I don’t understand parents taking unmasked children out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still take my “too young to wear a mask” toddler (age 18 months) everywhere. Sorry not sorry.

Where is everywhere?

Literally wherever I want. Target, grocery stores, to get his hair cut, Michael’s/other stores, playgrounds. It’s not April 2020 anymore.

[Anonymous]

I could absolutely believe OP is real, and not a troll.

With people double masking... OUTSIDE, there are clearly a lot of people who have simply lost their grip on reality. They are beyond detached at this point.

[Anonymous]

I've wondered the same thing, OP.

They must be the idiots who believe children don't get Covid, and they probably never thought about whether children ca transmit Covid.

There but for the grace of God...

[Anonymous]

Yup.

Little Covid transmitters all over the place.

Their parents are criminals who don't even get that they've likely exposed (and sickened and killed) multiple people through exposure with their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand parents being so panicked over their young otherwise healthy kids catching COVID compared to other diseases/activities which statistically pose a greater risk to children of that age but to each their own.

Unless your kid has some complications or health issues that put them at significant risk, there’s no rational reason to worry about them catching COVID. My oldest son caught COVID from my wife (I didn’t get it, and neither did my youngest, strangely. And we never bothered with isolating the other family members), as did his two cousins. The worst symptoms any of them had was a sore throat and losing their senses of taste and smell for a few days.

So, stop worrying about kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could absolutely believe OP is real, and not a troll.

With people double masking... OUTSIDE, there are clearly a lot of people who have simply lost their grip on reality. They are beyond detached at this point.

When Covid is mostly gone in the next few months and the rest of us are pretty much back to normal, what will all these scared people do?

Based on a recent survey I saw, Americans believe that if you catch covid, you have a 17% chance of death (in reality, it’s less than 0.5% across all demographic groups, and much lower for younger people). Which would mean 17 million dead among the 100 million or so Americans who have already had it. The media and government have done a disturbingly good job at panicking Americans.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they are a single parent with no other option. Check your privilege before criticizing.

But also if every adult around them is masked, the odds of them catching covid are low. That’s the point of masking - to protect others who can’t like small children. You also no idea what sanitizing and hand washing the parent has done. They may have already wiped the cart down with a lysol wipe and may sanitize the child’s hands regularly. And even if not, again surface transmission is not the primary way this is transmitted. It’s airborne and adults around them are wearing masks. Parents are doing the best they can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand parents being so panicked over their young otherwise healthy kids catching COVID compared to other diseases/activities which statistically pose a greater risk to children of that age but to each their own.

Unless your kid has some complications or health issues that put them at significant risk, there’s no rational reason to worry about them catching COVID. My oldest son caught COVID from my wife (I didn’t get it, and neither did my youngest, strangely. And we never bothered with isolating the other family members), as did his two cousins. The worst symptoms any of them had was a sore throat and losing their senses of taste and smell for a few days.

So, stop worrying about kids.

NP here.

Look, the OP IMO is overreacting and not perpective-taking-- there are many reasons to take young kids out, etc.

But I don't understand all the people responding that "kids don't get it bad." Like that's the only reason to worry about COVID? I'm not worried about my child getting COVID, per se. I mean, we don't know all the long term effects even from mild COVID, but okay.

I'm concerned with my child getting it and then spreading it. First to my husband, who has some risk conditions. But even if he didn't, even if I could be guaranteed WE would only get sore throats, as a family, I am worried that my kid gives it to another kid who gives it to their grandmother who dies or whatever... and I'd probably never know.

Why can't people conceive of others beyond themselves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe OP you have a preexisting condition or maybe your kids do. If not, you are crazy.

Covid is no more than a flu in young children (one of my kids had it and it was a 24 diarrhea event... he has had much worse)... so pls.... stop judging normal people.

Also, kids masks (made of cotton and not well fitted) are not a great protection (though they may help protect others)

It’s not about just the kids getting sick! These unmasked kids can still transmit the disease. The world is bigger than just you and your kid. We are all interconnected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

Maybe she needed something (like food items you can't order for curbside) and had nobody else to take care of her kids? I mean, I am lucky my husband and I can divide and conquer so our kids don't go into stores, but i can EASILY think of reasons someone might take them in. Did you try?

Are you really that dence? You’re missing the point. She can mask up her kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

Maybe she needed something (like food items you can't order for curbside) and had nobody else to take care of her kids? I mean, I am lucky my husband and I can divide and conquer so our kids don't go into stores, but i can EASILY think of reasons someone might take them in. Did you try?

I think pp Meant why didn’t they have masks on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:op sucks.

I suck because I cringe at seeing young kids without masks being exposed to a lot of people?

I am not talking necessities. We are currently on vacation. We drove and I see people out with young kids.

I also see kids in Fairfax and Arlington at the grocery store and target gnawing on shopping carts and high touch rails. It just makes me cringe. It would probably make me cringe even if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic.

Oh when I see kids doing gross things like that I give them really weird look. Usually stops them right in their tracks. LOL.

[Anonymous]

I wonder the same thing, OP. We see entire families at Target with both parents, 3-4 kids in tow and the youngest 1-2 are unmasked. These are the same parents who probably buy massive amounts of Tylenol for back to school because a fever shouldn’t stand in the way of sitting in a classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I could absolutely believe OP is real, and not a troll.

With people double masking... OUTSIDE, there are clearly a lot of people who have simply lost their grip on reality. They are beyond detached at this point.

When Covid is mostly gone in the next few months and the rest of us are pretty much back to normal, what will all these scared people do?

Based on a recent survey I saw, Americans believe that if you catch covid, you have a 17% chance of death (in reality, it’s less than 0.5% across all demographic groups, and much lower for younger people). Which would mean 17 million dead among the 100 million or so Americans who have already had it. The media and government have done a disturbingly good job at panicking Americans.

In attempting to demonstrate American innumeracy, you have betrayed your own.

Americans are indeed incorrect that 17% of people who contract it will die.

You are insinuating that a ~1% death rate is not something to "panic" about.

In fact, a 1% death rate is extremely high! If I told you there was a 1% chance an anvil would drop on you every time you left your house, you would never leave. Or you'd die in an average of 3+ months.

Similarly, it's good that people do not want to contract an illness with a 1% death rate. Or even half that or less for healthy adults (especially since they can spread it to more vulnerable people). It "feels" like 17% to many Americans because it feels pretty dire, which it is. The half a million deaths we have experienced are excess deaths. And that's with a ton of mitigation efforts (albeit not enough).

And then again... I don't believe every single one of these numbers is 100% accurate, but the overall concept is true. Only ~1% is VERY much not the whole story of this illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

Maybe she needed something (like food items you can't order for curbside) and had nobody else to take care of her kids? I mean, I am lucky my husband and I can divide and conquer so our kids don't go into stores, but i can EASILY think of reasons someone might take them in. Did you try?

I think pp Meant why didn’t they have masks on.

I thought this whole thread was more about kids under 3, for whom masks aren't recommended/are counterproductive/tend to be impossible to enforce (especially under 2).