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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does it bother you so much if I wear a mask in the Safeway? I will continue to do so until community spread is super low, as someone stated above. Honestly, you people who are pushing others to drop the mask are so weird. [/quote]

I haven’t read all the many pages of responses but would like to answer this question sincerely. My kids do not ever get a break from masking at school and it’s clear to me it’s affecting them. My 6 yo was convinced for months his teacher hated him and he had no friends. Teachers were so surprised by this because my kids is a “good kid.”  But he just can’t get a feel for emotions under a mask. My 3rd grader now wants to wear a mask all the time like it’s some sort anonymity shield. This shit is not okay. They are both fully vaxxed and deserve a normal life. I unmask whenever I can so this community can start to normalize unmasked faces in hope that my kids can have some semblance of a normal childhood. [/quote]

Don't listen to the dismissive, passive-aggressive apologists, PP. I'm totally with you, and so is a growing number of parents. I've been masking diligently throughout the pandemic, and I frankly wouldn't care if I had to keep doing it at stores indefinitely, but it needs to end now for kids in schools. I think unlike the last time, I will join the minority of people I observed at Wholefoods this week who dropped their masks after the end of the mandate (including some of the employees), [b]just to help people get used to it.[/b][/quote]

Nothing you choose to do will "help" me "get used to it." You are mistaken if you think that I am not intentionally and thoughtfully making an informed decision to continue masking. And before you go there, I am a well-educated professional and parent of three who reads and researches the sources I trust. So your behavior at Whole Foods has zero impact on my choice. I suspect it is the same for most people who continue to mask while the transmission rates are high.[/quote]

This is funny to me…I see some of these “diligent maskers” around and 99% of them are in a crappy cloth mask.  Makes me laugh.  If you are in a crappy cloth mask you either 1) think masking is stupid and are just wearing it bc some rule requires it; 2) making a political statement; or 3) completely ignorant.[/quote]

Yes, can somebody who does this explain?

Where masks are optional, why are some people still walking around in cloth masks? Have people become self-conscious about showing their faces or teeth? They just like the way it looks? I guess I could ask them because I know a few who do it (and their cloth masks are undeniably cute, but I prefer their faces), but if I'm honest with myself I probably am not asking in a non-judgmental enough way that I could pull it off.

Where masks are required, I assume people in cloth are just wearing them to fulfill the requirement, but where they're not required--  I don't understand.[/quote]

Presumably because (1) they don't know any better or (2) they don't want to be judged. The latter doesn't seem an issue in Western Fairfax where I am...but from the sound of this board, some of the posters in Arlington/Bethesda/etc. are basing their identities on Covid purity tests, so maybe it's happening there.[/quote]

I fall into the second category but live in MoCo so our periods of no indoor mask mandate have been comparatively brief.  Part of it was simply not wanting to draw attention to myself, part was that some businesses were still requiring them and frankly it was just easier to put one on than look for a sign or worse get called out for it by store management (again, not wanting to draw attention to myself).

But I drew the line in the sand for outdoor situations and barring places where it has been required, like a farmers market or school drop off, I haven’t worn one outside since the outdoor mandate expired last summer. Which, if you live anywhere in the SS/Takoma park area, was certainly outside the norm this winter.[/quote]

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