No dead. If your concerned about your child don’t take them to Disney for 4-5 weeks.
Problem solved.
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Problem solved.
sullyinMT
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Disney, sure. CDC guidance of masks based on community spread, no. And, I guess WDW transportation as defined in the federal order.
I dislike wearing the mask. I sometimes have phantom mask after 14 years in my profession anyway. But until people do the more effective thing (vaccinate at a high level) and transmission drops to “low” or “moderate,” wearing a mask in the Emporium or The Seas - or my local Target - isn’t a big deal and is an easy way to lessen vaccine “challenges” amid high community spread. I agree that a family unit on the Peoplemover or a full train on EE is a dumb use of the mask, though.
I dislike the mask, but my ire is at the lazy and selfish, not the covering on my nose and mouth.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
Yep. No mask should be put on a kid that little. lol.
G00fyDad
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correcaminos
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I was saying the argument isn't dead yet for schools. No one in my house isn't fully vaccinated yet anyway. We've all been since mid-June.
Better not
DisneyCane
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Believe what you want to. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't most of Europe not masking in schools?
DisneyCane
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I'm asking this as a serious question so don't think I'm trying to be a contrarian jerk or anything. As a doctor, do you really think that shopping at Target is a significant risk of transmission, even without masks or vaccines?
To me, that type of situation doesn't meet the definition of what the CDC has said is a risky scenario.
correcaminos
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Actually no.... https://apnews.com/article/europe-h...rus-pandemic-c786f831f6c501d6dd946a3f581a6b54
UK is an outlier compared to many
sullyinMT
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No harm. All good.
As an advanced allied med profession (not a doc), it depends. Black Friday, maybe (depends on county spread). Tuesday morning picking up cat food and coffee creamer with two other people shopping for different things, probably not.
The problem at Target is not knowing how many people will be in there when I leave the house. So I just plan to wear the dumb thing. Same with indoor dining. I fully recognize the ridiculousness of walking past seated diners with my mask on only to sit at a table with my wife to enjoy a couple drinks and an appetizer. Or buying popcorn at the theater only to watch the movie without a mask, shoving popcorn in my face.
I do those activities (less recently, but still do them) because I trust the vaccine. But I also mask with my unvaccinated son as much as possible for a few reasons:
1. Set an example for him until he’s vaccinated. He starts his course Saturday.
2. Show the vulnerable and unvaccinated not by choice (kids and very few adults) that some are still in this with them. That’s virtue signaling in some/many ways, but oh well.
3. Because it’s a simple thing, as much as I may hate it, that the CDC has asked.
4. Because my county is a dumpster fire right now and I really don’t want even a mild breakthrough to put 1/3 of a hospital department (myself) down for 2 weeks.
5. Because I also don’t want other winter respiratory crap and I didn’t get sick at all last year. So maybe some residual shell shock or PTSD.
ToTBellHop
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For the record, I think the mask mandate should end at WDW, too. But I won’t use “the kids are protected!” to support that. I’ll say, “give at least a week’s notice, a generous cancellation policy, and let parents decide.”
I won’t take my kids anywhere without a mask mandate until they have full protection in 37 days. At that point, I would happily burn my masks here in CT. Our case counts are low enough. Florida seems to be on the same trajectory finally. Ran out of hosts?
Although I guess I’d keep one mask for planes. Those places are nasty year-round, especially during respiratory illness season! There are nasty colds going around. No thanks.
I won’t take my kids anywhere without a mask mandate until they have full protection in 37 days. At that point, I would happily burn my masks here in CT. Our case counts are low enough. Florida seems to be on the same trajectory finally. Ran out of hosts?
Although I guess I’d keep one mask for planes. Those places are nasty year-round, especially during respiratory illness season! There are nasty colds going around. No thanks.
So is there a consensus among most here that in 4-5 weeks if numbers remain the same in Florida the mask mandate should be dropped?
ToTBellHop
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Absolutely. I guess if they would rather wait until after Christmas Week, I could at least understand the rationale even if it’s perhaps overly cautious. I thought it was ridiculous wearing a mask on BTMRR and PeopleMover. Laughably stupid.
Tom P.
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I get the rationale there, but I'm not sure it's the best look to say "we're going to wait until the literal busiest and most crowded week of the year and then drop masks."
ToTBellHop
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Right, which is about the timing if they choose to wait for kids, so I could understand making it effective 1/3/22. Unless there’s a freakin’ Gamma wave, I struggle to fathom a mandate after January.I get the rationale there, but I'm not sure it's the best look to say "we're going to wait until the literal busiest and most crowded week of the year and then drop masks."
sullyinMT
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Sure. If international travel screws things up as it gets going next week, we’ll have bigger fish to fry than mandatory masks. I might still keep one in my hip pack for personal stress reasons, but I see no reason why our current national trajectory of cases and FL’s now unstressed medical system - combined with eligibility of (I’m guessing) 95% of WDW guests to be properly protected via vaccination - warrants further mandating come 1/1
ToTBellHop
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That’s honestly my feeling. If we reach a point where we would only be asking preschoolers and toddlers to mask, it is time to stop asking. People can always continue making that decision for their own families, but I doubt many 3-year olds wear a mask well enough to have an impact, anyway. At that age, the masks just end up saturated in saliva. Yuck.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
This is my exact experience with my three year old. It’s really theater for her to wear one.
Tom P.
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My gut is still that the mandate does not hang around nearly that long, but I could be wrong.
JoeCamel
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We put pants and diapers on them for the same reason why not a diaper on the face?
It's just another article of clothing to them
ToTBellHop
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I was told last week that it would be gone at some point this week. That seems to have changed. I would guess vaccination is the reason. No idea what kind of decision they’ve come to.
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