When are you going to stop wearing masks indoors (stores, etc)

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Anonymous wrote:Still the lack of empathy. Horrible people. I need to delete this forum from my memory and never come back.

And yet, you keep coming back.

I have empathy for you. It sucks. But it also sucks for my kid who needs speech therapy now in large part because of spending the last 2 years in a mask. Do you have empathy for her and her need to not wear a mask? You need to make your own risk assessments and live accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:Still the lack of empathy. Horrible people. I need to delete this forum from my memory and never come back.

But the ticket. Take the ride.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of an infant, thanks to everyone who will continue to wear a mask indoors at essential places. It sucks being a forgotten parent of a kid under 5.

Yes, and high risk folks who are unable to be vaccinated are also forgotten. We'll continue to mask, for those at higher risk. It hurts us zero to wear a mask inside.

The challenge is infants and imunocompromised folks have always been at higher risk of many things besides Covid. Infants do not have bad cases of Covid. At some point this has to end. We won’t be masking forever, and thankfully that is ending now. Parents and the imunocompromised will need to determine their own risk and accommodate as they did pre-Covid.

Thanks for making my risk analysis for me! Also, I bet you may feel differently it it was your kid. We are so close to a vaccine for kids under five that it is infuriating to feel dismissed here and else where like kids are fine so get over it. I love my child and I want my baby to have the same chance for protection as everyone else. Guess many people really are selfish.

It really is selfish to expect the world to cater to you, but I’ve been a parent infants and remember I felt that way at the time also.

It’s selfish to expect society to care enough to mask in the grocery store until my baby can get a vaccine hopefully in just a few months? I don’t care what else people do. But I would like to do essential errands safely. It’s actually not a lot to ask to care about others enough to wear a mask in the produce section. Glad you aren’t my in laws!

Considering the very low risk of covid in children under 5 and the very low vaccination rates in children, yes, you are selfish to expect others to mask for your baby.

+1 Please understand why there isn't a vaccine for that age group. It's because they will never ever find that benefits outweigh the risks. It's so unhealthy of PP to be waiting for a vaccine to get back to live. Get that baby out in the world and get help for your anxiety.

Screw you and everyone else being a jerk to me. Thanks for ruining my day. The lack of empathy is astounding. I don’t want my baby to get Covid until there’s a vaccine which is looking promising soon. Sorry you think you need to tell me how to analyze my risk and protect my family. Screw off. Seriously.

I’m really curious how you would have reacted to the risk of the flu had it not been for covid. The flu has a similar risk profile as covid in infants- not exactly the same, but similar- and it circulates at a much higher level in the community than what we’re seeing with COVID right now in the DMV.

A lot of people seem to have trouble putting risks in context.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of an infant, thanks to everyone who will continue to wear a mask indoors at essential places. It sucks being a forgotten parent of a kid under 5.

Yes, and high risk folks who are unable to be vaccinated are also forgotten. We'll continue to mask, for those at higher risk. It hurts us zero to wear a mask inside.

The challenge is infants and imunocompromised folks have always been at higher risk of many things besides Covid. Infants do not have bad cases of Covid. At some point this has to end. We won’t be masking forever, and thankfully that is ending now. Parents and the imunocompromised will need to determine their own risk and accommodate as they did pre-Covid.

Thanks for making my risk analysis for me! Also, I bet you may feel differently it it was your kid. We are so close to a vaccine for kids under five that it is infuriating to feel dismissed here and else where like kids are fine so get over it. I love my child and I want my baby to have the same chance for protection as everyone else. Guess many people really are selfish.

As someone with both an immunocompromised family member and two kids under five who have struggled with speech and socialization, I would say you’re the one acting selfishly given the low risk of Covid in kids. Are you going to suggest we now also institute mask mandates every flu season since kids are similarly at risk to that as Covid?

And you really don’t know we’re close to a vaccine for kids under five. You could have just as easily made the same statement last summer and you would have been wrong.

Covid isn’t the flu. Thanks for playing.

You're right.....the flu is more dangerous to kids.

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RSV is way deadlier to young children and infants. WHY WON'T PEOPLE WEAR MASKS BECAUSE MY CHILD MAY GET RSV!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:RSV is way deadlier to young children and infants. WHY WON'T PEOPLE WEAR MASKS BECAUSE MY CHILD MAY GET RSV!!!!

Frankly we probably should wear masks in the winter, they work so freaking well.

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Anonymous wrote:RSV is way deadlier to young children and infants. WHY WON'T PEOPLE WEAR MASKS BECAUSE MY CHILD MAY GET RSV!!!!

Frankly we probably should wear masks in the winter, they work so freaking well.

For keeping your nose warm, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:RSV is way deadlier to young children and infants. WHY WON'T PEOPLE WEAR MASKS BECAUSE MY CHILD MAY GET RSV!!!!

Frankly we probably should wear masks in the winter, they work so freaking well.

You are free to do just that.

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Anonymous wrote:Still the lack of empathy. Horrible people. I need to delete this forum from my memory and never come back.

And yet, you keep coming back.

I have empathy for you. It sucks. But it also sucks for my kid who needs speech therapy now in large part because of spending the last 2 years in a mask. Do you have empathy for her and her need to not wear a mask? You need to make your own risk assessments and live accordingly.

Your kid only was wearing a mask in day care. They weren't wearing it at home, nights, mornings or weekends. Masks are not why kids need speech therapy and some kids just have delays or disorders. Many of our kids needed years of speech therapy pre-covid.

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I haven't read through all 34 pages. It's astoundingly clear our society is not one that tends to consider others. Asian cultures if you have even a mild cold they put on a mask as to not give that to others. Kids included. How many parents dose their kids with 102 fevers and send them to school?

Of course that's because we don't support working parents in general in this country. There's also a major issue with people not being able to be happy for others unless they're getting something themselves.

And don't get me wrong on the people who are angry that Costco increased employee pay significantly because they are now making less. Get angry with YOUR employer, not someone else!

Okay rant over. We still wear our masks into most stores. We've enjoyed not being sick.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read through all 34 pages. It's astoundingly clear our society is not one that tends to consider others. Asian cultures if you have even a mild cold they put on a mask as to not give that to others. Kids included. How many parents dose their kids with 102 fevers and send them to school?

Of course that's because we don't support working parents in general in this country. There's also a major issue with people not being able to be happy for others unless they're getting something themselves.

And don't get me wrong on the people who are angry that Costco increased employee pay significantly because they are now making less. Get angry with YOUR employer, not someone else!

Okay rant over. We still wear our masks into most stores. We've enjoyed not being sick.

Yes Asian countries are so supportive of working parents. Especially ones where the DIL is expected to take care of the in-laws. Give me a break.

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I haven’t read the crazy number of posts, but just got back from vacation to a place in the west where maybe 10% of people were wearing masks. Then went to Whole Foods here yesterday (masks not required) and 99% of the people were wearing masks. I had back to back business meetings just before vacation. At one, in TN, there were no masks at all. Not at the hotel, in restaurants, in the meeting. In the other, in PA, we had to test to attend and be masked the whole day.

I’m ready to ditch the mask given the super low rates here, but the peer pressure is real.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read through all 34 pages. It's astoundingly clear our society is not one that tends to consider others. Asian cultures if you have even a mild cold they put on a mask as to not give that to others. Kids included. How many parents dose their kids with 102 fevers and send them to school?

Of course that's because we don't support working parents in general in this country. There's also a major issue with people not being able to be happy for others unless they're getting something themselves.

And don't get me wrong on the people who are angry that Costco increased employee pay significantly because they are now making less. Get angry with YOUR employer, not someone else!

Okay rant over. We still wear our masks into most stores. We've enjoyed not being sick.

Honestly, what the hell are you talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of an infant, thanks to everyone who will continue to wear a mask indoors at essential places. It sucks being a forgotten parent of a kid under 5.

Yes, and high risk folks who are unable to be vaccinated are also forgotten. We'll continue to mask, for those at higher risk. It hurts us zero to wear a mask inside.

The challenge is infants and imunocompromised folks have always been at higher risk of many things besides Covid. Infants do not have bad cases of Covid. At some point this has to end. We won’t be masking forever, and thankfully that is ending now. Parents and the imunocompromised will need to determine their own risk and accommodate as they did pre-Covid.

Thanks for making my risk analysis for me! Also, I bet you may feel differently it it was your kid. We are so close to a vaccine for kids under five that it is infuriating to feel dismissed here and else where like kids are fine so get over it. I love my child and I want my baby to have the same chance for protection as everyone else. Guess many people really are selfish.

As someone with both an immunocompromised family member and two kids under five who have struggled with speech and socialization, I would say you’re the one acting selfishly given the low risk of Covid in kids. Are you going to suggest we now also institute mask mandates every flu season since kids are similarly at risk to that as Covid?

And you really don’t know we’re close to a vaccine for kids under five. You could have just as easily made the same statement last summer and you would have been wrong.

Covid isn’t the flu. Thanks for playing.

You're right.....the flu is more dangerous to kids.

I think what people tend to miss is that they don't want their kid to get sick, partly because of the potential long terms risks (for instance, new data on heart problems in the year following Covid) but in large part to protect others in their family who are more vulnerable. Thus, protecting kids from getting Covid isn't heavily correlated with the severity of Covid in kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t read the crazy number of posts, but just got back from vacation to a place in the west where maybe 10% of people were wearing masks. Then went to Whole Foods here yesterday (masks not required) and 99% of the people were wearing masks. I had back to back business meetings just before vacation. At one, in TN, there were no masks at all. Not at the hotel, in restaurants, in the meeting. In the other, in PA, we had to test to attend and be masked the whole day.

I’m ready to ditch the mask given the super low rates here, but the peer pressure is real.

+1. I wore mine grocery shopping this weekend because I didn't want to stick out, not because I think my cloth mask is doing anything. This was at Trader Joe's, and there were a handful of shoppers and employees not wearing one, so maybe it's slowly starting to change.

DH went to a different store and is less self-conscious than me and didn't wear one. In that case he said the only other person not wearing one was the store manager. He said other shoppers were staring at him the entire time, not necessarily an angry stare (as much as you could tell that with masks on, lol), more disbelief.