Spotsylvania and Culpeper Schools lift mask mandates!

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Culpeper and Spotsy. Two places I know all too well. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Be very cautious in those towns. Meth and crack rule the counties.

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If anyone finds any places closer that do the same, could you please post? No need for rude comments if you don’t agree with this. I’m a teacher and after hearing the discussion this week at my school with staff and students, I’m concerned they want to wear masks forever. I want to stop and am willing to drive but not that far out of NOVA.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean do people really not even think these days. I totally get why these more spread out communities and semi-rural areas are lifting these mandates and why masking was always much lower.

The slowest day at the Target near my house is their busiest day. Those places just don’t have the same volume of people in close in spaces. I would personally still wear a mask but I very well understand why mask mandates just weren’t as popular and are easily dropped in those areas. It doesn’t mean people are dumb either. It just reflects a different community’s need. They have the luxury to go to a store at times and be one of a handful of people in the entire store. When there is all of 20 people in a grocery store, it does make you think is the mask necessary in this situation.

I think I would have been somewhat ok if the governor would have stopped at letting the localities decide, but he didn't. His executive order basically says that local school boards can set the policy but if parents don't like it they don't have to follow it. That's the part with which I take issue.

You were fine with Northampton making the decision for the whole state, but now the shoe is on the other foot and suddenly you’ve discovered the virtues of local control.

Too late. Sauce for the goose, you made your bed, time to lie in it, etc. Etc.

Oh my.... please stop with the ignorance. We are in a PANDEMIC!!! Stop with the left right BS. Think about others-it won't hurt I promise.

The pandemic is done, except for a few unvaccinated people. David Leohnardt said today that COVID is less than a flu level risk for vaccinated people. Notably, COVID was already less than a flu level risk for people under 40. The doomers still say "the under 5s aren't vaccinated," but they have more danger with RSV than COVID.

There's no hospital crisis. VA hospitals are at less than 80% occupancy, which is better than non-flu seasons. Typically this time of year hospitals are full because of the flu (shocking news - hospitals commonly "filled up" every January with the flu).

Omicron is now a cold. We haven't worn masks since this past summer. Time to to stop the theater.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Spotsylvania the one that had board members who wanted to ban books? I would expect nothing less from such an ignorant area.

Yeah. The new chair is the one who wanted to BURN the books. Idiots. I feel awful for all the kids, teachers, and librarians.

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Have you seen any of the kids in the close in suburbs? The masks are under the chin ALWAYS.

Mostly on the blacks.

So its pretty funny to act like the rural whites are doing something unique.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean do people really not even think these days. I totally get why these more spread out communities and semi-rural areas are lifting these mandates and why masking was always much lower.

The slowest day at the Target near my house is their busiest day. Those places just don’t have the same volume of people in close in spaces. I would personally still wear a mask but I very well understand why mask mandates just weren’t as popular and are easily dropped in those areas. It doesn’t mean people are dumb either. It just reflects a different community’s need. They have the luxury to go to a store at times and be one of a handful of people in the entire store. When there is all of 20 people in a grocery store, it does make you think is the mask necessary in this situation.

I think I would have been somewhat ok if the governor would have stopped at letting the localities decide, but he didn't. His executive order basically says that local school boards can set the policy but if parents don't like it they don't have to follow it. That's the part with which I take issue.

You were fine with Northampton making the decision for the whole state, but now the shoe is on the other foot and suddenly you’ve discovered the virtues of local control.

Too late. Sauce for the goose, you made your bed, time to lie in it, etc. Etc.

Oh my.... please stop with the ignorance. We are in a PANDEMIC!!! Stop with the left right BS. Think about others-it won't hurt I promise.

The pandemic is done, except for a few unvaccinated people. David Leohnardt said today that COVID is less than a flu level risk for vaccinated people. Notably, COVID was already less than a flu level risk for people under 40. The doomers still say "the under 5s aren't vaccinated," but they have more danger with RSV than COVID.

There's no hospital crisis. VA hospitals are at less than 80% occupancy, which is better than non-flu seasons. Typically this time of year hospitals are full because of the flu (shocking news - hospitals commonly "filled up" every January with the flu).

Omicron is now a cold. We haven't worn masks since this past summer. Time to to stop the theater.

Mr. Shakespeare - New England has high vax rates and still had hospital scarcity in December. VA has 18,000+ covid cases daily. VA Dept of Health reports 32.0% 7-day positivity rate for PCR test. Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Assoc. online dashboard indicates shares 3,942 people currently hospitalized for COVID-19- only 137 ICU available for adults for the entire state (that's about 1 for every VA county/independent city). Let's pray this COVID surge peaks quickly and recedes rapidly.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen any of the kids in the close in suburbs? The masks are under the chin ALWAYS.

Mostly on the blacks.

So its pretty funny to act like the rural whites are doing something unique.

Kids are about 13% of the all CV cases. CV Demographics for Fairfax County CV cases are 47K white, 37K latino, 14K black (11%) , CV Deaths are 682 white, 229 latino, 131 black (10.4%). black hospitalizations are 11%. So I don't follow what you are saying other than most folks wear masks that are colored black?

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I suspect that the masks will vanish and it’ll be be just fine. It’s happened elsewhere without catastrophe. It’s time to vaccinate our kids and move on.

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I think it is fine that they don't have masks. More transmission = more dead anti-vaxxers.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is fine that they don't have masks. More transmission = more dead anti-vaxxers.

Nailed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Culpeper and Spotsy. Two places I know all too well. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Be very cautious in those towns. Meth and crack rule the counties.

What an unbelievably nasty thing to say.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect that the masks will vanish and it’ll be be just fine. It’s happened elsewhere without catastrophe. It’s time to vaccinate our kids and move on.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen any of the kids in the close in suburbs? The masks are under the chin ALWAYS.

Mostly on the blacks.

So its pretty funny to act like the rural whites are doing something unique.

Kids are about 13% of the all CV cases. CV Demographics for Fairfax County CV cases are 47K white, 37K latino, 14K black (11%) , CV Deaths are 682 white, 229 latino, 131 black (10.4%). black hospitalizations are 11%. So I don't follow what you are saying other than most folks wear masks that are colored black?

Are you claiming POC aren't disproportionately infected? Because you'd be wrong. Blacks are infected at much higher rates than whites and they are far less vaccinated

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen any of the kids in the close in suburbs? The masks are under the chin ALWAYS.

Mostly on the blacks.

So its pretty funny to act like the rural whites are doing something unique.

Kids are about 13% of the all CV cases. CV Demographics for Fairfax County CV cases are 47K white, 37K latino, 14K black (11%) , CV Deaths are 682 white, 229 latino, 131 black (10.4%). black hospitalizations are 11%. So I don't follow what you are saying other than most folks wear masks that are colored black?

Are you claiming POC aren't disproportionately infected? Because you'd be wrong. Blacks are infected at much higher rates than whites and they are far less vaccinated

PP was sharing that observation that mostly suburban "blacks" wore masks under chin - my commentary for this discrete minority, the infection/hospitalization/deaths rate was very close to the FFX county demographics - 10.6%. There are other minorities (latino for example) that are more impacted for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect that the masks will vanish and it’ll be be just fine. It’s happened elsewhere without catastrophe. It’s time to vaccinate our kids and move on.

+1

The problem is the anti maskers and anti vaxers have a large overlap. My sister is one. (She and her husband are vaxed and not boostered and she refuses to vaccinate her kids and absolutely thinks they should be unmasked.) AND she has a baby at home too.