Will your child wear a mask when they go back to school?

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Anonymous wrote:Most people are sending their kids to school unmasked, including the very conservative Leana Wen. Even she realizes it is near impossible to contain the virus and it is all about risk tolerance. We can't continue to rob our kids of their childhoods.

Many of us do not believe that a child wearing a mask is being robbed of a childhood. Dr. Wen points out that her son's language development has been harmed by mask wearing. If your kids' development has not been harmed by wearing masks, your risk assessment will differ.

And most people do believe it robs kids of childhood. Not being able to see people's facial expressions for going on three years is too much for kids. Not being able to hear your teacher or friends is problematic when it is constant. Not being able to breathe all day is horrible. I never put my kid in the KN95 nor do I wear one unless i know I am near someone with covid. For one of my kids, I can't even find one that fits properly, so it's a joke when she does wear it.

There are companies that make them for kids and have easily found one. You simply don’t want. It “robs” you.

DP. Call it whatever you want. My kids haven't been masking, and they won't this school year either.

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Hell to the no

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people are sending their kids to school unmasked, including the very conservative Leana Wen. Even she realizes it is near impossible to contain the virus and it is all about risk tolerance. We can't continue to rob our kids of their childhoods.

Many of us do not believe that a child wearing a mask is being robbed of a childhood. Dr. Wen points out that her son's language development has been harmed by mask wearing. If your kids' development has not been harmed by wearing masks, your risk assessment will differ.

And most people do believe it robs kids of childhood. Not being able to see people's facial expressions for going on three years is too much for kids. Not being able to hear your teacher or friends is problematic when it is constant. Not being able to breathe all day is horrible. I never put my kid in the KN95 nor do I wear one unless i know I am near someone with covid. For one of my kids, I can't even find one that fits properly, so it's a joke when she does wear it.

There are companies that make them for kids and have easily found one. You simply don’t want. It “robs” you.

PP here. Nope. I ordered all types in kid sizes. KF94, KN95, M95. Not worked and left big gaps. My daughter has a tiny heart shaped face. If you have any suggestions, I am open to them.

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No masks here, thank god.

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Does anyone else think Leana Wen changed her tune when things started to actually effect her own kid?

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Not a snowballs chance in h3ll will my kids be wearing a mask.

We don’t own any anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people are sending their kids to school unmasked, including the very conservative Leana Wen. Even she realizes it is near impossible to contain the virus and it is all about risk tolerance. We can't continue to rob our kids of their childhoods.

Many of us do not believe that a child wearing a mask is being robbed of a childhood. Dr. Wen points out that her son's language development has been harmed by mask wearing. If your kids' development has not been harmed by wearing masks, your risk assessment will differ.

And most people do believe it robs kids of childhood. Not being able to see people's facial expressions for going on three years is too much for kids. Not being able to hear your teacher or friends is problematic when it is constant. Not being able to breathe all day is horrible. I never put my kid in the KN95 nor do I wear one unless i know I am near someone with covid. For one of my kids, I can't even find one that fits properly, so it's a joke when she does wear it.

There are companies that make them for kids and have easily found one. You simply don’t want. It “robs” you.

PP here. Nope. I ordered all types in kid sizes. KF94, KN95, M95. Not worked and left big gaps. My daughter has a tiny heart shaped face. If you have any suggestions, I am open to them.

Bona Fide masks.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think Leana Wen changed her tune when things started to actually effect her own kid?

The dates conveniently line up. Her kids are now of the age for school and activities. It's no different that Eric Dingus shrieking about the need for virtual back in 2020/21 while jetting his kids off to in-person in Austria.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think Leana Wen changed her tune when things started to actually effect her own kid?

Did you read what she wrote? She was willing to sequester her child(ren) for a time, but not indefinitely. That was my main takeaway, and it’s not unlike the thinking of many other educated parents. The scenario we face now is very different from April 2020, i.e., COVID is more mild and more contagious, so avoiding it is much more difficult, on top of the 2+ years of social isolation and restrictions society has faced.

MoCo/MCPS had some of the strongest restrictions for the longest amount of time in the entire country. It’s worth examining the trade-offs of that approach; it’s also reasonable to adapt as circumstances evolve.

Also, no, our kids aren’t wearing masks.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people are sending their kids to school unmasked, including the very conservative Leana Wen. Even she realizes it is near impossible to contain the virus and it is all about risk tolerance. We can't continue to rob our kids of their childhoods.

Many of us do not believe that a child wearing a mask is being robbed of a childhood. Dr. Wen points out that her son's language development has been harmed by mask wearing. If your kids' development has not been harmed by wearing masks, your risk assessment will differ.

And most people do believe it robs kids of childhood. Not being able to see people's facial expressions for going on three years is too much for kids. Not being able to hear your teacher or friends is problematic when it is constant. Not being able to breathe all day is horrible. I never put my kid in the KN95 nor do I wear one unless i know I am near someone with covid. For one of my kids, I can't even find one that fits properly, so it's a joke when she does wear it.

There are companies that make them for kids and have easily found one. You simply don’t want. It “robs” you.

PP here. Nope. I ordered all types in kid sizes. KF94, KN95, M95. Not worked and left big gaps. My daughter has a tiny heart shaped face. If you have any suggestions, I am open to them.

Bona Fide masks.

Thanks, but as I mentioned above, the KN95 smaller masks don't work. The shape is not good for her heart shaped face. She has a VERY narrow chin. The closest one that works is the M95 and even that I have to staple the mask to tighten it. We just do regular 3 ply masks for the most part now because it is more comfortable and probably is just as effective as the ill fitting 5 ply masks. BTW she hasn't gotten covid yet and she only masks when mandated.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please not make fun of kids masking? My kid will be masking because he’ll be on days 8-10 post testing positive for Covid when school starts and he’s nervous about being made fun of for masking because apparently kids do that now.

Nobody does. All of the bullying comes from the direction of the universal masking group.

At our school, it's the opposite. The anti-maskers are very loud and aggressive, kind of like the ones on this board.

I'm not anti-mask so much as I am pro-vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think Leana Wen changed her tune when things started to actually effect her own kid?

Did you read what she wrote? She was willing to sequester her child(ren) for a time, but not indefinitely. That was my main takeaway, and it’s not unlike the thinking of many other educated parents. The scenario we face now is very different from April 2020, i.e., COVID is more mild and more contagious, so avoiding it is much more difficult, on top of the 2+ years of social isolation and restrictions society has faced.

MoCo/MCPS had some of the strongest restrictions for the longest amount of time in the entire country. It’s worth examining the trade-offs of that approach; it’s also reasonable to adapt as circumstances evolve.

Also, no, our kids aren’t wearing masks.

Yup, all of this.

[Anonymous]

No.

And we are fully vaxxed and boosted, even my 7yo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think Leana Wen changed her tune when things started to actually effect her own kid?

Did you read what she wrote? She was willing to sequester her child(ren) for a time, but not indefinitely. That was my main takeaway, and it’s not unlike the thinking of many other educated parents. The scenario we face now is very different from April 2020, i.e., COVID is more mild and more contagious, so avoiding it is much more difficult, on top of the 2+ years of social isolation and restrictions society has faced.

MoCo/MCPS had some of the strongest restrictions for the longest amount of time in the entire country. It’s worth examining the trade-offs of that approach; it’s also reasonable to adapt as circumstances evolve.

Also, no, our kids aren’t wearing masks.

Stop spreading misinformation! Although covid is 6+ times more contagious than the original variant, it is not milder. Yes, there is greater immunity which helps but there are large numbers of people being hospitalized, and don't even get me started on the long haul side-effects...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people are sending their kids to school unmasked, including the very conservative Leana Wen. Even she realizes it is near impossible to contain the virus and it is all about risk tolerance. We can't continue to rob our kids of their childhoods.

Many of us do not believe that a child wearing a mask is being robbed of a childhood. Dr. Wen points out that her son's language development has been harmed by mask wearing. If your kids' development has not been harmed by wearing masks, your risk assessment will differ.

Obviously I don't know what Dr. Wen's son's issue was specifically, but there can be issues from actually wearing the mask but also from not seeing faces/lip movement of others. So for those that have a hard time with the latter, like those who have a hearing impairment, a sole unmasked kid in a sea of masked teachers/kids will not help. However, especially this year I think we are moving further away from that scenario.