DC Indoor Mask Mandate - End Date?

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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

You're right. No on in this area commutes beyond a convenient radius from their home. No one has a job taking them on multiple site visits throughout the area over the course of the day.

I don't know about site visits, though I don't imagine that's the norm, but most of us who pay to live in the District don't commute to outside the District.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it a mask "mandate" if it's barely enforced, especially when it comes to indoor dining and drinking? It's more like a mask "suggestion."

Can't speak for MoCo, but when I went to my gym in DC, they enforced it pretty strictly. Heard the same from a friend doing a group fitness class.

It’s a crime that restaurants can require a vaccine card and ignore the mandate (keeps out the riff raft), while gyms have to do this ridiculous charade. Bowser is such an idiot.

It really punishes some businesses over others (which the threat of a lawsuit for unequal enforcement of the law would expose). At the Wizards game on Saturday night they enforced the mandate half heartedly in the walkways / concession areas, and not at all when people sat down (packed in tightly and screaming). But at my local small gym, they live under threat of being fined or shut down by some officious mask busybody EVERY DAY.

At this point, the logic of the people who want masks in perpetuity would mean we must wear them in every shared public space forever, because they might catch the flu, etc. We should stop this kind of reasoning right now. It's insane.

Personally, we should all stop wearing one and when someone asks, respond, "I follow Mayor Bowser's masking policy. I wear one when I feel like it."

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And the mask busybodies PP referenced are sadly very real.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

You're right. No on in this area commutes beyond a convenient radius from their home. No one has a job taking them on multiple site visits throughout the area over the course of the day.

That must be why traffic is so light on the bridges each morning.

I don't know about site visits, though I don't imagine that's the norm, but most of us who pay to live in the District don't commute to outside the District.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

You're right. No on in this area commutes beyond a convenient radius from their home. No one has a job taking them on multiple site visits throughout the area over the course of the day.

The District includes Northwest which basically borders and overlaps into Virginia. I live in Glover Park but frequently visit businesses in Chevy chase Bethesda and Rockville Pike.

I don't know about site visits, though I don't imagine that's the norm, but most of us who pay to live in the District don't commute to outside the District.

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Many who live in district frequent businesses in Maryland. Northwest DC borders Chevy chase Bethesda and quick access to Rockville pike. I have lots of reasons to leave the district.

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I don't, and non-parents who live centrally (and are less likely to drive) have even less reason to venture out to the suburbs. We have our own shopping in DC these days.