My DC continues to wear mask

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are not wearing their masks in a dcps school where maybe 90 percent are still masked. Im proud of them for unmasking. The cases are low and the public heath authorities have said it’s fine to unmask. I worry about what years of masking will do to kids. Already ive noticed these past two years the kids in my older child's class are so unkind. There’s so much vicious bullying. And despite this being a liberal school with kids expressing many genders, there is no freethinking otherwise. We are liberal and highly educated. The virtue signaling and pressure from parents to conform is really disappointing. They really arent following the science at all at this point! By the way, of course we will mask if the new variant becomes a concern.

I am going to guess that your kids are the minority at a predominantly black school and that you don't give a crap that people of color are disproportionately affected by this pandemic. But, you do you and your freedum to live mask free.

I will also not that you somehow found your way to the MCPS page even though your kids go to DCPS.

[Anonymous]

I think the part I don't understand is the number of people who want others to *unmask.* If my family wants to keep masking under whatever circumstances suit us for whatever reasons we like, what's it to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the part I don't understand is the number of people who want others to *unmask.* If my family wants to keep masking under whatever circumstances suit us for whatever reasons we like, what's it to you?

Is this a real problem or an imaginary one? Based on DCUM threads or your experience at school? Don't make this bigger than it needs to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the part I don't understand is the number of people who want others to *unmask.* If my family wants to keep masking under whatever circumstances suit us for whatever reasons we like, what's it to you?

I couldn't care less if you and your family decide to keep masking indefinitely. IME, most people who feel similarly don't quietly go about their business while wearing masks, but instead keep pushing for a return to masks, or beating the drums about outdoor lunch, or whatever else COVID-related.

But hey, if you quietly wear your masks and don't kick up a fuss, have at it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the part I don't understand is the number of people who want others to *unmask.* If my family wants to keep masking under whatever circumstances suit us for whatever reasons we like, what's it to you?

I couldn't care less if you and your family decide to keep masking indefinitely. IME, most people who feel similarly don't quietly go about their business while wearing masks, but instead keep pushing for a return to masks, or beating the drums about outdoor lunch, or whatever else COVID-related.

But hey, if you quietly wear your masks and don't kick up a fuss, have at it.

+1. And telling us we are "selfish" for choosing to let our kids not mask.

[Anonymous]

I think the mask wearing will reduce gradually over time. Already seeing it reduced at our local high school among teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the mask wearing will reduce gradually over time. Already seeing it reduced at our local high school among teachers.

Seeing more people unmasked at grocery stores and retail. Maybe 50-50. Agree it's happening gradually at schools too.

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My kid said she prefers to wear her mask and estimates that her class is about 50/50. I don't see it as a problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the part I don't understand is the number of people who want others to *unmask.* If my family wants to keep masking under whatever circumstances suit us for whatever reasons we like, what's it to you?

I couldn't care less if you and your family decide to keep masking indefinitely. IME, most people who feel similarly don't quietly go about their business while wearing masks, but instead keep pushing for a return to masks, or beating the drums about outdoor lunch, or whatever else COVID-related.

But hey, if you quietly wear your masks and don't kick up a fuss, have at it.

No one is making a fuss about masking in stores. Most people are still masking as they are decent people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the mask wearing will reduce gradually over time. Already seeing it reduced at our local high school among teachers.

Seeing more people unmasked at grocery stores and retail. Maybe 50-50. Agree it's happening gradually at schools too.

It depends on where you go. Bethesda/Rockville are masking less, Aspen Hill, Kensington, Wheaton, Silver Spring seem to have more masking than not.

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Anonymous wrote:Our teenager continues to wear a mask. Our tween does not. We let each of them decide. Yesterday, we went to a public event where masks were optional. It was not crowded, but at least 75% of people (adults and kids) were wearing masks. It definitely felt socially awkward being one of only a few people not wearing a mask, even though the CDC suggests it's safe. Among our family, only the teen was wearing a mask, although I insisted on it when we went into a small enclosed area with other people.

We're going back to the same event today, and I'm considering insisting on masks for the family because I just read an article today saying that the B.2 variant had been spotted in the U.S., and it's more contagious than omicron. MoCo case counts are currently about 34/100k, which is still only moderate transmission (and I know that's under the old CDC system), but the cases would lag up to 2 weeks from infection dates. Site, it may be shutting the barn door after the horse escaped, since we were there yesterday, but I think I'd feel better.

So you’ll probably catch it then. Why spend months of your life masked up…you’re likely to catch it anyway. It will likely be a cold.

Yes, please catch it so you can have long term disability for the rest of your now shortened life, kick off and clear the aisle for the rest of us who haven’t had covid.

I did. I was a little extra tired over winter break for a day.

We shouldn’t need to keep repeating this, but you can also give it to others. My 75-year-old mom never had Covid symptoms but she’s suffering from wrong she is very uncomfortable with mouth pain and periods of exhaustion.

Ok, she's 75. Your mom has mechanisms to protect herself. I'm not masking into perpetuity.

Have you ever considered that you need to model good behavior to your kids? So, when you are 75, and something like this happens, we should just say, hey, too bad, let Barbara die because she didn't mask at the last pandemic and she didn't care about others so why should we care about her?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the part I don't understand is the number of people who want others to *unmask.* If my family wants to keep masking under whatever circumstances suit us for whatever reasons we like, what's it to you?

I couldn't care less if you and your family decide to keep masking indefinitely. IME, most people who feel similarly don't quietly go about their business while wearing masks, but instead keep pushing for a return to masks, or beating the drums about outdoor lunch, or whatever else COVID-related.

But hey, if you quietly wear your masks and don't kick up a fuss, have at it.

No one is making a fuss about masking in stores. Most people are still masking as they are decent people.

This thread is about masking in schools. Yes, people in my community are still upset that masks are now optional in MCPS. That's what I'm tired of. I literally do.not.care if people choose to mask in schools, as long as they don't loudly shame those who don't wear them.