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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just think it’s irritating to live in a city where people aren’t following public health guidance.  But who typically say they follow science and experts.[/quote]

I’m concerned that there are so many parents in this city who know that things like outdoor mask-wearing (and in many cases, indoor mask-wearing) are not warranted, and yet go along out of a desire to comply and not be shamed or ostracized by their peers. I get it; being rejected is not fun for anyone.

But what is that teaching our kids? That if you think something is wrong, you should do it anyway because otherwise people might talk about you?[/quote]

I don't disagree with you at all and I do not want to teach my kid that.

But I also had a horrible experience in DC not that long ago with gossip/ostracism and it's made me extra sensitive to it. Plus the person who did it would 100% do it again if she had the chance (she hates me, I have never understood why) and she is one of the mask-all-the-time, don't you care about the vulnerable? people, and I'm afraid of her.

I feel like maybe DC has an above average number of this personality type -- the Tracy Flick hall monitor people who are looking for someone to step out of line so that they can pounce. I thought that personality type was a Hollywood creation until living here, but I've met more than one person like this. They scare me![/quote]

May I say something to you, and I mean this with all best wishes?

Twice in your short post, you reflect to us that you are afraid, that you are scared. I appreciate that you are posting your feelings here, but please reflect on that and what it is doing to your life, and the life of your child.

There is nothing - and I mean nothing, short of actual physical abuse - that harms children more than realizing that the adults in their lives are "afraid." You are supposed to be your child's leader, comforter, protector. I sincerely worry that a mother would post something like this, because it tells me that you are transmitting this to your child. If you truly live in this amount of "fear" on a daily basis, I implore you to seek help with that. It is a very, very negative path on which you are leading your child.[/quote]

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