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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My memory of it is that actual general “lockdowns” were brief and related to hospital capacity - we had to do whatever we could to avoid becoming New York.

The part that went on too long, was harmful and didn’t work well was remote schooling and masks for kids. [/quote]

Agree with this but would add that in my neighborhood, outside masking and social distancing continued for much longer. I remember there being debate on the local list serve when people started unmasking on the sidewalk in spring if 2021 because they were vaccinated. Some people wanted everyone to keep masking outdoors and were upset by it.

In this same neighborhood, both my spouse and I got hassled at various points for not being masked outside even though we were far from other people. My DH once got yelled at out a car window for being unmasked on an otherwise empty sidewalk. Once a woman yelled at me from across the street for being unmasked (no one else was around). Another woman got mad once because I was walking down a wide sidewalk with my 2 yr old who was eating a granola bar, and the woman was angry to pass my toddler unmasked.

I wore a mask to go running for about 8 months because everyone saw that fake meme of a runner spewing Covid particles. I didn't want people to hate me, so I wore a gator while running. Then there was a "study" (debunked but people didn't read the debunking) that said gators actually spread more Covid. So then I had people yelling at me on my runs "gators don't work!" I started running at 5am or 10pm and running in the street so that I would encounter fewer people.

People really lost their minds for a while, and a lot of people who claimed to be following the science were actually following their own anxiety to weird, fascist places and calling it "science."[/quote]

Where was this? I've read about this degree of batsh#t insanity but thankfully dealt with none of it in Western Fairfax.[/quote]

DP, but I’m betting MoCo. This level of crazy went on for 2.5 years. [b]We were only allowed to take off masks at the gym in late Spring of 2022[/b][/quote]

DP. That is INSANE.

In VA, gyms reopened in early June 2020. Masks were not required at all for working out, but some facilities required them for "walking around" and in the locker room (but it was not enforced). I returned to my gym a few days after they reopened, and it wasn't until August 2023 that I got covid (and it was wayyyy better than getting the flu).

No, I'm not a Trumper. Neither were any of my gym friends that returned to work out right away. We were interested in taking care of our overall mental and physical health - covid was not the only health concern (we were low risk 40-somethings).

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I find it concerning that nearly 4 years after the pandemic started whenever someone wants to reasonably question whether certain mitigation efforts were worthwhile in retrospect they still have to caveat the fact they aren’t a Trumper.

As a dem, I don’t think it’s a good look for our party that one has to prove they’re not a Republican in order to engage in rational discussion of health policy.[/quote]

I agree. Although I probably disagree with you about covid. [/quote]

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