Will your child wear a mask when they go back to school?

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Anonymous wrote:It's truly bizarre here in the DC area. We just finished up a week visiting family in Connecticut and very few people were wearing a mask indoors, and I didn't see a single person wearing one outdoors. COVID has truly broken some people's brains in this area and it's quite sad to see how anxiety-ridden many once reasonable people have become.

Since 1 in 8 people who get covid end up with long-haul side effects which are often life-altering, I would call it a reasonable concern.

I have two friends who got long COVID and for neither of them has it been "life altering". Mainly, it affected their ability to exercise for a while. They eventually got better. It absolutely totally sucked, but it's not the type of thing I would be willing to cover my nose and mouth forever in order to avoid. So the real question is, how often is long COVID causing disability? I see people reporting their issues on Twitter and they sound absolutely awful, but it's pretty clear my Twitter feed is not especially representative of the population as a whole, most of which has had COVID at least once.

I technically had long covid since I had a lingering cough, fatigue etc for a month or so. But I also haven’t taken any precautions besides those required since May 2020. I’ve enjoyed many vacations, parties, weddings etc. Worth it to me. Even if I had changed my life to avoid covid, I likely would have still caught it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's truly bizarre here in the DC area. We just finished up a week visiting family in Connecticut and very few people were wearing a mask indoors, and I didn't see a single person wearing one outdoors. COVID has truly broken some people's brains in this area and it's quite sad to see how anxiety-ridden many once reasonable people have become.

Since 1 in 8 people who get covid end up with long-haul side effects which are often life-altering, I would call it a reasonable concern.

lol! You just proved PP’s point.

My guess as to why this area is so covid cautious is because a lot of people don’t have many friends. If you actually have friends and a social life you’d know that there is no way 1 in 8 people have “life altering” side effects from COVID. I know hundreds of people who have had covid and no one has ever mentioned long covid to me. It doesn’t mean no one has it, but it doesn’t seem to be a huge problem. It’s why the media stopped the fearmongering stories on it.

It is a huge problem, it's just affecting a small percentage of the population in a "life altering" way. Large enough to impact the labor market, but small enough that most of us don't know someone who can't work due to long COVID. Since masks do not eliminate transmission especially given the new variants (everyone in Japan wears masks and they are having a massive surge), and masks make communication more difficult, then no, indefinite masking is not the answer. Increasing vaccine uptake and getting more funding for therapies should be the focus IMO. NPIs have a lot of negative effects and anyone who denies that is a troll.

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https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work/

"Cutler estimated that 3.5 million people are out of work due to long Covid, for a five-year lost wage cost of $1 trillion, or around $200 billion per year. "

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's truly bizarre here in the DC area. We just finished up a week visiting family in Connecticut and very few people were wearing a mask indoors, and I didn't see a single person wearing one outdoors. COVID has truly broken some people's brains in this area and it's quite sad to see how anxiety-ridden many once reasonable people have become.

Since 1 in 8 people who get covid end up with long-haul side effects which are often life-altering, I would call it a reasonable concern.

lol! You just proved PP’s point.

My guess as to why this area is so covid cautious is because a lot of people don’t have many friends. If you actually have friends and a social life you’d know that there is no way 1 in 8 people have “life altering” side effects from COVID. I know hundreds of people who have had covid and no one has ever mentioned long covid to me. It doesn’t mean no one has it, but it doesn’t seem to be a huge problem. It’s why the media stopped the fearmongering stories on it.

It is a huge problem, it's just affecting a small percentage of the population in a "life altering" way. Large enough to impact the labor market, but small enough that most of us don't know someone who can't work due to long COVID. Since masks do not eliminate transmission especially given the new variants (everyone in Japan wears masks and they are having a massive surge), and masks make communication more difficult, then no, indefinite masking is not the answer. Increasing vaccine uptake and getting more funding for therapies should be the focus IMO. NPIs have a lot of negative effects and anyone who denies that is a troll.

Getting the booster out based on the Omicron platform would help. We're coming up on a year where that's been the major variant.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work/

"Cutler estimated that 3.5 million people are out of work due to long Covid, for a five-year lost wage cost of $1 trillion, or around $200 billion per year. "

If you actually read the report, it estimates that 16 million Americans have long covid; of those, 2 to 4 million can't work because of it. So that's, what, ~1% of those who've had covid develop such severe long covid that they can't work, right?

One percent is a lot, but it's not 12.5%, as PP was trying to claim.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work/

"Cutler estimated that 3.5 million people are out of work due to long Covid, for a five-year lost wage cost of $1 trillion, or around $200 billion per year. "

If you actually read the report, it estimates that 16 million Americans have long covid; of those, 2 to 4 million can't work because of it. So that's, what, ~1% of those who've had covid develop such severe long covid that they can't work, right?

One percent is a lot, but it's not 12.5%, as PP was trying to claim.

I did "actually read the report" and agree with you that PP was exaggerating. I also disagree with the notion that disabling long COVID isn't a major health issue. FWIW I don't think that means we should all wear masks forever, but I would support significant funding to pay for therapies and disability payments.

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No

[Anonymous]

None of this matters as there is no masking except choice. You have no right to take away someones choice.

[Anonymous]

How many people fake long covid to get disability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's truly bizarre here in the DC area. We just finished up a week visiting family in Connecticut and very few people were wearing a mask indoors, and I didn't see a single person wearing one outdoors. COVID has truly broken some people's brains in this area and it's quite sad to see how anxiety-ridden many once reasonable people have become.

Since 1 in 8 people who get covid end up with long-haul side effects which are often life-altering, I would call it a reasonable concern.

Source for both 1 in 8 with "long-haul side effects" and "often life-altering" please

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you seeing a lot of masking wearing the DC area? When I'm out and about I barely see any.

I live in NE DC and regularly see people wearing masks OUTSIDE even. It's like I'm in a time warp back to 2020.

I think some of this is legacy-based identify politics. They learned the behavior two years ago as anti-Trump and never unlearned it.

We also have a lot of unvaccinted blacks who wear masks everywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you seeing a lot of masking wearing the DC area? When I'm out and about I barely see any.

I live in NE DC and regularly see people wearing masks OUTSIDE even. It's like I'm in a time warp back to 2020.

I think some of this is legacy-based identify politics. They learned the behavior two years ago as anti-Trump and never unlearned it.

We also have a lot of unvaccinted blacks who wear masks everywhere.

Sure we do. Do you ever actually spend time in the neighborhoods with relatively low vaccination rates? Get back to me on the mask usage (hint: it’s low).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many people fake long covid to get disability?

With zero objective diagnostic criteria and diagnosis made via self report, why wouldn’t you claim long covid if you hate work and can get paid not to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work/

"Cutler estimated that 3.5 million people are out of work due to long Covid, for a five-year lost wage cost of $1 trillion, or around $200 billion per year. "

If you actually read the report, it estimates that 16 million Americans have long covid; of those, 2 to 4 million can't work because of it. So that's, what, ~1% of those who've had covid develop such severe long covid that they can't work, right?

One percent is a lot, but it's not 12.5%, as PP was trying to claim.

I did "actually read the report" and agree with you that PP was exaggerating. I also disagree with the notion that disabling long COVID isn't a major health issue. FWIW I don't think that means we should all wear masks forever, but I would support significant funding to pay for therapies and disability payments.

Where are all these disabled people? No one is missing from my workplace. Or my husband’s. And basically everyone has had covid by now.

[Anonymous]

Hell to the no my child won't be wearing a mask after 2.5 years of this nonsense. Get outside the DC area for a bit and you'll understand how insane some people here are. Wearing masks outdoors like a bunch of nutjobs!