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

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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.

It’s not about the beds right around here. It is about the staff required to tend to the people in the beds. They are sick, decided to,get more money as a traveling nurse, or just quit. There’s nothing magic about an “icu” bed - it’s the monitoring by humans that is the important part.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS won’t lift the mandate.

Thankfully.

They won’t lift the mandate, but will be required to allow parents to opt-out their children.

Banning mask mandates is straight-up RWNJ crap. Won’t go over well in northern Virginia.

Won’t fly with local school districts. And there will be a huge backlash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The local health directors all recommend continued indoor masking, as does the CDC and the association of pediatricians. Why do Youngkin voters think they know more than experts? I hate this new Republican Party. All they do is try and “troll the libs” — they have no interest in governing or helping thre people they are supposed to serve.

They just want to tear it all down.

They will probably recommend it forever. CDC also recommends only eating eggs that are hard-boiled. Doesn’t mean we have to follow their recommendations, which are just that—recommendations, not requirements or regulations.

We are in the middle of a surge. The fact that you went to take away masks right now demonstrates how irrational you are.

Nope. CDC and local health departments could have dialed back the recommendations last summer when cases and hospitalizations bottomed out. Yes, we’re in a surge now, and then there’ll be another and another. They clearly have no intention of ever dialing back. I’m glad Youngkin can see through them.

[Anonymous]

Ohhhhh I get it- secretly the anti mask people preferred virtual school and are trying to go back to it by unmasking their kids.

[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.

So what will you do if some of your students show up with no masks? Quit?

Out of curiosity, do you teach elementary or middle/high school? Just curious if you have around 20 students total or around 100.

Kids who show up to my classroom without masks will be sent to the office to be suspended from school if they don’t comply. How is this even a question.

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“Nope. CDC and local health departments could have dialed back the recommendations last summer when cases and hospitalizations bottomed out. Yes, we’re in a surge now, and then there’ll be another and another. They clearly have no intention of ever dialing back. I’m glad Youngkin can see through them.”

Again, why do you believe a man who has no health experience or governing experience or public school experience to make decisions over health experts? Why are Republicans so likely to blindly follow a leader rather than experts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhhh I get it- secretly the anti mask people preferred virtual school and are trying to go back to it by unmasking their kids.

[Anonymous]

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.

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What’s the exit ramp if not three vaccines, boosters, treatments and the general fact that kids are low risk?


Also if you are this freaked out about your kid may I recommend one-way masking. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/does-it-help-wear-mask-if-no-one-else/621177/

[Anonymous]

I actually follow the science and know that the r naught of kids is low, risk of severe illness is low, so I dont need a magical paw patrol mask on my students’ faces. I’d like them to be able to see mine when I’m reading to them but my guess is teachers will be the last to get to unmask but that’s fine for now.

Also, if you saw how the students actually wear them you’d realize that ‘universal compliance’ is so low it’s a joke and the students have been fine without outbreaks or death for a year.

Deep breaths. It will be okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually follow the science and know that the r naught of kids is low, risk of severe illness is low, so I dont need a magical paw patrol mask on my students’ faces. I’d like them to be able to see mine when I’m reading to them but my guess is teachers will be the last to get to unmask but that’s fine for now.

Also, if you saw how the students actually wear them you’d realize that ‘universal compliance’ is so low it’s a joke and the students have been fine without outbreaks or death for a year.

Deep breaths. It will be okay.

+1000

Newsflash - It’s not your child’s fabric mask, worn below their nose, that has kept the world from ending. Masks in school are merely window dressing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I actually follow the science and know that the r naught of kids is low, risk of severe illness is low, so I dont need a magical paw patrol mask on my students’ faces. I’d like them to be able to see mine when I’m reading to them but my guess is teachers will be the last to get to unmask but that’s fine for now.

Also, if you saw how the students actually wear them you’d realize that ‘universal compliance’ is so low it’s a joke and the students have been fine without outbreaks or death for a year.

Deep breaths. It will be okay.

+1000

Newsflash - It’s not your child’s fabric mask, worn below their nose, that has kept the world from ending. Masks in school are merely window dressing.

They helped before Omicron.

Parents should have already upgraded to better masks by now.

Try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually follow the science and know that the r naught of kids is low, risk of severe illness is low, so I dont need a magical paw patrol mask on my students’ faces. I’d like them to be able to see mine when I’m reading to them but my guess is teachers will be the last to get to unmask but that’s fine for now.

Also, if you saw how the students actually wear them you’d realize that ‘universal compliance’ is so low it’s a joke and the students have been fine without outbreaks or death for a year.

Deep breaths. It will be okay.

You doing your own research on the Internet is not the way I want public health policies set. And I have been in the schools and see good wearing of masks by most and poor wearing by a few.

[Anonymous]

Another teacher for whom this will be a deal-breaker. I will quit as soon as masks are no longer required in my school. We don't need the money and my health is more important to me than dealing with a bunch of whack jobs with anxiety who refuse to wear masks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I actually follow the science and know that the r naught of kids is low, risk of severe illness is low, so I dont need a magical paw patrol mask on my students’ faces. I’d like them to be able to see mine when I’m reading to them but my guess is teachers will be the last to get to unmask but that’s fine for now.

Also, if you saw how the students actually wear them you’d realize that ‘universal compliance’ is so low it’s a joke and the students have been fine without outbreaks or death for a year.

Deep breaths. It will be okay.

You doing your own research on the Internet is not the way I want public health policies set. And I have been in the schools and see good wearing of masks by most and poor wearing by a few.

I’m not doing my own research. I’m reading peer reviewed studies cited by the CDC. Or is reading outlawed now? Have we always been at war with Eurasia? I teach my children and my students to read, research, form theories and conclusions. It’s called critical thinking. Unless this is a religion where the congregates aren’t allowed to think for themselves I’m pretty sure that’s actually recommend way of basing opinions and decision-making.