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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes I put my mask on if I am on my way somewhere where I will need to wear it. Complaining that I am “virtue signaling” or ignorant seems like the pot calling the kettle black[/quote]

I tend to forget I have it on. I am sure people see me outdoors with it or whatever. Most of the time I have left a store and forgot I was wearing it. I eat indoors and go about my life, but I don't really notice my mask.

I do not understand people like OP who freak out and panic when they see someone outside with a mask on.[/quote]

I did not read OP’s post as from someone who “freaks out and panics”. I do read it as from someone concerned about this area’s inability to get back to normal life, which is a legitimate concern both at a policy and a personal level. If a lot of your friends continue to be hyper cautious, it will affect your social life. Outdoor masks are one indicator of a hyper cautious attitude that everyone can monitor, even if not all instances are indicative of hyper cautiousness.[/quote]

She sounds totally freaked out and panicked to me. Otherwise why would she even care in the slightest that someone has a mask on outdoors. I don't notice.or care and I can't imagine being upset enough about it to write about it on DCUM. [/quote]

They must not know any Asians many have worn masks outdoors for decades.[/quote]

It's like whoever is posting doesn't even live in MoCo. [/quote]

Bingo!

Yet another of these oddly politicized posts where the OP rarely or never comes back to interact with other people posting.  [/quote]

Yup, that's exactly what it is.  They wait for this thread to grow and politicize the "issue" that doesn't exist.  Same argument that goes over and over, and when someone points this out, they conveniently ignore it.  Folks, don't bite on these types of posts.[/quote]

The issue of hyper Covid cautiousness very much does exist in this area. It’s what closed schools for 1.5 years and still gives us overly restrictive quarantine policies.[/quote]

No the problem is people like you who are hanging on to what was happening a year ago instead of looking around at what is happening now.  Kids are in school.  quarantine policies are changing.

Get. over. it.  For your kids sake and everyone's sake, focus on the now.[/quote]

Oh, I am focusing on the now. I am extremely happy that kids are back in school. Mine are in DCPS where quarantine policies are slightly less restrictive. But I will not let you pretend that the Covid response wasn’t overly extreme and politicized in this area. I have too much of an international perspective on this to not know that is the case. What this area did to kids last year was too harmful to be swept under the rug as you would like to do. The next pandemic will come, and we must do better in the future, as well as keep working to repair last year’s damage.[/quote]

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