pointing at my mask during a visit at her house. She has had her Covid-19 vaccine but mixes, unmasked, with both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

I have been called over-reactive, too covered up and way too scared.

The vaccine does not provide 100% protection. What's more anyone can carry or transmit the virus. Don't we have the right -- and the responsibility -- to wear a mask?

Given that there are so many unknowns about the Covid-19 virus, its constant new variants -- particularly the surging Delta variant -- and the staying power of the vaccine, many of us smart, vaccinated Americans wear the mask as an extra layer of protection.

We mask wearers are protecting more than just ourselves. We are protecting everyone else around us.

What about you guys?? Do you still wear your mask, even though you are vaccinated?