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

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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).

How exactly is this like Spanish Flu when spanish flu disproportionately killed younger people while Covid is clearly targeting those already weakened by comorbidities and elderly with a few exceptional cases in the younger population probably due to some underlying genetic issues we haven't fully investigated. It's been clear back in 2020 who exactly is at risk and this hasn't changed. Fauci even said that childhood hospitalizations need to be separated into From Covid vs. With Covid as many kids are in the hospital for other reasons.

[Anonymous]

Hopeful I can finally send my kid to school who has issues with masks and already had recovered from Covid. Looking forward to mask optional

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

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Not enforceable. Executive Order overrides it.

He cites a law that backs up his order

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Anonymous wrote:No way - teacher here - this is a serious deal breaker for me. I was considering maybe we wouldnt need masks anymore last summer, but not right now when we have more cases than ever before and I have more of a chance of catching it.

I feel the opposite way. I don’t see how their poorly worn masks are doing anything and hear how schools have been open without masks throughout the pandemic. I will enforce whatever rules my district, FCCPS sets. I am concerned they want to mask forever and will keep the mask mandate next year too. If that’s the case I will go to any district nearby that doesn’t require them.

I am with you. It's pretty clear that poorly worn unsealed masks are theater at this point. But people will be clinging to their safety blankets forever and with it our kids will be masked for eternity or for every flu/cold season for any reason other than Covid, which means half of the school year. It has to stop. Anyone can get a vaccine now, any age, isn't it what you all have been waiting for to unmask your kids? Treatments are coming and this variant is milder. Anyone who wants complete protection can use N95, they are already trying to push this in some schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No way - teacher here - this is a serious deal breaker for me. I was considering maybe we wouldnt need masks anymore last summer, but not right now when we have more cases than ever before and I have more of a chance of catching it.

I feel the opposite way. I don’t see how their poorly worn masks are doing anything and hear how schools have been open without masks throughout the pandemic. I will enforce whatever rules my district, FCCPS sets. I am concerned they want to mask forever and will keep the mask mandate next year too. If that’s the case I will go to any district nearby that doesn’t require them.

I am with you. It's pretty clear that poorly worn unsealed masks are theater at this point. But people will be clinging to their safety blankets forever and with it our kids will be masked for eternity or for every flu/cold season for any reason other than Covid, which means half of the school year. It has to stop. Anyone can get a vaccine now, any age, isn't it what you all have been waiting for to unmask your kids? Treatments are coming and this variant is milder. Anyone who wants complete protection can use N95, they are already trying to push this in some schools.

Kids under 5 still can’t get a vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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).

Exactly! What do people not understand? Pandemics come around more or less once in a lifetime so that’s why we haven’t experienced this stuff before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

He cites a law that backs up his order

The order cites 1-240.1, the rallying cry of those espousing parental rights. That interest competes with the interests of other students, teachers and authority of school boards to look out for greater public health interests. Parents’ decisions regarding child do not get to exist in a vacuum and those decisions can’t infringe on the rights of other students and teachers to a safe and conducive learning/school/work environment, something squarely within the purview of local school boards and the districts for which they have oversight.

[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.

Youngkin knows this, too. This was low-hanging fruit for him. The lawsuit will carry through the end of this mess and he gets to maintain the “I Stand with Trump, except I don’t” posture he has straddled since becoming a candidate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No way - teacher here - this is a serious deal breaker for me. I was considering maybe we wouldnt need masks anymore last summer, but not right now when we have more cases than ever before and I have more of a chance of catching it.

I feel the opposite way. I don’t see how their poorly worn masks are doing anything and hear how schools have been open without masks throughout the pandemic. I will enforce whatever rules my district, FCCPS sets. I am concerned they want to mask forever and will keep the mask mandate next year too. If that’s the case I will go to any district nearby that doesn’t require them.

I am with you. It's pretty clear that poorly worn unsealed masks are theater at this point. But people will be clinging to their safety blankets forever and with it our kids will be masked for eternity or for every flu/cold season for any reason other than Covid, which means half of the school year. It has to stop. Anyone can get a vaccine now, any age, isn't it what you all have been waiting for to unmask your kids? Treatments are coming and this variant is milder. Anyone who wants complete protection can use N95, they are already trying to push this in some schools.

Kids under 5 still can’t get a vaccine.

No one in our family has any contact with five year olds so that isn't stopping us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

He cites a law that backs up his order

He cites a law that gives general, unenumerated rights. There is a specific state law requiring schools to comply with CDC guidance. Even if an EO and a state law were on the same legal footing, the rule of statutory construction would provide that a specific rule trumps a general one. The EO loses.

[Anonymous]

My kids will not be wearing them on Tuesday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Propbably. Suddenly R's favor big government. Well this should help D's hold onto the Senate in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

He cites a law that backs up his order

Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents of students with disabilities and teachers with disabilities, seriously consider contacting this attorney in Tennessee:
https://www.donatilaw.com/our-team/brice-timmons/

Ask him for a referral to a Virginia firm that specializes in education and disabilities law so they can file an injunction. The governor wants to show he can “own the libs” but teachers and parents should not roll over.

And his colleague - https://www.donatilaw.com/our-team/bryce-ashby/

Apparently, Brice and Bryce were successful in allowing Shelby County to keep its mask mandate despite opt-out executive order and then new state law banning masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids will not be wearing them on Tuesday

I hope whatever school your children attend don’t let them in the building.