When can we lose masks in elementary school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP, they may still change it. Easier to dial back.

I do hope people vaccinate children. It will help reduce the chance of circulating variants in the winter.

You understand the odds of a vaccine being approved for young children before winter is basically nil, right? Maybe older elementary kids. But there is virtually no way that ECE or 1st-2nd grade kids will be able to get a vaccine in 2021, and the odds for 2022 aren't even that great.

But if 80% of adults and older kids are vaccinated, it likely won't matter. Which is one of the reasons the vaccine is likely to be approved -- it will seem to unnecessarily risky to use a relatively new vaccine on small children against a virus that exists only in very small numbers, if at all, and poses a limited risk to them. This isn't polio. All the cost/benefits of Covid are reversed from what they were during the polio crisis.

But how can this be the case if Pfizer is saying they will submit for an EUA for 5-11-year-olds in September? Or do you mean that FDA will require full approval of the vaccine? In that case I agree that kids under 12 will be waiting much longer.

+1, I understand the EUA in theory may not be approved but that is not what's being signalled right now. The messaging to date has been that a kid's vaccine is coming in 2021.

Also, we are nowhere near 80% of adults and teens vaccinated. Any assumption built on that is a fantasy.

I agree people are being ridiculous about masks in many ways but schools managing expectations for fall is not bad policy. It will be much easier to relieve the mask requirement once than to go the other way, or go back and forth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How about if parents and older siblings of child are vaccinated, that kid doesn’t have to wear a mask.

Impossible to implement.

Yes, and accomplishes little. Kids see a lot of other people.

[Anonymous]

Clear masks. Not that hard. Works for deaf people. https://rafinova.com/collections/smile-masks

[Anonymous]

According to this immunology and infectious disease scientist, now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/24/maryland-schools-should-drop-all-mask-mandates/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to this immunology and infectious disease scientist, now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/24/maryland-schools-should-drop-all-mask-mandates/

“ symbolic prophylactics” — so true!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:According to this immunology and infectious disease scientist, now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/24/maryland-schools-should-drop-all-mask-mandates/

“ symbolic prophylactics” — so true!

Ok drop them for three days and then pick them right back off the floor and cover up that schnoz. Delta spreads outdoors and sends vaccinated people into the hospital.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this immunology and infectious disease scientist, now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/24/maryland-schools-should-drop-all-mask-mandates/

“ symbolic prophylactics” — so true!

Ok drop them for three days and then pick them right back off the floor and cover up that schnoz. Delta spreads outdoors and sends vaccinated people into the hospital.

Huh? Keep wearing your N95 alone in your car pandemic addict!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this immunology and infectious disease scientist, now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/24/maryland-schools-should-drop-all-mask-mandates/

“ symbolic prophylactics” — so true!

Ok drop them for three days and then pick them right back off the floor and cover up that schnoz. Delta spreads outdoors and sends vaccinated people into the hospital.

Citation please.

[Anonymous]

When there is a vaccine for kids. This is pretty obvious.

[Anonymous]

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that people wear masks inside in public spaces. How will young students be treated if their parents insist they wear masks the entire school year?

[Anonymous]

The Delta variant is coming. The idiots from the red states will bring it this summer when they vacation here and we'll be lucky if kids get to go back to schools with masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Delta variant is coming. The idiots from the red states will bring it this summer when they vacation here and we'll be lucky if kids get to go back to schools with masks.

Turn off the media. It is all fear mongering and hype. For whatever reason, public health officials are ginning up fear of a new variant. It may be that they like the control and $$$. It may be that they are in bed with pharma companies making money off of vaccines. It may be something else. I don't know. But how, after the past few years, can you take anything you hear from major media outlets as anything other than a propaganda campaign? Those people unfortunately stopped being good faith actors a while ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Delta variant is coming. The idiots from the red states will bring it this summer when they vacation here and we'll be lucky if kids get to go back to schools with masks.

Turn off the media. It is all fear mongering and hype. For whatever reason, public health officials are ginning up fear of a new variant. It may be that they like the control and $$$. It may be that they are in bed with pharma companies making money off of vaccines. It may be something else. I don't know. But how, after the past few years, can you take anything you hear from major media outlets as anything other than a propaganda campaign? Those people unfortunately stopped being good faith actors a while ago.

Also, note that those "idiots" from red states managed to send their kids last year while you sat at home cowering in fear and waiting from the latest transmissions from CNN and MSNBC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clear masks. Not that hard. Works for deaf people. https://rafinova.com/collections/smile-masks

Have you tried one, though? They don't breathe well and fog up (precluding visibility). I tried three different kinds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Delta variant is coming. The idiots from the red states will bring it this summer when they vacation here and we'll be lucky if kids get to go back to schools with masks.

Turn off the media. It is all fear mongering and hype. For whatever reason, public health officials are ginning up fear of a new variant. It may be that they like the control and $$$. It may be that they are in bed with pharma companies making money off of vaccines. It may be something else. I don't know. But how, after the past few years, can you take anything you hear from major media outlets as anything other than a propaganda campaign? Those people unfortunately stopped being good faith actors a while ago.

Also, note that those "idiots" from red states managed to send their kids last year while you sat at home cowering in fear and waiting from the latest transmissions from CNN and MSNBC.

*send their kids to school last year