If the county isn't allowed to placed a mask mandate in the classroom

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the teachers dropping dead or filling the hospitals? Are have they all quit yet? We’ve been told here that’s what will happen so I want to know what actually happened in an area where mask mandates were ended……

Central Texas isn’t having an easy time of it without a mask mandate. Lots of staff vacancies and many districts are cutting bus service, begg8ng parents to volunteer for lunch prep and supervision, and closing for days at a time due to staff shortages, not to mention all the Covid clusters among students.

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Anonymous wrote:Most parents I know will let their kids get rid of the masks once FCPS says its OK.

And most parents I know wear KN95s everywhere, and their kids do too.

Strange, and we both live in the same county.

I was in the supermarket today and about a third of the employees had ditched the masks.

When I went to the supermarket, I didn't really pay attention to the employees, but most customers were wearing kn95s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the teachers dropping dead or filling the hospitals? Are have they all quit yet? We’ve been told here that’s what will happen so I want to know what actually happened in an area where mask mandates were ended……

Central Texas isn’t having an easy time of it without a mask mandate. Lots of staff vacancies and many districts are cutting bus service, begg8ng parents to volunteer for lunch prep and supervision, and closing for days at a time due to staff shortages, not to mention all the Covid clusters among students.

Sounds like FCPS right now... staff vacancies, disrupted bus service, requesting volunteers, "snowmicron," virtual school today. Seems like our mask mandate is not doing much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the teachers dropping dead or filling the hospitals? Are have they all quit yet? We’ve been told here that’s what will happen so I want to know what actually happened in an area where mask mandates were ended……

Central Texas isn’t having an easy time of it without a mask mandate. Lots of staff vacancies and many districts are cutting bus service, begg8ng parents to volunteer for lunch prep and supervision, and closing for days at a time due to staff shortages, not to mention all the Covid clusters among students.

Sounds like FCPS right now... staff vacancies, disrupted bus service, requesting volunteers, "snowmicron," virtual school today. Seems like our mask mandate is not doing much.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/dozens-of-texas-school-districts-shut-down-due-to-staff-shortages-linked-to-omicron-surge/

My brother’s school district cut bus service for everyone but sped and McKinney-Vento students. FCPS hasn’t been nearly that bad.

[Anonymous]

Even before Covid, the “walk zone” in my friend’s Dallas suburb was 2 miles even in elementary. Everyone drives of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the teachers dropping dead or filling the hospitals? Are have they all quit yet? We’ve been told here that’s what will happen so I want to know what actually happened in an area where mask mandates were ended……

Central Texas isn’t having an easy time of it without a mask mandate. Lots of staff vacancies and many districts are cutting bus service, begg8ng parents to volunteer for lunch prep and supervision, and closing for days at a time due to staff shortages, not to mention all the Covid clusters among students.

Sounds like FCPS right now... staff vacancies, disrupted bus service, requesting volunteers, "snowmicron," virtual school today. Seems like our mask mandate is not doing much.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/dozens-of-texas-school-districts-shut-down-due-to-staff-shortages-linked-to-omicron-surge/

My brother’s school district cut bus service for everyone but sped and McKinney-Vento students. FCPS hasn’t been nearly that bad.

Doesn't MCPS still have a mask mandate? https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/05/montgomery-county-schools-return/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid, the “walk zone” in my friend’s Dallas suburb was 2 miles even in elementary. Everyone drives of course.

Your sense of “everyone” is skewed. Kids still use the bus. Like, for example, my niece and nephew and all the kids that ride their bus in TX.

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Anonymous wrote:Most parents I know will let their kids get rid of the masks once FCPS says its OK.

And most parents I know wear KN95s everywhere, and their kids do too.

Strange, and we both live in the same county.

I was in the supermarket today and about a third of the employees had ditched the masks.

NP here. Bad for them. We (including our 7-16 y o kids) will keep our KN95 masks on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My question is: when does masking the kids ever end? Kids are more likely to die in a car crash than of covid, vaccines are available. Breathing slimy, dirty air trapped in the mask is also unhealthy! It’s enough, there is no off ramp. After Omricon, there will, of course, be another variant. It’s past time for normalcy.

When the weather improves then I will unmask. Seriously as a teacher with high risk family members I'm not sure I will continue teaching if everyone unmasks next week. If I do it will be very hard to treat families and children who chose to unmask the same way I do others. Think if it like going to the doctor while a minority or obese- you get treated differently. Obesity and racial status aren't as easy to control either.

Ps- would never say this irl, but it is the truth. It will be very difficult for all of us as teachers to treat your kid the same. I'll guess I will just make a table of you in the back of the room far far away from me.

Based on anecdotal observations, you will catch Covid soon, no matter what you do. So will your students, vaxxed or not. The spread on this latest Covid version is incredible.

Covid will probably not make you too sick (I hope not) and you will acquire natural immunity good for at least several months.

Anyhow, I predict Omicron spread will make masking a non-issue within a month or so.

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Anonymous wrote:My question is: when does masking the kids ever end? Kids are more likely to die in a car crash than of covid, vaccines are available. Breathing slimy, dirty air trapped in the mask is also unhealthy! It’s enough, there is no off ramp. After Omricon, there will, of course, be another variant. It’s past time for normalcy.

When the weather improves then I will unmask. Seriously as a teacher with high risk family members I'm not sure I will continue teaching if everyone unmasks next week. If I do it will be very hard to treat families and children who chose to unmask the same way I do others. Think if it like going to the doctor while a minority or obese- you get treated differently. Obesity and racial status aren't as easy to control either.

Ps- would never say this irl, but it is the truth. It will be very difficult for all of us as teachers to treat your kid the same. I'll guess I will just make a table of you in the back of the room far far away from me.

Based on anecdotal observations, you will catch Covid soon, no matter what you do. So will your students, vaxxed or not. The spread on this latest Covid version is incredible.

Covid will probably not make you too sick (I hope not) and you will acquire natural immunity good for at least several months.

Anyhow, I predict Omicron spread will make masking a non-issue within a month or so.

Everyone I know who has gotten covid lately got it when they weren't wearing a mask. My kid was recognized as a close contact of covid at school, but tested negative because she was wearing a mask. I know 10 people who are vaccinated, boosted, but were lax about masks--sometimes just for one thing like an in-person small get-together--are those who got it. 5 were super mild/non-symptomatic, 4 were really sick but able to stay at home with doctor support (e.g., steroid prescription for one) but not hospitalized. 1 was briefly hospitalized but now home but still touch and go. Based on my immediate circle, we're sticking to high quality masks until numbers go down--and we'll reassess the evidence then. But it seems really dumb to roll the die and ditch the mask now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is: when does masking the kids ever end? Kids are more likely to die in a car crash than of covid, vaccines are available. Breathing slimy, dirty air trapped in the mask is also unhealthy! It’s enough, there is no off ramp. After Omricon, there will, of course, be another variant. It’s past time for normalcy.

When the weather improves then I will unmask. Seriously as a teacher with high risk family members I'm not sure I will continue teaching if everyone unmasks next week. If I do it will be very hard to treat families and children who chose to unmask the same way I do others. Think if it like going to the doctor while a minority or obese- you get treated differently. Obesity and racial status aren't as easy to control either.

Ps- would never say this irl, but it is the truth. It will be very difficult for all of us as teachers to treat your kid the same. I'll guess I will just make a table of you in the back of the room far far away from me.

Based on anecdotal observations, you will catch Covid soon, no matter what you do. So will your students, vaxxed or not. The spread on this latest Covid version is incredible.

Covid will probably not make you too sick (I hope not) and you will acquire natural immunity good for at least several months.

Anyhow, I predict Omicron spread will make masking a non-issue within a month or so.

Everyone I know who has gotten covid lately got it when they weren't wearing a mask. My kid was recognized as a close contact of covid at school, but tested negative because she was wearing a mask. I know 10 people who are vaccinated, boosted, but were lax about masks--sometimes just for one thing like an in-person small get-together--are those who got it. 5 were super mild/non-symptomatic, 4 were really sick but able to stay at home with doctor support (e.g., steroid prescription for one) but not hospitalized. 1 was briefly hospitalized but now home but still touch and go. Based on my immediate circle, we're sticking to high quality masks until numbers go down--and we'll reassess the evidence then. But it seems really dumb to roll the die and ditch the mask now.

+1. Vaxxed and boosted, got COVID when I went maskless for a wedding. It was very mild for me, it wasn’t for the unvaxxed asshole that showed up sick and contagious to a wedding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is: when does masking the kids ever end? Kids are more likely to die in a car crash than of covid, vaccines are available. Breathing slimy, dirty air trapped in the mask is also unhealthy! It’s enough, there is no off ramp. After Omricon, there will, of course, be another variant. It’s past time for normalcy.

When the weather improves then I will unmask. Seriously as a teacher with high risk family members I'm not sure I will continue teaching if everyone unmasks next week. If I do it will be very hard to treat families and children who chose to unmask the same way I do others. Think if it like going to the doctor while a minority or obese- you get treated differently. Obesity and racial status aren't as easy to control either.

Ps- would never say this irl, but it is the truth. It will be very difficult for all of us as teachers to treat your kid the same. I'll guess I will just make a table of you in the back of the room far far away from me.

Based on anecdotal observations, you will catch Covid soon, no matter what you do. So will your students, vaxxed or not. The spread on this latest Covid version is incredible.

Covid will probably not make you too sick (I hope not) and you will acquire natural immunity good for at least several months.

Anyhow, I predict Omicron spread will make masking a non-issue within a month or so.

Everyone I know who has gotten covid lately got it when they weren't wearing a mask. My kid was recognized as a close contact of covid at school, but tested negative because she was wearing a mask. I know 10 people who are vaccinated, boosted, but were lax about masks--sometimes just for one thing like an in-person small get-together--are those who got it. 5 were super mild/non-symptomatic, 4 were really sick but able to stay at home with doctor support (e.g., steroid prescription for one) but not hospitalized. 1 was briefly hospitalized but now home but still touch and go. Based on my immediate circle, we're sticking to high quality masks until numbers go down--and we'll reassess the evidence then. But it seems really dumb to roll the die and ditch the mask now.

I'm totally fine with requiring masks for another month or two. But then it will be time to allow vaccinated staff/students the choice to opt-out. I didn't not vote for Youngkin for many reasons, but I am very glad that he is pressuring school systems to eliminate the mask mandate.

[Anonymous]

I think it makes sense to revisit masks once numbers come down - which should be soon.

But it was a total dick move for Youngkin to force it mid-surge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is: when does masking the kids ever end? Kids are more likely to die in a car crash than of covid, vaccines are available. Breathing slimy, dirty air trapped in the mask is also unhealthy! It’s enough, there is no off ramp. After Omricon, there will, of course, be another variant. It’s past time for normalcy.

When the weather improves then I will unmask. Seriously as a teacher with high risk family members I'm not sure I will continue teaching if everyone unmasks next week. If I do it will be very hard to treat families and children who chose to unmask the same way I do others. Think if it like going to the doctor while a minority or obese- you get treated differently. Obesity and racial status aren't as easy to control either.

Ps- would never say this irl, but it is the truth. It will be very difficult for all of us as teachers to treat your kid the same. I'll guess I will just make a table of you in the back of the room far far away from me.

Based on anecdotal observations, you will catch Covid soon, no matter what you do. So will your students, vaxxed or not. The spread on this latest Covid version is incredible.

Covid will probably not make you too sick (I hope not) and you will acquire natural immunity good for at least several months.

Anyhow, I predict Omicron spread will make masking a non-issue within a month or so.

Everyone I know who has gotten covid lately got it when they weren't wearing a mask. My kid was recognized as a close contact of covid at school, but tested negative because she was wearing a mask. I know 10 people who are vaccinated, boosted, but were lax about masks--sometimes just for one thing like an in-person small get-together--are those who got it. 5 were super mild/non-symptomatic, 4 were really sick but able to stay at home with doctor support (e.g., steroid prescription for one) but not hospitalized. 1 was briefly hospitalized but now home but still touch and go. Based on my immediate circle, we're sticking to high quality masks until numbers go down--and we'll reassess the evidence then. But it seems really dumb to roll the die and ditch the mask now.

I'm totally fine with requiring masks for another month or two. But then it will be time to allow vaccinated staff/students the choice to opt-out. I didn't not vote for Youngkin for many reasons, but I am very glad that he is pressuring school systems to eliminate the mask mandate.

Oh hell naw!? Living freely and without fear? Unacceptable. By any metrics. We need double masking mandatory as well as biannual jabbing at the very least. The more spike proteins and experimental gene therapies we can inoculate to the masses the better!

Long live big pharma with no conflict of interest only thinking about our health and its minions around like Gates, Tedros, Soros and all the political puppets peddling freedom!

Godspeed

[Anonymous]

^^^ Will you please just go away? I'm sure you won't, but it is so tiresome.