Prediction: Schools will have kids back in masks within a month

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/21/1081810074/omicron-ba2-variant-spread

Reasons:

1. Second OMICRON wave will move quickly when BA.2 gets a foothold.
2. Schools are now major sources of transmission (different from earlier in the pandemic)
3. Most kids younger than 12 have only had two shots, if any
4. Masks optional policies will enable rapid spread, taking out classrooms and schools with wide spread sickness within a few weeks

That's what they said when schools opened in the Fall. Then...a big nothingburger.

Same song, different verse. Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Let it go. Move on. Covid is becoming endemic.

Seriously.
Move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. My high school and middle school kids truly don’t mind wearing masks. They’re both just happy to be playing sports and in school. Both are vaccinated.

I trust our private school to do what’s best.

+1. My kids don’t care either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/21/1081810074/omicron-ba2-variant-spread

Reasons:

1. Second OMICRON wave will move quickly when BA.2 gets a foothold.
2. Schools are now major sources of transmission (different from earlier in the pandemic)
3. Most kids younger than 12 have only had two shots, if any
4. Masks optional policies will enable rapid spread, taking out classrooms and schools with wide spread sickness within a few weeks

That's what they said when schools opened in the Fall. Then...a big nothingburger.

Same song, different verse. Yawn.

It's now the boy that cried wolf scenarios.

Here are my predictions:

1.) Nothing happens
2.) Another wave of covid eventually happens and it spreads like the others have
3.) Most people recover.
4.) We realize being closed and masked makes little sense.
5.) We all move on.

[Anonymous]

You mean those flimsy cloth masks worn by 99% of the people that do nothing but act as virtue signaling face diapers?

[Anonymous]

OP here. I am moving on, too, and think that we all should do so.

I am 'moving on' to accept that there is no going back to 2019: there is now a deadly respiratory virus that mutates quickly to evade immune protection. That virus is here to stay. Compared to pre-2020 levels, there will be more waves of infection, more illness, more deaths of vulnerable folks, and more threat of nagging illness (long COVID) once the acute phase passes. To stay ahead of the virus and prevent more suffering than is necessary, humans will have to adapt more rapidly than we have in the past and we will have to use all of the tools at our disposal to prevent illness (including masking when necessary).This virus moves fast and it is getting faster all the time. We must be equally fast.

[Anonymous]

we wont be back in masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sorry, but we are moving on. it's time for you to as well.

But you are not, are you? You’re moving exactly at the pace the rest of us dictate. At least in the top schools.

Enough said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You mean those flimsy cloth masks worn by 99% of the people that do nothing but act as virtue signaling face diapers?

Then upgrade your mask.
But when some top DC schools required higher-grade masks, the mental-health anti-mask camps were crying and complaining loudly . Seriously, why don't you go to FL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I am moving on, too, and think that we all should do so.

I am 'moving on' to accept that there is no going back to 2019: there is now a deadly respiratory virus that mutates quickly to evade immune protection. That virus is here to stay. Compared to pre-2020 levels, there will be more waves of infection, more illness, more deaths of vulnerable folks, and more threat of nagging illness (long COVID) once the acute phase passes. To stay ahead of the virus and prevent more suffering than is necessary, humans will have to adapt more rapidly than we have in the past and we will have to use all of the tools at our disposal to prevent illness (including masking when necessary).This virus moves fast and it is getting faster all the time. We must be equally fast.

I’m guessing that it gives you a lot of anxiety that life is pretty much returning to normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. My high school and middle school kids truly don’t mind wearing masks. They’re both just happy to be playing sports and in school. Both are vaccinated.

I trust our private school to do what’s best.

+1. My kids don’t care either.

+1

I’ll add: because they’re decent human beings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I am moving on, too, and think that we all should do so.

I am 'moving on' to accept that there is no going back to 2019: there is now a deadly respiratory virus that mutates quickly to evade immune protection. That virus is here to stay. Compared to pre-2020 levels, there will be more waves of infection, more illness, more deaths of vulnerable folks, and more threat of nagging illness (long COVID) once the acute phase passes. To stay ahead of the virus and prevent more suffering than is necessary, humans will have to adapt more rapidly than we have in the past and we will have to use all of the tools at our disposal to prevent illness (including masking when necessary).This virus moves fast and it is getting faster all the time. We must be equally fast.

What do you plan to do to "stay ahead of the virus" and being "equally fast"? By posting anti-masks propaganda every day on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I am moving on, too, and think that we all should do so.

I am 'moving on' to accept that there is no going back to 2019: there is now a deadly respiratory virus that mutates quickly to evade immune protection. That virus is here to stay. Compared to pre-2020 levels, there will be more waves of infection, more illness, more deaths of vulnerable folks, and more threat of nagging illness (long COVID) once the acute phase passes. To stay ahead of the virus and prevent more suffering than is necessary, humans will have to adapt more rapidly than we have in the past and we will have to use all of the tools at our disposal to prevent illness (including masking when necessary).This virus moves fast and it is getting faster all the time. We must be equally fast.

I’m guessing that it gives you a lot of anxiety that life is pretty much returning to normal.

I’m guessing troll factory just clocked in. Or are you such a friendless loser that you do these on the daily on your own time/dime?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sorry, but we are moving on. it's time for you to as well.

But you are not, are you? You’re moving exactly at the pace the rest of us dictate. At least in the top schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. My high school and middle school kids truly don’t mind wearing masks. They’re both just happy to be playing sports and in school. Both are vaccinated.

I trust our private school to do what’s best.

+1. My kids don’t care either.

+1

I’ll add: because they’re decent human beings

My kids have no problem with their masks either, but if my 5-year-old did have trouble with it, it wouldn’t be a moral failing on his part.