peppermintpatty
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jan 25, 2022 12:36:42 GMT
You're not doomed. Maryland is over the hump and we were one of the earliest states to have a surge even though we are almost 80% vaccinated. My county is 85% vaccinated and we didn't have much of a surge but we have had an indoor mask mandate since September. You have to have one to be in school and if you are eligible in the schools, you have to be vaccinated.
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Post by scrapbookwriter on Jan 25, 2022 19:00:22 GMT
This is not what I understood him to say. I thought he said you don't need to test to confirm that you have Covid; if you don't feel well, just assume you have it and stay home. Which I totally agree with. Not the testing part, but the "assume you have it and stay home" part. The governor also issued a mask mandate for everyone through January 28. The legislature overrode him, but that's not his fault. The problem with that is that, even with symptoms, it doesn’t mean you have COVID. He said this on a Friday, and just a few days before 4 people in my household got tested, because they all had slight cold symptoms and had tangential exposures. All were negative. If you’ve been vaccinated and boosted, as we all have, you can’t go by the traditional symptoms like loss of smell/taste. Also, when did Cox issue a mask order? Because, like someone else mentioned, I only recall him saying that the SLCo order didn’t apply to federal buildings… in essence, he overruled their order where he could to NOT require them. PS: How are your family members? Did you and your husband ever get it? , thanks for asking. Our DIL developed Covid, followed by our son and their kids. They had been staying with us for two weeks. We've been vaccinated and boostered and we had no symptoms but decided to isolate just in case. Fortunately we did not come down with Covid. At-home tests have been notorious for false negatives. Our DIL tested negative twice before testing positive. For that reason, I am glad Governor Cox encouraged people to stay home if they didn't feel well. I hate to think of people being reassured by a false negative and unknowingly spreading the virus further. (ETA: I'm not scolding anyone! Just sharing my own reservations/concerns.) I listened to Gov Cox's speech and came away with the idea that we were under a mask mandate until January 28. Apparently I didn't understand what I heard. At church that Sunday every single person was wearing a mask with the exception of two recent move-ins (ironically from California) who think the whole thing is a hoax. I can't even. |
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