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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually surprised that TP allows eat-in dining.

Come on, they don't want all those businesses to go under.

That's why the whole "you can take your mask off to eat and drink and flirt and laugh and sit at the bar" exception was carved out. The only problem is it makes a complete mockery of the mask mandate for everywhere else and shows that the decision has nothing to do with health or science.

EXACTLY!

Of course they are. It's the Union of the Socialst Parks of Takoma. Their ministry of health control has not permitted their populace their freedom yet.

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually surprised that TP allows eat-in dining.

Come on, they don't want all those businesses to go under.

That's why the whole "you can take your mask off to eat and drink and flirt and laugh and sit at the bar" exception was carved out. The only problem is it makes a complete mockery of the mask mandate for everywhere else and shows that the decision has nothing to do with health or science.

I'm actually surprised that TP allows eat-in dining.

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Anonymous wrote:I went out to dinner in Takoma Park last week. Every sitting around a crowded bar unmasked talking and laughing while the servant class has to wear masks. Then we half ass put ours back on to walk out of the restaurant a couple hours later.

What is wrong with you?

Just describing how the mask mandate in Takoma Park works in practicality. It's 100 percent anti-science and a complete joke.

The worst part is the rich patrons not wearing a mask while their servers have to. This will be the world going forward.

DP

Lol, true! Such a joke.

Anonymous wrote:Ah, People's Republic of Takoma Park. Never change.

+1. Whether you're a fan of TkPk or not, this should be a surprise to exactly no one.

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Anonymous wrote:Lived in DMV 25 years. Never been in Takoma Park and don’t see why I’d go now.

It's a really great place. I live just south of it in DC but walk there all the time. I love the restaurants there even if the mask mandate is a joke and completely ignores science.

I will never forget the time I was in TP with my toddler, who was very hungry. I was with my older daughter at her swim lesson, so I asked another parent if there was a McDonalds nearby. She laughed, rolled her eyes, and said “oh we don’t have McDonald’s in Takoma Park!” in a haughty tone. I felt like I was in a bad movie/sit com.

It's true, there is no McDonald's in Takoma Park. There is a McDonald's across the street from Takoma Park, though, and there is a Popeye's in Takoma Park. Oh, and a Chuck E. Cheese.

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Anonymous wrote:Lived in DMV 25 years. Never been in Takoma Park and don’t see why I’d go now.

It's a really great place. I live just south of it in DC but walk there all the time. I love the restaurants there even if the mask mandate is a joke and completely ignores science.

I will never forget the time I was in TP with my toddler, who was very hungry. I was with my older daughter at her swim lesson, so I asked another parent if there was a McDonalds nearby. She laughed, rolled her eyes, and said “oh we don’t have McDonald’s in Takoma Park!” in a haughty tone. I felt like I was in a bad movie/sit com.

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park has its own parody site:
https://takomatorch.com/

That tells you something. I'm not surprised about their mask mandate -- that's very TP.. and why I avoid the place if I can.

Bethesda has its own parody site too. What does that tell you about Bethesda?

The Takoma Torch also makes fun of other places in the county, for example Olney (remember the recent Olney Fans controversy)? What does that tell you about Olney?

Takoma Park has its own parody site:
https://takomatorch.com/

That tells you something. I'm not surprised about their mask mandate -- that's very TP.. and why I avoid the place if I can.

Anonymous wrote:Lived in DMV 25 years. Never been in Takoma Park and don’t see why I’d go now.

It's a really great place. I live just south of it in DC but walk there all the time. I love the restaurants there even if the mask mandate is a joke and completely ignores science.

Lived in DMV 25 years. Never been in Takoma Park and don’t see why I’d go now.

I’m on the far left - most of DCUM would consider me a communist. I disagree with this mask mandate. It’s performative.

If we REALLY wanted to protect the vulnerable, we would have universal healthcare.

I’m vaccinated. Vaccines aren’t perfect but they work. Many people I know are now triple vaccinated.

A paper mask for the first 30 seconds of being in a restaurant does literally nothing. I can sort of understand requiring masks while handling food in the kitchen, but I don’t think workers need to keep masks on at all times when they aren’t preparing food. I’m SO over Takoma Park’s performative masking. Especially people who wear masks outdoors as some kind of symbol. You know what it says to me? Pointless virtue signaling. Rich white people who don’t want to actually make any fundamental economic changes for their neighbors but will be all “look at me! Look at me “suffer” by covering my pasty white face and make a show of struggling that one time I pretend to exercise outdoors and feel superior to the unmasked proles, who just aren’t as woke as me!”

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Completely and totally agree. I was at a high-end hotel in Utah last week, where the indoor mask mandate has been lifted. All of the guests at the indoor dinner (myself included) were maskless, partying and carrying on like it was 2018. The wait staff, servers, etc. were all masked. For anyone who stopped to think about it, it was a horrible image. The serfs and the lords. Terrible and so, so stupid. What purpose could this possibly be serving?

So why didn't you put a mask on?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went out to dinner in Takoma Park last week. Every sitting around a crowded bar unmasked talking and laughing while the servant class has to wear masks. Then we half ass put ours back on to walk out of the restaurant a couple hours later.

What is wrong with you?

Just describing how the mask mandate in Takoma Park works in practicality. It's 100 percent anti-science and a complete joke.

The worst part is the rich patrons not wearing a mask while their servers have to. This will be the world going forward.

It sounds a$$hokey but they are not wrong.

It would be more persuasive as a point if the example wasn't a bar/restaurant where you have to take off your masks to eat, and presumably the people working there want customers to do just that. Are customers in regular stores in TP foregoing masks while the employees have to wear them? That's not my experience; from what I see everyone still has them plastered on nice and tight, lol. Does anyone know if the employees, business owners and citizens are for or against the continuation of the mandate and why or why not? Or are people just making assumptions?

That’s the point. What makes restaurants where people congregate for an hour or more magically safe, while a grocery store one is in and out of quickly a hotbed of danger, filth and disease?

This is anti-science drivel.