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Anonymous wrote:I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

You have PTSD from watching a video on the Internet?

To be honest, this lady has nothing on the crazy person over on the Montgomery County board’s masking thread who accuses all anti mask mandate people of coordinating with Putin to desensitize the American populace and something something Chernobyl.

Anonymous wrote:I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

You have PTSD from watching a video on the Internet?

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Anonymous wrote:I just think it’s irritating to live in a city where people aren’t following public health guidance. But who typically say they follow science and experts.

It’s not true that people “aren’t following public health guidance” if they’re still wearing masks. The guidance doesn’t say, “don’t wear masks” or “masks are harmful.” It says they’re no longer necessary. I’m in my office now, not wearing a mask; I wear one if someone approaches me with one on, and I wear one in more public spaces where I know less about who might be around (employees here are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted and get tested weekly, so odds of getting covid here are pretty low, especially with community transmission what it is). I’m following all the relevant public health guidance whenever I do any of that. Until you can point to something where officials are specifically advising that you should take masks off, maybe slow down on accusing people of not following science if they choose to be more cautious than they’re required to be.

You’ve constructed a lot of strawman arguments in response to a very brief statement, by taking that statement out of context from the thread and also ascribing to it things it doesn’t say.

This thread is at root about mandated indoor masking for schoolchildren, which is presently not the guidance from CDC. That many parents are fine with that is where people aren’t following public health guidance.

This thread is at root about “were people masked for outdoor drop-off at your DCPS lately.” The fact that people have decided that any parents who are still wearing masks outside a day after the rules changed are definitely 100 percent against changing the rules for indoor masks isn’t my problem. I’d be happy for the mask rules in school to change, but I don’t really think you can assess anyone’s core beliefs about that by whether they do or don’t throw a mask on for 3 minutes as their kids are walking into the school where the kids and staff are still required to wear one.

I should add, again, that “behavior that is more cautious than required” does not mean you’re not following CDC guidance. You can always go beyond the CDC guidelines. Not following the guidance applies when you’re not doing what they recommend, not when you’re doing more than they are. I’m not eating in restaurants these days. CDC says it’s perfectly safe for me to do that. Am I “not following” their guidance?

You are welcome to wear a mask whenever and wherever you wish. Kids in school should have that option, too. What many of us are now objecting to is the idea that our kids should be required to wear masks indoors when that is not indicated by the CDC’s guidance.

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it's odd that the person is saying, in essence, "here you are talking on an anonymous message board and talking about sending emails to elected officials. What's next? MURDER?" (referring to the heads on pikes)

This person is dealing with some PTSD or something.

I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

NP. Whoa, lady. You are nuts. No, I actually haven't heard about the crazy school board harassing woman who threatened gun violence, because I don't get my news from social media, don't watch cable news and don't read those parts of the newspaper. But I am on that WhatsApp group and I can assure you that you are WAY off in your assumptions what kind of people are on it and what the "action" is they are planning. None of us are the types who condone anyone harassing employees anywhere for their mask wearing. In fact, until this week I was masking up at stores as well. Also, I have expressed my disagreement on the other thread with the idea that parents should instruct their kids to flout the mask mandate and provoke confrontations with their teachers.

You really are very close-minded and misinformed if you believe that this school masking issue, at this point, is still a right wing cause only pursued by right-wing nutjobs. It is not. The CDC says kids can unmask. So yeah, I and the other people on that WhatApp group are indeed very different than those people, because we are not engaging in violence or calls for violence and confrontation, but in civil advocacy for our children.

Get out of your bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:I just think it's irritating to live in a city where people aren't following public health guidance. But who typically say they follow science and experts.

It's not true that people "aren't following public health guidance" if they're still wearing masks. The guidance doesn't say, "don't wear masks" or "masks are harmful." It says they're no longer necessary. I'm in my office now, not wearing a mask; I wear one if someone approaches me with one on, and I wear one in more public spaces where I know less about who might be around (employees here are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted and get tested weekly, so odds of getting covid here are pretty low, especially with community transmission what it is). I'm following all the relevant public health guidance whenever I do any of that. Until you can point to something where officials are specifically advising that you should take masks off, maybe slow down on accusing people of not following science if they choose to be more cautious than they're required to be.

You've constructed a lot of strawman arguments in response to a very brief statement, by taking that statement out of context from the thread and also ascribing to it things it doesn't say.

This thread is at root about mandated indoor masking for schoolchildren, which is presently not the guidance from CDC. That many parents are fine with that is where people aren't following public health guidance.

This thread is at root about "were people masked for outdoor drop-off at your DCPS lately." The fact that people have decided that any parents who are still wearing masks outside a day after the rules changed are definitely 100 percent against changing the rules for indoor masks isn't my problem. I'd be happy for the mask rules in school to change, but I don't really think you can assess anyone's core beliefs about that by whether they do or don't throw a mask on for 3 minutes as their kids are walking into the school where the kids and staff are still required to wear one.

I should add, again, that "behavior that is more cautious than required" does not mean you're not following CDC guidance. You can always go beyond the CDC guidelines. Not following the guidance applies when you're not doing what they recommend, not when you're doing more than they are. I'm not eating in restaurants these days. CDC says it's perfectly safe for me to do that. Am I "not following" their guidance?

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Anonymous wrote:I just think it's irritating to live in a city where people aren't following public health guidance. But who typically say they follow science and experts.

It's not true that people "aren't following public health guidance" if they're still wearing masks. The guidance doesn't say, "don't wear masks" or "masks are harmful." It says they're no longer necessary. I'm in my office now, not wearing a mask; I wear one if someone approaches me with one on, and I wear one in more public spaces where I know less about who might be around (employees here are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted and get tested weekly, so odds of getting covid here are pretty low, especially with community transmission what it is). I'm following all the relevant public health guidance whenever I do any of that. Until you can point to something where officials are specifically advising that you should take masks off, maybe slow down on accusing people of not following science if they choose to be more cautious than they're required to be.

You've constructed a lot of strawman arguments in response to a very brief statement, by taking that statement out of context from the thread and also ascribing to it things it doesn't say.

This thread is at root about mandated indoor masking for schoolchildren, which is presently not the guidance from CDC. That many parents are fine with that is where people aren't following public health guidance.

This thread is at root about "were people masked for outdoor drop-off at your DCPS lately." The fact that people have decided that any parents who are still wearing masks outside a day after the rules changed are definitely 100 percent against changing the rules for indoor masks isn't my problem. I'd be happy for the mask rules in school to change, but I don't really think you can assess anyone's core beliefs about that by whether they do or don't throw a mask on for 3 minutes as their kids are walking into the school where the kids and staff are still required to wear one.

I know you're not going to get help.

Emailing your elected officials every day isn't harassment.

And it's no where near what you keep suggesting, which is violence.

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it's odd that the person is saying, in essence, "here you are talking on an anonymous message board and talking about sending emails to elected officials. What's next? MURDER?" (referring to the heads on pikes)

This person is dealing with some PTSD or something.

I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

So, yeah. I really think you maybe should consider dealing with that, through therapy or something.

I think that people can still have civil dialogues, and no one in this thread has suggested doing anything as drastic as you think might happen. So you are leaping miles from one thing (emails) to violence.

So, yeah. You missed the posts where people were encouraging their children to take their masks off at schools because they don't feel like wearing them anymore. Because that will really go over well with a teacher who has to enforce the current rules in place.

But please continue gaslighting and trying to justify your email harassment of a staffer.

Writing to your elected officials is not "email harrassment". Nothing that anyone has suggested in this thread is close to violence or harassment. You need help.

Writing to your elected officials is not "email harrassment".

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Writing to your elected officials every day about the same issue is absolutely email harassment. You're badgering them. But if that's what you want to do, enjoy. I'm going to go get help lol

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it's odd that the person is saying, in essence, "here you are talking on an anonymous message board and talking about sending emails to elected officials. What's next? MURDER?" (referring to the heads on pikes)

This person is dealing with some PTSD or something.

I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

So, yeah. I really think you maybe should consider dealing with that, through therapy or something.

I think that people can still have civil dialogues, and no one in this thread has suggested doing anything as drastic as you think might happen. So you are leaping miles from one thing (emails) to violence.

So, yeah. You missed the posts where people were encouraging their children to take their masks off at schools because they don't feel like wearing them anymore. Because that will really go over well with a teacher who has to enforce the current rules in place.

But please continue gaslighting and trying to justify your email harassment of a staffer.

Writing to your elected officials is not "email harrassment". Nothing that anyone has suggested in this thread is close to violence or harassment. You need help.

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Anonymous wrote:Emailing people every day to “advocate.”

You’re right. We should just sit back and trust that the people in charge will do the right thing. They always do, don’t they?

Well ... you can certainly sit back and trust that your harassing emails are going right into the loony bin.

Why are you so mad about people emailing their elected officials about an issue that is pertinent to their daily lives and to their children?

I'm not mad, but you have to acknowledge how extreme it is to email every day about a non-urgent matter.

No, I don't really think it is extreme. Plus it appears to be ONE person. As you've state repeatedly, they just ignore emails. It's not like anyone is suffering from receiving yet another email from that same person. It's an email.

You are name-calling people for participating in the political process. I keep trying to fathom why you are so aggravated and escalated about this (while simultaneously telling people to calm down), but it doesn't make sense to me.

It’s not ONE person but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. I’m a new poster and can count at least 15 people I know who have personally written letters and will continue too.

I think you are misreading my post. I'm cool with everyone writing, and I'm cool with that one person writing all of the time. I'm cool with everyone writing every day. I don't think engaging in the political process (by simply writing to elected officials) is in any way harmful, and in fact I think it's great.

What I think is sh**tty is the person who is calling people who write to their elected officials "extreme" or "loony".

You have never worked constituents services and dealt with someone calling you daily about the exact same thing, who tried sending the same message through different email accounts or the same account with different names. There are people on here saying how they email DC Gov daily; so telling the same person every day the exact same thing over and over and demanding action because they said so should be taken "seriously".

They can write as much as they want. But will that create the reaction they want or just frustrate them more.

Anonymous wrote:to add: I think you pose the bigger threat in terms of potential violence, if you think people having benign discussions and emailing their elected officials poses a violent threat to you.

Nope. But keep on sending those emails every day, it's obviously therapeutic to you.

to add: I think you pose the bigger threat in terms of potential violence, if you think people having benign discussions and emailing their elected officials poses a violent threat to you.

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it's odd that the person is saying, in essence, "here you are talking on an anonymous message board and talking about sending emails to elected officials. What's next? MURDER?" (referring to the heads on pikes)

This person is dealing with some PTSD or something.

I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

So, yeah. I really think you maybe should consider dealing with that, through therapy or something.

I think that people can still have civil dialogues, and no one in this thread has suggested doing anything as drastic as you think might happen. So you are leaping miles from one thing (emails) to violence.

So, yeah. You missed the posts where people were encouraging their children to take their masks off at schools because they don't feel like wearing them anymore. Because that will really go over well with a teacher who has to enforce the current rules in place.

But please continue gaslighting and trying to justify your email harassment of a staffer.

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Anonymous wrote:I just think it’s irritating to live in a city where people aren’t following public health guidance. But who typically say they follow science and experts.

I’m concerned that there are so many parents in this city who know that things like outdoor mask-wearing (and in many cases, indoor mask-wearing) are not warranted, and yet go along out of a desire to comply and not be shamed or ostracized by their peers. I get it; being rejected is not fun for anyone.

But what is that teaching our kids? That if you think something is wrong, you should do it anyway because otherwise people might talk about you?

That’s a bit of a straw man comparison, too. What’s the harm done to the adult wearer of a mask outdoors? Going along with that to avoid shame is hardly the same as going along with “something wrong” because you’re worried about the response.

If you can’t build up the courage to take off your mask around the Covid zealots for fear that they might think poorly of you, what makes you think you’ll have the courage to stand up to a dangerous mob when it’s truly necessary?

A dangerous mob? Don't tread on me much?

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Anonymous wrote:I do think it's odd that the person is saying, in essence, "here you are talking on an anonymous message board and talking about sending emails to elected officials. What's next? MURDER?" (referring to the heads on pikes)

This person is dealing with some PTSD or something.

I am dealing with PTSD ... aren't you? Did you miss the crazed woman who took the lectern at a civic meeting to tell those present that she was going to return to the school with loaded guns if her child was made to wear a mask? Have you not seen the coverage of people harassing and physically assaulting employees at stores and restaurants for wearing masks or being asked to wear a mask? What makes you all on this thread upset about your children wearing masks and starting WhatsApp groups to "take action" so different than those people?

So, yeah. I really think you maybe should consider dealing with that, through therapy or something.

I think that people can still have civil dialogues, and no one in this thread has suggested doing anything as drastic as you think might happen. So you are leaping miles from one thing (emails) to violence.