Will your DC wear mask to school when Youngkin lifts school mask mandate next week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll just separate their desks, tell them they can’t work in groups or join us on the carpet without a mask.

+1 put unmasked kids in the back and group them among themselves for class projects.

Ha ha. That reminds me of what my congregation did about 10 months ago. They started singing hymns again. If you want to sing, sit in the front. If you don't want to sing, sit in the back. Not the community for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS won’t lift the mandate.

Suck it, Youngkin voters.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Dr. Duran!

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Duran sucks, but I’m with him on this.

[Anonymous]

Not in APS but wish I was

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Other types of vaccines are required to attend school. Why should the Covid vaccine be any different?

This has been debated so many places. Short answer: it’s not approved and under EAU, unlike the other vaccines.

You were never asked to get a flu vaccine so you can attend a musical? or was I living under a rock?

Covid is not the modern flu, it is the flu of 1918-1919. I think vaccine requirements for indoor gathering place where you stay in one place are completely justified while this remains a pandemic (and would have been in 1918 and 1919 if they had a flu vaccine then).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS just issued a statement reiterating that the current mask requirements stand.

+1

Not enforceable. Executive Order overrides it.

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Executive Order doesn't just override a law already in place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS just issued a statement reiterating that the current mask requirements stand.

+1

Not enforceable. Executive Order overrides it.

Is Youngkin going to bring in state troopers to every school in VA to enforce his illegal EO?

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Anonymous wrote:You all know it’s possible to believe in brakes *and* air bags, yes? We’re in the middle of an unprecedented surge and a hospital crisis.

Hospital crisis. VA hospitals are doing excellent compared to pre-COVID for this time of the year. Hospitals are usually 80% occupied during non-flu seasons, and often fill up during flu seasons.

Right now, VA is at 78% hospital beds occupied and 81% of ICU beds. They're doing amazing. That's what happens when you have a high vaccination rates and a variant is a cold.

My co-worker just sat in urgent care for 80+ hours trying to get a bed.

We have a hospital crisis.

They sat in urgent care for multiple days?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all know it’s possible to believe in brakes *and* air bags, yes? We’re in the middle of an unprecedented surge and a hospital crisis.

Hospital crisis. VA hospitals are doing excellent compared to pre-COVID for this time of the year. Hospitals are usually 80% occupied during non-flu seasons, and often fill up during flu seasons.

Right now, VA is at 78% hospital beds occupied and 81% of ICU beds. They're doing amazing. That's what happens when you have a high vaccination rates and a variant is a cold.

My co-worker just sat in urgent care for 80+ hours trying to get a bed.

We have a hospital crisis.

They sat in urgent care for multiple days?

Yes, they sat in an urgent care room waiting to be admitted for a semi-emergency procedure at the hospital. The doctor kept saying no beds at the hospital.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS just issued a statement reiterating that the current mask requirements stand.

+1

Not enforceable. Executive Order overrides it.

Is Youngkin going to bring in state troopers to every school in VA to enforce his illegal EO?

That would be all sorts of messed up. I can't see that image without thinking of Ruby Bridges.

[Anonymous]

An executive order does not supersede a law passed by the state legislature. An executive order that is infringes on the ability of a student at risk for severe illness from a Covid may be unconstitutional. And school districts who do not take mitigation measures to reasonably limit transmission subject themselves to civil liability. This will be mired in litigation for some time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An executive order does not supersede a law passed by the state legislature. An executive order that is infringes on the ability of a student at risk for severe illness from a Covid may be unconstitutional. And school districts who do not take mitigation measures to reasonably limit transmission subject themselves to civil liability. This will be mired in litigation for some time.

Hopefully until omicron passes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An executive order does not supersede a law passed by the state legislature. An executive order that is infringes on the ability of a student at risk for severe illness from a Covid may be unconstitutional. And school districts who do not take mitigation measures to reasonably limit transmission subject themselves to civil liability. This will be mired in litigation for some time.

Not to mention the state constitution vests authority over a school district with the local school board. The EO is political theater without any real teeth.