APS Outdoor Lunch Needs to Be Optional

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP is over the top, but I agree outdoor lunch should be optional. And I mean truly optional, no recommendation or guilting to eat outside. My kids are vaccinated and very low risk. Kids that have family members they are concerned about can continue to eat outdoors. Indoor lunch should absolutely be allowed at this point.

Optional inside/outside really doesn't work for the younger kids in elementary who have more people monitoring them and in general are just more tightly controlled as to where they can even sit during lunch.

Then it should be default indoor lunch. If outdoor lunch is that important they can figure out logistics. But outdoors should not be default in winter. The examples of kids in Canada always having outdoor recess is dumb. Those kids have better clothes and are running around during recess, not resting trying to eat lunch. I hate the cold and so do my kids, so i hear complaints. I've been biting my lip until vaccination but now it's all ridiculous. If Omicron is as transmissible as we think, those cloth masks aren't doing jack for them anyway. We're all going to get it.

It's mid Atlantic winter, not Siberia, with temperatures in the 50 and even 60s many days. Your kids need to toughen up.

[Anonymous]

Don't you remember when Lunch Petitioner said in her petition in March 2021 and to the media that dining indoors was a "high risk activity".

Who knew all those parents eating with their kids at Uncle Julio's on the weekend were doing the equivalent of going skydiving with them.You would have thought kids had the same risk as 85 year olds with a statement like "high risk activity". Oh no, their risk with COVID was less than risk with the seasonal flu. And now there are vaccines available (APS is having a clinic this week).

I was at the park with my kids on Sunday when it was windy and 50. We lasted 20 minutes.

Any continuing of this mandatory lunch policy into the new year is simply to appease the nuts like Lunch Petitioner and Ventilation Woman. I'm sure they still haven't eaten indoors at a restaurant since February 2020. Their warped views have to be forced down our kids' throats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP is over the top, but I agree outdoor lunch should be optional. And I mean truly optional, no recommendation or guilting to eat outside. My kids are vaccinated and very low risk. Kids that have family members they are concerned about can continue to eat outdoors. Indoor lunch should absolutely be allowed at this point.

Optional inside/outside really doesn't work for the younger kids in elementary who have more people monitoring them and in general are just more tightly controlled as to where they can even sit during lunch.

Presumably there's a ratio adults to children. This is an easily solvable math issue.

I do agree with outdoor lunch for all when it's nice outside (even if there was no COVID).

Says the person who missed the news about the severe staffing shortage. I wish schools would let parents volunteer for outdoor lunch duty. There isn't enough staff, but there are enough adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP is over the top, but I agree outdoor lunch should be optional. And I mean truly optional, no recommendation or guilting to eat outside. My kids are vaccinated and very low risk. Kids that have family members they are concerned about can continue to eat outdoors. Indoor lunch should absolutely be allowed at this point.

Optional inside/outside really doesn't work for the younger kids in elementary who have more people monitoring them and in general are just more tightly controlled as to where they can even sit during lunch.

Presumably there's a ratio adults to children. This is an easily solvable math issue.

I do agree with outdoor lunch for all when it's nice outside (even if there was no COVID).

Says the person who missed the news about the severe staffing shortage. I wish schools would let parents volunteer for outdoor lunch duty. There isn't enough staff, but there are enough adults.

This would be great! My friends' kids' private school does this.

[Anonymous]

I truly believe some of you have personality disorders or are otherwise sociopaths.

You got your wish for schools to re-open. Now you are bitc*ing about mitigation efforts? Your child is not going to die eating outside in mild weather you jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I truly believe some of you have personality disorders or are otherwise sociopaths.

You got your wish for schools to re-open. Now you are bitc*ing about mitigation efforts? Your child is not going to die eating outside in mild weather you jerk.

They also won’t die eating inside. After the holidays kids will have had ample time to get vaxxed. Why should they have to eat outdoors for no good reason? I’m all for outdoor time but let them eat inside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am begging, BEGGING, parents and community members to understand how very, very low risk kids are of severe illness from COVID. https://brownstone.org/articles/well-structured-german-study-shows-no-deaths-among-healthy-german-kids-ages-5-to-11/

Covid was a top 10 cause of death for kids in 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I truly believe some of you have personality disorders or are otherwise sociopaths.

You got your wish for schools to re-open. Now you are bitc*ing about mitigation efforts? Your child is not going to die eating outside in mild weather you jerk.

They also won’t die eating inside. After the holidays kids will have had ample time to get vaxxed. Why should they have to eat outdoors for no good reason? I’m all for outdoor time but let them eat inside.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Hmm, what happened at the end of August/beginning of September to cause COVID to peak in kids? Could it have been SCHOOLS OPENING. You all are acting like their risk is higher in school when it's actually LOWER. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/covid-19-data-insights/cases-among-children/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am begging, BEGGING, parents and community members to understand how very, very low risk kids are of severe illness from COVID. https://brownstone.org/articles/well-structured-german-study-shows-no-deaths-among-healthy-german-kids-ages-5-to-11/

Covid was a top 10 cause of death for kids in 2020.

Flu usually causes more death in kids, plus now there are vaccines. We don't require kids to eat outside in 45 degree weather and light rain because of the flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am begging, BEGGING, parents and community members to understand how very, very low risk kids are of severe illness from COVID. https://brownstone.org/articles/well-structured-german-study-shows-no-deaths-among-healthy-german-kids-ages-5-to-11/

Covid was a top 10 cause of death for kids in 2020.

The entire state has had 11 COVID deaths in 0-17 and that includes pre-vax times. Come on now. Let that sink in just a little bit how lucky our kids are they are so risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm, what happened at the end of August/beginning of September to cause COVID to peak in kids? Could it have been SCHOOLS OPENING. You all are acting like their risk is higher in school when it's actually LOWER. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/covid-19-data-insights/cases-among-children/

Exactly. From what I understand, most spread is from adults to kids (not kids to kids).

But these are cases. At this point with vaccines and the fact that COVID will be here forever, we have to stop worrying about cases (which are essentially colds). Kids can get colds.

And please don't say "what about the immunocompromised?" Immunocompromised can be killed by the cold virus too (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/215084). We never shut down society for the cold virus.

Wanting to eradicate COVID or even control it is the same thing as wanting to do so for the cold virus. Futile, worthless and attempts only have costs with no benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I truly believe some of you have personality disorders or are otherwise sociopaths.

You got your wish for schools to re-open. Now you are bitc*ing about mitigation efforts? Your child is not going to die eating outside in mild weather you jerk.

Hopefully at some point you will realize you are the crazy one. In one sentence you are implying that schools should not have reopened and that mitigation efforts should continue indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

What is wrong with you? Your behavior puts the rest of us at risk. You may be ok with getting Covid but not everyone is. Stop with the selfish behavior. These vaccines reduce symptoms but you can still get Covid. You are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm, what happened at the end of August/beginning of September to cause COVID to peak in kids? Could it have been SCHOOLS OPENING. You all are acting like their risk is higher in school when it's actually LOWER. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/covid-19-data-insights/cases-among-children/

Exactly. From what I understand, most spread is from adults to kids (not kids to kids).

But these are cases. At this point with vaccines and the fact that COVID will be here forever, we have to stop worrying about cases (which are essentially colds). Kids can get colds.

And please don't say "what about the immunocompromised?" Immunocompromised can be killed by the cold virus too (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/215084). We never shut down society for the cold virus.

Wanting to eradicate COVID or even control it is the same thing as wanting to do so for the cold virus. Futile, worthless and attempts only have costs with no benefits.

Covid is not equal to a cold.