Montgomery- 5 more days and masks off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

MoCo doesn't have a mask mandate.

Montgomery County will likely have a mask mandate again soon.

Plus, really, almost everyone I see in stores is wearing a mask even without a mask mandate. Obviously there are exceptions, but the groups I see who are most likely to be without a mask are (1) white people (2) men (3) white people who are men.

I see a huge mix not masking. They will change the rules again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

MoCo doesn't have a mask mandate.

Montgomery County will likely have a mask mandate again soon.

Plus, really, almost everyone I see in stores is wearing a mask even without a mask mandate. Obviously there are exceptions, but the groups I see who are most likely to be without a mask are (1) white people (2) men (3) white people who are men.

I live in Bethesda and only about 50% of the people in the stores are masking.

Case in point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

MoCo doesn't have a mask mandate.

Montgomery County will likely have a mask mandate again soon.

Plus, really, almost everyone I see in stores is wearing a mask even without a mask mandate. Obviously there are exceptions, but the groups I see who are most likely to be without a mask are (1) white people (2) men (3) white people who are men.

I live in Bethesda and only about 50% of the people in the stores are masking.

Case in point.

Those horrible, horrible Bethesda white people! Not masking? Whatever could they know about their own health and vaccine status that we don’t?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

MoCo doesn't have a mask mandate.

Montgomery County will likely have a mask mandate again soon.

Plus, really, almost everyone I see in stores is wearing a mask even without a mask mandate. Obviously there are exceptions, but the groups I see who are most likely to be without a mask are (1) white people (2) men (3) white people who are men.

I live in Bethesda and only about 50% of the people in the stores are masking.

Case in point.

Those horrible, horrible Bethesda white people! Not masking? Whatever could they know about their own health and vaccine status that we don’t?!

Nobody said anything about "horrible", let alone "horrible, horrible", except you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

MoCo doesn't have a mask mandate.

Montgomery County will likely have a mask mandate again soon.

Plus, really, almost everyone I see in stores is wearing a mask even without a mask mandate. Obviously there are exceptions, but the groups I see who are most likely to be without a mask are (1) white people (2) men (3) white people who are men.

I live in Bethesda and only about 50% of the people in the stores are masking.

Bullsh!t. Absolute bullsh!t.

You are a lying liar.

[Anonymous]

The people who are much better informed and more intelligent than the average person on the street (politicians, doctors, etc) are not masking. They clearly recognize it's a wasted effort so I don't bother to either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who are much better informed and more intelligent than the average person on the street (politicians, doctors, etc) are not masking. They clearly recognize it's a wasted effort so I don't bother to either.

You're clearly not very familiar with the county council. Why are they meeting virtually if there's no danger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

MoCo doesn't have a mask mandate.

Montgomery County will likely have a mask mandate again soon.

Plus, really, almost everyone I see in stores is wearing a mask even without a mask mandate. Obviously there are exceptions, but the groups I see who are most likely to be without a mask are (1) white people (2) men (3) white people who are men.

I live in Bethesda and only about 50% of the people in the stores are masking.

Bullsh!t. Absolute bullsh!t.

You are a lying liar.

Yep. I wish they were true, because then I would have been happy to maskless myself. But I didn't want to be literally the only person not wearing mask.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The people who are much better informed and more intelligent than the average person on the street (politicians, doctors, etc) are not masking. They clearly recognize it's a wasted effort so I don't bother to either.

You're clearly not very familiar with the county council. Why are they meeting virtually if there's no danger?

NP. I assume the inclusion of "politicians" was a typo, given that he was talking about people more intelligent than most. Have you ever tried to talk to Katz or Rice? They're not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.

And for what it's worth, while I mostly agree with the reopening crowd, I wouldn't really want to be stuck in an enclosed space with them, either.

Plus, isn't their building being renovated?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Either you believe the vaccine works or not. Does MoCo believe that Covid stops at the full restaurants with all the unmasked diners or Full stadiums, weddings, packed bars, wtf? Are the hospitals in any sort of dire condition? It’s just nonsense. Heading over to NoVa to shop and eat. Not an antivaxer, not an antimasker. Just someone who believes in the vaccine and understands math and probabilities. Wear a mask if you want, no one is stopping you.

The vaccines work for what they were made for - to lessen the impact on covid for you if you were to catch it. They were never fully intended to stop you from getting covid. It was about reducing symptoms that might lead to death. You still need masks. Covid doesn't just stop existing because you are wishing it away. Covid doesn't stop existing because people choose not to believe they can catch it.

Right. The vaccines do a remarkably good job of turning COVID into basically a cold in vast majority of people. We never masks over colds, or during flu season. It doesn't make sense to keep mandating masks now that everyone over 5 can be vaccinated, and higher risk adults can be boosted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who are much better informed and more intelligent than the average person on the street (politicians, doctors, etc) are not masking. They clearly recognize it's a wasted effort so I don't bother to either.

The policy at the NIH continues to be to mask when indoors. They are the most informed regarding what needs to be done in a pandemic.

Stop spreading disinformation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Everyone in politics doesn't wear a mask when the cameras are off. I work in a industry where the executives and other talent don't wear masks but the lower level employees do. Clearly the people in charge know something about blowing off mask wearing once you're vaccinated.

Do you know why the lower level people wear masks? Because we don't have the money or status to defend preferential treatment if we get really sick, by some unfortunate chance.

Doctors and higher level executives know they will be more likely to survive than us poor smucks.

So don't wear masks all you want to, and especially don't wear them in pharmacies and grocery stores, and then have the mask mandate slapped back on when cases go up. Smh.

The mask mandate is already coming back despite very few people actually giving them up. The mandate has almost no effect on case rates, and even less on hospitalizations and deaths. Get vaccinated and move on with your lives. At least Stoddard and the council acknowledged that it is time to move past looking at case rates.

Its NOT coming back. MoCo will just change the criteria.

You are fine to move on with your life but many of us would prefer not to get covid and take the risk.

You've said that on quite a few threads (assuming you're the same poster).

What makes you say that? Besides Freidson, none of the county councilmembers have shown any enthusiasm to get rid of the masks. What makes you think they will mobilize in the next 24 hours to change the rules?

Yes, I'm curious too. That poster has popped up on a few threads saying that the rules will change. and they say it with such confidence. Would love some more insight into why they are so confident.

Or, if they are still confident, given that there is only a few hours left for their prediction to come true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either you believe the vaccine works or not. Does MoCo believe that Covid stops at the full restaurants with all the unmasked diners or Full stadiums, weddings, packed bars, wtf? Are the hospitals in any sort of dire condition? It’s just nonsense. Heading over to NoVa to shop and eat. Not an antivaxer, not an antimasker. Just someone who believes in the vaccine and understands math and probabilities. Wear a mask if you want, no one is stopping you.

The vaccines work for what they were made for - to lessen the impact on covid for you if you were to catch it. They were never fully intended to stop you from getting covid. It was about reducing symptoms that might lead to death. You still need masks. Covid doesn't just stop existing because you are wishing it away. Covid doesn't stop existing because people choose not to believe they can catch it.

Right. The vaccines do a remarkably good job of turning COVID into basically a cold in vast majority of people. We never masks over colds, or during flu season. It doesn't make sense to keep mandating masks now that everyone over 5 can be vaccinated, and higher risk adults can be boosted.

It isn’t covid itself that I worry about, it is the quarantine rules. My bil caught covid this fall, and his family was stuck with at least one person in quarantine for almost a month. His kids missed so much school. I will continue to mask up in public until the quarantine rules aren’t so strict.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Everyone in politics doesn't wear a mask when the cameras are off. I work in a industry where the executives and other talent don't wear masks but the lower level employees do. Clearly the people in charge know something about blowing off mask wearing once you're vaccinated.

Do you know why the lower level people wear masks? Because we don't have the money or status to defend preferential treatment if we get really sick, by some unfortunate chance.

Doctors and higher level executives know they will be more likely to survive than us poor smucks.

So don't wear masks all you want to, and especially don't wear them in pharmacies and grocery stores, and then have the mask mandate slapped back on when cases go up. Smh.

The mask mandate is already coming back despite very few people actually giving them up. The mandate has almost no effect on case rates, and even less on hospitalizations and deaths. Get vaccinated and move on with your lives. At least Stoddard and the council acknowledged that it is time to move past looking at case rates.

Its NOT coming back. MoCo will just change the criteria.

You are fine to move on with your life but many of us would prefer not to get covid and take the risk.

You've said that on quite a few threads (assuming you're the same poster).

What makes you say that? Besides Freidson, none of the county councilmembers have shown any enthusiasm to get rid of the masks. What makes you think they will mobilize in the next 24 hours to change the rules?

Yes, I'm curious too. That poster has popped up on a few threads saying that the rules will change. and they say it with such confidence. Would love some more insight into why they are so confident.

Or, if they are still confident, given that there is only a few hours left for their prediction to come true?

I curious too, given that we are now at 60. What makes me think they are not coming back is that DC is dropping the mandate. Will Montgomery County revise it's plans? Does PG have a mandate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Everyone in politics doesn't wear a mask when the cameras are off. I work in a industry where the executives and other talent don't wear masks but the lower level employees do. Clearly the people in charge know something about blowing off mask wearing once you're vaccinated.

Do you know why the lower level people wear masks? Because we don't have the money or status to defend preferential treatment if we get really sick, by some unfortunate chance.

Doctors and higher level executives know they will be more likely to survive than us poor smucks.

So don't wear masks all you want to, and especially don't wear them in pharmacies and grocery stores, and then have the mask mandate slapped back on when cases go up. Smh.

The mask mandate is already coming back despite very few people actually giving them up. The mandate has almost no effect on case rates, and even less on hospitalizations and deaths. Get vaccinated and move on with your lives. At least Stoddard and the council acknowledged that it is time to move past looking at case rates.

Its NOT coming back. MoCo will just change the criteria.

You are fine to move on with your life but many of us would prefer not to get covid and take the risk.

You've said that on quite a few threads (assuming you're the same poster).

What makes you say that? Besides Freidson, none of the county councilmembers have shown any enthusiasm to get rid of the masks. What makes you think they will mobilize in the next 24 hours to change the rules?

Yes, I'm curious too. That poster has popped up on a few threads saying that the rules will change. and they say it with such confidence. Would love some more insight into why they are so confident.

Or, if they are still confident, given that there is only a few hours left for their prediction to come true?

I curious too, given that we are now at 60. What makes me think they are not coming back is that DC is dropping the mandate. Will Montgomery County revise it's plans? Does PG have a mandate?

They will probably just change the rules to make it more days or higher numbers.