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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post is really heartening. We don't mind complying with the masks right now, but would love to see them go. I wonder how this will play out politically. This forum may represent a dynamic that is different from underserved communities [b]which have been more conservative about COVID and have lower vaccination rates. [/b]Will they follow this trend? Also there was the recent student protest and even significant teacher opposition to school reopening in January. Although our city is divided I still think that we generally follow the same trends - for example support for schools being opened has been widespread this year despite pockets of opposition. So i do think there is hope. It would probably take a miracle.to get rid of the masks by the end of the schoolyear but you DC moms a
could make it happen. For this to happen isolation periods for DCPS children should definitely be reduced to five days. [/quote]

Can you explain why you think underserved communities have been more conservative about COVID, while also having lower vaccination rates?

The "student protest" was an astroturfed campaign but a white mother whose kids are in-person at a different school from where the protest occurred.[/quote]

DP, but I live in Ward 5 and go to a school that’s is almost entirely middle class black and Hispanic families. There is a contingent of people in our community who believe in Covid, mask religiously, but either won’t vaccinate or stopped at one shot. Some are vaccinated but have elderly family members who will no vaccinate. It stems from an understandable distrust of the medical community due to a history of racism as well as living in very underserved communities most of their lives. I think this is why DC’s vaccination rate remains lower than you might expect. We don’t have conservative anti-vaxxers but there are people here who just don’t want to go get a shot. [/quote]

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