N95 Masks at Stone Ridge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think this is just temporary? Minimize disruption? By enacting rules to make it like a prison? I'm so disappointed in how scared the school seems to be about Omicron. It is so embarrassing. Thankfully Omicron is not killing people like the other variants. So these measures seem to be overkill to me. I want my daughter to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, SR is having a knee-jerk reaction to a small group of overly worried parents/teachers and leaving sanity and reason behind. Life needs to go on with covid. If you are worried about getting it, stay home. If not, please let the rest of us move on and try to give our kids a normal life.

We are happy to send dd to school because the school is following science and common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are blessed at SR to have an amazing panel of extremely well qualified and experienced medical research and practitioner professionals guiding the school’s COVID Policy decisions. They are thoughtful, prudent and trying to minimize disruption to our girls and the school community. I trust their judgment, and this is just temporary.

Plus 1,000

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think this is just temporary? Minimize disruption? By enacting rules to make it like a prison? I'm so disappointed in how scared the school seems to be about Omicron. It is so embarrassing. Thankfully Omicron is not killing people like the other variants. So these measures seem to be overkill to me. I want my daughter to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, SR is having a knee-jerk reaction to a small group of overly worried parents/teachers and leaving sanity and reason behind. Life needs to go on with covid. If you are worried about getting it, stay home. If not, please let the rest of us move on and try to give our kids a normal life.

This is odd logic. We are not the ones taking issue with sensible precautions by the school.

What is embarrassing is parents denying science and disrespecting research scientists who are devoted to fostering optimal public health. Our pediatrician thinks that the school is doing an excellent job.

Many experts says that this not the same as March 2020 when schools closed. The overwhelming majority of people in our county are vaccinated now. The girls aged 12 and over will all be boosted soon. Once this wave is spent, and experts predict it will peak quickly, we can hopefully get back to more normalcy. Maybe it will not be quite the same as pre pandemic but at least without needing masks outside and with more regular sports activities/ music/ drama, and eating inside again.

The school is not pandering to a minority but following science - Analyzing epidemiological patterns, COVID case loads, hospitalizations and scientific opinion. They do care about all community members because that is a sacred heart Christian value and the right way to approach a global pandemic …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think this is just temporary? Minimize disruption? By enacting rules to make it like a prison? I'm so disappointed in how scared the school seems to be about Omicron. It is so embarrassing. Thankfully Omicron is not killing people like the other variants. So these measures seem to be overkill to me. I want my daughter to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, SR is having a knee-jerk reaction to a small group of overly worried parents/teachers and leaving sanity and reason behind. Life needs to go on with covid. If you are worried about getting it, stay home. If not, please let the rest of us move on and try to give our kids a normal life.

This is odd logic. We are not the ones taking issue with sensible precautions by the school.

What is embarrassing is parents denying science and disrespecting research scientists who are devoted to fostering optimal public health. Our pediatrician thinks that the school is doing an excellent job.

Many experts says that this not the same as March 2020 when schools closed. The overwhelming majority of people in our county are vaccinated now. The girls aged 12 and over will all be boosted soon. Once this wave is spent, and experts predict it will peak quickly, we can hopefully get back to more normalcy. Maybe it will not be quite the same as pre pandemic but at least without needing masks outside and with more regular sports activities/ music/ drama, and eating inside again.

The school is not pandering to a minority but following science - Analyzing epidemiological patterns, COVID case loads, hospitalizations and scientific opinion. They do care about all community members because that is a sacred heart Christian value and the right way to approach a global pandemic …

You keep bringing up science deniers. Your child attends a Catholic school. Do you believe in abortion? Do you believe that birth starts at conception? Because you know the answer. If you don’t you’re a science denier; if you agree that it does, what does that make you? The CDC and the scientists have done nothing but complicate, backtrack, and flip-flop. The fact the matter is no one knows with this virus or it’s mutation viruses are going to do. It’s an educated guess at best. And sadly, the educated guesses have been wrong 80% of the time.

No evidence for these claims …

[Anonymous]

Agree with PPs that school is doing an amazing and difficult job.

A rapidly mutating virus requires changing scientific advice. Omicron mutated in many ways to increase the level of transmission to now be possible outside as well as inside.

Thankfully, omicron causes more mild initial cases of COVID but a sizable minority are becoming sick and much higher rates of children are being hospitalized. Our local hospitals report they are overwhelmed. Also we do not yet know whether omicron will result in long haul COVID, which so far around 20% of COVID patients developed.

The school is being prudent and following science. Wearing masks outside is temporary. The deaths of over 800K Americans from COVID is permanent.

We feel very grateful for the school and expert medical panel advising them as they have navigated the many challenges of keeping a school open during an ongoing global pandemic with scientific reasoning, calm, sensitivity and common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PPs that school is doing an amazing and difficult job.

A rapidly mutating virus requires changing scientific advice. Omicron mutated in many ways to increase the level of transmission to now be possible outside as well as inside.

Thankfully, omicron causes more mild initial cases of COVID but a sizable minority are becoming sick and much higher rates of children are being hospitalized. Our local hospitals report they are overwhelmed. Also we do not yet know whether omicron will result in long haul COVID, which so far around 20% of COVID patients developed.

The school is being prudent and following science. Wearing masks outside is temporary. The deaths of over 800K Americans from COVID is permanent.

We feel very grateful for the school and expert medical panel advising them as they have navigated the many challenges of keeping a school open during an ongoing global pandemic with scientific reasoning, calm, sensitivity and common sense.

Plus 1,000

[Anonymous]

It's pretty clear in this thread who are actual SR parents, and who are either general anti-maskers/anti-vaxers or anti-SR people.

[Anonymous]

This Omicron surge will be over in 2-3 weeks. At that point, SR will either drop the KN95 requirement or keep it. It will either let kids eat inside again or force them into the "lunch tent" (the erection of which was highlighted on IG). If it keeps these mitigations indefinitely, then bureaucratic inertia will have won the day. If it actually loosens restrictions, then it really was about keeping school open during a tough period (great!). I am willing to be patient, but when Omicron is rapidly receding--and the data clarify even further that this is a very mild illness for vaxxed people--I expect SR to "follow the science" and remember that its objective is education and a wonderful experience, not elimination of all risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other local privates are requiring this also.

No, they’re not.

NCS requested they wear them or double mask

[Anonymous]

To the poster that brought abortion into a discussion about masks - You are pretty desperate. Dismantle your straw man and just admit you can’t win this argument because you don’t have a medical or research science background like those the SR advisors. I wonder if you are even a SRfamily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They allow any KN95 or N95, we’ve found a brand that my girls are happy with. I’m sure you could try a few brands and make it work for the next few weeks.

Can you share the brand you like? Need to order some. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This Omicron surge will be over in 2-3 weeks. At that point, SR will either drop the KN95 requirement or keep it. It will either let kids eat inside again or force them into the "lunch tent" (the erection of which was highlighted on IG). If it keeps these mitigations indefinitely, then bureaucratic inertia will have won the day. If it actually loosens restrictions, then it really was about keeping school open during a tough period (great!). I am willing to be patient, but when Omicron is rapidly receding--and the data clarify even further that this is a very mild illness for vaxxed people--I expect SR to "follow the science" and remember that its objective is education and a wonderful experience, not elimination of all risk.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This Omicron surge will be over in 2-3 weeks. At that point, SR will either drop the KN95 requirement or keep it. It will either let kids eat inside again or force them into the "lunch tent" (the erection of which was highlighted on IG). If it keeps these mitigations indefinitely, then bureaucratic inertia will have won the day. If it actually loosens restrictions, then it really was about keeping school open during a tough period (great!). I am willing to be patient, but when Omicron is rapidly receding--and the data clarify even further that this is a very mild illness for vaxxed people--I expect SR to "follow the science" and remember that its objective is education and a wonderful experience, not elimination of all risk.

Really? You sound so certain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This Omicron surge will be over in 2-3 weeks. At that point, SR will either drop the KN95 requirement or keep it. It will either let kids eat inside again or force them into the "lunch tent" (the erection of which was highlighted on IG). If it keeps these mitigations indefinitely, then bureaucratic inertia will have won the day. If it actually loosens restrictions, then it really was about keeping school open during a tough period (great!). I am willing to be patient, but when Omicron is rapidly receding--and the data clarify even further that this is a very mild illness for vaxxed people--I expect SR to "follow the science" and remember that its objective is education and a wonderful experience, not elimination of all risk.

And what if all of this turns out to be true, and SR keeps the mask mandate? Then what? You burn the place down or rail on an anonymous message board about how shitty it is and how poor the adminstration is? Find another way to have your gotcha moment with an institution people CHOOSE to attend? Get a grip. If your DD attents SR and you can't stand the way the school is run, there's the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think this is just temporary? Minimize disruption? By enacting rules to make it like a prison? I'm so disappointed in how scared the school seems to be about Omicron. It is so embarrassing. Thankfully Omicron is not killing people like the other variants. So these measures seem to be overkill to me. I want my daughter to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, SR is having a knee-jerk reaction to a small group of overly worried parents/teachers and leaving sanity and reason behind. Life needs to go on with covid. If you are worried about getting it, stay home. If not, please let the rest of us move on and try to give our kids a normal life.

We are happy to send dd to school because the school is following science and common sense.

Science and common sense are saying otherwise now.