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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

Just went to the store and wore a mask. Always do now. A few others were wearing them. One coffee shop I go to (masked) has employees who mostly always mask. We were just on vacation out of state and we saw people masking inside some museums. Not in droves, but some, including us. My spouse was at a concert last night and wore one and said only a handful of people were masked -- but a handful is not "no one." Enjoy your covid, and your flu too, PP, when winter hits. But stop going around claiming no one masks anywhere anymore. It's not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, too many friends testing positive.

I'm back to wearing a n95 indoors while in public.

Same here. Friends who caught it in recent weeks were all traveling and going on planes and through airports unmasked. Interestingly, just after another friend who had done this got home and tested positive, there was a big article in the Post or somewhere about how airports and airplanes are particular hotspots for getting infected and people should mask up to travel again. (Before someone insists, "But planes circulate air in ways that you don't pick up stuff" etc.: I know this, but if you are next to someone who is infected, well, you're too close to them to avoid breathing some of their exhalations, air circulation or not.)

We are planning international travel in early fall to see older relatives. If any of us gets Covid at the wrong moment, our whole expensive trip could end up screwed. Or if we catch it during travel and then give it to our relatives while we're there, well, that endangers them, possibly, plus we ourselves would be infected and infectious while on what's supposed to be a long-awaited family visit after years apart. Masking up here at the grocery store or drugstore, at highway rest stops when we're out, at the theater etc. is no big deal compared to wrecking a trip. And those who claim "covid is over" are sticking their heads in the sand about new, more transmissible (not more virulent, so far, but more transmissible) variants now creating the uptick. Masking is nothing compared to being sick, even mildly sick, to me.

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

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Anonymous wrote:Yes not going inside anywhere I don't have to and masking when I do. But haven't been inside a store or anywhere in a while bc I saw the wastewater shoot up.

+1 too many people have got covid the last few weeks no taking any chances. Who wants long covid, heart problems, POTS or a shrunken brain?! NOT I.

Anonymous wrote:We are masking again including kid in daycare and two starting elementary school soon will. My oldest in fifth grade is really upset. Should I let her go unmasked? I feel like she needs to understand how to navigate peer pressure.

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Anonymous wrote:Who’s still testing for covid? Come on, it’s 2023.

Sounds like you do not have anyone in your life who could be seriously affected by even the so-called "mild," "it's like a cold" Covid. If you did, you might understand why YOUR masking and testing is important--not to you but to a loved one, or even a stranger who is someone else's loved one, for whom Covid could become a very big problem indeed. But the idea of people doing things for the greater good, to protect the vulnerable, to protect strangers they'll never meet, definitely died with people like you during the past few years.

Anonymous wrote:Yes not going inside anywhere I don't have to and masking when I do. But haven't been inside a store or anywhere in a while bc I saw the wastewater shoot up.

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Anonymous wrote:Who’s still testing for covid? Come on, it’s 2023.

Sounds like you do not have anyone in your life who could be seriously affected by even the so-called "mild," "it's like a cold" Covid. If you did, you might understand why YOUR masking and testing is important--not to you but to a loved one, or even a stranger who is someone else's loved one, for whom Covid could become a very big problem indeed. But the idea of people doing things for the greater good, to protect the vulnerable, to protect strangers they'll never meet, definitely died with people like you during the past few years.

Anonymous wrote:Who’s still testing for covid? Come on, it’s 2023.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes not going inside anywhere I don't have to and masking when I do. But haven't been inside a store or anywhere in a while bc I saw the wastewater shoot up.

"Shoot up."

LOL.

We need better math education in this country!

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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.

+1. If schools start threatening this en masse again there are going to be riots.

Cope.

No. If schools close again I’ll be leading the riot. Kids are just not affected like adults. There’s absolutely no reason to damage their education like that

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Anonymous wrote:Yes not going inside anywhere I don't have to and masking when I do. But haven't been inside a store or anywhere in a while bc I saw the wastewater shoot up.

"Shoot up."

LOL.

We need better math education in this country!

Almost 5x in the last month. “Shoot up” is an accurate description of this graph:

https://biobot.io/data/

We need less BSing in this country.

That chart is for the last six months, showing us rising up from very low levels. However, you get a different picture if you click on the button on the upper right hand side that says "total results" which provides the picture since 2020. There, you see we're still much lower than last summer. Given current low levels, even small increases can generate large percent increases but that doesn't mean that we're at significant levels. Without context, percent changes are not useful.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, too many friends testing positive.

I'm back to wearing a n95 indoors while in public.