APS Outdoor Lunch Needs to Be Optional

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

+1

WTF is wrong with these people? I don't get it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington is making kids eat lunch outside in December?

Our FCPS ES kids have been eating indoors all year. Hardly any covid cases.

No- op is some sort of bot. ASFS has always been optional on or out

It's optional in my kids' middle and high schools. Most kids eat outside as far as they can tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

I do care, but COVID will be here forever and the cost of masking children by far outweighs any benefits of doing so, especially 2 years in. I look at the best study on masks, the Bangladesh RCT - cloth masks didn't work at all.

COVID is never going away. Everyone will be exposed to COVID repeatedly the rest of their lives. The sooner COVID paranoid people come to terms with that, the sooner their paranoia will end.

Same mandatory outdoor lunch in cold weather. Journalists are already on, including liberal OpEd writer Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times. People are outraged when they find out that kids are being forced to eat outside in the cold, while Santa Con was in full force this weekend in New York City. It's absurd.

[Anonymous]

I DGAF if adults in some other state want to get together.

I do GAF if my kids are in school. So I will push for all of the easy risk mitigators possible to keep them there. Masks, outdoor lunch, testing, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I DGAF if adults in some other state want to get together.

I do GAF if my kids are in school. So I will push for all of the easy risk mitigators possible to keep them there. Masks, outdoor lunch, testing, etc.

These are not easy risk mitigators. You're free to do them on your own too. But the rest of kids should not be forced into this "permanent war on COVID" footing, with our kids' education being the cannon fodder.

[Anonymous]

We love outdoor lunch and we will continue to vocally support our kids' school's approach to mitigating risk.

[Anonymous]

These posts are so depressing. If only we could pour your crazy passion (for or against) into other critical needs (social services, teacher raises, bus driver raises, etc.). No wonder kids are having so many mental health issues. We're all screaming about their lunches.

Indoor lunch isn't going to spark a tsunami wave of cases. Outdoor lunch isn't going to bother most kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I DGAF if adults in some other state want to get together.

I do GAF if my kids are in school. So I will push for all of the easy risk mitigators possible to keep them there. Masks, outdoor lunch, testing, etc.

These are not easy risk mitigators. You're free to do them on your own too. But the rest of kids should not be forced into this "permanent war on COVID" footing, with our kids' education being the cannon fodder.

Of course those are easy risk mitigators. WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I DGAF if adults in some other state want to get together.

I do GAF if my kids are in school. So I will push for all of the easy risk mitigators possible to keep them there. Masks, outdoor lunch, testing, etc.

These are not easy risk mitigators. You're free to do them on your own too. But the rest of kids should not be forced into this "permanent war on COVID" footing, with our kids' education being the cannon fodder.

Of course those are easy risk mitigators. WTF?

Children not seeing faces for 2+ years and delaying their development, kids eating outside in 30 degree weather, using surveillance testing to lock healthy kids out of school. Very easy risk mitigators!

But once they're adults, they'll face none of this, even though they'll have higher risk as adults. It's a new illogical rite of passage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

Nope. I don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

Nope. I don't.

Sounds like you're vaccinated. We know they work, but some of the COVID doomers act like they don't.

At this point, everyone should have accepted the fact they will get COVID in their lifetime. It's only a matter of time. COVID will be here forever.

As for preventing spreading, all the mitigation methods don't work and the costs far outweigh any benefits. This bs only ends when we STOP complying with this COVID theater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

Nope. I don't.

Sounds like you're vaccinated. We know they work, but some of the COVID doomers act like they don't.

At this point, everyone should have accepted the fact they will get COVID in their lifetime. It's only a matter of time. COVID will be here forever.

As for preventing spreading, all the mitigation methods don't work and the costs far outweigh any benefits. This bs only ends when we STOP complying with this COVID theater.

My entire family is vaccinated. Don’t care if I or anyone in my family gets covid. Not for a second. We’ll be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

Nope. I don't.

Sounds like you're vaccinated. We know they work, but some of the COVID doomers act like they don't.

At this point, everyone should have accepted the fact they will get COVID in their lifetime. It's only a matter of time. COVID will be here forever.

As for preventing spreading, all the mitigation methods don't work and the costs far outweigh any benefits. This bs only ends when we STOP complying with this COVID theater.

My entire family is vaccinated. Don’t care if I or anyone in my family gets covid. Not for a second. We’ll be fine.

Maybe you will be fine. But your child's classmate with asthma may not be fine. Your other child's classmate's father who is undergoing treatment for cancer may not be fine. See how this works? Not that you care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP are you against masks in schools too???

Yep.

Great thanks that clarifies the picture.

You don't care about getting/spreading Covid.

Nope. I don't.

Sounds like you're vaccinated. We know they work, but some of the COVID doomers act like they don't.

At this point, everyone should have accepted the fact they will get COVID in their lifetime. It's only a matter of time. COVID will be here forever.

As for preventing spreading, all the mitigation methods don't work and the costs far outweigh any benefits. This bs only ends when we STOP complying with this COVID theater.

My entire family is vaccinated. Don’t care if I or anyone in my family gets covid. Not for a second. We’ll be fine.

Maybe you will be fine. But your child's classmate with asthma may not be fine. Your other child's classmate's father who is undergoing treatment for cancer may not be fine. See how this works? Not that you care.

Immunocompromised people didn't start existing in March 2020. They've always had issues every flu season, including during H1N1. They'll have to manage just as they always have.

[Anonymous]

Smart Restart is on Twitter, trying to defend kids eating outside in 30 degree weather in the name of "health". "But indoor lunch would also need much lower capacity and lots of distance b/w kids to be safe-ish."

What a joke! The vast majority of kids are eating in restaurants every week with their parents, some since last year. Adults are eating in restaurants, teachers and administrators are eating inside in school as are other government workers eating inside. But they want these ridiculous quasi-religious ritualistic outdoor lunch rules they live by to be forced down the throats of our kids.

GTFO. Glad to see these ridiculous lunch rules getting national attention now. The criticism of them is only going to get louder in January.