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Anonymous wrote:This may be the final straw for a lot of restaurants. I will abide by the mandate, but I also want a vaccine mandate.

I’m certainly avoiding DC now because of it. My family is visiting from the west coast and we’ll be changing plans to visit MD tourist sites.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the end game now? Originally, it was to mask and social distance until the vaccines were widely available. Now there seems to be no end in sight. I don’t think “zero covid” is achievable at this point (if it ever was). Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Deaths aren’t high. So what’s the goal here?

The goal here is to control the little people. Which is sort of what the Democrat party is all about.

Anonymous wrote:This may be the final straw for a lot of restaurants. I will abide by the mandate, but I also want a vaccine mandate.

Anonymous wrote:What is the end game now? Originally, it was to mask and social distance until the vaccines were widely available. Now there seems to be no end in sight. I don’t think “zero covid” is achievable at this point (if it ever was). Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Deaths aren’t high. So what’s the goal here?

Anonymous wrote:This may be the final straw for a lot of restaurants. I will abide by the mandate, but I also want a vaccine mandate.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the end game now? Originally, it was to mask and social distance until the vaccines were widely available. Now there seems to be no end in sight. I don’t think “zero covid” is achievable at this point (if it ever was). Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Deaths aren’t high. So what’s the goal here?

This really is the rub, isn't it? We have safe and effective vaccines that over 100,000,000 Americans can get by just walking into a pharmacy with no wait and no appointment yet they refuse to get them. Now Delta is causing severe disease, mostly in the unvaccinated and we have to mask up again. This is, quite literally, never going away. With new variants coming out from time-to-time and anti-vaxers refusing not only the vaccine but no doubt any future boosters against the variants, we will continue to see flare-ups in the country and community. Why should we mask for people that refuse the vaccine? I don't want to mask for them. If we are to mask for them, at least make it based on hospital utilization and not just because the numbers are getting bigger.

I'm not masking for them. I'm masking for people who got vaccinated but don't have robust immunity because they are very elderly, or immunocompromised. I'm masking for kids who can't get vaccinated yet, including my own. And frankly, I just don't think it's that big of a deal. Masking indoors is a fairly minor imposition, all things considered, and if it means that things can be open and school can be in person, I'm completely fine with it. Once kids can be vaccinated, I might feel differently, but right now there is a large group of people who cannot get vaccinated, through no fault of their own. That is going to change, probably by the end of the year.

Anonymous wrote:Very glad she reinstated indoor masks. It’s the right move

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Anonymous wrote:It's all such a charade.

People aren't really getting covid going to stores. They're getting it from indoor, private activities - which the mask mandates can't do anything about.

I know many people who will modify their private behavior (and not have guests unmasked inside) based on the mandate. Most people are rule followers.

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Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. Vaccinated people don’t need to mask. End of discussion.

Yes, but they can still catch it because the Detla produces 1,000x as much virus, be asymptomatic, and give it to anti-vax folks! We have to think of the anti-vaxers and live our lives with special protections for them! Also, COVID is here to stay. It's not going to be eliminated from the planet. At some point we have to live our lives like normal. We can't act like this is a plague when 99.7% of deaths are the unvaccinated.

My 10 year old is not anti-vax.

NP. YOUR TEN YEAR OLD IS NOT AT RISK FROM COVID. What data are you people looking at that makes you think covid is any kind of threat to kids? I don’t mean panicky anecdotes or viral Twitter threads or unfounded speculation about “long covid”. I mean reliable data on American kids that shows this virus is uniquely dangerous to them and worth disrupting their lives for, in a way that isn’t true of RSV, the flu, the common cold, bronchitis, norovirus, and all the other viral diseases kids get that never caused us to fully shut down schools for 2 years.

Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. Vaccinated people don’t need to mask. End of discussion.