People still masking every day at work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

People in surrounding counties are the most highly educated in the US.

[Anonymous]

They're either physically or mentally ill. Generally the later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're either physically or mentally ill. Generally the later.

And I say this as a primary care physician who has a panel of 2000 patients that I know very well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

Why in the world is it your business whether someone masks?

This ? is for anyone spewing about how others are blah blah for wearing one?

Masks are noninvasive, they do not affect anyone else ever. How is it your business?

Judgy church crowd should reread those Bibles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

People in surrounding counties are the most highly educated in the US.

We should probably dispense with the idea that the educated were somehow superior during the pandemic because of their education status. They were more likely to blindly follow “experts” even when experts weren’t making any sense at all (and have sense been shown to be making things up).

The educated were more likely to rigorously adhere to the 6ft rule, eschew all social interactions for nearly 2 years (including a long time after vaccine was available), supported opening bars and restaurants (high transmission risk) while also supporting keeping schools closed (low transmission risk), supported the ridiculous cloth masks, were smug about wearing masks being unnecessary in March only to become indignant at not wearing them by April.

So, maybe the education level of the DC area isn’t the best indicator to throw around. Covid exposed how little intellect actually exists among the educated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

Actually I believe there is, although I can’t remember where I read it now. Older cities tend to have a lot of environmental contaminants- more lead in drinking water, lead and asbestos in housing, more air pollution, etc. I know so many people who have gotten cancer here, or suffer from bad asthma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the teachers at my DC's daycare still mask, although half the time I see them the masks are pulled down under their noses or to their chin completely. I've given up trying to understand, just counting the days until we are done.

You live in the DC area. It will never be done.

We’re done with daycare this year. I’ve barely seen any of the teachers at my older kid’s public school masking in quite a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

Why in the world is it your business whether someone masks?

This ? is for anyone spewing about how others are blah blah for wearing one?

Masks are noninvasive, they do not affect anyone else ever. How is it your business?

Judgy church crowd should reread those Bibles.

NP but these maskers sure had an issue with anyone who didn't want to wear these silly do-nothing face rags. They sure had an opinion about it then. I say give it right back to them. Hell, they're the ones afraid of the air.

Don't tell me they stopped the spread because you know as well as I know they didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not understanding why others care so much about this.

This. We have people who still mask. Maybe they have a serious health issue. Maybe it has become a security blanket. Or maybe they have horrible acne and find masks cover it up. The real question is - why do you care? Unless they are insisting you mask, I do not see how this affects you.

But these forever maskers WERE the ones forcing it on everyone. Give 'em what's coming to them. They deserve ridicule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the teachers at my DC's daycare still mask, although half the time I see them the masks are pulled down under their noses or to their chin completely. I've given up trying to understand, just counting the days until we are done.

Really? Masking stopped in my part of MoCo ages ago. Kids and adults alike.

PP. Also at a MoCo daycare. There is still a sign up encouraging masking, although all the kids stopped a long time ago. If individuals want to mask, fine, but it’s nuts to me that they are still encouraging their employees to do so. And like I said, they’re not wearing them properly a lot of the time anyway, so I assume it’s pressure from the center director rather than genuine health concerns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

People in surrounding counties are the most highly educated in the US.

And the most arrogant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the teachers at my DC's daycare still mask, although half the time I see them the masks are pulled down under their noses or to their chin completely. I've given up trying to understand, just counting the days until we are done.

Really? Masking stopped in my part of MoCo ages ago. Kids and adults alike.

PP. Also at a MoCo daycare. There is still a sign up encouraging masking, although all the kids stopped a long time ago. If individuals want to mask, fine, but it’s nuts to me that they are still encouraging their employees to do so. And like I said, they’re not wearing them properly a lot of the time anyway, so I assume it’s pressure from the center director rather than genuine health concerns.

If the staff get sick and take off work, whose watching your kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

I’m the PP with cancer. Not sure if your question is serious (?) and not sure if there’s more cancer in DC than your other unnamed city. But I can tell you that a lot of cancer patients travel to big hospitals for treatment, so per capita compared to other areas - yes, there are more cancer patients in DC! You have excellent treatment options there that we don’t have two hours away.

I would be pretty horrified if I was just minding my own cancery self, masked, and some gave me a hard time for it or intentionally tried to make me sick. Just let them be!

Also I would never ask someone to put on a mask or change their own behavior. Are people asking you to cover up or something?