| I work in medical care and I have been exposed a few times. Wearing a mask cause me to big difference and me not catching Covid thus far. since it’s hard to know for sure where I’m at on any given day we are extra careful at home. Do you really want my child to come to school unmasked? |
Don't care what your kid does. If I felt strongly I didn't want my child to catch covid at school, I would have my kid wear a KN95 and review with them how to wear it properly. In fact, that's what I did during the Omicron surge. |
Well we mask regularly inside, frequent stores, gym, and kids play on mix of indoor or outdoor sports. Never had Covid. So we’re sticking with what’s been working until spring break. |
Yes, your children need to see faces and my children need to see their faces. Time to get back to normal. I don't look at other humans as viral vectors. It's over. Give it up. |
I assume a person in medical care wears a good mask and wears it properly and sounds like it's protected you. So no, I'm not worried about your kid. |
You've probably already had Covid and didn't know it. (More than 1/3 of Virginians have already had it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/28/covid-cases-nationwide/) |
I know that’s what you would like to think, but we are all testing weekly due to various reasons related to school, work, etc. |
Who is “we are all”? I’m not doing that and no one I know is doing that. |
The people who are still masking probably are. Test all you want. Mask forever. I don’t care but my kids are done with them. |
My family. I’m referring to my situation given we have not had COVID. |
The 58 percent figure for kids 5-11 surprised me. Eye opening. Not sure what they’re being protected from anymore. |
In fact it is not over. people are still dying from this every day. We’re at a point where in this area it’s probably safe to not mask but it doesn’t mean that Covid is over. Keep a few masks in the house jic for a little bit longer at minimum, please? There can easily be a surge in the near - very near future and you’ll want to have that protection available for when it’s needed. And it’s ridiculous to say that we’re all going to get it at some point. You want to actively avoid getting it. Our kids see other faces all the time. Outside especially. |
Even if you have had it once, you still want to minimize the number of times you get it. Every time you get it it breaks your defenses down more in ways that you may not really see. I visualize this as russian roulette -- each time you get covid you pull the trigger again without spinning the cartridge, so the more times you get it the worse your odds are and at some point you will hit on a bad result. |
That's not the way your immune system works for most viruses. We don't know anything for sure yet on this one, but generally the more your immune system sees a certain virus the easier it is to dispatch. Prior immunity (from infection or vaccination) is the main reason we didn't see more hospitalizations for omicron despite a huge number of infections. |
It doesn’t sound like you have been following the research on the virus’s effect on T cells. If a body’s can mmunity response is insufficient, T cells are used to fight the disease off, and when this happens a large number of the bodies naive T cells get used up and converted into “fighter” type T cells. Once naive T cells are used up, they usually are not replaced except in the very young. This ages a person’s immunity response by like a decade or more, potentially cutting years of for their life. So no, you don’t want to get covid over and over. |