Montgomery- 5 more days and masks off.

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Anonymous wrote:Really sad. I rarely shop except grocery shopping as its not worth the risk and now I will not even be able to do that.

Please see a therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:Really sad. I rarely shop except grocery shopping as its not worth the risk and now I will not even be able to do that.

Please see a therapist.

Why don't you see a therapist since you aren't capable of responsible behavior during a pandemic? Thanks to people like you, this will never end.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what you hate about masks? I kind of like them. I work in a public building, and it's nice not to be sick all the time from other people's germs. And with masks, you don't have to worry about having salad stuck in your teeth after lunch.

I teach an ES grade. I have difficulty hearing some of the students. They are slower to react, or don’t react to me when I’m giving directions. It’s difficult to read aloud to the class.

You know what's even more important of why? Because you can still get and spread covid vaccinated. There was already a selfish teacher who spread it to her students. You really think that's the right choice given you could KILL one of your students?

0 children in the 0-19 age range have died of Covid in MoCo:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

Is this what you tell yourself to justify your poor behavior? A few kids just died in Virginia? Why don't you tell that to the parent who had to bury their child because someone selfish sent their sick kid into school, where she caught covid and quickly died due to poor medical care. Just because no kids have died here, yet, doesn't mean it cannot happen. Wearing masks save lives. Its been been proven.

No, it has been computer modeled. It has not been proven.

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Anonymous wrote:Stay in your bubbles with bubble wrap on for the next 50-60 years! You could step on a thorn walking outside! The horror!

Whatever. Have fun without your masks, cough on everyone you can, because you can. Hopefully you will make up for the loss of my business.

There are many of us who have chronic illnesses and the pandemic isn't over. We know where we stand with you now. It is what it is, and I am not doing business with any of you anti maskers and anti vaccinators any damn more.

Most people are vaccinated so your vaccine comment is silly. Of course its not over for many of us and reality is these folks will be catching it soon enough as being vaccinated isn't enough as they vaccines reduce symptoms and lesson the risks but don't stop covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Really sad. I rarely shop except grocery shopping as its not worth the risk and now I will not even be able to do that.

I legit don’t understand this. If you are vaccinated, what is the issue? If you feel you must, why can’t you wear a mask?
Have people forgotten that we existed before Covid? Have people forgotten that there are other illnesses other than Covid?
A sterile bubble isn’t possible or ideal.

Colds and flu have not killed people like Covid. Be grateful for your your health. Not all are as fortunate as you. Must be nice to stop caring about others. Some of us actually care. [/quote

Yes, flu and pneumonia kill thousands every year (until COVID). Because people die, and so far we haven't figured out a way to stop frail and vulnerable people from dying.

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What are you rambling about? The pandemic hasn't been hard. Its been no big deal. What is hard is people behaving is a selfish manner where they only care about themselves and therefore we cannot go out because we don't want covid. Vaccines help, but they are not 100% and many people are getting covid vaccinated. So, exclusively relying on vaccines is for stupid people. Simple precautions like masking have proven to help. But, hey, the good thing is if you get really sick or die, you cannot complain here to us as you'll be dead.

No, you're using the wrong denominator. In highly vaccinated areas, many of the people who are getting covid are vaccinated - but that's just because there aren't many unvaccinated people. We know that unvaccinated people are far more likely to become infected and far more likely, if infected, to get seriously ill or die from covid.

Also, get out of here with the "the pandemic hasn't been hard" nonsense.

The pandemic hasn't been hard on us at all. Its been one of the easier things we've gone through. We've had real hardships prior to covid, devastating things happen. No one died, not one got sick in our family, we still have our income, working from home, children in virtual school and the bonus is more quality time together as we cut back on activities and other things. Its how you look at it. You view it as a tragic thing as you cannot handle being at home. We view the extra time we gained as a family as a good thing.

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You know what's even more important of why? Because you can still get and spread covid vaccinated. There was already a selfish teacher who spread it to her students. You really think that's the right choice given you could KILL one of your students?

She may or may not have been selfish, I don't know, but I do know that she was NOT vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm

And, none of our elementary age, and some middle school children aren't vaccinated. Kids in VA just passed away. Isn't that enough to say masking needs to stay.

This makes no sense. PP was talking about the risks from a vaccinated teacher infecting their students, except that the teacher was unvaccinated, and so you follow up with ... the risks to unvaccinated students?

So, you think if someone vaccinated gets covid, unmasked in this situation they aren't going to pass it along to the kids? Keep dreaming.

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Anonymous wrote:Really sad. I rarely shop except grocery shopping as its not worth the risk and now I will not even be able to do that.

Please see a therapist.

Why don't you see a therapist since you aren't capable of responsible behavior during a pandemic? Thanks to people like you, this will never end.

No, people like you are why this is getting dragged out, being unable to acknowledge what all the experts are saying: COVID will become endemic and everyone will eventually get it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so happy to hear that! I’m temporarily working in Canada and people here pretend that vaccines don’t matter at all. I wear a mask for whole day in a fully vaccinated office with two bachelors.

We work with our Canadian office and sometimes they start off meetings acknowledging the land their office is on was once part of the (insert tribe name here) nation. Do they do that too in your office?

Interesting. We said that in my grad school at umbc.

I wonder if the Anglos in England say that given that the priors on that land were Celts.

The land here didn't belong to Native Americans just because their ancestors were the first to walk here. It belongs to the people who conquered it, just like every other piece of land around the world. It's a tough world.

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Anonymous wrote:Really sad. I rarely shop except grocery shopping as its not worth the risk and now I will not even be able to do that.

Please see a therapist.

Why don't you see a therapist since you aren't capable of responsible behavior during a pandemic? Thanks to people like you, this will never end.

Define the end. Do you think everyone else will agree with you when you say it's over?

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You know what's even more important of why? Because you can still get and spread covid vaccinated. There was already a selfish teacher who spread it to her students. You really think that's the right choice given you could KILL one of your students?

She may or may not have been selfish, I don't know, but I do know that she was NOT vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm

And, none of our elementary age, and some middle school children aren't vaccinated. Kids in VA just passed away. Isn't that enough to say masking needs to stay.

This makes no sense. PP was talking about the risks from a vaccinated teacher infecting their students, except that the teacher was unvaccinated, and so you follow up with ... the risks to unvaccinated students?

So, you think if someone vaccinated gets covid, unmasked in this situation they aren't going to pass it along to the kids? Keep dreaming.

Lots of kids have already had it and you never figured it out.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so happy to hear that! I’m temporarily working in Canada and people here pretend that vaccines don’t matter at all. I wear a mask for whole day in a fully vaccinated office with two bachelors.

We work with our Canadian office and sometimes they start off meetings acknowledging the land their office is on was once part of the (insert tribe name here) nation. Do they do that too in your office?

Interesting. We said that in my grad school at umbc.

I wonder if the Anglos in England say that given that the priors on that land were Celts.

The land here didn't belong to Native Americans just because their ancestors were the first to walk here. It belongs to the people who conquered it, just like every other piece of land around the world. It's a tough world.

Oh, I totally agree.

Much of the story of human history is the story of the movement of people and cultures. No ethnic group has a rightful hold to a place just because their ancestors happened to be there at some point some time earlier.

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You know what's even more important of why? Because you can still get and spread covid vaccinated. There was already a selfish teacher who spread it to her students. You really think that's the right choice given you could KILL one of your students?

She may or may not have been selfish, I don't know, but I do know that she was NOT vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm

And, none of our elementary age, and some middle school children aren't vaccinated. Kids in VA just passed away. Isn't that enough to say masking needs to stay.

Certainly not. Kids die of infectious diseases, along with a variety of other causes, each year. It's not rational to maintain or institute policies in response to isolated incidents in other states, particularly when it's not clear those policies would meaningfully change outcomes and risks.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what you hate about masks? I kind of like them. I work in a public building, and it's nice not to be sick all the time from other people's germs. And with masks, you don't have to worry about having salad stuck in your teeth after lunch.

Do you have glasses?

That's the main reason for me. No matter what masks I use, my glasses still fog up. And that just gets worse as temperatures drop.

More generally, I have a four-year-old with ASD that we simply can't get to wear masks. The MoCo mask order language has never been terribly clear on this, leading different people to have different interpretations about whether the order applies to him. Some places, like the National Zoo, have clear processes for mask exemptions, but MoCo events/establishments often don't have processes for that.

In the summer, masks always made me feel about 10F warmer than it actually was.

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Anonymous wrote:Stay in your bubbles with bubble wrap on for the next 50-60 years! You could step on a thorn walking outside! The horror!

Whatever. Have fun without your masks, cough on everyone you can, because you can. Hopefully you will make up for the loss of my business.

There are many of us who have chronic illnesses and the pandemic isn't over. We know where we stand with you now. It is what it is, and I am not doing business with any of you anti maskers and anti vaccinators any damn more.

Most people are vaccinated so your vaccine comment is silly. Of course its not over for many of us and reality is these folks will be catching it soon enough as being vaccinated isn't enough as they vaccines reduce symptoms and lesson the risks but don't stop covid.

Most people I know who are fervently anti mask are also anti vaccine, even in MoCo.

And, yes, people will be catching it soon enough even if vaccinated. So why the fervor to get rid of masks? I don't understand.