Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 14:35     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Anonymous wrote:Anything - skipping indoor events or dining? Masks? Or just business as usual? Just curious.


Is this what it is? I don't follow the news but definitely noticed more people wearing masks in the Tysons mall, gym and Kennedy Center.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 13:54     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Anonymous wrote:Nope. If I haven't gotten covid in 3.5 years of this thing, then I'm just not worried. I've been living my life totally normally for 2.5 years.


I caught Covid for the first time in 2023 and I was never careful about it, even during the height of Covid I was out and about and didn’t even wear good protection (just those flimsy masks that barely do anything). It’s all random
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 13:52     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.


This can't be a serious post. How long would you suggest I stay home? The rest of my life?
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 13:07     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.


Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.


People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.


Covid will always be around because…science. I really wish people like you understood it.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:53     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:DCUM is not a good barometer for even the DC area. No one wearing a mask in the grocery store today. People have moved on


Funny. About 50% of the grocery store I was at was masked today.

Probably Arlington.


Yes, bc MoCo is probably at 75% lol
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:49     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.


Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.


People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.


I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:19     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.


Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.


People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:09     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:Definitely masking and staying home more. Plus lots of hand sanitizer, and back to wiping down groceries (picked up curbside).

Wiping down groceries does nothing.


My guess is that the PP is being sarcastic.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:08     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Anonymous wrote:Definitely masking and staying home more. Plus lots of hand sanitizer, and back to wiping down groceries (picked up curbside).

Wiping down groceries does nothing.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:05     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Definitely masking and staying home more. Plus lots of hand sanitizer, and back to wiping down groceries (picked up curbside).
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 12:04     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:I never changed my behavior based on covid. The restrictions, sure, I was forced to changed based on those. But I'm sure as hell not changing anything now.

-obese person who should be dead according to politicians and the media.


You couldn't make a better argument for restrictions if you tried.


I bet you're pro-choice.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 11:43     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Are you serious? Wow! The levels are still low, but lady, lower than last year.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 11:24     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Anonymous wrote:N-95 in public places like grocery store, metro, flights and medical setting.

Flu shot for the entire family, asap (at least 2 weeks before school opens.)





Covid is very smart. It only strikes at doctors offices, grocery stores and on the metro! This virus is so smart! What CAN'T it do?

Most Covid is spread in the home, but you do you. Keep masking, at least us normal people know who to avoid in public!
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 11:22     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.


Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 11:21     Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous wrote:People really need to stay home. I’m debating whether the kids should go to school virtual or maybe home schooling them.

Please be kidding.


Umm. Do you recall how many dead there were? How sick people were getting? I’m not taking that chance with my littles or fam.

That was all before vaccines. Not many people dying anymore, and you and your “littles” are probably at low risk to begin with. Are you really going to pull them out if school each time you read about an “uptick?”


Vaccines aren’t stopping transmission. How hard is that to get?


They are reducing the serious illness and death. It is making Covid just another disease. Are there still risks? Sure. Bu please remember the whole “masking is for other people” thing was before there were good masks available to the public. There is no need for most people to stay home or mask. If you feel you need to socially isolate from others - and risk all the negative things that go with that- go ahead. But stop trying to drag the rest of us with you. Schools need to stay in-person, because virtual schooling was a joke. Our kids have been harmed enough by it.


The 'public' never wore good masks. I sure didn't. I wore a buff most of the time because I wasn't going to spend money on stupid face masks just because a rando politician told me to and I knew they did nothing. Eventually, stopped wearing the buff and used the surgical masks provided by the stores. If they wanted me to wear a mask, then they can give me it.

Again, masks do nothing. Why wasn't anyone masking prior to 2020 when they were sick? If they work so well, we would've prevented so much sickness and disease.


You think masks don’t help reduce the spread of diseases because nobody wore them? That’s exactly the reason why it was required.


But covid cases kept going up and up and up, even with the mandates. If they work, why did this happen? BECAUSE: They don't work. But keep believing it if you will. Junk science! The mandates were put in place to show that they were 'doing something'