Why aren’t schools with high COVID rates masking?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. My child is wearing a KN95. And plenty of other kids in the school are, but it’s the kids who aren’t, whose parents send them in sick, and who aren’t vaccinated concern me. I understand the political concerns about reinstating mask mandates but honestly isn’t the point that when there’s high transmission in a particular school you bring them back temporarily and then as cases lower you remove it? Like are we literally so dumb we can’t understand how to implement a protective measure when it’s warranted? Seems silly to have masked the kids for the better part of a school year when numbers were lower only to refuse to bring them back on a case by case basis in schools with High transmission because elected reps are more concerned with their re election than keeping kids safe and well?

I feel bad for your kid. Kn95 all day? During crucial developmental years? I think you need a reality check. You can’t hide from covid. Kids are low risk. You can get vaccinated/boosted. If other people decide to vaccinate themselves or their kids that doesn’t affect you at all. People get to make their own risk analysis. My kids will never mask again. Neither will I.

That is so selfish. School is not the same as going out to a bar or movie theater. Every kid deserves an in person education. Some kids are immunocompromised, high risk for complications or live with family members who are high risk. We need to be thinking of them too, and when there are huge surges like this we absolutely as a community should be putting the masks back on in an effort to do our best to protect our vulnerable kids/families who deserve to keep going to school in person too just like everyone else. I initially didn’t make my daughters mask when the mandate dropped and numbers were low, but now they are back on to protect them and everyone else.

And all that vulnerable families had the option to enroll in VA- the ones I know took advantage of that opportunity. Asking kids to wear properly fitted KN95s all day is a selfish request.

Its selfish not to expect kids to mask, even if its cloth. We are in a surge right now.

Cloth masks are literally theater. This isn’t 2020 anymore. Be honest- do you want your kid sitting next to another kid wearing cloth? They may as well not be wearing anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. My child is wearing a KN95. And plenty of other kids in the school are, but it’s the kids who aren’t, whose parents send them in sick, and who aren’t vaccinated concern me. I understand the political concerns about reinstating mask mandates but honestly isn’t the point that when there’s high transmission in a particular school you bring them back temporarily and then as cases lower you remove it? Like are we literally so dumb we can’t understand how to implement a protective measure when it’s warranted? Seems silly to have masked the kids for the better part of a school year when numbers were lower only to refuse to bring them back on a case by case basis in schools with High transmission because elected reps are more concerned with their re election than keeping kids safe and well?

I feel bad for your kid. Kn95 all day? During crucial developmental years? I think you need a reality check. You can’t hide from covid. Kids are low risk. You can get vaccinated/boosted. If other people decide to vaccinate themselves or their kids that doesn’t affect you at all. People get to make their own risk analysis. My kids will never mask again. Neither will I.

That is so selfish. School is not the same as going out to a bar or movie theater. Every kid deserves an in person education. Some kids are immunocompromised, high risk for complications or live with family members who are high risk. We need to be thinking of them too, and when there are huge surges like this we absolutely as a community should be putting the masks back on in an effort to do our best to protect our vulnerable kids/families who deserve to keep going to school in person too just like everyone else. I initially didn’t make my daughters mask when the mandate dropped and numbers were low, but now they are back on to protect them and everyone else.

And all that vulnerable families had the option to enroll in VA- the ones I know took advantage of that opportunity. Asking kids to wear properly fitted KN95s all day is a selfish request.

How is it selfish to ask children to mask for a few weeks to limit the number of kids who get COVID? It’s a prudent, caring action. If you are a religious person of any sort you would know that we have a moral duty to care for one another and to protect each other. If You identify as a religious person, you have a moral duty to encourage your children to mask to protect them and other children and families who may become sick or otherwise be vulnerable.

There’s a lot of gray area between believing masks are evil and should never be worn to believing masks should be worn all the time and acting like we are all under COVID lock downs a la 2020. Most people are in the gray, and are not a part of a false oversimplified binary.

Please. How many millions of people have died in the name of religion?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. My child is wearing a KN95. And plenty of other kids in the school are, but it’s the kids who aren’t, whose parents send them in sick, and who aren’t vaccinated concern me. I understand the political concerns about reinstating mask mandates but honestly isn’t the point that when there’s high transmission in a particular school you bring them back temporarily and then as cases lower you remove it? Like are we literally so dumb we can’t understand how to implement a protective measure when it’s warranted? Seems silly to have masked the kids for the better part of a school year when numbers were lower only to refuse to bring them back on a case by case basis in schools with High transmission because elected reps are more concerned with their re election than keeping kids safe and well?

I feel bad for your kid. Kn95 all day? During crucial developmental years? I think you need a reality check. You can’t hide from covid. Kids are low risk. You can get vaccinated/boosted. If other people decide to vaccinate themselves or their kids that doesn’t affect you at all. People get to make their own risk analysis. My kids will never mask again. Neither will I.

That is so selfish. School is not the same as going out to a bar or movie theater. Every kid deserves an in person education. Some kids are immunocompromised, high risk for complications or live with family members who are high risk. We need to be thinking of them too, and when there are huge surges like this we absolutely as a community should be putting the masks back on in an effort to do our best to protect our vulnerable kids/families who deserve to keep going to school in person too just like everyone else. I initially didn’t make my daughters mask when the mandate dropped and numbers were low, but now they are back on to protect them and everyone else.

And all that vulnerable families had the option to enroll in VA- the ones I know took advantage of that opportunity. Asking kids to wear properly fitted KN95s all day is a selfish request.

How is it selfish to ask children to mask for a few weeks to limit the number of kids who get COVID? It’s a prudent, caring action. If you are a religious person of any sort you would know that we have a moral duty to care for one another and to protect each other. If You identify as a religious person, you have a moral duty to encourage your children to mask to protect them and other children and families who may become sick or otherwise be vulnerable.

There’s a lot of gray area between believing masks are evil and should never be worn to believing masks should be worn all the time and acting like we are all under COVID lock downs a la 2020. Most people are in the gray, and are not a part of a false oversimplified binary.

This is an absurd argument. If you’re a religious person? More people are going to die from causes related to poverty and lack of health care access due to the political policies of the people those "religious people" vote for.

If your goal was actually to save lives, you wouldn't be focused on masking at school.

[Anonymous]

I've just accepted that the anti mask screamers won, and anyone who doesn't wear a high quality mask as well as get al the vaccines is going to catch Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:I've just accepted that the anti mask screamers won, and anyone who doesn't wear a high quality mask as well as get al the vaccines is going to catch Covid.

Finally. Somebody’s accepted the inevitable.

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Anonymous wrote:I've just accepted that the anti mask screamers won, and anyone who doesn't wear a high quality mask as well as get al the vaccines is going to catch Covid.

Except that vaxxed high quality mask wearers will get Covid too.

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Anonymous wrote:I've just accepted that the anti mask screamers won, and anyone who doesn't wear a high quality mask as well as get al the vaccines is going to catch Covid.

Except that vaxxed high quality mask wearers will get Covid too.

Maybe someday, but not necessarily this month or this school year. It's still worth trying to avoid it.

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Anonymous wrote:I've just accepted that the anti mask screamers won, and anyone who doesn't wear a high quality mask as well as get al the vaccines is going to catch Covid.

Except that vaxxed high quality mask wearers will get Covid too.

Maybe someday, but not necessarily this month or this school year. It's still worth trying to avoid it.

Then keep masking up, make outdoor arrangements for lunch if needed, and hope for the best. My DH is an essential worker and we accepted a while ago there us only so much we can control. Even with masks Covid spread around his workplace (although their ventilation systems are likely far worse than MCPS if you can believe that).

[Anonymous]

Remember the good old days of 2020 and early 2021 when some people on this board liked to argue that, "Kids don't get it/Kids can't spread it" and "Kids, if they get it, get it out in the community and not in school"?

Now schools are the infection infernos that the rest of us always knew they would be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. My child is wearing a KN95. And plenty of other kids in the school are, but it’s the kids who aren’t, whose parents send them in sick, and who aren’t vaccinated concern me. I understand the political concerns about reinstating mask mandates but honestly isn’t the point that when there’s high transmission in a particular school you bring them back temporarily and then as cases lower you remove it? Like are we literally so dumb we can’t understand how to implement a protective measure when it’s warranted? Seems silly to have masked the kids for the better part of a school year when numbers were lower only to refuse to bring them back on a case by case basis in schools with High transmission because elected reps are more concerned with their re election than keeping kids safe and well?

I feel bad for your kid. Kn95 all day? During crucial developmental years? I think you need a reality check. You can’t hide from covid. Kids are low risk. You can get vaccinated/boosted. If other people decide to vaccinate themselves or their kids that doesn’t affect you at all. People get to make their own risk analysis. My kids will never mask again. Neither will I.

The COVID virus is still mutating like crazy -- more deadly variants may emerge. But, if they do, you go ahead and stick to your "will never mask again" policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember the good old days of 2020 and early 2021 when some people on this board liked to argue that, "Kids don't get it/Kids can't spread it" and "Kids, if they get it, get it out in the community and not in school"?

Now schools are the infection infernos that the rest of us always knew they would be.

That’s just not true. I am a teacher and four of my kids have Covid - each one got it somewhere else ;as near as we can tell). A concert, a family party, a date at the movies, and a sporting event. Everything is open and maskless, so assuming kids got it in school is just that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. My child is wearing a KN95. And plenty of other kids in the school are, but it’s the kids who aren’t, whose parents send them in sick, and who aren’t vaccinated concern me. I understand the political concerns about reinstating mask mandates but honestly isn’t the point that when there’s high transmission in a particular school you bring them back temporarily and then as cases lower you remove it? Like are we literally so dumb we can’t understand how to implement a protective measure when it’s warranted? Seems silly to have masked the kids for the better part of a school year when numbers were lower only to refuse to bring them back on a case by case basis in schools with High transmission because elected reps are more concerned with their re election than keeping kids safe and well?

I feel bad for your kid. Kn95 all day? During crucial developmental years? I think you need a reality check. You can’t hide from covid. Kids are low risk. You can get vaccinated/boosted. If other people decide to vaccinate themselves or their kids that doesn’t affect you at all. People get to make their own risk analysis. My kids will never mask again. Neither will I.

The COVID virus is still mutating like crazy -- more deadly variants may emerge. But, if they do, you go ahead and stick to your "will never mask again" policy.

If they do, then mask mandates become appropriate. But this isn’t deadly to children and/or boosted people. It just isn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember the good old days of 2020 and early 2021 when some people on this board liked to argue that, "Kids don't get it/Kids can't spread it" and "Kids, if they get it, get it out in the community and not in school"?

Now schools are the infection infernos that the rest of us always knew they would be.

Are you coming to a point or is this just nostalgia speaking?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Remember the good old days of 2020 and early 2021 when some people on this board liked to argue that, "Kids don't get it/Kids can't spread it" and "Kids, if they get it, get it out in the community and not in school"?

Now schools are the infection infernos that the rest of us always knew they would be.

Are you coming to a point or is this just nostalgia speaking?

Not only that, but people forget that the current variant/subvariants are far more transmissible than alpha and others. In 2020 and 2021, schools weren't a major source of spread. Now, the virus is everywhere, including in schools. Even so, despite the lack of mitigation in school, the transmissibility of these variants, and the lack of contact tracing and testing, we are still seeing many of the cases in school come from out-of-school events, like parties and other indoor social gatherings.

[Anonymous]

Because we don’t force cover the air holes of other peoples’ healthy children for years because board mommies have nothing better to do but to buy into media hysterics about covid and kids. You don’t get to control other people by violating their bodily autonomy anymore. For the record I had a baby during 2020 and I didn’t try and control the actions of strangers. Find a therapist.