Masks optional by spring break

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My preschooler has been in school with no masks for over a year. No covid. No quarantines. No hospitalizations. No deaths. Our whole family has remained totally fine and healthy.

I recommend reading and watching news from other countries. The messaging in the US is terrible.

I have family abroad and my work means that I speak multiple times per day to folks in the same country where my family is located. It's a catastrophe. Dailiy infections are at peak. Today is the highest number of cases of the entire epidemic, and it looks like deaths (a trailing indicator) will also peak in the coming weeks.

[Anonymous]

I think we should go option asap because there will be a new variant by the time spring break comes along. Need to seize the opportunity to unmask when we can. Masks are not NBD for kids and I'm sick and tired of being gaslighted about it. They absolutely impede learning and relationships and the inability to recognize that erodes credibility, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should go option asap because there will be a new variant by the time spring break comes along. Need to seize the opportunity to unmask when we can. Masks are not NBD for kids and I'm sick and tired of being gaslighted about it. They absolutely impede learning and relationships and the inability to recognize that erodes credibility, IMO.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should go option asap because there will be a new variant by the time spring break comes along. Need to seize the opportunity to unmask when we can. Masks are not NBD for kids and I'm sick and tired of being gaslighted about it. They absolutely impede learning and relationships and the inability to recognize that erodes credibility, IMO.

No ones gaslighting you. You just want masks to be a problem for kids because they are a problem for you. It’s amazing this is the hill so many morons want to die on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should go option asap because there will be a new variant by the time spring break comes along. Need to seize the opportunity to unmask when we can. Masks are not NBD for kids and I'm sick and tired of being gaslighted about it. They absolutely impede learning and relationships and the inability to recognize that erodes credibility, IMO.

You can homeschool and make up your own rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My preschooler has been in school with no masks for over a year. No covid. No quarantines. No hospitalizations. No deaths. Our whole family has remained totally fine and healthy.

I recommend reading and watching news from other countries. The messaging in the US is terrible.

You've been lucky. We had a relative die last weekend.

I’m so sorry

What does that have to do with forced masking of 3-4 year olds?

This variant is girly contagious and 3-4 year olds can get and spread it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My preschooler has been in school with no masks for over a year. No covid. No quarantines. No hospitalizations. No deaths. Our whole family has remained totally fine and healthy.

I recommend reading and watching news from other countries. The messaging in the US is terrible.

You've been lucky. We had a relative die last weekend.

I’m so sorry

What does that have to do with forced masking of 3-4 year olds?

This variant is girly contagious and 3-4 year olds can get and spread it.

Let's not get misogynistic here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do agree that at a point it needs to be treated like we treat the flu. Yes people die from the flu but less likely if you get the vaccine. We don’t shut everything down for a regular flu season either.

The flu doesn't routinely overwhelm hospitals or force unrelated medical procedures to be delayed.

Until we mandate vaxxes for all, this is still a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do agree that at a point it needs to be treated like we treat the flu. Yes people die from the flu but less likely if you get the vaccine. We don’t shut everything down for a regular flu season either.

In the US a typical number of flu deaths per season is 35,000.
The worst years, flu deaths may reach up to 50-60k, without any measures.
COVID took 62,000 lives only this January and 240,000 lives since September, with measures and vaccines.

+1

"COVID Killed More Americans in Past 2 Weeks Than Flu in Past 3 Seasons"
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-killed-more-americans-past-2-weeks-flu-past-3-seasons-1674530

[Anonymous]

I have ni problem with masks if they are making a difference. But kids masked while outdoors during recess doesn't make sense. Have they been proven to reduce transmission outdoors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My preschooler has been in school with no masks for over a year. No covid. No quarantines. No hospitalizations. No deaths. Our whole family has remained totally fine and healthy.

I recommend reading and watching news from other countries. The messaging in the US is terrible.

You've been lucky. We had a relative die last weekend.

I’m so sorry

What does that have to do with forced masking of 3-4 year olds?

This variant is girly contagious and 3-4 year olds can get and spread it.

But at our daycare the 3-4yos are wearing cloth and take a mask off six times per day (breakfast, outside, lunch, nap, snack, outside). If it's so contagious shouldn't they all have had it already with all this on-and-off cloth masking? I really question the critical thinking skills of anyone who doesn't see daycare masking as theater at this point in the pandemic (including our public health officials).

I'd be fine removing the mask requirement in school too, but there at least most of the kids seem to be in KN95s or equivalent and really only take the masks off for lunch. So even if the benefit is minimal it still seems more worthwhile than in childcare environments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have ni problem with masks if they are making a difference. But kids masked while outdoors during recess doesn't make sense. Have they been proven to reduce transmission outdoors?

I agree masking at recess seems a bit much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do agree that at a point it needs to be treated like we treat the flu. Yes people die from the flu but less likely if you get the vaccine. We don’t shut everything down for a regular flu season either.

In the US a typical number of flu deaths per season is 35,000.
The worst years, flu deaths may reach up to 50-60k, without any measures.
COVID took 62,000 lives only this January and 240,000 lives since September, with measures and vaccines.

Yes, but it mostly killing unvaccinated adults who chose to be unvaccinated for whatever reason. I'm sorry that they were brainwashed, but I do not think we should be considering their deaths in our analysis. The percentage is a bit fuzzy to calculate and find, but let's say approximately 8% of the Covid deaths are among vaccinated adults. That gives us only about 5000 Covid deaths in January (that we should be counting). Yes, it is sad when people die from Covid. But 35,000 to 60,000 people die from the flu every single year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do agree that at a point it needs to be treated like we treat the flu. Yes people die from the flu but less likely if you get the vaccine. We don’t shut everything down for a regular flu season either.

In the US a typical number of flu deaths per season is 35,000.
The worst years, flu deaths may reach up to 50-60k, without any measures.
COVID took 62,000 lives only this January and 240,000 lives since September, with measures and vaccines.

Yes, but it mostly killing unvaccinated adults who chose to be unvaccinated for whatever reason. I'm sorry that they were brainwashed, but I do not think we should be considering their deaths in our analysis. The percentage is a bit fuzzy to calculate and find, but let's say approximately 8% of the Covid deaths are among vaccinated adults. That gives us only about 5000 Covid deaths in January (that we should be counting). Yes, it is sad when people die from Covid. But 35,000 to 60,000 people die from the flu every single year!

"COVID Killed More Americans in Past 2 Weeks Than Flu in Past 3 Seasons"
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-killed-more-america...eks-flu-past-3-seasons-1674530

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/01/yes-more-variants-may-emerge-future-thats-why-we-should-lift-restrictions-now/