85% vaccine rate isn’t good enough

[Anonymous]

The mask mandate is a farce and political theater for everyone except our school aged kids. I went to a show at the Fillmore silver spring yesterday and 5% of people were wearing masks. I’m boostered and at this point, just want to get covid so I don’t have to worry about being stranded by international travel.

[Anonymous]

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Maryland state thinks it's fine to remove masks at 80% vax rate.

Some folks in MoCo just live in a constant state of fear. Mask up if you want to, but some of us are fully vaxxed, including boosters. 80% was the target MoCo set, even with Delta. Omicron is a lot less worse than delta.

Omicron is (probably, preliminarily) less severe than delta, but (definitely) more transmissible.

Which means that we should be celebrating the fact that this virus is doing what almost all of them do. Becoming less virulent. Who cares if we all get a runny nose?!

I am all for celebration, but I am not for premature celebration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Maryland state thinks it's fine to remove masks at 80% vax rate.

Some folks in MoCo just live in a constant state of fear. Mask up if you want to, but some of us are fully vaxxed, including boosters. 80% was the target MoCo set, even with Delta. Omicron is a lot less worse than delta.

Omicron is (probably, preliminarily) less severe than delta, but (definitely) more transmissible.

Which means that we should be celebrating the fact that this virus is doing what almost all of them do. Becoming less virulent. Who cares if we all get a runny nose?!

I am all for celebration, but I am not for premature celebration.

that's been the motto for the past 1.5 years, though. that's the problem.

[Anonymous]

I am glad to hear this I want the mask mandate to stay in place for now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am glad to hear this I want the mask mandate to stay in place for now.

Nothing would stop you from wearing an N95 mask around yourself if the mandate was lifted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe we are in year 2, stretching toward year 3, of a pandemic and people are still calling others sheep about wearing masks and getting boosters.

At this point, I am done. I will stay home and you people bleating about masks can be done and get some Covid already. Die or don't die, overwhelm the hospitals and cause others to die, I don't care any longer. Go cause a situation like the current one in Michigan. It's what you want, so go right ahead. You are already just pretending if you wear cloth masks anyhow.

You can already take off your mask and hang out in a packed restaurant or bar if you want to. Even in MoCo.
Go for it.

Stop being so melodramatic. I have a vaccine and a booster. A lot of people are just wondering why MoCo is so high strung about Covid measures compared to its educated, highly liberal neighbors like Arlington and DC who seem to think that they don’t need a mask mandate. Muriel Bowser and the Arlington County government aren’t Ron DeSantis. What makes MoCo residents uniquely susceptible to Covid compared to people in these other jurisdictions? It seems to me and a lot of other Democratic voting MoCo residents that we are being led by a bunch of irrational hypochondriacs.

You can go into any restaurant or bar in MoCo and eat or drink maskless.
Like I said, knock yourselves out.

You just can't go maskless into a grocery store or a pharmacy. I think most residents of DC and Arlington have enough sense to do this, and then don't care what happens in the poorer areas.

In MoCo, a large swath of the county is the poorer area, both white poverty or LMC and POC. There are a million people. A lot of them are living multiple families to a house or apartment and poorly educated and the Trumpers don't have much sense--so would refuse to mask in a logical place like pharmacy. In Bethesda, or the wealthier areas, most people would have enough sense to go to the gym without a mask and wear a mask to get groceries or pick up drugs. Not so in my area of the MoCo, as I even saw during the height of the pandemic.

This is the most classist, racist garbage I’ve seen in this thread. This is why minorities and the working class is moving far away from the Democrats, a party that supposedly represents them.

It makes no logical sense to wear a mask if you don’t have close exposure for someone for a long period of time, like running in a 7-11 to get a coffee at 5 am. It does make sense to wear a mask when you’re having dinner next to another couple that is 5 feet away from you. Yet supposedly educated like you don’t see how ridiculous it is for there to be mask regulations for the former and not the latter.

Seriously. The white liberal elitist on their moral superiority podium making sweeping generalizations about the poors and POC. White rich people don't spread COVID do they.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Grow up, be responsible and wear a mask. Really, how hard is that?

Being an obedient, irrational sheep is not something to brag about. You know that, right?

As PPs have said, highly liberal jurisdictions like DC and Arlington don’t have mask mandates and are doing just fine. Also, as PPs have said it is all about control and not about science. Having no restrictions on having a two hour meal indoors next to other patrons and staff, but mandating wearing a mask when you are in CVS to run in and get some shampoo and use the self checkout makes absolutely no sense and has no bearing on science. Moving the goalposts on vaccination percentages because of a variant that is less lethal makes no sense as well.

If our leaders actually made regulations based on science and concerns for public safety and not based on cynical political maneuvering, fear mongering, or to appease business interests a lot of us would take their recommendations in better faith.

We are still having high spread. That is not fine.

And nobody is telling you to ditch YOUR mask. Keep your mask on as long as you want. Give other people the CHOICE.

I'll still wear my mask at Target. But let our kids take off their masks at school if they want.

No.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up, be responsible and wear a mask. Really, how hard is that?

Being an obedient, irrational sheep is not something to brag about. You know that, right?

As PPs have said, highly liberal jurisdictions like DC and Arlington don’t have mask mandates and are doing just fine. Also, as PPs have said it is all about control and not about science. Having no restrictions on having a two hour meal indoors next to other patrons and staff, but mandating wearing a mask when you are in CVS to run in and get some shampoo and use the self checkout makes absolutely no sense and has no bearing on science. Moving the goalposts on vaccination percentages because of a variant that is less lethal makes no sense as well.

If our leaders actually made regulations based on science and concerns for public safety and not based on cynical political maneuvering, fear mongering, or to appease business interests a lot of us would take their recommendations in better faith.

We are still having high spread. That is not fine.

And nobody is telling you to ditch YOUR mask. Keep your mask on as long as you want. Give other people the CHOICE.

I'll still wear my mask at Target. But let our kids take off their masks at school if they want.

No.

Pretty much. They all traveled for Thanksgiving and took their masks off at meemaws house, and now there are quite a few outbreaks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe we are in year 2, stretching toward year 3, of a pandemic and people are still calling others sheep about wearing masks and getting boosters.

At this point, I am done. I will stay home and you people bleating about masks can be done and get some Covid already. Die or don't die, overwhelm the hospitals and cause others to die, I don't care any longer. Go cause a situation like the current one in Michigan. It's what you want, so go right ahead. You are already just pretending if you wear cloth masks anyhow.

You can already take off your mask and hang out in a packed restaurant or bar if you want to. Even in MoCo.
Go for it.

Great!! Thanks for letting us make our own choices, as you are free to make your own also.

Not a single hospital in MoCo is currently or has ever been overwhelmed. Looks like we’re ready to drop the mask mandates.

Not happening. Sorry you’re disappointed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe we are in year 2, stretching toward year 3, of a pandemic and people are still calling others sheep about wearing masks and getting boosters.

At this point, I am done. I will stay home and you people bleating about masks can be done and get some Covid already. Die or don't die, overwhelm the hospitals and cause others to die, I don't care any longer. Go cause a situation like the current one in Michigan. It's what you want, so go right ahead. You are already just pretending if you wear cloth masks anyhow.

You can already take off your mask and hang out in a packed restaurant or bar if you want to. Even in MoCo.
Go for it.

Stop being so melodramatic. I have a vaccine and a booster. A lot of people are just wondering why MoCo is so high strung about Covid measures compared to its educated, highly liberal neighbors like Arlington and DC who seem to think that they don’t need a mask mandate. Muriel Bowser and the Arlington County government aren’t Ron DeSantis. What makes MoCo residents uniquely susceptible to Covid compared to people in these other jurisdictions? It seems to me and a lot of other Democratic voting MoCo residents that we are being led by a bunch of irrational hypochondriacs.

You can go into any restaurant or bar in MoCo and eat or drink maskless.
Like I said, knock yourselves out.

You just can't go maskless into a grocery store or a pharmacy. I think most residents of DC and Arlington have enough sense to do this, and then don't care what happens in the poorer areas.

In MoCo, a large swath of the county is the poorer area, both white poverty or LMC and POC. There are a million people. A lot of them are living multiple families to a house or apartment and poorly educated and the Trumpers don't have much sense--so would refuse to mask in a logical place like pharmacy. In Bethesda, or the wealthier areas, most people would have enough sense to go to the gym without a mask and wear a mask to get groceries or pick up drugs. Not so in my area of the MoCo, as I even saw during the height of the pandemic.

This is the most classist, racist garbage I’ve seen in this thread. This is why minorities and the working class is moving far away from the Democrats, a party that supposedly represents them.

It makes no logical sense to wear a mask if you don’t have close exposure for someone for a long period of time, like running in a 7-11 to get a coffee at 5 am. It does make sense to wear a mask when you’re having dinner next to another couple that is 5 feet away from you. Yet supposedly educated like you don’t see how ridiculous it is for there to be mask regulations for the former and not the latter.

OK. So let’s close the restaurants, return them to takeout only and keep the mask mandate.

Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Maryland state thinks it's fine to remove masks at 80% vax rate.

Some folks in MoCo just live in a constant state of fear. Mask up if you want to, but some of us are fully vaxxed, including boosters. 80% was the target MoCo set, even with Delta. Omicron is a lot less worse than delta.

Omicron is (probably, preliminarily) less severe than delta, but (definitely) more transmissible.

Which means that we should be celebrating the fact that this virus is doing what almost all of them do. Becoming less virulent. Who cares if we all get a runny nose?!

I am all for celebration, but I am not for premature celebration.

that's been the motto for the past 1.5 years, though. that's the problem.

The “problem” is that so many Americans are impatient, entitled, selfish toddlers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am glad to hear this I want the mask mandate to stay in place for now.

Nothing would stop you from wearing an N95 mask around yourself if the mandate was lifted.

That’s nice. Protection improves when both parties are masked, so you can keep yours on too. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Maryland state thinks it's fine to remove masks at 80% vax rate.

Some folks in MoCo just live in a constant state of fear. Mask up if you want to, but some of us are fully vaxxed, including boosters. 80% was the target MoCo set, even with Delta. Omicron is a lot less worse than delta.

Omicron is (probably, preliminarily) less severe than delta, but (definitely) more transmissible.

Which means that we should be celebrating the fact that this virus is doing what almost all of them do. Becoming less virulent. Who cares if we all get a runny nose?!

I am all for celebration, but I am not for premature celebration.

that's been the motto for the past 1.5 years, though. that's the problem.

The “problem” is that so many Americans are impatient, entitled, selfish toddlers.

Yeah, why can't they all just do what you say they should?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am glad to hear this I want the mask mandate to stay in place for now.

Nothing would stop you from wearing an N95 mask around yourself if the mandate was lifted.

That’s nice. Protection improves when both parties are masked, so you can keep yours on too. Thanks!

Tell me you don’t have any friends without telling me you don’t have any friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am glad to hear this I want the mask mandate to stay in place for now.

Nothing would stop you from wearing an N95 mask around yourself if the mandate was lifted.

That’s nice. Protection improves when both parties are masked, so you can keep yours on too. Thanks!

Nah. Ask your dental hygienist. She has been working around unmasked patients for the past year. Her N95 protects her from the unmasked patients spewing their aerosols all over the office.

Wear your mask as long as you want. You have the choice. Let the rest of us have the choice to take our masks off when we want. Why have people become so controlling of others??