MD and VA no more mask mandate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at both Target and TJ yesterday. I did not see a single unmasked person (in MoCo)

That is because Montgomery county has not dropped the mask requirement. They will in approximately two weeks. Remember, they are always marching to the beat of their own drum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at both Target and TJ yesterday. I did not see a single unmasked person (in MoCo)

That is because Montgomery county has not dropped the mask requirement. They will in approximately two weeks. Remember, they are always marching to the beat of their own drum.

That didn't age well.....

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/05/montgomery-co-council-eases-indoor-mask-rules-for-fully-vaccinated/

[Anonymous]

People are liars the first people removing their masks will be the people NOT vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know of any grocery stores still requiring masks? Giant isn't.

[Anonymous]

So MoCo will still require 2-4 year olds to wear masks in child care if I am understanding correctly? This is going to go on forever, FML.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-can-be-detrimental-to-babies-speech-and-language-development1/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The state of emergency expires in VA on 6/30. I think it will be a lot of weirdness until then, with people being very deliberate and trying to send a message with their mask wearing or not. After 6/30, I’m hoping people lighten up. Even people with young kids who can’t be vaccinated yet. Everything I do with my kids on a daily basis, like riding bikes/scooters, sports practice, driving around in the car ... carries more risk of hospitalization for that age group than Covid.

10% of kids have long Covid. You must be a terrible driver.

Omg. Just omg. This is the level of misinformation and fear mongering we’re dealing with here. Lord have mercy!

I'm a NP and just Googled that to see if I could find anything and you will not like the answer:

"Data from the UK Office for National Statistics released in February showed that 13 percent of COVID-19 patients under the age of 11 and about 15 percent of those aged 12 to 16 had at least one symptom more than a month after diagnosis. And in a preprint posted on medRxiv at the end of January, researchers surveying caregivers of 129 patients under the age of 18 in Rome found that more than half of the children had yet to completely recover within four months of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, and nearly one-quarter of the children had three or more symptoms that persisted for at least that long."

"These data lack control groups, making it hard to assess whether symptoms such as fatigue and nasal congestion are truly related to the children’s SARS-CoV-2 infection. But it’s still important work, Lara Danziger-Isakov, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, tells Medscape Medical News about the medRxiv study. “It’s waving a flag to say we need to pay attention to this and do more investigation.”"

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/kids-may-suffer-from-long-covid-but-data-are-scarce-68511

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at both Target and TJ yesterday. I did not see a single unmasked person (in MoCo)

That is because Montgomery county has not dropped the mask requirement. They will in approximately two weeks. Remember, they are always marching to the beat of their own drum.

That didn't age well.....

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/05/montgomery-co-council-eases-indoor-mask-rules-for-fully-vaccinated/

Aged like a smelly cheese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at both Target and TJ yesterday. I did not see a single unmasked person (in MoCo)

That is because Montgomery county has not dropped the mask requirement. They will in approximately two weeks. Remember, they are always marching to the beat of their own drum.

That didn't age well.....

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/05/montgomery-co-council-eases-indoor-mask-rules-for-fully-vaccinated/

It was already gone as soon as the state removed its mask mandate. The new order just clarified that, and got rid of the outdoor mandate for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Got harassed at Wegmans about not wearing a mask by a fellow customer. Not sure if wegmans removed the mask policy or not but the store employee ignored him when he tried to point me out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got harassed at Wegmans about not wearing a mask by a fellow customer. Not sure if wegmans removed the mask policy or not but the store employee ignored him when he tried to point me out.

If a business is still requiring people to wear a mask, I’m cool with still wearing one, but if a place doesn’t have a mask requirement this madness of harassing people if they aren’t wearing one has to stop. The harassment of people that choose to continue to wear a mask inside needs to stop too. Respect people’s personal choices when neither choice is violating any sort of ordinance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got harassed at Wegmans about not wearing a mask by a fellow customer. Not sure if wegmans removed the mask policy or not but the store employee ignored him when he tried to point me out.

If a business is still requiring people to wear a mask, I’m cool with still wearing one, but if a place doesn’t have a mask requirement this madness of harassing people if they aren’t wearing one has to stop. The harassment of people that choose to continue to wear a mask inside needs to stop too. Respect people’s personal choices when neither choice is violating any sort of ordinance.

Not to mention, many of us still are not fully vaccinated. I just got my final shot this week. Many people were fortunate enough to get both their shots earlier than we were but there were a lot of people there getting vaccinated as well. Once we hit July, I think anyone that wants a shot that's 12+ should have had a chance to be fully vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The state of emergency expires in VA on 6/30. I think it will be a lot of weirdness until then, with people being very deliberate and trying to send a message with their mask wearing or not. After 6/30, I’m hoping people lighten up. Even people with young kids who can’t be vaccinated yet. Everything I do with my kids on a daily basis, like riding bikes/scooters, sports practice, driving around in the car ... carries more risk of hospitalization for that age group than Covid.

10% of kids have long Covid. You must be a terrible driver.

Omg. Just omg. This is the level of misinformation and fear mongering we’re dealing with here. Lord have mercy!

I'm a NP and just Googled that to see if I could find anything and you will not like the answer:

"Data from the UK Office for National Statistics released in February showed that 13 percent of COVID-19 patients under the age of 11 and about 15 percent of those aged 12 to 16 had at least one symptom more than a month after diagnosis. And in a preprint posted on medRxiv at the end of January, researchers surveying caregivers of 129 patients under the age of 18 in Rome found that more than half of the children had yet to completely recover within four months of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, and nearly one-quarter of the children had three or more symptoms that persisted for at least that long."

"These data lack control groups, making it hard to assess whether symptoms such as fatigue and nasal congestion are truly related to the children’s SARS-CoV-2 infection. But it’s still important work, Lara Danziger-Isakov, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, tells Medscape Medical News about the medRxiv study. “It’s waving a flag to say we need to pay attention to this and do more investigation.”"

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/kids-may-suffer-from-long-covid-but-data-are-scarce-68511

Whatever the percentages are, they are overcounts, as the vast majority of cases in the young are asymptomatic and thus not in the denominator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The state of emergency expires in VA on 6/30. I think it will be a lot of weirdness until then, with people being very deliberate and trying to send a message with their mask wearing or not. After 6/30, I’m hoping people lighten up. Even people with young kids who can’t be vaccinated yet. Everything I do with my kids on a daily basis, like riding bikes/scooters, sports practice, driving around in the car ... carries more risk of hospitalization for that age group than Covid.

10% of kids have long Covid. You must be a terrible driver.

Omg. Just omg. This is the level of misinformation and fear mongering we’re dealing with here. Lord have mercy!

I'm a NP and just Googled that to see if I could find anything and you will not like the answer:

"Data from the UK Office for National Statistics released in February showed that 13 percent of COVID-19 patients under the age of 11 and about 15 percent of those aged 12 to 16 had at least one symptom more than a month after diagnosis. And in a preprint posted on medRxiv at the end of January, researchers surveying caregivers of 129 patients under the age of 18 in Rome found that more than half of the children had yet to completely recover within four months of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, and nearly one-quarter of the children had three or more symptoms that persisted for at least that long."

"These data lack control groups, making it hard to assess whether symptoms such as fatigue and nasal congestion are truly related to the children’s SARS-CoV-2 infection. But it’s still important work, Lara Danziger-Isakov, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, tells Medscape Medical News about the medRxiv study. “It’s waving a flag to say we need to pay attention to this and do more investigation.”"

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/kids-may-suffer-from-long-covid-but-data-are-scarce-68511

Whatever the percentages are, they are overcounts, as the vast majority of cases in the young are asymptomatic and thus not in the denominator.

With adults, (rightly or wrongly) it's basically assumed that roughly 1/2 of infected people are asymptomatic. It's probably a lot higher in children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So as of May 28 all the physical distancing requirements will be dropped too? So no more 10 ft apart requirement at exercise facilities including outdoor pools?

Yep, that's correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So as of May 28 all the physical distancing requirements will be dropped too? So no more 10 ft apart requirement at exercise facilities including outdoor pools?

Yep, that's correct.

Excellent!