When should DC drop its school mask mandate?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Hysterical PP was commenting on how this entire generation of kids will have severe anxiety because of masks and won't be able to function. But I guess I'm the ridiculous one for calling out the hyberbole.

[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.

For me one of the most upsetting ways that families of young children have been ignored has been this predominant attitude that all kids are adaptable, all kids are the same, if one 2 year old can wear a mask fine they all can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Hysterical PP was commenting on how this entire generation of kids will have severe anxiety because of masks and won't be able to function. But I guess I'm the ridiculous one for calling out the hyberbole.

If you don't have the empathy to grasp that people (particularly the parents of those under 5) are FRAYED by the pandemic, just be quiet. You don't need to pile on. It's not kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

But this isn't happening 24/7, so surely little Larla has an opportunity to "interact normally" with people without a mask, right? For the past few months, I have seen very few kids at DC playgrounds wearing masks, for instance.

I am not opposed to lifting the mask mandate at schools but some adults just seem unhinged about this.

[Anonymous]

There might have been a wee bit bit of hyperbole in PP's post, but I don't think there can be any question that isolating/masking young children during two critical years of development will impact them negatively, both educationally and emotionally. How could it not? Its not only unnatural, its unnecessary and completely counter to what every other developed nation has done. This is not normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There might have been a wee bit bit of hyperbole in PP's post, but I don't think there can be any question that isolating/masking young children during two critical years of development will impact them negatively, both educationally and emotionally. How could it not? Its not only unnatural, its unnecessary and completely counter to what every other developed nation has done. This is not normal.

+1

There's a reason WHO thought masking <5 wasn't recommended. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/q-a-children-and-masks-related-to-covid-19

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

But this isn't happening 24/7, so surely little Larla has an opportunity to "interact normally" with people without a mask, right? For the past few months, I have seen very few kids at DC playgrounds wearing masks, for instance.

I am not opposed to lifting the mask mandate at schools but some adults just seem unhinged about this.

Maybe some of us seem unhinged but it's almost been 2 years. That's half my daughter's life and the entirety of my son's. Childhood is short. The first 5 years of any child's life are formative. I think also that more and more parents are strongly objecting to masks for the first time. Anti-maskers have been around since the start of the pandemic, but these aren't the same people. For myself, I feel like I've played along and subjected my kids to this, and enough is enough. It was one thing to mask 2 year olds when daycares reopened back in summer 2020, but we have effective vaccines and treatments for the vulnerable now, and moreover there is -zero- evidence that masking children under 5 does anything. 2 years into a pandemic it's pretty unacceptable to many of us to keep masking young children perpetually because it might kinda sorta help a little maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There might have been a wee bit bit of hyperbole in PP's post, but I don't think there can be any question that isolating/masking young children during two critical years of development will impact them negatively, both educationally and emotionally. How could it not? Its not only unnatural, its unnecessary and completely counter to what every other developed nation has done. This is not normal.

THIS. The US has been an outlier in the world and now DC is an outlier in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There might have been a wee bit bit of hyperbole in PP's post, but I don't think there can be any question that isolating/masking young children during two critical years of development will impact them negatively, both educationally and emotionally. How could it not? Its not only unnatural, its unnecessary and completely counter to what every other developed nation has done. This is not normal.

THIS. The US has been an outlier in the world and now DC is an outlier in the US.

And by all suggestions, we are going to continue to be an outlier. This is pathetic and the people in charge should be ashamed that they aren't following PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone seen if there has been pushback on NYC's decision to keep <5 masked?

[Anonymous]

Our charter as of today dropped the traveling outside of the DMV area quarantine requirement but did not drop the outdoor mask mandate. Pure lunancy to keep this outdoor mask mandate in effect. The only reason I could see a hesitancy among charters is to respect the will of the teachers, but I can't imagine they are worried about catching covid outside while their kids run around.

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/dcsboe/status/1499779811610439681?s=21

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There might have been a wee bit bit of hyperbole in PP's post, but I don't think there can be any question that isolating/masking young children during two critical years of development will impact them negatively, both educationally and emotionally. How could it not? Its not only unnatural, its unnecessary and completely counter to what every other developed nation has done. This is not normal.

THIS. The US has been an outlier in the world and now DC is an outlier in the US.

And by all suggestions, we are going to continue to be an outlier. This is pathetic and the people in charge should be ashamed that they aren't following PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE.

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This is absurd. It is irrational and insane to be the only ones in the entire country to continue to force children to mask. WTAF. Mayor Bowser should be ashamed of herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/dcsboe/status/1499779811610439681?s=21

WTAF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There might have been a wee bit bit of hyperbole in PP's post, but I don't think there can be any question that isolating/masking young children during two critical years of development will impact them negatively, both educationally and emotionally. How could it not? Its not only unnatural, its unnecessary and completely counter to what every other developed nation has done. This is not normal.

THIS. The US has been an outlier in the world and now DC is an outlier in the US.

And by all suggestions, we are going to continue to be an outlier. This is pathetic and the people in charge should be ashamed that they aren't following PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE.

+1
This is absurd. It is irrational and insane to be the only ones in the entire country to continue to force children to mask. WTAF. Mayor Bowser should be ashamed of herself.

People are going to laugh at me but whatever. My daughter's preschool here in MA dropped the mask mandate this week. We land in DC at the end of the month. It gives me half a mind not to start her at the pre-K we lined up because I don't want her going back to this, especially in a new classroom environment.