APS Outdoor Lunch Needs to Be Optional
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Do you realize that many adults--including vaccinated adults--feel shitty for a solid week or two when they get COVID? Sure, some are asymptomatic, but many breakthrough cases are comparable to a bad flu. I wouldn't ignore a flu outbreak in a school just because I got a flu shot, and for the same reason I wouldn't ignore a COVID outbreak. I don't want to spend my holiday break isolated and sick, nor do I want to burn through two weeks of my PTO being sick in February. Being sick sucks. Let's not "let it rip." That sounds insanely stupid. I'm not COVID anxious at all, but common sense measures to help keep people healthy and avoid huge outbreaks should remain in place. |
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+1. Not to mention, but the severity of the disease is related to exposure and viral load. Removing protections won't just increase the number of cases, but also the severity of cases. And it's not like you only get covid once. You can get sick again every six months to a year. |
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So now no one can ever get sick again?!? You'd prefer to stretch this out for 5 to 10 years, when COVID will be here forever. EVERYONE WILL GET COVID. It's only a matter of time. |
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The rule is "not get sick". It's no one can ever get the equivalent of a cold again. Kids need to be masked and their development delayed until they become an adult. We need 0 colds. |
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That's like saying I shouldn't wash my hands and should hang out with highly contagious people because it's inevitable I'm going to catch the flu and colds. Of course not. You should always try not to get sick |
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So kids eating outside is liking washing your hands, while the kids eat inside at restaurants all weekend long and adults are eating at restaurants while the kids are eating lunch. Great analogy! And washing your hands is not like wearing a mask. Wearing a mask is inhuman and delays kids' development, ESPECIALLY FOR 2 YEARS! And wearing a mask is not proven whatsoever to prevent anything - check out the largest, highest quality study on masks, the Bangladesh RCT, which showed cloth masks didn't work (and surgical masks only worked on people 50 or over for barely reducing the spread in a pre-vaccine environment). Everyone will get COVID. Doing these incredibly harmful mitigation methods has to stop. And someone comparing them to hand washing is such a joke. GMAFB |
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IMO, eating outside in mild weather is less onerous than washing my hands. It's downright nice. Today is a good example. Kids get more recess time. It's not as noisy or crowded. Fewer germs are shared. It's all good all around. |
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Eating inside with friends isn't stupid or risky - it's called normal. The vast majority of kids are doing it every week with their families at restaurants. I'd bet teachers are too. This is just absurd COVID safety theater that isn't applied anywhere else in society except to the very lowest group (kids). There was a 39 degree lunch day last week. Is that normal to eat outside in 39 degree weather? Why didn't teachers too? It's insane. The media has been covering this insanity more and more. So, you admit that there were no 39 degree days. There is nothing similar about an elementary school cafeteria and a restaurant. I know teachers who have chosen to eat outside throughout the pandemic. I have never met an adult who would willing choose to eat in a school cafeteria. So, if you're going with don't put kids in places that teachers don't choose you would be voting for outdoors. Eating outside is normal. It's called a picnic. It's existed a lot longer than restaurants. |
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I like the idea of outdoor lunch, but it is lunchtime, not extra recess time. The younger kids need time to eat, and some of the kids are only getting fed at school. And all reports from teachers and admin are actually eating time has decreased outside. So it's not all good. It's a great idea. But not all good. |
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| I mean, with the global warming that has impacted nova, the vast majority of outdoor lunch days should be comfortable. |
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With the rise of Omicron, outdoor lunch still needs to be optional.
There's that hysterical AEM thread going right now, where every other comment is "outdoor lunch". Nope. Restaurants and bars are packed right now, and kids don't need to be eating outdoors in 35 degree weather. This is just an appeal to the Zero COVID cultists on AEM who are anti-vaxxers that don't trust their vaccines. From what I understand from that AEM thread, schools with indoor lunch aren't even seeing additional spread. So this is just pure theater, just like pretty much all COVID restrictions. And as a friendly reminder - everyone will get COVID and COVID will never be eradicated. There will be new variants the rest of our lives. Do you want to live like this for the rest of your life? We don't and haven't been since this summer. Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say 'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/ |
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