When should DC drop its school mask mandate?

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

You sound not only crazy, but also pretty clueless and unkind. I’m sorry, but your desperate attempt to turn the anxiety label on me is off base.

I can tell you that even if my kid was neurotypical, I would think that we shouldn’t impose unprecedented interventions without solid scientific backing of their necessity and efficacy. They are bound to have negative effects on all children (even your exceptional child), from impaired communication to teaching them to see each other as vectors of disease, and I am glad to see so many parents coming around to this realization.

Bless your heart.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

You sound not only crazy, but also pretty clueless and unkind. I’m sorry, but your desperate attempt to turn the anxiety label on me is off base.

I can tell you that even if my kid was neurotypical, I would think that we shouldn’t impose unprecedented interventions without solid scientific backing of their necessity and efficacy. They are bound to have negative effects on all children (even your exceptional child), from impaired communication to teaching them to see each other as vectors of disease, and I am glad to see so many parents coming around to this realization.

Agree completely. I will continue speaking out on behalf of your child as well as mine.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

You sound not only crazy, but also pretty clueless and unkind. I’m sorry, but your desperate attempt to turn the anxiety label on me is off base.

I can tell you that even if my kid was neurotypical, I would think that we shouldn’t impose unprecedented interventions without solid scientific backing of their necessity and efficacy. They are bound to have negative effects on all children (even your exceptional child), from impaired communication to teaching them to see each other as vectors of disease, and I am glad to see so many parents coming around to this realization.

Agree completely. I will continue speaking out on behalf of your child as well as mine.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

My other kid actually proclaimed recently that he likes wearing masks and that they are “cool”. He is an unusually fashion conscious eight year old and I guess for him it’s become part of the “look” at school. That doesn’t mean, though, that the masks aren’t impairing him in ways he is not even aware of. I have heard of teachers saying that similar to virtual school, where kids could just turn off their screen and be passive, the masks allow kids to hide behind and be more withdrawn at school.

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another +1

My kids are unvaccinated under 5s. I'm eager to vaccinate them, but still . . . they are low risk and it is appalling that all day masking for this age is considered acceptable in the US. The WHO, UNICEF, and the European version of the CDC all have this right. NEVER mask children under 5.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

Look, it pains me as much as anyone to admit it, but conservative assholes were *right* about some aspects of COVID — not losing their shit and keeping schools running normally rather than closing them down for 18 months — and community-minded liberals were *wrong*. And this was one of the biggest public policy failures in living memory. Absorb it, move on and stop doing more damage.

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+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

Agree with all of you (I posted upthread as well) but I don’t think Covid did this. People like PP would be like this no matter what. Covid has revealed the people who are are, by nature, self-centered and controlling of others, and given them what they believe to be a fool proof reason to be this way out loud in a socially approved way. And I say this as a pro-mask, pro-vaccine, parent who dutifully kept my under 5 kid home and taught her to wear a mask, to stop spread and protect vulnerable people. But PP is an example of someone who will continue to center herself and her family in the Covid narrative because she is not ready to give up her specialness and start working with her community to find a way forward that makes sense and doesn’t overburden the youngest members of our community.

Also, I guarantee if her 3yo spends 2 full years masking daily, she will suddenly be talking about the dangers of prolonged masking on language and social development in ECE kids. Part of this is that her child is too young to have actually born the brunt of precautions for long, so she’s still in a November 2020 mindset “this isn’t that bad, we can do this for a while if it keeps people safe.” Her kid probably hasn’t come home from school to report no one in her class, including the teacher, can hear her or understand her. Her kid probably hasn’t developed worrisome ideas like “If you get Covid, you die!” like my kid did in the fall, just as half our extended family got Omicron. PP does not yet really understand the costs of intensive Covid precautions for this age group. She just knows her kid doesn’t complain about wearing a mask and has friends. Well that was my kid too. A year ago. I feel differently about it now.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

Look, it pains me as much as anyone to admit it, but conservative assholes were *right* about some aspects of COVID — not losing their shit and keeping schools running normally rather than closing them down for 18 months — and community-minded liberals were *wrong*. And this was one of the biggest public policy failures in living memory. Absorb it, move on and stop doing more damage.

This. I’m a liberal Democrat and can’t see myself ever voting Republican, but I am thoroughly disenchanted with the Democratic Party and so-called progressives after this pandemic I honestly don’t know if I will vote at all in the next elections. Although I will vote for Bowser because at least she got it right on school opening this school year despite the Delta and Omicron panic.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

Look, it pains me as much as anyone to admit it, but conservative assholes were *right* about some aspects of COVID — not losing their shit and keeping schools running normally rather than closing them down for 18 months — and community-minded liberals were *wrong*. And this was one of the biggest public policy failures in living memory. Absorb it, move on and stop doing more damage.

Some of us Democrats kept our school open and running too. This isn't evenly divided on party lines and only politicians like that narrative because they think it drives votes. Don't be fooled.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

Look, it pains me as much as anyone to admit it, but conservative assholes were *right* about some aspects of COVID — not losing their shit and keeping schools running normally rather than closing them down for 18 months — and community-minded liberals were *wrong*. And this was one of the biggest public policy failures in living memory. Absorb it, move on and stop doing more damage.

Some of us Democrats kept our school open and running too. This isn't evenly divided on party lines and only politicians like that narrative because they think it drives votes. Don't be fooled.

Well, DC, a hugely Dem city, kept its schools close for the close to the longest in the country. We can at least see what happened locally and be infuriated by it.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

Look, it pains me as much as anyone to admit it, but conservative assholes were *right* about some aspects of COVID — not losing their shit and keeping schools running normally rather than closing them down for 18 months — and community-minded liberals were *wrong*. And this was one of the biggest public policy failures in living memory. Absorb it, move on and stop doing more damage.

Some of us Democrats kept our school open and running too. This isn't evenly divided on party lines and only politicians like that narrative because they think it drives votes. Don't be fooled.

DP. Good for you. But if you are trying to deny that it was Democratic areas where schools were kept closed the longest, and that the closures were supported overwhelmingly by Democratic politicians and constituents, it’s you who is being fooled.

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Anonymous wrote:You will older kids are so lucky. I hope you realize that those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated continue to need you all to mask to protect our kids. My 3 year old in DCPS shouldn't be sacrificed because your kids are tired of wearing a mask. I masked for your kids, you should mask for mine.

No, your three year old doesn’t need my kids to mask for him. Your three year old is at incredibly low risk from Covid. Sacrificed? You sound crazy. Covid has addled your brain and your perspective on life’s risks. Also, PK is not a mandatory grade, and you are welcome to keep your child at home to keep him safe. Or find a private daycare with safety standards more to your liking.

Sure my kid is low risk - but not lower than your vaccinated kid. Nice that you can sleep at night knowing your kid may not have lifelong complications or get MIS-C. PK isn't a mandatory grade but as a taxpayer, I pay for DC public schools and am entitled to universal prek. Why should my kid be at risk because your precious vaccinated baby won't wear a mask? it's a mask. My 3 year old knows how to wear one...and (gasp!) can express herself and learn and fully participate in school while wearing one. This isn't hard.

My kid has ASD and a hard enough time making social connections when everyone can see each other’s faces. His life doesn’t need to be harder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infinitesimally small risks. I slept just fine even before my kids went vaccinated. You need some help if this keeps you up at night. Seriously.

My kid has a risk for COVID and a hard enough time not getting COVID when everyone refuses to mask. Her life doesn't need to be hearder to cater to your irrational anxieties about infitesimally small risks to YOUR kid. I will sleep just fine hwen my kids are vaccinated. You need some help. Seriously. ****So your kid with ASD > my (and other kids who are too young to be vaxxed) kids risk from COVID? Cool. Remind me why we are optimizing for your kid? Must be a very special snowflake.

Sorry, this isn’t how this works. You are the one with irrational anxiety, not me. You are also the one who wants to impose an intervention, so the burden of proof is on you that it even works. This is all about making YOU, the parent, FEEL safer.

I'm so sorry you have so much irrational anxiety about your kid making friends. Sounds tough. Not a problem my 3 year old has despite the mask (shocking, I know).

NP here. Masking children should be considered an extraordinary pandemic mitigation measure, not the status quo. The burden of proof is on you (not me) to prove why this extraordinary mitigation measure should remain in place when your unvaccinated child, and my vaccinated child, is at almost immeasurably small risk for serious illness or death. You could also just...keep masking your child rather than punishing everyone elses.

This is the correct view.

+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.

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No vaccine mandate for staff AND students, masks for the next 1-5 years 😂