APS Outdoor Lunch Needs to Be Optional

[Anonymous]

and OP wants us to take medical advice from a journalist from an article 6 months old!?!?

He's too funny. Just made my night!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The mitigation burden being put only on our children has to stop. COVID will be here the rest of our lives. Should they eat with dividers the rest of their lives? Or only until they become adults?

"The mitigation burden being put only on our children has to stop. Car accidents will be here the rest of our lives. Should they wear seat belts the rest of their lives? Or only until they become adults?"

"The mitigation burden being put only on our children has to stop. The sun will be here the rest of our lives. Should they wear sunscreen the rest of their lives? Or only until they become adults?"

"The mitigation burden being put only on our children has to stop. Rabies will be here the rest of our lives. Should they avoid nocturnal animals out and about in the daylight the rest of their lives? Or only until they become adults?"

"The mitigation burden being put only on our children has to stop. Identity theft will be here the rest of our lives. Should they manage passwords the rest of their lives? Or only until they become adults?"

[Anonymous]

Where are they eating with dividers? They are eating outside at picnic tables without any dividers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and OP wants us to take medical advice from a journalist from an article 6 months old!?!?

He's too funny. Just made my night!

Bringing back memories of ScIenCE aNd DaTA from the clown crew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The quarantine rules for close contacts are a political choice. They need to go and it's only a matter of time before they're gone.

It's an endemic virus that will be here forever. Expecting Zero COVID in schools is like expecting Zero COVID in bars, restaurants, or in society in general, or zero rhinovirus, or zero stomach flu. It's an extremist position and completely unrealistic.

If a kid is sick, don't come to school. If they're not, come to school. It's that simple.

In APS, if your kid is fully vaxxed (ours are), you don't need to quarantine for close contact. So get your kid(s) vaxxed and you're good (not sure if all jurisdictions do this yet).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The quarantine rules for close contacts are a political choice. They need to go and it's only a matter of time before they're gone.

It's an endemic virus that will be here forever. Expecting Zero COVID in schools is like expecting Zero COVID in bars, restaurants, or in society in general, or zero rhinovirus, or zero stomach flu. It's an extremist position and completely unrealistic.

If a kid is sick, don't come to school. If they're not, come to school. It's that simple.

In APS, if your kid is fully vaxxed (ours are), you don't need to quarantine for close contact. So get your kid(s) vaxxed and you're good (not sure if all jurisdictions do this yet).

Why on earth would I want to get my child vaccinated for something they're already at statistically 0 risk of? I'm like the 2/3 of other Americans not getting their 5 to 11 year old vaccinated. Please don't think you're in the majority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you just shared data showing the Covid is a top 10 killer of kids but somehow you think that makes it low risk because it's not at the very top of the killer list? That makes no sense.

Kids are not supposed to die, OP.

Look at swimming pools and flu. Time to shut down pools. And flu too - shut down everything for the flu for kids too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and OP wants us to take medical advice from a journalist from an article 6 months old!?!?

He's too funny. Just made my night!

Facts that are contrary to your COVID doom beliefs I'm sure make you uncomfortable. Please stay inside your house until 2030.

[Anonymous]

This weekend, we're going to Christmas parties at friends' houses on Friday and Saturday night. We're going to a kid's birthday party at a restaurant on Sunday. All indoors.

But yes, at school, kids have to eat outdoors in the 35 degree weather because a small, vocal minority is still living like it's March 2020. Makes a lot of sense.

[Anonymous]

Covid or no Covid kids should be outside as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would I want to get my child vaccinated for something they're already at statistically 0 risk of? I'm like the 2/3 of other Americans not getting their 5 to 11 year old vaccinated. Please don't think you're in the majority.

Because you should be thinking big picture. If DS gets (and maybe they don't get that sick), they spread to grandma who may die because DS got it and had high viral loads to spread since not vaxxed. Or because the more it spreads, the more it mutates and maybe it will become more lethal in children. Th ink about the First they came ... prose. If you don't vax your kids because you think at this point in time they're not at risk but later they may be so do you want to risk it? It's not 2/3 of Northern VA parents. The stats look very different if you exclude the rural parts of the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This weekend, we're going to Christmas parties at friends' houses on Friday and Saturday night. We're going to a kid's birthday party at a restaurant on Sunday. All indoors.

But yes, at school, kids have to eat outdoors in the 35 degree weather because a small, vocal minority is still living like it's March 2020. Makes a lot of sense.

Look I do all the indoor stuff too. My life is basically normal now. I still think we should keep outdoor lunch because I think it is beneficial to the kids to get more outdoor time..

I think this is a very great thing to come out of covid and my reasons for wanting it to stay have pretty nice nothing to do with covid. You all keep ignoring the fact that outdoor lunch is a better experience for most kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The quarantine rules for close contacts are a political choice. They need to go and it's only a matter of time before they're gone.

It's an endemic virus that will be here forever. Expecting Zero COVID in schools is like expecting Zero COVID in bars, restaurants, or in society in general, or zero rhinovirus, or zero stomach flu. It's an extremist position and completely unrealistic.

If a kid is sick, don't come to school. If they're not, come to school. It's that simple.

In APS, if your kid is fully vaxxed (ours are), you don't need to quarantine for close contact. So get your kid(s) vaxxed and you're good (not sure if all jurisdictions do this yet).

Why on earth would I want to get my child vaccinated for something they're already at statistically 0 risk of? I'm like the 2/3 of other Americans not getting their 5 to 11 year old vaccinated. Please don't think you're in the majority.

I dont know because getting covid is annoying? Even if you aren't super sick. Also I would take a vaccine for the common cold if I could because who has time to deal with that crud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This weekend, we're going to Christmas parties at friends' houses on Friday and Saturday night. We're going to a kid's birthday party at a restaurant on Sunday. All indoors.

But yes, at school, kids have to eat outdoors in the 35 degree weather because a small, vocal minority is still living like it's March 2020. Makes a lot of sense.

Look I do all the indoor stuff too. My life is basically normal now. I still think we should keep outdoor lunch because I think it is beneficial to the kids to get more outdoor time..

I think this is a very great thing to come out of covid and my reasons for wanting it to stay have pretty nice nothing to do with covid. You all keep ignoring the fact that outdoor lunch is a better experience for most kids.

* "pretty MUCH nothing"

[Anonymous]

Why so much babble about lunch, lunch, lunch? This jawn invades fat cells.