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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today we dropped to 45.4 per 100 K. Montgomery county is still on track for dropping the mask mandate. [/quote]

So we made it to Day 6? Looks like we are still on track for masks off by Friday?[/quote]

If by "Friday" you mean "first thing Thursday morning," then yes.  The health officer can take as much time as he wants to issue his notification, but the mandate automatically lifts once we've hit 7 consecutive days.  [/quote]

You bring up a good point because I did think it was Thursday but then the news has been reporting that they need an extra day to verify with the CDC. Legally, does it expire Thursday or Friday?

And yes to the other pp.[/quote]

The delay is becasue MoCo government is inept. There is no need to verify anything with the CDC (it's a county regulation after all). Also that same regulation requires the data to be posted daily.

Luckily some Councilmembers called them out on it, so we may be mask-free by Thursday:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/government/county-council-moves-up-possible-end-of-indoor-mask-mandate-by-one-day/
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i saw this on another thread

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the mandate will end Thursday at midnight (ie, Friday AM) not tomorrow.  County wants time to verify numbers from CDC. [/quote]

That's what the county is SAYING but it isn't what the REGULATION provides (copied below).  The mask requirement ends automatically after 7 days at moderate transmission, and tomorrow will be 7th day if the numbers hold.  There's nothing in the regulation about a delay to verify numbers (and further delay seems unnecessary in any event when the trigger is a 7-day period).  So, regardless of what the county is saying, the mask requirement ends if tomorrow's numbers stay below 50.  I'm triple vaxed and not antimask - I don't plan on storming Safeway maskless on Thursday AM and likely will continue to wear a mask indoors after the county feels it has verified whatever it needs to verify.  But it really irks me that the county is dragging this out and delaying it (with no authority to do so) when it should be celebrating what it means (substantially reduced covid numbers due in part to a pretty successful vax campaign).

Board of Health regulation 19-975 https://apps.montgomerycountymd.gov/ccllims/DownloadFilePage?FileName=10186_1_16669_Resolution_19-975_Adopted_20210805.pdf

a. Requirement to Wear Face Coverings.  Upon notice by the Health Officer 
or his designee under paragraph 3. that the County has become an area of 
substantial transmission, and without further action by the Board of Health:  
i. All  persons  in  the  County  over  the  age  of  two  (2)  years  old  must 
wear face coverings indoors at any location accessible to the public.

c.  The requirement to wear face coverings under subparagraph a. terminates, 
[b]without further action by the Board of Health[/b], when the County returns to a 
status of moderate transmission for 7 consecutive days.[/quote][/quote]

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