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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

I don’t care either. But I do care that my child has to wear a mask indoors, and I’m sure the person wearing a mask outdoors would seriously care if my child didn’t have to wear a mask indoor. See the irony here?

Exactly. This is exactly the point.

Well I’m the person you don’t think exists. I don’t care if your kid wears a mask inside and I still mask outside

That’s great to hear! Are you also writing the mayor advocating for optional masking at school? If not, you really should. Otherwise you are complicit in forcing others to not have the choice you have.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

I don’t care either. But I do care that my child has to wear a mask indoors, and I’m sure the person wearing a mask outdoors would seriously care if my child didn’t have to wear a mask indoor. See the irony here?

Exactly. This is exactly the point.

Well I’m the person you don’t think exists. I don’t care if your kid wears a mask inside and I still mask outside

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

I don’t care either. But I do care that my child has to wear a mask indoors, and I’m sure the person wearing a mask outdoors would seriously care if my child didn’t have to wear a mask indoor. See the irony here?

Exactly. This is exactly the point.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

Why are you yelling? Relax. No one is asking you to care.

My question is about social norms which have repercussions for our own children. If there are many people who are just continuing to mask outdoors when it is not required, I would like to understand why. They ALL can't be high risk or have high risk family members. So why do it? It's weird that this is such a difficult question to answer that you've resorted to yelling.

Because they want to is a sufficient answer to this.

Also what happens when your child’s teacher continues to mask?

I don't care about my children's teachers continuing to mask. They can do what they want.

But it isn't a sufficient answer, when it has repercussions for others.

The context in this is that many of have watched DC schools NOT follow research and science for going on quite a while now. We have no faith that DC will make decisions based on the science and not fears. Plus, as indicated by the recent WP article, they appear to be making this decision about indoor masking NOT on CDC guidance but on how many parents have written to them. It is frustrating to live in an area where we must do things to appease the minority, with potential negative ramifications for children (and strongly debatable benefits).

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

Why are you yelling? Relax. No one is asking you to care.

My question is about social norms which have repercussions for our own children. If there are many people who are just continuing to mask outdoors when it is not required, I would like to understand why. They ALL can't be high risk or have high risk family members. So why do it? It's weird that this is such a difficult question to answer that you've resorted to yelling.

Because they want to is a sufficient answer to this.

Also what happens when your child’s teacher continues to mask?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

Once again, I only care until kids can unmask indoors like adults can. Until then I care somewhat because I don't like seeing support for irrational policies. As the PP said, our kids are involved here. And yes, I am aware we are lucky we don't live in Ukraine, and this isn't the end of the world, but there is a certain urgency to it right now because it's unclear when we will ever unmask if not now when everyone else in the country is doing it and the CDC has given the green light.

Relax

I totally will when my kids are allowed to follow the science. My kid told me yesterday how a lot of her friends were cheering on the playground that they were able to be maskless outside. I want that same celebration to take place inside the classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

Why are you yelling? Relax. No one is asking you to care.

My question is about social norms which have repercussions for our own children. If there are many people who are just continuing to mask outdoors when it is not required, I would like to understand why. They ALL can't be high risk or have high risk family members. So why do it? It's weird that this is such a difficult question to answer that you've resorted to yelling.

I would like to go maskless outdoors at my kids school and was excited when they announced it. For me, it's a step that follows the science (outdoor spread is unlikely, and particularly so when case rates are low) but it also offers my child and I a little bit of normalcy. It's easier for me to say goodbye without a mask on, or to read her facial expression at pick up to understand her mood. I like the idea of having a conversation with her teacher without masks so we can communicate better and, again, I can read her mood a little more. It feels more human.

I understand why others might choose to wear masks still, and respect that choice. It doesn't harm me. However, I do wish they'd take them off because the social benefits I mentioned above would increase the more people who don't mask. Again, I'm not judging them and I'm certainly not going to criticize or shame them. I'm sure some of them DO have vulnerabilities that make them want to be especially cautious, and I understand.

But those of us who are wishing more people would take their masks off don't feel that way out of a sense of judgment or control (or at least, I don't and I think many others don't). It's literally just because we miss interacting with people without masks, especially in a school setting where you have limited opportunities to get to know teachers and fellow parents and masks have felt like social barrier for so long now. My kid is in PK4 so we've never actually had the experience of just interacting with our school normal in a pre-Covid environment. I don't know the parents of any of my child's classmates beyond a nod at drop-off. It's not a massive sacrifice but it is hard and I while I understand the pandemic isn't over, this is a tiny sliver of normalcy that I thing would benefit all of us.

So that's why it matters to me what percent of people are masked versus unmasked in these situations. I get I can't control what others do, but their decision to mask DOES impact me. A masked environment is different than an unmasked environment. Surely we can all agree on that?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

I don’t care either. But I do care that my child has to wear a mask indoors, and I’m sure the person wearing a mask outdoors would seriously care if my child didn’t have to wear a mask indoor. See the irony here?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?

WHO CARES???? IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS AND I DO NOT CARE

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

Once again, I only care until kids can unmask indoors like adults can. Until then I care somewhat because I don't like seeing support for irrational policies. As the PP said, our kids are involved here. And yes, I am aware we are lucky we don't live in Ukraine, and this isn't the end of the world, but there is a certain urgency to it right now because it's unclear when we will ever unmask if not now when everyone else in the country is doing it and the CDC has given the green light.

Relax

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

Once again, I only care until kids can unmask indoors like adults can. Until then I care somewhat because I don't like seeing support for irrational policies. As the PP said, our kids are involved here. And yes, I am aware we are lucky we don't live in Ukraine, and this isn't the end of the world, but there is a certain urgency to it right now because it's unclear when we will ever unmask if not now when everyone else in the country is doing it and the CDC has given the green light.

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Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

And it’s statements like this….. waiting a week or a month will do what exactly? Oh precious angel is behind…….. behind what?

There are kids in Ukraine sleeping in a train tunnel. Chill.

Why do people say stuff like this? “Children in Ukraine are suffering therefore you should mask your kids and like it”. Huh? These things have nothing to do with each other. And no, it’s not “perspective”. If anything, the perspective should be that we are blessed to have an opportunity to do right by are children, and are not.

People are outraged that people are wearing masks at drop off. Yes it’s about perspective

I’m not convinced this more than one or two people responding and saying they are emailing.

When DC removes the mandate then what will they complain about?

You sure have poor reading comprehension, or you are projecting your own outrage. Saying I am "pleased" to see few people masking at drop-off does NOT imply that I am "outraged" if I see someone who does. But if you don't see why people who are still masking outdoors even though they are not required to makes me think they probably won't support unmasking indoors, and that this concerns me because we obviously need public support to get the mandate dropped since this is all political at this point, then I don't know what to tell you. Once the indoor mandate is gone and it's masks optional I will not care one bit if you keep wearing a KN95 from morning to night, or if you send your kid to school in one (although I will feel sorry for your kid).

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

This does beg the question: Do you think everyone wearing a mask outside when it is not required are immunocompromised or have a high-risk family member? If not, what else are their motivations?