So terrible what this is doing to kids, all so that really old people don't risk losing a year or two. Tragic and hope the people responsible get theirs. But don’t get down, literally millions and millions more turning away from this nonsense all the time.

I had a co-worker tell me how his 7 year old was terrified to go outside after the initial lockdowns, Said his son would through a fit and have panic attacks. I did bite my tongue, because I wanted to tell him how he made that happen how he created fear in his child to just go outside. Insanity!!!

It's sad! None of us in my family wear masks - But my five year old grandson keeps singing covid songs and drawing sad faces with masks. I hate it. Even when you never ever watch MSM. The fricken freeway signs are chastising people to wash hands, wear masks, STAY HOME. Such bullshit!

This is what children should be doing about Joe Biden, not a normal person.

I have a neighbor who does Elf on the Shelf for their kids. They made a mask for the Elf. What the hell is wrong with people? Heaven forbid you try to make things as normal as possible.

I was walking my dog yesterday. We are under a new lockdown and increased restrictions here in WA.

I don’t wear one when I’m walking, just me and my dog. I always cross the street or move to give 6 ft (which is what the actual “rule” is from our governor... no mask required outside if you have 6’ social distance).

It’s crazy to me... I’d say probably 90% of people I see are wearing masks when they’re out walking alone. People walking or riding bikes with their kids all “masked up”. I crossed paths with a woman and her son (both wearing masks)... due to where we were I couldn’t just cross the street, so I moved to one far edge of the sidewalk... I can’t quite describe how she reacted... she went to the other far side of the sidewalk, they kept moving but she sort of turned her back to me, lowered her head, shielded her son from me with her body. I felt it so viscerally... her fear, like I was a dangerous threat to her and her son, just because I was outside without a mask. I really do worry where our society is going to end up after all this. People really have lost all sense of reality.

I have a small glimmer of hope when I come across someone else without a mask. We give each other the social distance, I hate how that’s become so normal to me, but us unmasked always seem to give each other a smile, like we are the few in this area still able to communicate friendliness to a stranger.

Someone in my church small group has an 8 yo grandchild. She came home crying because the teacher told her that we would all be dead in 10 years from the climate. They live outside Seattle. Pathetic.

This is the rational and reasoned behavior of an adult Progessive Leftist

To amplify the OP's situation;

Context - A couple of women hikers (unmasked) were walking a side-section of the Mid-State Trail (part of the Loooong trail that crosses through many states) in Ashburnham, Massachusetts near Mount Watatic. It's an area with an overlook where you can see features of Boston on a clear day lying some sixty miles eastward.

A trail, in the woods, at a very quiet time (I know this, because on this day, I actually passed a popular parking area for hikers on route 119 just out of New Hampshire from Massachusetts close to where this event occurred, and it was empty. Often on decent weather days it's busy, and on holidays it's packed.

So, a man and his wife (his wife is a Rabbi BTW) were also out hiking the trail with their masks on... well-away from other humans... in-the-woods. The man sees two women hikers without masks, proceeds to flip out, and spits at them claiming that he's infected with "Covid". He spit multiple times while his wife was calling him back.

This is where we are now.

Not in link; They caught Hale (the man's first name), a 72 year old Ashburnham man, not employed, donated 3K to the Dems, and is a batshit crazy moonbat. Arrested for A&B (expectorating hazardous/infectious bodily fluids purposely).

kids will be kids and be hysterical. I wouldn't take it as bad parenting unless the parent was directly telling them to do that

I was in a drug store and saw an interaction between a man and his young son. The little boy wanted a toy, which I think was a tank. Something very masculine. And the Dad had such a meltdown hissy fit. That's one little boy who won't go in to a little pink dress quietly.

My not-quite-5 daughter hates masks and will, unsolicited, tell me and my wife how bad they are for you and how stupid they look. It's actually quite a chore, keeping her from approaching random mask-wearing strangers with those proclamations.

Yep I keep meeting kids at the park who run from everyone. But at least those parents realize they messed up and are trying to get their kids to play again.