Masks for school events?

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In the face of Covid fatigue, OP, all you can do is wear an N95 when you attend, and use caution when inviting elderly or fragile relatives to attend: they have to be recently boosted and wearing N95s.

I was at my child's Bethesda area middle school recently during a regular school day, and observed that half the kids and teachers were wearing masks inside.

If you have fake Covid fatigue get mental health treatment. You should use caution regardless but if kids are in person why concern. They will get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wear a mask if you want and don’t worry about what other people are doing.

+1

Obsessing over "masks or not" isn't healthy for my mental health. I cann

[Anonymous]

The decent people will still mask so just make sure to surround yourself with them and let the anti maskers self segregate into their own section.

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I mask because it doesn’t bother me and I don’t want to catch Covid. So many people I know are getting it now. One friend got it at a (non-MCPS) school event and all the other mom volunteers got it too.

I told DS to start masking again for the week before his AP exams so he doesn’t get sick beforehand/during. Told DD to wear a mask before her musical performance next week. If you have something big coming up and don’t want to miss it due to Covid, assess the risk and then mask if it’s important to you.

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Our school simply has no optional indoor evening events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school simply has no optional indoor evening events.

Yeah ours are still outdoors only (ES). Could see how this wouldn’t work for MS and HS though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mask because it doesn’t bother me and I don’t want to catch Covid. So many people I know are getting it now. One friend got it at a (non-MCPS) school event and all the other mom volunteers got it too.

I told DS to start masking again for the week before his AP exams so he doesn’t get sick beforehand/during. Told DD to wear a mask before her musical performance next week. If you have something big coming up and don’t want to miss it due to Covid, assess the risk and then mask if it’s important to you.

My teen chose (on her own) to continue masking. She never stopped. But she has to remove her mask to eat lunch, and the kid who sat next to her at lunch last week tested positive. Two or three days later, dd tested positive.

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Hell no!

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Anonymous wrote:The decent people will still mask so just make sure to surround yourself with them and let the anti maskers self segregate into their own section.

Decent people aren't so judgemental.

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I have kids in two DCC high schools and have been gto both for events this spring, and I would say 90%+ are masking. Teachers/staff are more like 70%, but maybe many of them had covid recently? (I know quite a few had Omicron).

Both schools are on the lower end of 10 day positive percentages, even though one is high on numbers (it is a large school).

I am definitely appreciative of students' and families' care for one another by masking. I am also glad graduation will be outdoors.

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Anonymous wrote:I have kids in two DCC high schools and have been gto both for events this spring, and I would say 90%+ are masking. Teachers/staff are more like 70%, but maybe many of them had covid recently? (I know quite a few had Omicron).

Both schools are on the lower end of 10 day positive percentages, even though one is high on numbers (it is a large school).

I am definitely appreciative of students' and families' care for one another by masking. I am also glad graduation will be outdoors.

That’s in line with what I observed at a recent event too- I think many teachers were more than happy to ditch the masks after teaching in them in person for the last year, whereas many of the parents were or still are working from home and never had to mask as often. It wears you down, particularly if you are wearing a properly fitted mask and talking all day.

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I was just at an event where people were mostly wearing masks indoors

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Anonymous wrote:The decent people will still mask so just make sure to surround yourself with them and let the anti maskers self segregate into their own section.

Decent people aren't so judgemental.

Decent people will help stop the spread of covid in our schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering how your school is handling masks for optional indoor evening events where families are invited- are schools asking folks to wear masks even though they aren’t required during the school day? Or are families voluntarily masking even if they let kids go maskless during the daytime?

The real question is whether schools are requiring children who have a mask mandate due to classroom outbreak to wear a mask after hours. How about unvaccinated children who are sent home for 5 days due to classroom outbreak--are they allowed to attend an after-hours school event?

Those aren’t real questions. But whatever distracts you from the fact that a can of beans that cost 46 cents a year ago now costs 71 cents.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The decent people will still mask so just make sure to surround yourself with them and let the anti maskers self segregate into their own section.

Decent people aren't so judgemental.

Decent people will help stop the spread of covid in our schools.

Decent people are no true scotsmen!