Montgomery- 5 more days and masks off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is stupid and security theater. I was out in VA this weekend which doesn’t have a mask mandate, apart from schools and public buildings, but a lot of people do still wear them. So these people are wearing a mask to shop at Wegmans while also going to the wineries on a cool, rainy/windy day (indoors), packed at a table eating shared food and drinking with friends, with every other table in the place packed full and barely a mask in sight? Makes no sense. Masks aren’t even that great at preventing Delta Covid anyway. After you’re vaccinated, masks are basically “tinkering around the edges” in terms of reducing the probability you’ll be infected.

You do understand the difference between people going to Walgreens and people going to a Winery pp?

Sick people go into pharmacies and grocery stores and Target and any place with a pharmacy, and sick people don't *typically* feel like hanging out and getting a glass of wine.

Maybe if more people in MoCo would use their freaking common sense and wear masks in drug stores and any place with a pharmacy, you could keep the rates down and NOT be mandated to wear them in other places where sick people usually don't gather.

The stupid, it hurts so much. I mean, I can't even believe that the pp typed the paragraph above and didn't think about the difference between wearing a mask in a *pharmacy* versus a "winery."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is stupid and security theater. I was out in VA this weekend which doesn’t have a mask mandate, apart from schools and public buildings, but a lot of people do still wear them. So these people are wearing a mask to shop at Wegmans while also going to the wineries on a cool, rainy/windy day (indoors), packed at a table eating shared food and drinking with friends, with every other table in the place packed full and barely a mask in sight? Makes no sense. Masks aren’t even that great at preventing Delta Covid anyway. After you’re vaccinated, masks are basically “tinkering around the edges” in terms of reducing the probability you’ll be infected.

"These people" who? Were you hanging out with someone, and you went to Wegmans with them and they wore a mask, and then you went to a winery with them and they didn't?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:55.87

A minuscule dip. The mask mandate is coming back.

Not if -16 new cases are reported tomorrow.

You can do negative new cases, right?

Looks like Prince George's county now has a lower case rate even though its vaccination rate is lower. What is the difference between Montgomery and Prince George's counties?

[Anonymous]

I was in the Dulles Wegman’s yesterday (Loudoun County, where hospitalizations, deaths and cases are headed down) and I’d say 70% of the shoppers were masked. I was not. I refuse to go along with the hygiene theater any longer. If masks are optional, I won’t wear one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in the Dulles Wegman’s yesterday (Loudoun County, where hospitalizations, deaths and cases are headed down) and I’d say 70% of the shoppers were masked. I was not. I refuse to go along with the hygiene theater any longer. If masks are optional, I won’t wear one.

Says the same people who seem to love TSA security theater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was in the Dulles Wegman’s yesterday (Loudoun County, where hospitalizations, deaths and cases are headed down) and I’d say 70% of the shoppers were masked. I was not. I refuse to go along with the hygiene theater any longer. If masks are optional, I won’t wear one.

Says the same people who seem to love TSA security theater.

Wtf are you taken about? You can read PPs mind?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:55.87

A minuscule dip. The mask mandate is coming back.

Not if -16 new cases are reported tomorrow.

You can do negative new cases, right?

Looks like Prince George's county now has a lower case rate even though its vaccination rate is lower. What is the difference between Montgomery and Prince George's counties?

Indeed. Montgomery County is doing a lot more testing. 5204 tests/week per 100,000 residents compared to 3758 tests/week per 100,000 residents in Prince George's County. Accordingly, their test positivity is 46% higher- 2.36% compared to 1.62% in MoCo.

I assume those are the differences you were alluding to.

[Anonymous]

I live in a higher minority area in MoCo, near PG. Everyone here is wearing masks. When I drive out to the mostly white / Asian areas, it's the white folks who aren't wearing masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was in the Dulles Wegman’s yesterday (Loudoun County, where hospitalizations, deaths and cases are headed down) and I’d say 70% of the shoppers were masked. I was not. I refuse to go along with the hygiene theater any longer. If masks are optional, I won’t wear one.

Says the same people who seem to love TSA security theater.

PP: I’m against that, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a higher minority area in MoCo, near PG. Everyone here is wearing masks. When I drive out to the mostly white / Asian areas, it's the white folks who aren't wearing masks.

The unvaccinated in DC are very pro mask. You could be seeing the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:55.87

A minuscule dip. The mask mandate is coming back.

Not if -16 new cases are reported tomorrow.

You can do negative new cases, right?

Looks like Prince George's county now has a lower case rate even though its vaccination rate is lower. What is the difference between Montgomery and Prince George's counties?

Younger population and higher case rates. Herd immunity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a higher minority area in MoCo, near PG. Everyone here is wearing masks. When I drive out to the mostly white / Asian areas, it's the white folks who aren't wearing masks.

The unvaccinated in DC are very pro mask. You could be seeing the same.

Very few are not vaccinated and some have good reasons, like health issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is stupid and security theater. I was out in VA this weekend which doesn’t have a mask mandate, apart from schools and public buildings, but a lot of people do still wear them. So these people are wearing a mask to shop at Wegmans while also going to the wineries on a cool, rainy/windy day (indoors), packed at a table eating shared food and drinking with friends, with every other table in the place packed full and barely a mask in sight? Makes no sense. Masks aren’t even that great at preventing Delta Covid anyway. After you’re vaccinated, masks are basically “tinkering around the edges” in terms of reducing the probability you’ll be infected.

You do understand the difference between people going to Walgreens and people going to a Winery pp?

Sick people go into pharmacies and grocery stores and Target and any place with a pharmacy, and sick people don't *typically* feel like hanging out and getting a glass of wine.

Maybe if more people in MoCo would use their freaking common sense and wear masks in drug stores and any place with a pharmacy, you could keep the rates down and NOT be mandated to wear them in other places where sick people usually don't gather.

The stupid, it hurts so much. I mean, I can't even believe that the pp typed the paragraph above and didn't think about the difference between wearing a mask in a *pharmacy* versus a "winery."

Lots of sick people are selfish and got to work, send their kids in sick, go out to eat, shopping and travel. People who are sick and behave that way simply don't care about others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is stupid and security theater. I was out in VA this weekend which doesn’t have a mask mandate, apart from schools and public buildings, but a lot of people do still wear them. So these people are wearing a mask to shop at Wegmans while also going to the wineries on a cool, rainy/windy day (indoors), packed at a table eating shared food and drinking with friends, with every other table in the place packed full and barely a mask in sight? Makes no sense. Masks aren’t even that great at preventing Delta Covid anyway. After you’re vaccinated, masks are basically “tinkering around the edges” in terms of reducing the probability you’ll be infected.

You do understand the difference between people going to Walgreens and people going to a Winery pp?

Sick people go into pharmacies and grocery stores and Target and any place with a pharmacy, and sick people don't *typically* feel like hanging out and getting a glass of wine.

Maybe if more people in MoCo would use their freaking common sense and wear masks in drug stores and any place with a pharmacy, you could keep the rates down and NOT be mandated to wear them in other places where sick people usually don't gather.

The stupid, it hurts so much. I mean, I can't even believe that the pp typed the paragraph above and didn't think about the difference between wearing a mask in a *pharmacy* versus a "winery."

Lots of sick people are selfish and got to work, send their kids in sick, go out to eat, shopping and travel. People who are sick and behave that way simply don't care about others.

Or, they work a job that doesn’t have paid time off. So, their choice is go to work or not put food on the table.

This goes back to the beginning of the pandemic, where every UMC person was bleating about how we should all just work from home for two weeks. Which is obviously possible for someone who works in an Amazon warehouse, or on a construction site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is stupid and security theater. I was out in VA this weekend which doesn’t have a mask mandate, apart from schools and public buildings, but a lot of people do still wear them. So these people are wearing a mask to shop at Wegmans while also going to the wineries on a cool, rainy/windy day (indoors), packed at a table eating shared food and drinking with friends, with every other table in the place packed full and barely a mask in sight? Makes no sense. Masks aren’t even that great at preventing Delta Covid anyway. After you’re vaccinated, masks are basically “tinkering around the edges” in terms of reducing the probability you’ll be infected.

You do understand the difference between people going to Walgreens and people going to a Winery pp?

Sick people go into pharmacies and grocery stores and Target and any place with a pharmacy, and sick people don't *typically* feel like hanging out and getting a glass of wine.

Maybe if more people in MoCo would use their freaking common sense and wear masks in drug stores and any place with a pharmacy, you could keep the rates down and NOT be mandated to wear them in other places where sick people usually don't gather.

The stupid, it hurts so much. I mean, I can't even believe that the pp typed the paragraph above and didn't think about the difference between wearing a mask in a *pharmacy* versus a "winery."

Lots of sick people are selfish and got to work, send their kids in sick, go out to eat, shopping and travel. People who are sick and behave that way simply don't care about others.

Or, they work a job that doesn’t have paid time off. So, their choice is go to work or not put food on the table.

This goes back to the beginning of the pandemic, where every UMC person was bleating about how we should all just work from home for two weeks. Which is obviously possible for someone who works in an Amazon warehouse, or on a construction site.

UMC can stay home. We aren't talking about working poor. If you can afford to travel, dine out and do all those things, you can afford to take two weeks off of work.

Amazon offers sick leave. Don't make them out to be a bad employer. Amazon was very good about covid.

If UMC were more responsible store employees and construction works might not get as sick. Think abut it. You are sick and go into a store sick, no mask, you touch everything, breathe on everything and make those employees sick. So, instead of making them to be the problem, you, who shops there is.