Prediction: Schools will have kids back in masks within a month

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My two high schoolers in a Big 3 don’t care one way or the other. They could stay in masks forever or be done with them tomorrow. They’ll do what’s right.

I love these posts. Your kids are dropping masks as soon as the school makes it optional. You are living in la-la land.

That’s the whole point you fascistic infantile malcontent. We will do as school says when they do. And so will you. So go do some evil elsewhere

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My two high schoolers in a Big 3 don’t care one way or the other. They could stay in masks forever or be done with them tomorrow. They’ll do what’s right.

I love these posts. Your kids are dropping masks as soon as the school makes it optional. You are living in la-la land.

Yes, fellow mom of high schooler at a Big 3 - news flash - your kids are already dropping the masks. The stories (and photos/ videos) from my MS and HS kids at two of these schools prove it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t want my rising Kindergartner to start school in a mask. I hope they are all gone by then.

If people continued masking now, when community transmission rates remain high, we’d all have a better chance of a mask-free start to next school year for our kids.

This. But Americans have no patience.

First, I never said we had to stop masking now. I said I hope they’re gone by the next school year.

Second, your logic doesn’t make sense. In fact it should be the opposite. If we all get Covid now we’ll have immunity!

Third, Europeans have not been masking their kids

Why are there so many anxiety-prone people in this area?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want my rising Kindergartner to start school in a mask. I hope they are all gone by then.

If people continued masking now, when community transmission rates remain high, we’d all have a better chance of a mask-free start to next school year for our kids.

This. But Americans have no patience.

First, I never said we had to stop masking now. I said I hope they’re gone by the next school year.

Second, your logic doesn’t make sense. In fact it should be the opposite. If we all get Covid now we’ll have immunity!

Third, Europeans have not been masking their kids

Why are there so many anxiety-prone people in this area?

Not anxiety-prone, they are control-freaks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/21/1081810074/omicron-ba2-variant-spread

Reasons:

1. Second OMICRON wave will move quickly when BA.2 gets a foothold.
2. Schools are now major sources of transmission (different from earlier in the pandemic)
3. Most kids younger than 12 have only had two shots, if any
4. Masks optional policies will enable rapid spread, taking out classrooms and schools with wide spread sickness within a few weeks

That's what they said when schools opened in the Fall. Then...a big nothingburger.

Same song, different verse. Yawn.

What? Omicron had shut everything down again. More people died. Kids got COVID. It wasn't a nothingburger. You don't remember?

I'm the PP. Our schools remained open during Omicron. People died, but people die all the time and now, if they're not vaccinated, it is their fault. Kids getting COVID is not a big deal. Yes, I remember. I remember my kid being happy to be in school once again.

My fully vaccinated and boosted coworker died after getting infected by her grandchild. You people are really callous and gross.

Yep, keep spouting nonsense about the new variant:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/coronavirus/health-officials-say-new-omicron-variant-of-covid-19-appears-less-serious-than-first-one/

Time to move on. It’s over.

Gotta love suburbanites quoting local rag and mouthing off after cracking the wine open. Again, dundnt matter what you think. Masks will come off but not when or because you say so

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want my rising Kindergartner to start school in a mask. I hope they are all gone by then.

If people continued masking now, when community transmission rates remain high, we’d all have a better chance of a mask-free start to next school year for our kids.

This. But Americans have no patience.

First, I never said we had to stop masking now. I said I hope they’re gone by the next school year.

Second, your logic doesn’t make sense. In fact it should be the opposite. If we all get Covid now we’ll have immunity!

Third, Europeans have not been masking their kids

Why are there so many anxiety-prone people in this area?

Are policies in Europe necessarily good? Why not look at Singapore/Korea/Japan?

If you always benchmark the lowest standard -- in some countries sick people visit a witch instead of a doctor, is it sth you want to try?

[Anonymous]

Give it up losers. You’ll unmask when told to do so by much smarter and more responsible people.

You’ll move on when told to do so by us, to protect the others, you selfish little prune.

It will be soon, but not on your schedule.


Three separate comments, all with the same tone. Please, please, please understand that this attitude is just as problematic as "covid deniers." You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and alienating people who want to make responsible decisions for their families but reject the controlling (and alarming) moral superiority that comes with mask enforcement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want my rising Kindergartner to start school in a mask. I hope they are all gone by then.

If people continued masking now, when community transmission rates remain high, we’d all have a better chance of a mask-free start to next school year for our kids.

This. But Americans have no patience.

First, I never said we had to stop masking now. I said I hope they’re gone by the next school year.

Second, your logic doesn’t make sense. In fact it should be the opposite. If we all get Covid now we’ll have immunity!

Third, Europeans have not been masking their kids

Why are there so many anxiety-prone people in this area?

Are policies in Europe necessarily good? Why not look at Singapore/Korea/Japan?

If you always benchmark the lowest standard -- in some countries sick people visit a witch instead of a doctor, is it sth you want to try?

My point was it’s not necessarily an *American* trait to want to un-mask your kids, since Europeans have been doing it for a while. Get it?

And I love how you compare un-maskers to people who visit witch doctors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give it up losers. You’ll unmask when told to do so by much smarter and more responsible people.

You’ll move on when told to do so by us, to protect the others, you selfish little prune.

It will be soon, but not on your schedule.


Three separate comments, all with the same tone. Please, please, please understand that this attitude is just as problematic as "covid deniers." You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and alienating people who want to make responsible decisions for their families but reject the controlling (and alarming) moral superiority that comes with mask enforcement.

But it’s not wrong is it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want my rising Kindergartner to start school in a mask. I hope they are all gone by then.

If people continued masking now, when community transmission rates remain high, we’d all have a better chance of a mask-free start to next school year for our kids.

This. But Americans have no patience.

First, I never said we had to stop masking now. I said I hope they’re gone by the next school year.

Second, your logic doesn’t make sense. In fact it should be the opposite. If we all get Covid now we’ll have immunity!

Third, Europeans have not been masking their kids

Why are there so many anxiety-prone people in this area?

Are policies in Europe necessarily good? Why not look at Singapore/Korea/Japan?

If you always benchmark the lowest standard -- in some countries sick people visit a witch instead of a doctor, is it sth you want to try?

My point was it’s not necessarily an *American* trait to want to un-mask your kids, since Europeans have been doing it for a while. Get it?

And I love how you compare un-maskers to people who visit witch doctors

Hahaha. Brilliant. It’s more like they visit their local wine shop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it up losers. You’ll unmask when told to do so by much smarter and more responsible people.

You’ll move on when told to do so by us, to protect the others, you selfish little prune.

It will be soon, but not on your schedule.


Three separate comments, all with the same tone. Please, please, please understand that this attitude is just as problematic as "covid deniers." You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and alienating people who want to make responsible decisions for their families but reject the controlling (and alarming) moral superiority that comes with mask enforcement.

But it’s not wrong is it?

Wrong on so, so many levels.

[Anonymous]

Those claiming European countries don’t mask kids are spreading disinformation. Spain, Italy, Belgium, France, and Germany all have some type of masking requirement in schools.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/masks-for-school-students-mandatory-in-several-eu-countries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I am moving on, too, and think that we all should do so.

I am 'moving on' to accept that there is no going back to 2019: there is now a deadly respiratory virus that mutates quickly to evade immune protection. That virus is here to stay. Compared to pre-2020 levels, there will be more waves of infection, more illness, more deaths of vulnerable folks, and more threat of nagging illness (long COVID) once the acute phase passes. To stay ahead of the virus and prevent more suffering than is necessary, humans will have to adapt more rapidly than we have in the past and we will have to use all of the tools at our disposal to prevent illness (including masking when necessary).This virus moves fast and it is getting faster all the time. We must be equally fast.

This is an interesting perspective. Genuine question - why do you think this? There have been other pandemics in history. Eventually the virus that caused them faded to the background - maybe still causing disease but not as deadly as the initial waves. SARS-cov-2 is novel but coronaviruses are not novel. Why the thought process it’s going to be worse? Or how long do you think compared to pre 2020 levels are there going to be increased deaths?

[Anonymous]

Why revive a thread from May 2020.?.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want my rising Kindergartner to start school in a mask. I hope they are all gone by then.

We’re loving all these sports in the DC area requiring masks.
We especially love when we travel to all the sane states for tournaments or watch the college games where no one wears a mask.
We’re such safe and righteous sheep!