Flu?

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It's a tranmissible virus. There's nothing you can do other than (i) go get a flu shot (and hope it's the right strain) or (ii) locking your child in their house. Otherwise, focus your time on something productive that can help this community, especially its most vulnerable demographics, recover from the horrible school policies you most likely supported.

Except you can also make sure you and your kids practice good hand washing hygiene, cover coughs and sneezes, and possibly wear a mask if you are coughing and sneezing but feel well enough to go to school...

Oh god, here we go again. I knew the OP was still part of those 10% of mask wearers dead enders by the subject matters.

14 randomized control trials - 14! - prior to COVID showed that masks didn't make a difference with the flu.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

These same people would be calling for kids to be forced masked again in school if it wasn't for the fact there's a law forbidding it in VA.

I'm a different poster but please Shut up. You sound ridiculous. People can not want their families to be sick.

This person is actually doing a community service, clearing up misinformation about masks and the flu. It's clear that OP wants to not follow the science and spread such misinformation that masks help with the flu.

Uhh, what "science" says that masks don't help with the flu? Where are you seeing that if somebody has the flu, a mask will not reduce how contagious they are?

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

Is this a joke? Do you know how disease spreads?

Here, I'll help out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

Is this a joke? Do you know how disease spreads?

Here, I'll help out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

Yes it has a sordid history, like when people blame gay people for spreading AIDS and Jews for spreading the Black Plague.

All this moral shaming is disgusting, like blaming humans for socializing during COVID. It didn't work. Humans are social animals. And the hypocrites making such proclamations still got together, like Deborah Birx with her multi-generational Thanksgiving familiy gathering (while telling people not to do so) and Neil Ferguson seeing his lover while pushing lockdowns.

The moral shaming during COVID will be remembered in the same category. And I'm sure the people on here pushing to mask children and don't socialize for the flu are the same people.

Give it up. The war is over.

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

Is this a joke? Do you know how disease spreads?

Here, I'll help out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

Yes it has a sordid history, like when people blame gay people for spreading AIDS and Jews for spreading the Black Plague.

All this moral shaming is disgusting, like blaming humans for socializing during COVID. It didn't work. Humans are social animals. And the hypocrites making such proclamations still got together, like Deborah Birx with her multi-generational Thanksgiving familiy gathering (while telling people not to do so) and Neil Ferguson seeing his lover while pushing lockdowns.

The moral shaming during COVID will be remembered in the same category. And I'm sure the people on here pushing to mask children and don't socialize for the flu are the same people.

Give it up. The war is over.

APS closed schooler, force masking group Smart Restart was pushing the threat of monkeypox in school just 6 weeks ago. These people are white privileged nutjobs and it's best to ignore them.

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I saw a commercial on Tubi yesterday telling people to wear face masks and respect the bubble. Couldn't tell who sponsored it.

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If people need a mask medically that is one thing. The concern is that people feel they need a mask when they do not, because of all the fearmongering and virtue signaling that has happened over two years. For example, there were CNN reporters giving reports with a mask on outdoors, then taking it off once filmingwas finished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If people need a mask medically that is one thing. The concern is that people feel they need a mask when they do not, because of all the fearmongering and virtue signaling that has happened over two years. For example, there were CNN reporters giving reports with a mask on outdoors, then taking it off once filmingwas finished.

Look around. Very few people are wearing masks. Why are you so triggered by that? I'm still figuring out how long I'll continue wearing a mask inside but I've had plenty of winters that I have gotten very sick and tired of being sick with one cold after another after another, followed by bronchitis or sometimes pneumonia. Masks don't impede my ability to socialize or get work done but if they keep me from getting sick as often that is good for me. Why does my mask bother you?

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

No I don't "just" have asthma (but weird that you'd minimize a condition that can be very serious for some). I'm not going to parade my medical history around here for your scrutiny because it's pretty clear with an attitude like that, you'd find some way to pick it apart.

You really should look inward when you're this mean to a person with a medical condition doing what they need to do to protect their health, especially when it has zero impact on you. Do you hate people in wheelchairs too?

[Anonymous]

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

Is this a joke? Do you know how disease spreads?

Here, I'll help out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

Yes it has a sordid history, like when people blame gay people for spreading AIDS and Jews for spreading the Black Plague.

All this moral shaming is disgusting, like blaming humans for socializing during COVID. It didn't work. Humans are social animals. And the hypocrites making such proclamations still got together, like Deborah Birx with her multi-generational Thanksgiving familiy gathering (while telling people not to do so) and Neil Ferguson seeing his lover while pushing lockdowns.

The moral shaming during COVID will be remembered in the same category. And I'm sure the people on here pushing to mask children and don't socialize for the flu are the same people.

Give it up. The war is over.

APS closed schooler, force masking group Smart Restart was pushing the threat of monkeypox in school just 6 weeks ago. These people are white privileged nutjobs and it's best to ignore them.

Clearly the unhinged APEs are still... unhinged. Are you going to go scream at the School Board again? If so, please let me know first so I can get my popcorn.

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

No I don't "just" have asthma (but weird that you'd minimize a condition that can be very serious for some). I'm not going to parade my medical history around here for your scrutiny because it's pretty clear with an attitude like that, you'd find some way to pick it apart.

You really should look inward when you're this mean to a person with a medical condition doing what they need to do to protect their health, especially when it has zero impact on you. Do you hate people in wheelchairs too?

+1 Its so weird how some people act like human behavior can't and shouldn't change. Ever. Like we should all live like we did thousands of years ago and nothing we have learned about hygiene and the spread of disease should be implemented. Also, its pretty sick to conflate masking to prevent the spread of disease with the Taliban's forced masking of women in Afghanistan.

[Anonymous]

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

No I don't "just" have asthma (but weird that you'd minimize a condition that can be very serious for some). I'm not going to parade my medical history around here for your scrutiny because it's pretty clear with an attitude like that, you'd find some way to pick it apart.

You really should look inward when you're this mean to a person with a medical condition doing what they need to do to protect their health, especially when it has zero impact on you. Do you hate people in wheelchairs too?

+1 Its so weird how some people act like human behavior can't and shouldn't change. Ever. Like we should all live like we did thousands of years ago and nothing we have learned about hygiene and the spread of disease should be implemented. Also, its pretty sick to conflate masking to prevent the spread of disease with the Taliban's forced masking of women in Afghanistan.

No it's not. The only place that previously forced mask people was Afghanistan (but only women).

And the only science that changed around forced masking in March 2020 was political science, not medical science.

Anyone fearmongering flu in schools at this stage is the sick one. Probably the same exact people who fearmongered monkeypox this summer.

[Anonymous]

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

No I don't "just" have asthma (but weird that you'd minimize a condition that can be very serious for some). I'm not going to parade my medical history around here for your scrutiny because it's pretty clear with an attitude like that, you'd find some way to pick it apart.

You really should look inward when you're this mean to a person with a medical condition doing what they need to do to protect their health, especially when it has zero impact on you. Do you hate people in wheelchairs too?

+1 Its so weird how some people act like human behavior can't and shouldn't change. Ever. Like we should all live like we did thousands of years ago and nothing we have learned about hygiene and the spread of disease should be implemented. Also, its pretty sick to conflate masking to prevent the spread of disease with the Taliban's forced masking of women in Afghanistan.

No it's not. The only place that previously forced mask people was Afghanistan (but only women).

And the only science that changed around forced masking in March 2020 was political science, not medical science.

Anyone fearmongering flu in schools at this stage is the sick one. Probably the same exact people who fearmongered monkeypox this summer.

Let's just go back to open sewage in the streets, shall we?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the flu at any of the APS schools yet?

Some bug is going around, that’s for sure!

+1 Sore throat, congestion, cough. Very similar to COVID but testing negative on PCR and rapid (we are admittedly over testers, so tested many times).

It was RSV for us. It's going around the daycare. Very very similar to COVID symptoms, with lingering cough and congestion/runny nose.

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

No I don't "just" have asthma (but weird that you'd minimize a condition that can be very serious for some). I'm not going to parade my medical history around here for your scrutiny because it's pretty clear with an attitude like that, you'd find some way to pick it apart.

You really should look inward when you're this mean to a person with a medical condition doing what they need to do to protect their health, especially when it has zero impact on you. Do you hate people in wheelchairs too?

+1 Its so weird how some people act like human behavior can't and shouldn't change. Ever. Like we should all live like we did thousands of years ago and nothing we have learned about hygiene and the spread of disease should be implemented. Also, its pretty sick to conflate masking to prevent the spread of disease with the Taliban's forced masking of women in Afghanistan.

No it's not. The only place that previously forced mask people was Afghanistan (but only women).

And the only science that changed around forced masking in March 2020 was political science, not medical science.

Anyone fearmongering flu in schools at this stage is the sick one. Probably the same exact people who fearmongered monkeypox this summer.

You're completely trivializing what is happening in Afghanistan. Just stop.

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Symptomatic with the flu?!? No, don't come to school.

Symptomatic as in coughing or sneezing but no symptoms so severe as to keep your child home. You seem to be missing the point, nobody cares if you mask and nobody is telling you to. Some people might choose to, and that’s fine. No skin off my back if other people mask themselves or their children.

Masks need to go away here in Northern Virginia. They're non-existent in Europe and very rare in much of the United States.

I understand they're a political statement here, but just wear a button or something else, and stop the dystopian masking. If someone loves masking, I'd recommend Afghanistan.

People have snotty noses all winter. If you have a fever, stay home for 24 hours. If not, go to school.

Well I'm immune compromised and somehow I don't think wearing a button will protect me quite as well as my mask. But, I'm sure you don't care because me wearing my mask clearly bothers you that much. You're probably the jerk who sends your kids to school sick and amped up on cough medicine to get everyone else sick.

Please define immune compromised. Did you just have an organ transplant? Are you getting chemo? Or do you just have asthma?

And stop with the blaming people for spread of diseases. It's absolutely disgusting.

No I don't "just" have asthma (but weird that you'd minimize a condition that can be very serious for some). I'm not going to parade my medical history around here for your scrutiny because it's pretty clear with an attitude like that, you'd find some way to pick it apart.

You really should look inward when you're this mean to a person with a medical condition doing what they need to do to protect their health, especially when it has zero impact on you. Do you hate people in wheelchairs too?

+1 Its so weird how some people act like human behavior can't and shouldn't change. Ever. Like we should all live like we did thousands of years ago and nothing we have learned about hygiene and the spread of disease should be implemented. Also, its pretty sick to conflate masking to prevent the spread of disease with the Taliban's forced masking of women in Afghanistan.

No it's not. The only place that previously forced mask people was Afghanistan (but only women).

And the only science that changed around forced masking in March 2020 was political science, not medical science.

Anyone fearmongering flu in schools at this stage is the sick one. Probably the same exact people who fearmongered monkeypox this summer.

You're completely trivializing what is happening in Afghanistan. Just stop.

Unscientifically force masking women is bad when it's based upon religion? But unscientifically force masking children (and only children) is not bad when it's based on 0 solid science and no random control trials (i.e., a quasi-religion)?

They're both flat out wrong and disgusting.

And now the same people are fearmonging based on the flu (and ignore the prior 14 RCTs on masks and the flu). It's like if forced masking was dropped in Afghanistan, and the mullahs were trying to blame more out of wedlock births on the lack of forced masking of women.