Does mask optional apply to parents/younger sibling (not mcps student) when they enter school?

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Given that kids (and adults) have always gotten sick, and nearly no one was hysterical over it before covid, I think it’s safe to say you have a fringe viewpoint.

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Anonymous wrote:If you really think your child is at higher risk of getting infected now than in January, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, I know that's not a nice word, but it's the only accurate way to describe you.

The sad truth is that no one really cares if your kids isolate themselves from others at school. After two years at home, most of your children’s peers have gotten about them. And after such a long time in isolation, your kids have probably forgotten how to interact with others.

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Anonymous wrote:If you really think your child is at higher risk of getting infected now than in January, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, I know that's not a nice word, but it's the only accurate way to describe you.

The sad truth is that no one really cares if your kids isolate themselves from others at school. After two years at home, most of your children’s peers have gotten about them. And after such a long time in isolation, your kids have probably forgotten how to interact with others.

Sure tell yourself that.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Given that kids (and adults) have always gotten sick, and nearly no one was hysterical over it before covid, I think it’s safe to say you have a fringe viewpoint.

Cold and flu did not make so many people seriously sick and die. . It’s pretty sad you don’t get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Which country did you have in mind as an example and how did their omicron wave differ from the US?

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Given that kids (and adults) have always gotten sick, and nearly no one was hysterical over it before covid, I think it’s safe to say you have a fringe viewpoint.

Cold and flu did not make so many people seriously sick and die. . It’s pretty sad you don’t get it.

Health outcomes between covid and flu infections are very similar in kids. Given the low rate of covid in the community, the risk of covid for kids is lower than the risk of the flu in a typical year.

But are you trying to say that covid is somehow inherently worse, even when the actual effects are roughly the same?

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Anonymous wrote:If you really think your child is at higher risk of getting infected now than in January, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, I know that's not a nice word, but it's the only accurate way to describe you.

The sad truth is that no one really cares if your kids isolate themselves from others at school. After two years at home, most of your children’s peers have gotten about them. And after such a long time in isolation, your kids have probably forgotten how to interact with others.

Sure tell yourself that.

Then let your kids out of VA and then you can find out.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Which country did you have in mind as an example and how did their omicron wave differ from the US?

Pretty much all of them had fewer dead kids than we did

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

I really don’t understand your objective or expectation here. Temporary mitigations don’t have a lasting effect. We could go into a hard lockdown and drop Covid cases to even lower numbers than we’re already at, but they would just go back up when the lockdown would end. We can’t “control” Covid in normal society any more than we can the flu.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Given that kids (and adults) have always gotten sick, and nearly no one was hysterical over it before covid, I think it’s safe to say you have a fringe viewpoint.

If you can't see the difference, you have serious problems.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

YOU don't care. Some of us do. And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask. They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.

You lack all logic. No one is talking masking forever. You just are making up nonsense. If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool? You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school? NO! No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids. You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation. How hard is that to understand? That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge. You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not. Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?

Given that kids (and adults) have always gotten sick, and nearly no one was hysterical over it before covid, I think it’s safe to say you have a fringe viewpoint.

If you can't see the difference, you have serious problems.

You seem to have a grossly distorted view of the severity of covid in kids.

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Anonymous wrote:If you really think your child is at higher risk of getting infected now than in January, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, I know that's not a nice word, but it's the only accurate way to describe you.

The sad truth is that no one really cares if your kids isolate themselves from others at school. After two years at home, most of your children’s peers have gotten about them. And after such a long time in isolation, your kids have probably forgotten how to interact with others.

Sure tell yourself that.

Then let your kids out of VA and then you can find out.

It's pretty amazing that there's a small segment of kids who haven't been inside a school building for two years. Unless your kids is truly, truly vulnerable for some reason (which would pre-date Covid), I'm not sure how you rob so much of their childhood from them...

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Anonymous wrote:If you really think your child is at higher risk of getting infected now than in January, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, I know that's not a nice word, but it's the only accurate way to describe you.

The sad truth is that no one really cares if your kids isolate themselves from others at school. After two years at home, most of your children’s peers have gotten about them. And after such a long time in isolation, your kids have probably forgotten how to interact with others.

Sure tell yourself that.

Then let your kids out of VA and then you can find out.

It's pretty amazing that there's a small segment of kids who haven't been inside a school building for two years. Unless your kids is truly, truly vulnerable for some reason (which would pre-date Covid), I'm not sure how you rob so much of their childhood from them...

This. Based on the posters on DCUM, they don't even seem to feel bad about letting their own anxiety screw over their kids for so long.