Peer pressure to mask in elementary?

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Anonymous wrote:Wearing masks is part of a caring culture. You know, trying to keep others safe. Not just caring about yourself, etc.

Respecting others choices is what the caring culture is about. Transmission risk is low and FCPS agrees.

If you looked at how we got to 'low' status, it was because CDC redefined what high/medium/low meant - it *used* to mean transmission rates, now it means basically, risk of an average, healthy person ending up in the hospital with severe COVID/how crowded are the hospitals.

We didn't magically go from high to low transimission overnight. There's still a lot of transmission going on in the community (even with 80-90% masking at my kid's school, we're getting daily notices of new covid cases, and I'm sure that there are a bunch going unreported.)

If you're an average, healthy family, sure, you can unmask, and yeah, *you* are not likely to go to the hospital. When you get covid, you might just be out for a few days feeling like crap.

But for those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated, or other health risks, we cannot afford to get COVID, and transmission rates are still very risky. So yeah, wearing masks is still part of a caring culture, we've basically just decided that we're done being inconvenienced, and we don't care enough as a society about protecting little kids and immunocompromised people who we don't know.

Which school is sending out daily notifications about new cases?

DP but now they have to send out a notice about a case each time one is reported, just as an FYI and replacing the Friday emails. We’ve gotten one at our elementary and one at our HS since March 1 and the school I work at sent out 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wearing masks is part of a caring culture. You know, trying to keep others safe. Not just caring about yourself, etc.

Respecting others choices is what the caring culture is about. Transmission risk is low and FCPS agrees.

If you looked at how we got to 'low' status, it was because CDC redefined what high/medium/low meant - it *used* to mean transmission rates, now it means basically, risk of an average, healthy person ending up in the hospital with severe COVID/how crowded are the hospitals.

We didn't magically go from high to low transimission overnight. There's still a lot of transmission going on in the community (even with 80-90% masking at my kid's school, we're getting daily notices of new covid cases, and I'm sure that there are a bunch going unreported.)

If you're an average, healthy family, sure, you can unmask, and yeah, *you* are not likely to go to the hospital. When you get covid, you might just be out for a few days feeling like crap.

But for those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated, or other health risks, we cannot afford to get COVID, and transmission rates are still very risky. So yeah, wearing masks is still part of a caring culture, we've basically just decided that we're done being inconvenienced, and we don't care enough as a society about protecting little kids and immunocompromised people who we don't know.

Which school is sending out daily notifications about new cases?

DP but now they have to send out a notice about a case each time one is reported, just as an FYI and replacing the Friday emails. We’ve gotten one at our elementary and one at our HS since March 1 and the school I work at sent out 1.

Yes. That I know. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like your child encountered one rude child. It happens.

Easy. Tell your kid to shut that other simpleton down whichever way you want

[Anonymous]

The pressure will be from the new cases in school. 3 cases in one class since unmasking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pressure will be from the new cases in school. 3 cases in one class since unmasking.

And you know the kids were unmasked? You know which kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pressure will be from the new cases in school. 3 cases in one class since unmasking.

All related?

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My daughter says that in her ES, it's mostly the girls who are still wearing masks. She's in 4th grade. The boys dropped the masks pretty quickly but the girls are still wearing them.

So much for female empowerment. We've got a new generation of sheep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter says that in her ES, it's mostly the girls who are still wearing masks. She's in 4th grade. The boys dropped the masks pretty quickly but the girls are still wearing them.

So much for female empowerment. We've got a new generation of sheep.

My kid’s 4th grade class is opposite. The girls unmasked.

[Anonymous]

The coronavirus invades cells in the penis and testicles of monkeys, researchers discover.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/health/covid-erectile-dysfunction.amp.html

Sure, take off the masks as we still discover what this new virus does to the body. So many systems are affected. Vascular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus invades cells in the penis and testicles of monkeys, researchers discover.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/health/covid-erectile-dysfunction.amp.html

Sure, take off the masks as we still discover what this new virus does to the body. So many systems are affected. Vascular.

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter says that in her ES, it's mostly the girls who are still wearing masks. She's in 4th grade. The boys dropped the masks pretty quickly but the girls are still wearing them.

So much for female empowerment. We've got a new generation of sheep.

Huh? I’m pretty much an anti-masked at this point. But these girls have shown that they have their own mind and choose to mask irrespective of what the boys do. That’s definitely female empowerment

[Anonymous]

DD's class of 28 only 4 are unmasked. DD would prefer to keep it on for now, she has anxiety and it's a physical and mental shield for her. We did okay her removing it if she chooses. She said the kids don't seem to care one way or another if anyone is wearing a mask or not.

Yes there will be rude/mean kids in either direction for anything. Teach your kid had to deal with rude people. It's not like they will never be in that situation again.

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Anonymous wrote:The pressure will be from the new cases in school. 3 cases in one class since unmasking.

There were five kids out sick last week Wednesday in my kid’s classroom. No positive case emails all week. No one is testing anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The pressure will be from the new cases in school. 3 cases in one class since unmasking.

There were five kids out sick last week Wednesday in my kid’s classroom. No positive case emails all week. No one is testing anymore.

Or it’s not Covid!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The pressure will be from the new cases in school. 3 cases in one class since unmasking.

There were five kids out sick last week Wednesday in my kid’s classroom. No positive case emails all week. No one is testing anymore.

Not true, someone in my neighborhood has a 1st grader who just tested positive this a.m. She told the school and they're now quarantining. The kid apparently wasn't wearing his mask last week, at least according to his mom.