Bowser just announced that starting Saturday indoor mask mandate for everyone 2+

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Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. Vaccinated people don’t need to mask. End of discussion.

Yes, but they can still catch it because the Detla produces 1,000x as much virus, be asymptomatic, and give it to anti-vax folks! We have to think of the anti-vaxers and live our lives with special protections for them! Also, COVID is here to stay. It's not going to be eliminated from the planet. At some point we have to live our lives like normal. We can't act like this is a plague when 99.7% of deaths are the unvaccinated.

My 10 year old is not anti-vax.

NP. YOUR TEN YEAR OLD IS NOT AT RISK FROM COVID. What data are you people looking at that makes you think covid is any kind of threat to kids? I don’t mean panicky anecdotes or viral Twitter threads or unfounded speculation about “long covid”. I mean reliable data on American kids that shows this virus is uniquely dangerous to them and worth disrupting their lives for, in a way that isn’t true of RSV, the flu, the common cold, bronchitis, norovirus, and all the other viral diseases kids get that never caused us to fully shut down schools for 2 years.

My niece is a nurse practitioner in a red state. She is seeing “too many very sick kids”. Her words. She is seeing young children who are being admitted to the hospital with COVID. These are otherwise healthy kids. Most kids do fine. Some do not.

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Anonymous wrote:So, masks forever then, right? What's the end game? Zero COVID. Not gonna happen.

Maybe a two week shutdown, just to flatten the curve?

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Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. Vaccinated people don’t need to mask. End of discussion.

Yes, but they can still catch it because the Detla produces 1,000x as much virus, be asymptomatic, and give it to anti-vax folks! We have to think of the anti-vaxers and live our lives with special protections for them! Also, COVID is here to stay. It's not going to be eliminated from the planet. At some point we have to live our lives like normal. We can't act like this is a plague when 99.7% of deaths are the unvaccinated.

My 10 year old is not anti-vax.

NP. YOUR TEN YEAR OLD IS NOT AT RISK FROM COVID. What data are you people looking at that makes you think covid is any kind of threat to kids? I don’t mean panicky anecdotes or viral Twitter threads or unfounded speculation about “long covid”. I mean reliable data on American kids that shows this virus is uniquely dangerous to them and worth disrupting their lives for, in a way that isn’t true of RSV, the flu, the common cold, bronchitis, norovirus, and all the other viral diseases kids get that never caused us to fully shut down schools for 2 years.

"reliable data on American kids"
What the hell is wrong with you that you think the data has to be on American kids?

Long-covid isn't "long-covid" and unknowns about long-covid are not "unfounded speculations about long-covid."

I'm curious to hear what 'viral Twitter threads' you are so contemptuous about. The kid covid tweets reported on this forum just repeated the latest public health numbers, along with statements of "up this many %" "increased this many-fold"

Your unrelenting all-caps echo dismissing out of hand reasonable concerns is unreasonable.

If you’re really that concerned about “long covid,” keep your kid home. Masks aren’t going to protect him.

Home? You're not sending me to my basement? Gee thanks!
Anyways. Yay Bowser.

I’m not being funny. If you were keeping your kid home all year in virtual school you may not have realized that kid covid rates were probably multiple times what was reported. I’m in a state where kid stuff was mostly all open and the kids were all running around coughing and sniffling just like any other year and people weren’t testing...”just allergies, just a little cold.” These kids were all in their masks, didn’t help.

With delta being more transmissible, the kids are all going to get it.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the end game now? Originally, it was to mask and social distance until the vaccines were widely available. Now there seems to be no end in sight. I don’t think “zero covid” is achievable at this point (if it ever was). Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Deaths aren’t high. So what’s the goal here?

I can't believer there are still people out there that think this has anything to do with public health.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the end game now? Originally, it was to mask and social distance until the vaccines were widely available. Now there seems to be no end in sight. I don’t think “zero covid” is achievable at this point (if it ever was). Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Deaths aren’t high. So what’s the goal here?

I can't believer there are still people out there that think this has anything to do with public health.

What is it about then? Genuinely curious

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It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

Really? I know just as many who won't.

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

No one I know will do that.

The vaccinated will defy it, because hell, that's why we got vaccinated in the first place!

Those who are unvaccinated never cared.

These stupid mandates accomplish nothing. At the end of the day, people need to assess their own circumstances and risks. The mask mandates punish those who have tried to do the right thing by getting vaccinated, and the un-vaxxed will just do whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

Most ppl in the dc area are rabid rule followers
Which is such a tiny population in the grand scheme of the country

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

Most ppl in the dc area are rabid rule followers
Which is such a tiny population in the grand scheme of the country

So then, why are the infection numbers going up? Doesn't make sense.

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The infections are going up in DC b/c poor black people won't get vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

Really? I know just as many who won't.

+1. Including me.

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Anonymous wrote:Masks are here to stay. Fine. But can we at least adjust age upward. Two year olds are basically babies in diapers who sleep in cribs. The WHO says under five should not be masked.

+1. I have a 21 month old with a mild speech delay. Unfortunately we cannot afford for me to stay home. I don't want him masked up before he can even talk.

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