When are you going to stop wearing masks indoors (stores, etc)

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. I know there are a lot of people on this board who aren’t from the DC area and I’m curious where OP and a lot of other posters to this thread live. Here in the DC area I still see tons of people wearing masks and I just don’t hear that much complaining or asking when other people are going to stop. You certainly don’t get funny looks if you wear one and no one has ever asked me when I plan to stop.

OP here. DC area, born and raised.

Yes about 80% of people are masked still in stores and things, but it seems like most are doing it because everyone's doing it, and people are waiting for others to make the move to stop wearing them before they follow suit. I just don't see the sense in it anymore. Vaccinated people are very, very rarely experiencing severity and to continue to insist on masking for healthy people is becoming absurd.

What is “severity” to you may be something different to someone else. I’m vaxxed and boosted and have been pretty sick with Covid for 5 days now. My siblings just had it and they were all sick for a week. I spoke to a friend of mine who is a doctor and she said most of her vaxxed/boosted patients are having sinus like congestion for 7-10 days. Can you understand how a lot of people don’t want to get sick like that, since it’s more than a cold?!

Based on what you described, it certainly sounds like a moderately bad cold to me.

Have people forgotten what it is like to get sick?

You are welcome to it then. Shall I take off my mask for you?

Yes, please. I had Covid. It felt like the same cold I get every winter including winter 2021 when we were still distancing and wearing masks everywhere.

I was honestly relieved to get it over with.

Oh and we didn't get it from any of the things every thinks are risky like social gathering, stores, or the gym. We got it from our son who got it at school where everyone has to wear a mask.

Ah, except during lunch. He probably got it at lunch.

my god you people are so brainwashed by masks. they are not fool proof especially the ones my kids/most kids wear to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is an excellent article how immunocompromised folks are feeling left in limbo. It also brings up a great comparison to the Eugenics movement. Because no one cares about 7 M Americans. Folks just care about the discomfort of their masks.


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/

You got that right.

No one cared that wearing masks everywhere was devastating for deaf people who relied on lip reading for communication. You never thought about that, did you? You didn't care.

Life is returning to normal. The people who think they're immunocompromised are going to have to deal with it. Why should 7 million Americans dictate what the rest of society should do?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was at Whole Foods Kentlands this morning and almost everyone was masked, but a few went without; it will probably take some time for people to get comfortable being maskless (in MoCo). I have to wear a mask for health reasons and after reading this thread I was paranoid that people were going to look at me with disgust, ha.

I'm also in MoCo and I noticed at Wildwood shopping center in Bethesa today that half of the stores still had their mask required signs up, like they aren't aware that there isn't a mandate anymore. Like CVS never removed theirs in the other two times the mandates were gone. So I wore it in CVS, Fish Taco (even though two dozen kids from WJ were eating) but not in South Moon Under.

I had understood that individual businesses would be free to decide their own mask policies -- which makes sense, especially for smaller businesses that deal with the public. I'm sure that they are aware that there isn't a mandate anymore. Many individuals and businesses are wearing masks, not solely because it has been mandated, but because they have decided that the benefits of doing so far outweigh any risks.

I think there's no reason for people who work there to take down the signs. They still have to wear a mask, likely. So why do they want customers to not wear one? Some of the signs are now a part of the window, they need GooBeGone to remove it.

[Anonymous]

I am surprised about the posts saying “if I am not sick, I don’t need to wear one.” This question is whether you are asymptomatic. Which means you are sick, your body is infected and you are shedding virus, you just don’t feel bad.

Now there is a point where I don’t think we should wear masks. But if the basis for getting rid of them is relying on an incorrect assumption that if you feel good you are not infected, then that is wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is an excellent article how immunocompromised folks are feeling left in limbo. It also brings up a great comparison to the Eugenics movement. Because no one cares about 7 M Americans. Folks just care about the discomfort of their masks.


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/

You got that right.

No one cared that wearing masks everywhere was devastating for deaf people who relied on lip reading for communication. You never thought about that, did you? You didn't care.

Life is returning to normal. The people who think they're immunocompromised are going to have to deal with it. Why should 7 million Americans dictate what the rest of society should do?

Exactly. The article is correct you represent most Americans who DGAF. As for the deaf, they have ASL. But I did realize I read lips often to understand people as I’m losing my hearing. I have empathy for them. You, not so much. You’re void.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised about the posts saying “if I am not sick, I don’t need to wear one.” This question is whether you are asymptomatic. Which means you are sick, your body is infected and you are shedding virus, you just don’t feel bad.

Now there is a point where I don’t think we should wear masks. But if the basis for getting rid of them is relying on an incorrect assumption that if you feel good you are not infected, then that is wrong.

So what do you propose we do? Test daily??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is an excellent article how immunocompromised folks are feeling left in limbo. It also brings up a great comparison to the Eugenics movement. Because no one cares about 7 M Americans. Folks just care about the discomfort of their masks.


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/

You got that right.

No one cared that wearing masks everywhere was devastating for deaf people who relied on lip reading for communication. You never thought about that, did you? You didn't care.

Life is returning to normal. The people who think they're immunocompromised are going to have to deal with it. Why should 7 million Americans dictate what the rest of society should do?

Exactly. The article is correct you represent most Americans who DGAF. As for the deaf, they have ASL. But I did realize I read lips often to understand people as I’m losing my hearing. I have empathy for them. You, not so much. You’re void.

Yes after 2 years I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an excellent article how immunocompromised folks are feeling left in limbo. It also brings up a great comparison to the Eugenics movement. Because no one cares about 7 M Americans. Folks just care about the discomfort of their masks.


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/

You got that right.

No one cared that wearing masks everywhere was devastating for deaf people who relied on lip reading for communication. You never thought about that, did you? You didn't care.

Life is returning to normal. The people who think they're immunocompromised are going to have to deal with it. Why should 7 million Americans dictate what the rest of society should do?

Exactly. The article is correct you represent most Americans who DGAF. As for the deaf, they have ASL. But I did realize I read lips often to understand people as I’m losing my hearing. I have empathy for them. You, not so much. You’re void.

Yes after 2 years I am.

Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an excellent article how immunocompromised folks are feeling left in limbo. It also brings up a great comparison to the Eugenics movement. Because no one cares about 7 M Americans. Folks just care about the discomfort of their masks.


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/

You got that right.

No one cared that wearing masks everywhere was devastating for deaf people who relied on lip reading for communication. You never thought about that, did you? You didn't care.

Life is returning to normal. The people who think they're immunocompromised are going to have to deal with it. Why should 7 million Americans dictate what the rest of society should do?

Exactly. The article is correct you represent most Americans who DGAF. As for the deaf, they have ASL. But I did realize I read lips often to understand people as I’m losing my hearing. I have empathy for them. You, not so much. You’re void.

Yes after 2 years I am.

Such a big crybaby

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. I know there are a lot of people on this board who aren’t from the DC area and I’m curious where OP and a lot of other posters to this thread live. Here in the DC area I still see tons of people wearing masks and I just don’t hear that much complaining or asking when other people are going to stop. You certainly don’t get funny looks if you wear one and no one has ever asked me when I plan to stop.

OP here. DC area, born and raised.

Yes about 80% of people are masked still in stores and things, but it seems like most are doing it because everyone's doing it, and people are waiting for others to make the move to stop wearing them before they follow suit. I just don't see the sense in it anymore. Vaccinated people are very, very rarely experiencing severity and to continue to insist on masking for healthy people is becoming absurd.

PP here. I don’t assume at all that people around here are just waiting for others to take them off. I assume it’s because we don’t mind wearing them and we don’t want to spread or catch COVID. It’s pretty basic.

Well, I took my DS to a birthday party this weekend at the house of a daycare friend. First party like this in two years!! There was one family that wore masks when not eating/drinking, but the remaining 20ish attendees did not. But they all wear them during the week to daycare, etc. We’re all rule followers.

When MoCo has dropped the mask mandate before I’d still rarely see anyone in stores without one. I continued to wear mine too, not because I necessarily wanted to but because I wanted to draw attention to myself even less. Peer pressure is powerful.

If only peer pressure were powerful enough to get everyone vaccinated…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised about the posts saying “if I am not sick, I don’t need to wear one.” This question is whether you are asymptomatic. Which means you are sick, your body is infected and you are shedding virus, you just don’t feel bad.

Now there is a point where I don’t think we should wear masks. But if the basis for getting rid of them is relying on an incorrect assumption that if you feel good you are not infected, then that is wrong.

So what do you propose we do? Test daily??

No, but pick a different reason then. Cases being lower, keeping masking in certain situations, testing periodically, etc. Those might be some factors for me.

But you can even say “because it is annoying” because then it would at least be truthful. Just not “because I don’t have COVID because I don’t have symptoms” because they disproved that a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Well, I plan to keep on wearing a mask because it has helped my pollen allergies in the spring AND helped me not get a cold or flu the past two years.

I don't care what anyone else does or doesn't do, this has been a life changer for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised about the posts saying “if I am not sick, I don’t need to wear one.” This question is whether you are asymptomatic. Which means you are sick, your body is infected and you are shedding virus, you just don’t feel bad.

Now there is a point where I don’t think we should wear masks. But if the basis for getting rid of them is relying on an incorrect assumption that if you feel good you are not infected, then that is wrong.

So what do you propose we do? Test daily??

No, but pick a different reason then. Cases being lower, keeping masking in certain situations, testing periodically, etc. Those might be some factors for me.

But you can even say “because it is annoying” because then it would at least be truthful. Just not “because I don’t have COVID because I don’t have symptoms” because they disproved that a long time ago.

How about the cloth masks most people wear don’t prevent spread so what’s the point? And in a time of vaccine is not a time to mandate stricter quality masks. My daughter got covid over the weekend (asymptomatic) and the only things she did the week before were masked school, and two masked activities. If you really are immunocompromised you need to wear your own good quality mask and should have no faith in anyone else’s mask to protect you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I plan to keep on wearing a mask because it has helped my pollen allergies in the spring AND helped me not get a cold or flu the past two years.

I don't care what anyone else does or doesn't do, this has been a life changer for me.

Just be aware that immunologically you are not doing yourself any favors by avoiding exposures for the rest of your life. By the time you are old you might die of a simple cold your grandkid or your fellow nursing home resident gave you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I plan to keep on wearing a mask because it has helped my pollen allergies in the spring AND helped me not get a cold or flu the past two years.

I don't care what anyone else does or doesn't do, this has been a life changer for me.

Just be aware that immunologically you are not doing yourself any favors by avoiding exposures for the rest of your life. By the time you are old you might die of a simple cold your grandkid or your fellow nursing home resident gave you.

+1. And all those parents that are thrilled to keep their babies/kids home, masked etc are doing a serious disservice to their child’s immune system.