Jfc are you the same person each time with this argument? Stop projecting. You offer no new insight to this. |
Why on earth would I buy any mask for my child? The risk of mortality is lower than the flu or RSV. The largest risk to my child is them not returning to normal, and mental health issues from forced masking. I look at these kids forced masked now at elementary school pick up with pity, as they're being robbed of so much by their hypochondriac parents. |
I’m sorry you had a traumatic mask experience. I hope you get the help you need and find peace. https://www.nami.org/help |
No, I’m new. I am interested in an honest answer to that question, though. Kids (especially vaccinated kids!) are incredibly low risk for bad Covid outcomes. Teachers are vaccinated. I just don’t understand why some people insist on having their kids wear masks in this environment and deny that there could be any downsides when seeing faces has been the norm here forever. |
Seems like you are not familiar with the studies that keep coming out showing bad things happening to people who had covid some time after their initial symptoms resolve. Including to kids. I mean, believe what you want, but it's clear to many that not getting covid, or getting it as little as possible, is a better approach than giving up and surrendering to recursive covid forever and ever amen because, what, you're too snowflakey for masks? Good luck with that. |
Misinformation - loved the study that showed the most common pre-existing conditions from Long COVID sufferers was being female and having a history of anxiety. There's a reason so many Long COVID sufferers are affluent middle-aged suburban white women. These are COVID forever people, like Ventilation Woman (who's now mad Wakefield kids had pre- and post-prom parties, but says nothing about bars and restaurants being packed with adults every night). Is this how you want to live your life forever? There's a reason why 90% of people have moved on now. Time for you flat-earther, 10%ers who don't want to give up your masks to finally do so. COVID is never going away. |
That "the wimmens are just anxious" study didn't actually take any of the tests that are actually showing physical causes for the symptoms folks were complaining about, e.g., their bodies were only absorbing 50% of the oxygen in their blood instead of the normal 75% ratio. You won't find real results if you don't take the right tests. Other studies are showing a correlation with physical symptoms not tied to anxiety. You guys are so weird. Why would you care if other people want to wear masks so as not to get infected over and over? Like, it's not enough for you that masks aren't mandated anymore, now you need to force other people not to wear them, so we can all get infected same as you? Hope you enjoy your decisions 2 years from now. |
Wow. Still obsessed with her after all of this time. ![]() ![]() |
Please post your actual evidence of mental health issues from masking. We'd all love to see it. |
Where's that NAMI link again? Can they help this person with this weird unhealthy obsession? |
This times a million. Quarantine was very hard and caused mental health problems. Masks? No. But I’m here for the dramatic posts by this poster because they make me laugh. “The horror of masks! Our children are going to be scared forever from masks, not the COVID virus which is proven to affect multiple bodily systems including the cardiovascular and neurological systems.” |
Misinformation. Something like 80% of people have had COVID now, many multiple times (see Justin Trudeau). Hilarious some people in Arlington believe this Eric Feigl-Ding anti-scientific fear porn. COVIDians really are in a cult. Meanwhile, the vast majority of people have returned to normal. Must be lonely for them. |
APS won’t be normal until all school boards that kept schools closed for a year, despite guidance from the CDC, are purged.
It reflects poorly on any community that does run these people out of town. Tell me whatever elite schools, agencies, and titles you have to your credit. Your children didn’t attend school, and your political masters did. Everywhere else we call that a sucker. |
I’m not sure why this obsession with masks as a major factor in whether school will be normal next year or not. People who want to wear them do and no one else does. I’m a specials teacher in APS and spend part of my week at a middle school and part at an elementary school. Masks are totally normal to kids and teachers—just no big deal if you choose to wear one or not. Things continuing on exactly like they are now will not impact how normal or not normal next year is.
Some positives for next year: administration has put a lot of work into getting the students who were still virtual all set to be back in the building. Coordinating with Virtual Virginia made this year still feel abnormal to some teachers. And as knowing that some friends were still doing school from home did have a bit of an impact on some students. Group events like assemblies and concerts have come back, which is awesome. I think lockers will come back into use at the middle schools and high schools where they were not used this year. In my schools, things generally feel very normal. Staffing is still a big problem. I’ve been a teacher for a long time and there have been extremely lean years before, but this is a bit worse. This year, the group that suffered most was special education, and unless they suddenly manage to hire a lot of assistants over the summer, next year will be rough. |
Didn’t TSA and airlines report that violent and other reportable incidents went down four fold once mask mandate was lifted? |