Were people masked for outdoor drop-off at your DCPS today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

well, no, not many of these posters saying they don't mask indoors. This is about mask mandates. Focus on the word MANDATES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

well, no, not many of these posters saying they don't mask indoors. This is about mask mandates. Focus on the word MANDATES.

Yes no mandate to mask inside. But DC is still doing it w out the mandate so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

well, no, not many of these posters saying they don't mask indoors. This is about mask mandates. Focus on the word MANDATES.

Yes no mandate to mask inside. But DC is still doing it w out the mandate so?

Are you intentionally obtuse? Not read the thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

Go to a bar or a gym and you will see them. And then those same people are going to grocery stores and masking, not for their personal safety but because everyone else is doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

You have to wear a mask inside the Smithsonians. At least until Friday, March 11.

https://www.si.edu/visit

However, I agree, that the first time I went to the grocery store after DC dropped masks, 100% fo the people had masks. The second time, there were a few people without masks and then a whole bunch with masks under their noses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious where you all shop. I’ve been to three different grocery stores this weekend and everyone inside had their masks on. People walked in and put them on.

So?

All these posters saying the don’t mask indoors. I haven’t seen them. Not saying they don’t exist but not seeing them.

Was down on the mall at museums yesterday and everyone masked

You have to wear a mask inside the Smithsonians. At least until Friday, March 11.

https://www.si.edu/visit

However, I agree, that the first time I went to the grocery store after DC dropped masks, 100% fo the people had masks. The second time, there were a few people without masks and then a whole bunch with masks under their noses.

Can we all laugh at the people with the droopy masks? Why? Its useless and still hurts your ears.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wanting to see the faces of students and staff outdoors during school drop-off and pick-up in March 2022, now that experts have weighed in and determined it is safe to remove masks in this environment and the school district has okayed it, is not the same as threatening to bring guns to school to protest a mask mandate.

Wanting your child to be able to attend school without a mask, based on the advice of epidemiologists, pediatricians, and child development experts who believe the harm of longterm masking far outweighs the apparently minimal benefits of masking in a school environment compared to other mitigation methods, is not violent or unreasonable.

It's okay to disagree with these things but the idea that those of us who are advocating for looser masking rules, at this stage in the pandemic, must be in league with gun-toting anti-maskers in red states, is really troubling. We are all adults here and should be able to understand nuance.

I'm pro-mask, pro-vaccine, pro-science. I think it's time to loosen mask restrictions in schools, and I do think the issue is urgent because of how long children have been masked in this environment. I think it's easy to get complacent because we've been doing it this way for a long time, but that's all the more reason to be more vocal and assertive on the issue. Mask mandates will not lift themselves and it's going to take some effort and energy to shift course. It's going to be hard for some people to accept that masks are no longer the best or most appropriate mitigation method in schools. And I do think some of us are going to have to come to terms with the fact that we have probably already masked kids, especially young kids, for much longer than we should have given the the actual risks as we now understand them. I am already working through that with regards to my preschooler, and it's hard. So I get the reluctance. But we owe it to our kids to do the right thing now, and to examine how we've gotten to a place where we fell into a masking policy that hasn't made sense for a long time and are having so much trouble getting out of it.

I agree with all this. And yet, I still can't imagine getting angry or bothered if any of my fellow parents continue wearing masks outside at school, which some people posting here appear to be. (Not you, PP.)

NP. I don't know, but I think seeing people still masking outdoors makes some people angry because doing so is emblematic of the overly Covid-cautious attitude that has driven so many misguided policies over the past two years. People are understandably angry about those policies and may project their anger on people who they think are exemplifying the attitude that drove them.

As far as I am concerned, I'm not so much bothered as baffled, given how little sense outdoor masking has ever made.

This. Wearing a mask outdoors in March 2022 = virtual only school in September 2021

The only people I know who are still wearing masks outdoors at drop-off at our school were also very happy to send their kids back to in-person school as soon as it was an option in February 2021 (and definitely eager to resume it in September).