I cannot speak for your situation, obviously, but I'm at higher risk for bad Covid outcome (recent lung damage from other infection, uncontrolled asthma, rheumatological damage), and I've started attending twice-monthly choir events in a singing mask where others are unmasked. I'm up-to-date on Covid vaccines, and, honestly, the mask is …
I cannot speak for your situation, obviously, but I'm at higher risk for bad Covid outcome (recent lung damage from other infection, uncontrolled asthma, rheumatological damage), and I've started attending twice-monthly choir events in a singing mask where others are unmasked. I'm up-to-date on Covid vaccines, and, honestly, the mask is as much for others' protection as my own. My young school-age children mean I could be carrying respiratory germs pretty much at any time, and other participants in these events are quite frail themselves!
I'm aware that some are at much higher risk of bad Covid outcome than someone like me. My choice may not be appropriate for others at greater risk.
I will say that, if you sing in a mask, you want a fairly roomy one, and it'll likely be impractical to have a tight seal. The typical singing mask seems to have a boxy duck-bill shape (think of a duck bill that's halfway open), and disposable masks of that shape are prohibitively expensive for me. So I use cloth singing masks. I figure that cloth masks at least baffle my respiratory spray if I'm contagious (and I might be) and give a place other than my mucous membranes for others' large droplets (with their potentially-higher viral payload) to land.
I cannot speak for your situation, obviously, but I'm at higher risk for bad Covid outcome (recent lung damage from other infection, uncontrolled asthma, rheumatological damage), and I've started attending twice-monthly choir events in a singing mask where others are unmasked. I'm up-to-date on Covid vaccines, and, honestly, the mask is as much for others' protection as my own. My young school-age children mean I could be carrying respiratory germs pretty much at any time, and other participants in these events are quite frail themselves!
I'm aware that some are at much higher risk of bad Covid outcome than someone like me. My choice may not be appropriate for others at greater risk.
I will say that, if you sing in a mask, you want a fairly roomy one, and it'll likely be impractical to have a tight seal. The typical singing mask seems to have a boxy duck-bill shape (think of a duck bill that's halfway open), and disposable masks of that shape are prohibitively expensive for me. So I use cloth singing masks. I figure that cloth masks at least baffle my respiratory spray if I'm contagious (and I might be) and give a place other than my mucous membranes for others' large droplets (with their potentially-higher viral payload) to land.