When should DC drop its school mask mandate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

WTAF. I'm so sorry if this is the way that DC will go. Christ. This is so, so stupid, and I feel awful for the people with <5s, who have been completely ignored in the pandemic.

Pre-K families at many DC charters remain unable to travel outside the DMV without their children being forced by their schools to quarantine for 7-10 days afterward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

Hear that noise? Just me screaming into the void.
- Signed, a parent of a 3 year old and 6 month old

[Anonymous]

Let us drop this again here:

laquandra.nesbitt [AT] dc.gov

Paul.Kihn [AT] dc.gov

carlie.fisherow [AT] dc.gov

lewis.ferebee [AT] k12.dc.gov

eom [AT] dc.gov


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[Anonymous]

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And be sure to CC Perry Stein on your messages, lest you be accused in future articles of having not complained enough!

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[Anonymous]

You know they aren't going to drop indoor masking in schools. This is DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:and here it is in copy-and-paste format. Add your own Ward's councilmember and staff:

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And be sure to CC Perry Stein on your messages, lest you be accused in future articles of having not complained enough!

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Edit, based on returned emails:

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

if this happens here I will cry. I will also protest it, but the first thing I'll do is cry. I can't watch my 4 yr old, who has already spent all of PK3 and PK4 either in virtual or in a mask, spend another 6 months in a mask all day. I just cannot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

if this happens here I will cry. I will also protest it, but the first thing I'll do is cry. I can't watch my 4 yr old, who has already spent all of PK3 and PK4 either in virtual or in a mask, spend another 6 months in a mask all day. I just cannot.

Omg same. Masking has no efficacy in preschools and the most potential for harm. I’m all for dropping the mandate for all school children but it actually makes more sense to mask older kids than the younger ones, regardless of vaccination status.

[Anonymous]

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

It's going to be great in a decade or two when we have a generation of people with severe health anxiety, hypochondria, and germ phobias running around trying to have jobs and start families and stuff. Everyone will be mad at them -- "Oh my god, why can't you just function normally?" And no one will own up to the fact that these kids spent the critical child development years of 2-5 being told they are disease vectors, that they need to mask themselves so grandma doesn't die (while grandma goes on a cruise), spent more time washing hands than participating in collaborative play, and just generally got screwed.

I cannot with this anymore. I can't. My kid needs to look at some freaking faces and just interact normally with people for a while. For her sake, for my sake, for everyone's sake. We've lost our minds.

[Anonymous]

Please write your elected officials and school officials. Or call the mayor's office: 202-727-2643.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

It's going to be great in a decade or two when we have a generation of people with severe health anxiety, hypochondria, and germ phobias running around trying to have jobs and start families and stuff. Everyone will be mad at them -- "Oh my god, why can't you just function normally?" And no one will own up to the fact that these kids spent the critical child development years of 2-5 being told they are disease vectors, that they need to mask themselves so grandma doesn't die (while grandma goes on a cruise), spent more time washing hands than participating in collaborative play, and just generally got screwed.

I cannot with this anymore. I can't. My kid needs to look at some freaking faces and just interact normally with people for a while. For her sake, for my sake, for everyone's sake. We've lost our minds.

You're the one who's going to cause these issues in your kid! My goodness, get a grip. Your kid cannot interact normally with people because of a mask? Really?

You're not helping your cause by being so hyperbolic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

It's going to be great in a decade or two when we have a generation of people with severe health anxiety, hypochondria, and germ phobias running around trying to have jobs and start families and stuff. Everyone will be mad at them -- "Oh my god, why can't you just function normally?" And no one will own up to the fact that these kids spent the critical child development years of 2-5 being told they are disease vectors, that they need to mask themselves so grandma doesn't die (while grandma goes on a cruise), spent more time washing hands than participating in collaborative play, and just generally got screwed.

I cannot with this anymore. I can't. My kid needs to look at some freaking faces and just interact normally with people for a while. For her sake, for my sake, for everyone's sake. We've lost our minds.

You're the one who's going to cause these issues in your kid! My goodness, get a grip. Your kid cannot interact normally with people because of a mask? Really?

You're not helping your cause by being so hyperbolic.

MYOB. Your kid is fine. You don't know what's going on in other's families.

I was counting the minutes until sanctimommy would show up.

[Anonymous]

NYC dropping masking in schools and the vax passport effective Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

It's going to be great in a decade or two when we have a generation of people with severe health anxiety, hypochondria, and germ phobias running around trying to have jobs and start families and stuff. Everyone will be mad at them -- "Oh my god, why can't you just function normally?" And no one will own up to the fact that these kids spent the critical child development years of 2-5 being told they are disease vectors, that they need to mask themselves so grandma doesn't die (while grandma goes on a cruise), spent more time washing hands than participating in collaborative play, and just generally got screwed.

I cannot with this anymore. I can't. My kid needs to look at some freaking faces and just interact normally with people for a while. For her sake, for my sake, for everyone's sake. We've lost our minds.

You're the one who's going to cause these issues in your kid! My goodness, get a grip. Your kid cannot interact normally with people because of a mask? Really?

You're not helping your cause by being so hyperbolic.

Unless you define "interact normally" to include "obscuring facial expressions and muffling voices", then... yes? Not hyperbole, just a fact.