Masks optional by spring break

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Anonymous wrote:People who act like masks 40 hours a week on little kids for YEARS during their prime learning, socialization, and development years have zero credibility. We should be balancing harms. How well do they work? What is the harm they really reduce? What harm do they cause? It’s time they came off. It really is. The kids have been really great but they’ve paid a high price. Not worth it anymore. Experts slowly coming around.

Hey xenophobe, check out China and other Asian countries who have been doing it for YEARS

This must be a joke. Asian countries do not mask children nonstop for years starting at 2. Intermittent mask wearing is normalized in some but not all Asian countries for things like pollution and when you are actually sick with a cold. Holy shoe horn DCUM is crazy.

Who said non-stop since age 2? Kids get plenty of mask-free time at home, and mask breaks at school

https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_coronavirus-outbreak_not-just-coronavirus-asians-have-worn-face-masks-decades/6185597.html

It's really not a big deal. And their academics far surpass us, so there's that.

Speak for yourself. For mine it's a huge deal. And it is for your's, too, but they're afraid to tell you that because you've become such a tyrant on the subject.

DP but highly doubtful. If anything, we have our kids friends over all the time who tell us they are afraid to tell their parents that they don’t mind masking and they enjoyed virtual school for different reasons. Most of these kids parents are extremely vocal at board meetings and/ or are leaders of the reopening group. Our kids certainly aren’t afraid to tell us if they disagree with us on any point because we raised them to think for themselves. It’s probably why their friends feel comfortable coming to us with their issues with their own parents. Stop projecting onto other people. Sounds like your house is definitely one you can’t speak up in.

LOL well I know kids who liked virtual too. They never had to do any work and could sleep in. Who wouldn't love that as a teen?!! Sounds like you fell for it lol.

Maybe in your home, given what type of parent you are but that's not at all what virtual looks like in our home. They can sleep at school and do not work as well. They can skip school. Lots more flexibility when you don't care.

That's exactly the kind of parent who complains that their kids fell behind. I wonder why? LOL

Nope, my kids never did virtual except in spring 2020. I was smart enough to pull them out of the cesspool MCPS became. But I do know from their friends that cheating was rampant during virtual. You sound like you are still living in 2020. I know there are quite a few of you. You will need mental health support when life returns to normal lol.

Thou dost protest too much. Nah… not too concerned. Everyone here is just fine. We learned to adapt, make changes, evolve. When life turns back to normal, we’ll do the same exact thing. Sorry you couldn’t handle it the first time around. Shame.

Your poor kids. You have no clue.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we will in fact be mask optional trim spring break but many families will continue to mask, which is fine.

I will continue to point out that once you make something optional at becomes the child's decision not the parent's decision.

So? No one will be wearing them by spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Just have them wear a mask in class. Think how many work days you WONT miss because your kid has strep or the flu or some other crap they used to get.

YOU can have YOUR kid wear a mask as long as you want. That is what ‘Mask Optional’ means.

Leave the rest of us alone.

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In my MS, I imagine most masks would come off on the bus or the school's front door if parents send kids in with them. I wonder how staff will chose to wear or not.

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Zero kids are wearing masks with masks optional. I say this as I am pretty lax. No one on my family had it. I WFH And wife SAHM.

Buy even summer 2020 my daughter invite friends over and the girls parents would drop them in my yard wearing masks and wave from 50 feet with a mask in.

They swim in pool, no mask, then lunch in patio no mask, run into bathroom no mask and one hour in hanging in den all of them mask free.

Then one by one at parent pick up would go out my back door put on mask and walk out from backyard to parent.

It was silly.

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Anonymous wrote:Just have them wear a mask in class. Think how many work days you WONT miss because your kid has strep or the flu or some other crap they used to get.

Be careful. This statement makes is sound like you are advocating for a mask mandate during every single cold and flu season (from Oct through March) in the future.

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Anonymous wrote:Zero kids are wearing masks with masks optional. I say this as I am pretty lax. No one on my family had it. I WFH And wife SAHM.

Buy even summer 2020 my daughter invite friends over and the girls parents would drop them in my yard wearing masks and wave from 50 feet with a mask in.

They swim in pool, no mask, then lunch in patio no mask, run into bathroom no mask and one hour in hanging in den all of them mask free.

Then one by one at parent pick up would go out my back door put on mask and walk out from backyard to parent.

It was silly.

You keep repeating this same story in various threads for months as if it's true for everybody. What this actually means is that you as a host did not enforce mask wearing when the kids' parents might have expected you to. Not everybody behaves this irresponsibly.

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+1. And maybe of last summer were the Omicron wave, you would have made different choices

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MA and a bunch of other states just dropped it. Hopefully MD next!

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Anonymous wrote:I think we will in fact be mask optional trim spring break but many families will continue to mask, which is fine.

I will continue to point out that once you make something optional at becomes the child's decision not the parent's decision.

So? No one will be wearing them by spring.

I'm pointing out the illogic of it "parent decision"

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Anonymous wrote:Just have them wear a mask in class. Think how many work days you WONT miss because your kid has strep or the flu or some other crap they used to get.

Be careful. This statement makes is sound like you are advocating for a mask mandate during every single cold and flu season (from Oct through March) in the future.

I could see that happening if not for whole time but during January

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Anonymous wrote:MA and a bunch of other states just dropped it. Hopefully MD next!

Great! Now we can be like Russia!

"Recently, the government relaxed existing restrictions by changing guidelines and eliminating mandates altogether. The government previously required people who came into contact with someone who tested positive for the virus to self-isolate for one week, but that's no longer mandated. Additionally, the mandatory quarantine time after a positive test was decreased from two weeks to seven days. And people who previously tested positive no longer need to test negative to leave quarantine."

"Meanwhile, almost 12,000 children are hospitalized for coronavirus treatment. They account for about 20 percent of Russia's total coronavirus cases, said Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko on Tuesday, The Moscow Times reported."

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nears-200000-new-covid-cases-amid-few-restrictions-ease-spread-1678173

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Vaccine rate in Russia is overall 50% and lower in some areas

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccine rate in Russia is overall 50% and lower in some areas

The US is 14% higher. Whoop dee doo.

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccine rate in Russia is overall 50% and lower in some areas

The US is 14% higher. Whoop dee doo.

Montgomery County residents eligible for vaccines are at 90% fully vaccinated.

For total population (including <5 yo) it is at 85%.