Any word on the mask mandate in DC?

[Anonymous]

I saw the updates for MoCo, hoping there was similar good news for DC?

[Anonymous]

I wish. Last I saw, Bowser had denied a request from some local gyms to remove the mask mandate for certain classes if they verified vaccination status of all participants. I feel like they won't permit a group of people who have provided proof of vaccination to remove their masks indoors, the likelihood of lifting the mask mandate more broadly is pretty low. I feel like it will be spring at the earliest (after kids under 12 and under 5 have had a chance to get vaccinated, and when any winter surge fades).

[Anonymous]

LOL we will mask forever. The hysterics of a select few about delta, and their impact on DC policies, have shown this.

[Anonymous]

DC also has a sizable population that refuses to get vaccinated but are fine with masks. Yglesias has documents pretty well that Bowser is afraid of those voters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC also has a sizable population that refuses to get vaccinated but are fine with masks. Yglesias has documents pretty well that Bowser is afraid of those voters.

Can you link to something on this?

[Anonymous]

At some point people will simply stop wearing masks.

[Anonymous]

Wait a minute, and I'm sorry that I'm not paying attention to DC, but DC does not have any metrics as to when unmask? No endgame? So, what is DC working towards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute, and I'm sorry that I'm not paying attention to DC, but DC does not have any metrics as to when unmask? No endgame? So, what is DC working towards?

Bowser keeping her un-vaxxed constituents happy is all that matters. There are zero metrics. The basic set-up is to ignore the mandate in restaurants, half ass them in grocery stores and then play by the rules at a school or in a government building. It will be like this through the winter at least.

Where it really sucks is in gyms, where Bowser has refused to incorporate a vaccination requirement and instead sticks mask mandate, proving that her mandate has zero to do with science and is all about coddling the unvaccinated.

[Anonymous]

I honestly thought the masking was over in DC given what I saw on TV while watching the Capitals. Some see were masked, most were not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute, and I'm sorry that I'm not paying attention to DC, but DC does not have any metrics as to when unmask? No endgame? So, what is DC working towards?

Bowser keeping her un-vaxxed constituents happy is all that matters. There are zero metrics. The basic set-up is to ignore the mandate in restaurants, half ass them in grocery stores and then play by the rules at a school or in a government building. It will be like this through the winter at least.

Where it really sucks is in gyms, where Bowser has refused to incorporate a vaccination requirement and instead sticks mask mandate, proving that her mandate has zero to do with science and is all about coddling the unvaccinated.

They aren't even good at playing by the rules in government buildings. I was recently at the main police station, and saw more unmasked noses/unmasked faces than anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute, and I'm sorry that I'm not paying attention to DC, but DC does not have any metrics as to when unmask? No endgame? So, what is DC working towards?

Bowser keeping her un-vaxxed constituents happy is all that matters. There are zero metrics. The basic set-up is to ignore the mandate in restaurants, half ass them in grocery stores and then play by the rules at a school or in a government building. It will be like this through the winter at least.

Where it really sucks is in gyms, where Bowser has refused to incorporate a vaccination requirement and instead sticks mask mandate, proving that her mandate has zero to do with science and is all about coddling the unvaccinated.

I’m truly surprised. This entire time I thought DC was on par with Montgomery County in terms of metrics and goals. Not having a plan is crazy. I’m not having a plan and not enforcing your own mandate is mine blowing. Might as well not have a mask mandate at all and just let people decide for themselves if that’s how they’re going to run it.

[Anonymous]

Is there a plan to fire district employees for not vaxing like other cities have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a plan to fire district employees for not vaxing like other cities have?

Bowser will not do anything against the unvaccinated. She knows who her base is. Give it up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a plan to fire district employees for not vaxing like other cities have?

Bowser will not do anything against the unvaccinated. She knows who her base is. Give it up

What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

The CDC recommends indoor masking for everyone in places of significant or high community transmission. That threshold works out to about 50 cases/day in DC, a threshold that we are still well above.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html

I don't see why the city going by CDC guidelines is controversial.