Masking off-ramp coming soon?

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher at an elementary school where kids have to wear masks all day, including at recess.
Very few kids have a problem wearing their mask at recess. I supervise recess duty for half an hour daily at my school for first graders. They all are perfectly able to wear masks. It simply isn't a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher at an elementary school where kids have to wear masks all day, including at recess.
Very few kids have a problem wearing their mask at recess. I supervise recess duty for half an hour daily at my school for first graders. They all are perfectly able to wear masks. It simply isn't a problem.

My child’s teacher made a similar comment. I was blown away because my son constantly asks when he can stop wearing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher at an elementary school where kids have to wear masks all day, including at recess.
Very few kids have a problem wearing their mask at recess. I supervise recess duty for half an hour daily at my school for first graders. They all are perfectly able to wear masks. It simply isn't a problem.

My child’s teacher made a similar comment. I was blown away because my son constantly asks when he can stop wearing it.

Yeah, with all due respect to the teachers, the kids do what they're told to do but my daughter asks at least 3 times a week when she can stop wearing the mask. Just because they follow the rules, doesn't mean "it simply isn't a problem".

It's hard for these young kids to navigate social relationships with each other and new adults when they cannot see any facial expressions. Also some of them still have speech issues they are working through and the masks make it even more difficult on this front. It's not normal. To me, of course mask indoors where the benefit is still evident at this point in time when they are not able to be vaccinated. But masking outside is theater and it is has real negatives that outweigh doing it.

[Anonymous]

Sigh. Wearing a mask in Target is honestly just NOT A BIG DEAL. IDGAF when we do away with them. Maybe when hospitals aren't full of people dying?

If you don't like it, encourage your anti-vax friends and family to get vaccinated. Otherwise STFU about it.

I will feel better about dropping masking once my kids are vaccinated. Thankfully they are over 5, so by Thanksgiving I hope this is a done deal for us. I am not worried about breakthrough covid once we are all vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher at an elementary school where kids have to wear masks all day, including at recess.
Very few kids have a problem wearing their mask at recess. I supervise recess duty for half an hour daily at my school for first graders. They all are perfectly able to wear masks. It simply isn't a problem.

My child’s teacher made a similar comment. I was blown away because my son constantly asks when he can stop wearing it.

Yeah, with all due respect to the teachers, the kids do what they're told to do but my daughter asks at least 3 times a week when she can stop wearing the mask. Just because they follow the rules, doesn't mean "it simply isn't a problem".

It's hard for these young kids to navigate social relationships with each other and new adults when they cannot see any facial expressions. Also some of them still have speech issues they are working through and the masks make it even more difficult on this front. It's not normal. To me, of course mask indoors where the benefit is still evident at this point in time when they are not able to be vaccinated. But masking outside is theater and it is has real negatives that outweigh doing it.

Ignore that “teacher”. Her lack of empathy and her simpleton brain where little CHILDREN are expected to behave like robots is a major giveaway of her… capacity.

The sooner we get rid off this control tool aka masks the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Wearing a mask in Target is honestly just NOT A BIG DEAL. IDGAF when we do away with them. Maybe when hospitals aren't full of people dying?

If you don't like it, encourage your anti-vax friends and family to get vaccinated. Otherwise STFU about it.

I will feel better about dropping masking once my kids are vaccinated. Thankfully they are over 5, so by Thanksgiving I hope this is a done deal for us. I am not worried about breakthrough covid once we are all vaccinated.

Can you show any hospital locally that is full because of COVID, now or in the past 6 months? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Wearing a mask in Target is honestly just NOT A BIG DEAL. IDGAF when we do away with them. Maybe when hospitals aren't full of people dying?

If you don't like it, encourage your anti-vax friends and family to get vaccinated. Otherwise STFU about it.

I will feel better about dropping masking once my kids are vaccinated. Thankfully they are over 5, so by Thanksgiving I hope this is a done deal for us. I am not worried about breakthrough covid once we are all vaccinated.

Shut. Up.

I can't stand this anymore. Get off CNN. The hospitals locally are not full of people dying. This has and will continue to be a localized issue based on many variables. You and your vaccinated friends continuing to wear masks at Target when you're not even near anybody is not really doing much of anything. But we get it. It signals that you are doing things right and allows you to judge everyone who is doing it wrong. It's safe. It's comfortable. However, people who actually look at data (the contact tracers and public health officials) will tell you those are not the situations where this virus is being spread anyway.

[Anonymous]

To the anti-maskers in this thread: my five-year old son is immunocompromised and we would not feel safe having him school if there was no mask mandates before he's vaccinated. Sometimes you have to stop thinking about yourself and what amounts to a minor inconvenience so my son can go to school and, you know, not get really sick from a horrible disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the anti-maskers in this thread: my five-year old son is immunocompromised and we would not feel safe having him school if there was no mask mandates before he's vaccinated. Sometimes you have to stop thinking about yourself and what amounts to a minor inconvenience so my son can go to school and, you know, not get really sick from a horrible disease.

Are there anti-maskers on this thread?

I'm seeing people saying vaccinated kids and unvaccinated kids outdoors should not have to mask. I'm seeing people say kids should not have to mask when they've all been offered a vaccine.

What is your ideal scenario on when masking would end given it now seems clear covid will be endemic? This is a sincere question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the anti-maskers in this thread: my five-year old son is immunocompromised and we would not feel safe having him school if there was no mask mandates before he's vaccinated. Sometimes you have to stop thinking about yourself and what amounts to a minor inconvenience so my son can go to school and, you know, not get really sick from a horrible disease.

I do think kids should mask until they can be vaccinated. However, people who say masking is a "minor inconvenience" just bugs the hell out of me. According to you it's a minor inconvenience. I don't view my 7 year old wearing a mask for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as a minor inconvenience. He does not either. It's the right thing for right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the anti-maskers in this thread: my five-year old son is immunocompromised and we would not feel safe having him school if there was no mask mandates before he's vaccinated. Sometimes you have to stop thinking about yourself and what amounts to a minor inconvenience so my son can go to school and, you know, not get really sick from a horrible disease.

"anti-maskers" is used as a pejorative (usually with "anti-vaxxer, as if the science is equal, which is not true whatsoever) to shut down debate.

It's not a minor inconvenience to young children to wear a mask 18 months into the pandemic. Kids have not been doing so in many countries in Europe throughout the pandemic.

Immunocompromised children did not start existing in March 2020. We should look at what was done with such kids during flu seasons, since COVID for kids has the same fatality rate as a regular flu season. The burden should not be put on all other children for a disease with a similar mortality rate for children.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP poster with the immunocompromise child:

-First, it looks like some folks were arguing for no masks indoors.

-Second, once kids at that age have an opportunity to get vaccinated, masks should be optional for all indoors. I do think we are living with this for the long term and it is a lot to expect masking in schools.

-Third, for nearly every kid, it is a minor inconvenience. I am sorry if it is not for your kid. I really do not care what they are doing in Europe. Most countries there had real lockdowns and are in a different place.

Fourth, I have no idea what happened to immunocompromised kids prior to the epidemic because my child became ill 8 months ago.

[Anonymous]

PP again here. The mortality rate for my son is not similar to the flu. If he gets COVID, there is a good chance it would significantly impact him. That being said, we think he needs to be in school, so we are sending him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP poster with the immunocompromise child:

-First, it looks like some folks were arguing for no masks indoors.

-Second, once kids at that age have an opportunity to get vaccinated, masks should be optional for all indoors. I do think we are living with this for the long term and it is a lot to expect masking in schools.

-Third, for nearly every kid, it is a minor inconvenience. I am sorry if it is not for your kid. I really do not care what they are doing in Europe. Most countries there had real lockdowns and are in a different place.

Fourth, I have no idea what happened to immunocompromised kids prior to the epidemic because my child became ill 8 months ago.

I'm glad we've cleared this up. Because you say so, I now agree.

[Anonymous]

Cool, cool.