You certainly don’t. |
Yep - just look for the kids wearing masks and then you will know who has parents like that ! |
You know that kid or someone in their household could’ve medically fragile and therefore have strong reason for needing the mask, especially as your kid goes without, right? This article nails it so well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/weve-never-protected-the-vulnerable/619981/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR15DA6nTNIthIUjDAArj_7CuRgD6fdeg7PkIcptLEkjgr8EuoX6uTZr6Ow |
While the masking wearing will tell us about parents, in fact kids we see not wearing masks in school will suggest that their parents are selfish, uncaring, jerks who should be avoided. |
Honestly, my heart just sunk because I have to navigate my Kindergarten class through this. This is so sad because we try so hard to teach the kids in school respect for others rights etc and now here we are parents gathering “intel” on each other to see who is social or antisocial based on making preference. What you don’t get is that the “fake concern” about the law, is really an attempt to put the kids first so we aren’t in this place where parents and kids are making fun of each other at school. |
Kids under 5 with chronic health conditions have to be a tiny tiny percentage of the population, and presumably not all conditions are risk factors for COVID. It makes more sense for those kids to wear KN95s or similar if they are truly at risk. |
Masks are even more important to mitigate the possibility that the person wearing the mask will spread the virus which is why everyone should still wear them and your so called freedom to have your child mask free impinges on my freedom to have my child in a setting which sufficiently safe for school. |
My heart sinks at the idea of parents having to decide whether to pull their kids out of in-person schooling because mom is going through chemo and this bill would mean their kid could be stuck sitting next to someone spewing an active covid infection all over because they aren’t wearing a mask. |
From the article: Now, as more and more people get vaccinated, much of the country is returning to normal. Some people point to decreased hospitalization and mortality rates among the immunized, or argue that COVID-19 is here to stay but manageable and that restrictions are unnecessary. Some further argue that most who aren’t vaccinated have chosen that path, and so if risk remains, it’s on them. Such thinking ignores a third, not-insignificant group: those who would like to be immune but aren’t. Some people are still at risk because they can’t yet be vaccinated or because vaccines don’t work for them. They hope that their fellow Americans will take care of them. They hope that the rest of us will agree to sensible precautions or protections to keep them safe until they, too, can be immunized, or until the danger from exposure eventually subsides. Much of the public is refusing. That’s not new, though. In America, it’s always been like this. … Part of my job, both as a writer and as a chief health officer, is to explain how much less-risky most activities are now compared with last year. Many of the people I talk with, though, have others in their life who aren’t yet safe, and they are horrified that we can’t create exceptions or come up with policies to protect their vulnerable loved ones. I share their frustration, but I’m puzzled by their surprise. America has never cared enough. People just didn’t notice before. |
Your anxiety is impinging on my breathing. |
At some point - something has to give and we have to give those who want it - school with no masks. Those who don’t want that are going to have to do something like apply for Virtual VA for school next year. |
Yes because a cloth mask will certainly prevent spread between two kids sitting next to each other for 8 hours… |
Did you force your children to mask in prior years? You do know that the medically vulnerable are susceptible to viruses other than covid? We've jump from the right being the anti-science party rejecting vaccines and any masking to the left being the antis-science party by desperately holding onto masks, but only in specific settings (and even then, not all the time because everyone knows that covid is polite enough to not spread during lunch) despite no evidence that it makes a difference |
You’ve got it backward. Your maskless kids can apply for virtual. Makes more sense. Masks in public. None at home. |
This is more an accusation levied against the unvaccinated. That's the only way to effectively protect those more vulnerable, right? Herd immunity, like what we have (for now, in most places) for measles, mumps, etc. If we can't move the needle much on vaccination numbers, then is the only option for protecting the vulnerable masking forever? As we have seen, that just isn't tenable. Would those on the side of "everyone needs to sacrifice indefinitely to protect the small % of the population with immunity concerns" be assuaged with the development of better therapeutics? That way even if Larlo gets COVID from unmasked Pierpont at school, Larlo's immune compromised grandma can quickly treat the infection and reduce the likelihood of a bad outcome. Or if that isn't enough, what is it you want from society??? |