Montgomery- 5 more days and masks off.

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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?

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.

I don't know. Even if they wanted to do that, they would need to do it in the next 24 hours really, and agile responsiveness is not their strong suite.

I think it's coming back, despite that one PP who continues to insist that it will not

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Sorry folks who wanted to keep masks off: looks like too many of you unmasked at pharmacies and grocery stores, and now the mask mandate will probably come back.

Do better next time the mandate is removed.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry folks who wanted to keep masks off: looks like too many of you unmasked at pharmacies and grocery stores, and now the mask mandate will probably come back.

Do better next time the mandate is removed.

Troll, or not?

I say troll.

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It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry folks who wanted to keep masks off: looks like too many of you unmasked at pharmacies and grocery stores, and now the mask mandate will probably come back.

Do better next time the mandate is removed.

Montgomery county is one of the most vaccinated counties in the United States. The past two weeks the vast majority of people out and about we’re still wearing masks. Covid rates are going up but I don’t believe they are exclusively tied to mask wearing. In fact they started going up before the dropping of the mandate would’ve had any effect on the numbers.

I’m not happy that the numbers are going back up but I don’t believe they are entirely tied to masks in our county specifically. The county leaders will also have to see and pay tension to what other counties and states around us are doing because we’re not an island and wearing your mask or not wearing your mask as soon as you cross the border is not gonna solve the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry folks who wanted to keep masks off: looks like too many of you unmasked at pharmacies and grocery stores, and now the mask mandate will probably come back.

Do better next time the mandate is removed.

Troll, or not?

I say troll.

Maybe? But mostly weird. I'm not even downcounty and can honestly say I saw **zero** people without masks in stores the whole time it was lifted. And I was definitely looking, because I was ready to take mine off as soon as a saw a maskless person. No one could honestly believe the lapse in the mandate has anything to do with the recent case counts.

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Anonymous wrote:It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

Less than 1.5% positivity, 92% of eligible people vaccinated, almost nobody dying, few hospitalized? Yeah, let’s keep the mask mandate going. Makes perfect sense.

Whoever made up the CDC guidelines is stupid. Stop using number of cases as a criterion, where an increase in testing will drive up the number, even if positivity rate is going down.

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Anonymous wrote:It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

Less than 1.5% positivity, 92% of eligible people vaccinated, almost nobody dying, few hospitalized? Yeah, let’s keep the mask mandate going. Makes perfect sense.

Whoever made up the CDC guidelines is stupid. Stop using number of cases as a criterion, where an increase in testing will drive up the number, even if positivity rate is going down.

The great Covid denier.

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Anonymous wrote:It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

Less than 1.5% positivity, 92% of eligible people vaccinated, almost nobody dying, few hospitalized? Yeah, let’s keep the mask mandate going. Makes perfect sense.

Whoever made up the CDC guidelines is stupid. Stop using number of cases as a criterion, where an increase in testing will drive up the number, even if positivity rate is going down.

The great Covid denier.

The great “mask mandates until zero cases” poster.

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Anonymous wrote:It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

Less than 1.5% positivity, 92% of eligible people vaccinated, almost nobody dying, few hospitalized? Yeah, let’s keep the mask mandate going. Makes perfect sense.

Whoever made up the CDC guidelines is stupid. Stop using number of cases as a criterion, where an increase in testing will drive up the number, even if positivity rate is going down.

The great Covid denier.

The great “mask mandates until zero cases” poster.

Please share where masks don’t hemp.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

Less than 1.5% positivity, 92% of eligible people vaccinated, almost nobody dying, few hospitalized? Yeah, let’s keep the mask mandate going. Makes perfect sense.

Whoever made up the CDC guidelines is stupid. Stop using number of cases as a criterion, where an increase in testing will drive up the number, even if positivity rate is going down.

The CDC’s guidelines made sense at one time, when “substantial transmission” was sufficient to threaten hospital capacity. It doesn’t make sense anymore. Counties are in the “substantial” category if their positivity rate is below 8 percent and they have fewer than 100 cases/100k/week. We haven’t seen 8 percent positivity since the darkest days of the pandemic. Our positivity rate puts us in the low category on its own, but the definitions don’t work that way. The CDC should come up with different metrics, because these don’t mean what they used to. We’ve been dealing with the pandemic long enough that the CDC should be able to model actual infection rates (using case rates and positivity) accurately enough to inform decisions about low-cost mitigation such as masks. Until then, everyone should ignore the CDC’s metrics.

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Montgomery reinstates mandate just as DC lifts it. So I can just walk across western Ave where I live in Chevy chase and take my mask off. Then cross the street back to my apartment building and put it back on. Ridiculous. I’m done. Mine is off and staying off.

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Anonymous wrote:It is coming back
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/11/its-official-montgomery-co-mask-mandate-returns-saturday/amp/

Less than 1.5% positivity, 92% of eligible people vaccinated, almost nobody dying, few hospitalized? Yeah, let’s keep the mask mandate going. Makes perfect sense.

Whoever made up the CDC guidelines is stupid. Stop using number of cases as a criterion, where an increase in testing will drive up the number, even if positivity rate is going down.

The CDC’s guidelines made sense at one time, when “substantial transmission” was sufficient to threaten hospital capacity. It doesn’t make sense anymore. Counties are in the “substantial” category if their positivity rate is below 8 percent and they have fewer than 100 cases/100k/week. We haven’t seen 8 percent positivity since the darkest days of the pandemic. Our positivity rate puts us in the low category on its own, but the definitions don’t work that way. The CDC should come up with different metrics, because these don’t mean what they used to. We’ve been dealing with the pandemic long enough that the CDC should be able to model actual infection rates (using case rates and positivity) accurately enough to inform decisions about low-cost mitigation such as masks. Until then, everyone should ignore the CDC’s metrics.

Agreed. You get penalized for testing too much.

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I can’t wait for Ehrlich to be voted out of office.

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It is also a circus, that much is clear. Nobody knows what to do, nobody has an science behind any decisions.
Honestly, my college kids traveled, skied, got vaccinated, and so did most of their friends, they didn't get worked up over nonsense. Their attitude was better, hey, it is what it is.
Some had covid and are fine now.
We can't save the world, there are too many people who think you can control the virus.
I'd rather not live than live in that kind of fear. When it ism y time, it is my time.
Two great grandfathers perished in WWI. Maybe we should worry more about preventing wars and violence and deaths due to those, than controlling a virus?
Africa did not mask and they seem to be doing ok.
I am so sick of all sides. MASKED gang, and anti vaccine gang and covid deniers as well.
We closed the schools in MCPS for over a year, closed libraries, and stated that did none of that did not fare worse than MD.
So, quite frankly, you can all go...ll.