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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do expect people to do?
- Is it just about getting people to get a booster?
- wear a mask indefinitely (in which settings? A full day at school/work? Just the grocery store?)
- avoid any "optional" indoor social activities?
- Pull children out from in-person school/daycare?[/quote]

1. Yes. Get your boosters.

2. Yes, wear a mask indoors in any setting that you know you will be encountering random people. It would be really nice of others to wear them in non-optional settings, like grocery stores, hospitals, doctors offices, and pharmacies, you know, where people with health issues have to go too. The masks are as much for your protection as to protect others.  Not "indefinitely" only when cases are up, or during winter. In health care settings, yes, indefinitely.

3. Yes, avoid any "optional" indoor social activities, if you plan to be around older people or people with health issues. Otherwise, knock yourself out catching whatever is out there.

4. No, most kids are in daycare because they have to be. [/quote]

So any child with elderly grandparents should avoid all "optional" indoor activities in the winter? That means weekends spent in windy cold weather or at home. I don't think you realize how extreme that is for families with young children. My parents who are very COVID cautious would never ask that of us.[/quote]

Most people who live here (DC metro) are transplants who have parents and grandparents who live elsewhere, so yes...a week or so before visiting the grandparents, it would be advisable to stop all indoor maskless optional activities. They usually don't see their grandparents "all winter."

If the grandparents are local, then it's up to all of you to figure out how to handle the risk involved. Some grandparents don't care, so that's up to them. You do you. [/quote]
My parents would look at me like I was crazy if I told them we were forcing our kids to give up activities to "protect" them. Of course, they were aghast at what people in this area made kids go through during the pandemic. [/quote]

Yeah, my elderly relatives who are still alive are partying it up.  They are not spending the last few years of their lives cooped up avoiding a virus.  My step-grandmother is in her 80s and beat covid twice, goes out dancing regularly, just got remarried, and no there were no masks at the wedding![/quote]
I'm convinced that for many of the people going on about "protecting grandparents" it's more about martyrdom. [/quote]

Wait I thought the martyrs in this thread were the people picking up the pieces of their childrens' lives destabilized by covid and trying to move forward, bravely, without masks, and despite the perceived scornful looks of the masked oracles warning of latent health effects?  I must be getting confused...[/quote]

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