Unfortunately, I can't afford to live there and have to live out further surrounded by antimaskers and trumpers (yes, even in MoCo). But I can shop there. Thanks TP!

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

+100
I wouldn’t live there for all the money in the world. Ridiculous people.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they realize how foolish they look or do they think they are the only ones being superior?

Why do you care what Takoma Park does about a mask mandate? How does this affect you?

NP. One might ask exactly the same of all the MD Democrats chiming in on the Youngkin threads.

lol to those defending TKPK. Also shout out to the poster who placed their ... card on the table to end the thread. Oh man, im sure there are other minority posters but I was waiting for the super Dem to go ahead and end the thread. LOL

What metrics will they be using to assess when to remove the mask mandate?

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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.

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?

The wait staff may not mind. It's just one night for you, but they have to be around 300 different people every night. Higher risk for them.

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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.

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?

Ha ha, yes. There are plenty of grounds to criticize TKPK for hypocrisy, but for better of worse, mask-wearing isn't one of them. Everyone wears masks, inside, outside, walking down the street, white, black, brown. It's overkill, yes, but not inconsistent.
Basically a handful of restaurants are the only exception.

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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.

Shameful. What smug idiots.

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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.

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At this stage, mask mandates are a way for powerful people to force less powerful people to do something uncomfortable and unnecessary just so they can feel less anxious. We are seeing the same with proposed vaccine mandates for small kids.

A bunch of rich white people with health anxiety are looking to control everyone around them because it makes them feel better, and if you point out that the science doesn’t really support these provisions, they will call you a Trumper. It’s a crap system!

Oh please. I'm black. I live right over the DC line from Takoma Park. I get a lot of services in TP. I don't mind at all. Plus, if you ever went, you would see all of the beautiful black, latino and asian people also not minding wearing a mask. You are an idiot.

Besides what another PP pointed out-- this seems only to apply to *TKPK city facilities,* like the community center-- people are conflating restaurant mask mandates with any sort of indoor mask mandate.

I have always felt that restaurant mask mandates are performative and nearly useless (even though I do strongly subscribe to the belief that some mitigation is better than none).

But there are lots of indoor businesses where there's no need for anyone to remove their masks to enjoy their services-- restaurants have just kind of gotten awkwardly swept up in that.

People who are vulnerable will generally choose not to go inside restaurants for that reason-- they know the deal. (And that's why mask requirements for restaurant *patrons* are superfluous at best.)

But I like indoor mask mandates generally at this time-- yes, still, for now-- because vulnerable people should be able to shop when necessary without being around maskless people.

There's a difference between maskless restaurant dining *as a patron* (what's the difference) and a maskless visit to CVS.

As for the employees? The only way they look like "serfs" to you is if you consider wearing masks to be punishment instead of extra protection-- in some ways, a privilege. Obviously it's more complicated than that-- I'm sure some employees don't want to mask and some employers require it not to protect them, but just to save face. But it's very telling that people (who really just want to bag on "socialists"-- yeah, right-- for being hypocrites) jump straight to masking as oppression as if it's a big gotcha.

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

I agree! Please never change!

Eh, a lot of the "socialist" pps here are trolls.

If you don't live in TP, it doesn't matter what you think, they are doing their own thing.

And, encouraging me to shop there by having a mask mandate. Democratic socialism, look it up.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like none of these critical posters live in TkPk, and that's just how it should be! No one here cares. We're happy to wear masks to respect employees and the community. Don't like our norms and extreme values? Ok. Don't live here I guess!

Also I guess don't go to the businesses. They don't matter, though, right? Since the owners are capitalists?

I think its great. The rare times I shop I'll go there.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like none of these critical posters live in TkPk, and that's just how it should be! No one here cares. We're happy to wear masks to respect employees and the community. Don't like our norms and extreme values? Ok. Don't live here I guess!

Also I guess don't go to the businesses. They don't matter, though, right? Since the owners are capitalists?

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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?

Why should I? I’m vaccinated and not sick. The question is, why don’t all the workers rebel and take off their masks in the name of science and sanity?

Because they...don't want to?
Because people have different opinions than you do?
Because they can still get COVID if exposed even if they're vaccinated, and even if they aren't super sick they can transmit to others who may get very sick?
Because they're a rule follower?
Because they want people to know they take it seriously?
Because they know it may impact their business negatively if they don't because *some* people will walk out? (Yeah yeah, not you, I know.)
Because they're not vaccinated?

Great. Well I DON’T want to wear a mask, and I rarely do anymore, even when back in DC. I know some of you love masks and hate to see the pandemic end, but you’re just going to have to deal with the fact that the world is moving on.

Got it you are selfish and entitled. Plenty of places for you to go maskless. I love not getting covid from someone like you. Simple. My masks will stay.