DCPS close contact mask policy

[Anonymous]

It's so pointless especially if the case was discovered during asymptomatic screening. For all we know, the might not even have been contagious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

We opted out from the beginning. Asymptomatic testing is pointless and a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

We opted out from the beginning. Asymptomatic testing is pointless and a waste of time.

We opted out after vaccines were available for the under 12s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

We opted out from the beginning. Asymptomatic testing is pointless and a waste of time.

Ugh I tried to opt out--found out they were testing my kid ANYWAY

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

We opted out from the beginning. Asymptomatic testing is pointless and a waste of time.

Ugh I tried to opt out--found out they were testing my kid ANYWAY

You should complain about that, because it's illegal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

We opted out from the beginning. Asymptomatic testing is pointless and a waste of time.

Ugh I tried to opt out--found out they were testing my kid ANYWAY

You should complain about that, because it's illegal.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

I don't think asymptomatic testing is what's turning up all these cases lately, we have a ton of friends who have symptomatic covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

I don't think asymptomatic testing is what's turning up all these cases lately, we have a ton of friends who have symptomatic covid.

The cases in both my kids’ classes turned up during asymptomatic testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?

Eventually? At the point, it's in number of times they will get it, and interval between infections. It isn't one and done. It's as many as your behavior gets you, and then it's a quite large risk of many of a quite long list of quite serious long-term ailments.

Wearing a mask for a couple of weeks after a case in the classroom absolutely beats organ failure or chronic fatigue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?

The endgame is that DCPS will have our kids masked indefinitely. This is infuriating. It’s like trying to dodge the flu or a cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?

Eventually? At the point, it's in number of times they will get it, and interval between infections. It isn't one and done. It's as many as your behavior gets you, and then it's a quite large risk of many of a quite long list of quite serious long-term ailments.

Wearing a mask for a couple of weeks after a case in the classroom absolutely beats organ failure or chronic fatigue.

Were you this concerned when other unknown viruses were circulating pre-covid that could absolutely cause post-viral syndrome in some cases?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?

The endgame is that DCPS will have our kids masked indefinitely. This is infuriating. It’s like trying to dodge the flu or a cold.

Well, how do you define 'like'?
It is like dodging the flu or a cold in HOW it is done, with masking, ventilation.
It is extremely different from dodging the flu or a cold in the impact of failing to dodge.
Only the extreme minimizers continue to say the impact of covid on one's health is the same as a cold or a flu. It is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.

FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?

Eventually? At the point, it's in number of times they will get it, and interval between infections. It isn't one and done. It's as many as your behavior gets you, and then it's a quite large risk of many of a quite long list of quite serious long-term ailments.

Wearing a mask for a couple of weeks after a case in the classroom absolutely beats organ failure or chronic fatigue.

Of course we will all get it multiple times! But you have no evidence that there is a point to trying to reduce the number of infections you get over your lifetime. As with most viruses, subsequent infections will be milder than the first one.

Here’s a video from a specialist in evidence-based medical decision-making discussing this point:

https://youtu.be/dqCtWN2cTeg