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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

If he had said March 1st, then it would just delay the lawsuits, right? Many parents are very scared of Covid and are insistent that we finish out this school year in masks. (And some of them want to require masks beyond that.) By Youngkin starting the fight now, hopefully, we might have a chance to get rid of the mask mandate by April. Fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

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

Will you please just stop end yourself? I’m sure you won’t, but it is so tiresome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If he had said March 1st, then it would just delay the lawsuits, right? Many parents are very scared of Covid and are insistent that we finish out this school year in masks. (And some of them want to require masks beyond that.) By Youngkin starting the fight now, hopefully, we might have a chance to get rid of the mask mandate by April. Fingers crossed.

He probably could have avoided lawsuits altogether if he waited until a reasonable time.

Unnecessary conflict.

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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.

Their choice. They were young, slender, or both so unlikely to have a serious problem with Covid. They may have already had it or they may have taken the vaccines and believe they are effective, unlike the anti-science loons running around.

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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.

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

Big Pharma will indeed live long considering they are immune from lawsuits for these experimental shots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

If he had said March 1st, then it would just delay the lawsuits, right? Many parents are very scared of Covid and are insistent that we finish out this school year in masks. (And some of them want to require masks beyond that.) By Youngkin starting the fight now, hopefully, we might have a chance to get rid of the mask mandate by April. Fingers crossed.

He probably could have avoided lawsuits altogether if he waited until a reasonable time.

Unnecessary conflict.

I think we differ on what constitutes a reasonable time. I can compromise and say March 1st. Our numbers should be coming down by then as was noted in the first post.

Or I also like this idea from the Other VA Schools board:
How about this for a metric... If a school has more than 2% of students/staff/teachers that have Covid at any given time, then that school requires masks for everyone. And perhaps has to get masks on for at least a 2-week window. But if the percentage of positive cases is below 2% of the school population, then masks can be optional for staff and students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

If he had said March 1st, then it would just delay the lawsuits, right? Many parents are very scared of Covid and are insistent that we finish out this school year in masks. (And some of them want to require masks beyond that.) By Youngkin starting the fight now, hopefully, we might have a chance to get rid of the mask mandate by April. Fingers crossed.

He probably could have avoided lawsuits altogether if he waited until a reasonable time.

Unnecessary conflict.

Which just proves he was seeking the conflict out.

[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.

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

Big Pharma will indeed live long considering they are immune from lawsuits for these experimental shots.

JFC - Most of the planet has gotten vaxed with 9.7B doses administered - what we're doing in the game called Life. The pandemic was inconveniently both new and fast growing but don't worry - the folks not vaxed are all part of the control group in this big "experiment." Watching a relative suffer and die in a hospital (non-CV condition) with quality of care swamped with CV cases isn't pleasant. Vaxing keeps the hospital staff available for the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

If he had said March 1st, then it would just delay the lawsuits, right? Many parents are very scared of Covid and are insistent that we finish out this school year in masks. (And some of them want to require masks beyond that.) By Youngkin starting the fight now, hopefully, we might have a chance to get rid of the mask mandate by April. Fingers crossed.

He probably could have avoided lawsuits altogether if he waited until a reasonable time.

Unnecessary conflict.

The conflict is the point. It will bite back at him though because I think some dems who voted for him were shocked by the EOs.

[Anonymous]

I am a Democrat who voted for Youngkin. I am glad that he is putting pressure on the school systems to eliminate the mask mandate. It is a shame that he will enact other policies that I strongly oppose, but I felt that those issues had to be sacrificed for the moment. I am an FCPS high school teacher with high school-aged kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Democrat who voted for Youngkin. I am glad that he is putting pressure on the school systems to eliminate the mask mandate. It is a shame that he will enact other policies that I strongly oppose, but I felt that those issues had to be sacrificed for the moment. I am an FCPS high school teacher with high school-aged kids.

For fighting against mask mandates? It was worth it to you? And you know it's just going to be performance--FCPS will be able to keep them as long as the CDC recommends it (and that's how long they would have kept them anyway) or the legislation changes--which isn't the governor anyway. I hope you think about your voting a little more carefully rather than impulsively in the future if this really is your thought process.

[Anonymous]

Errand report—every grocery store worker I saw was wearing a mask.
Bank—teller waved away my offer to wear a mask.

[Anonymous]

Some customers not wearing masks in grocery store. A few more breathing freely than last time I stopped in.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Democrat who voted for Youngkin. I am glad that he is putting pressure on the school systems to eliminate the mask mandate. It is a shame that he will enact other policies that I strongly oppose, but I felt that those issues had to be sacrificed for the moment. I am an FCPS high school teacher with high school-aged kids.

For fighting against mask mandates? It was worth it to you? And you know it's just going to be performance--FCPS will be able to keep them as long as the CDC recommends it (and that's how long they would have kept them anyway) or the legislation changes--which isn't the governor anyway. I hope you think about your voting a little more carefully rather than impulsively in the future if this really is your thought process.

This next few years are going to be something.