If your kid still masks at school....

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Anonymous wrote:OP, your reasons for forever-masking your children don’t make
any sense. Please discuss this with your pediatrician. Masking for short periods in certain scenarios can be helpful. Having a healthy young child mask through school and all social settings forever is harmful.

BTW, the “forever masking” lie is propaganda perpetuated by dumb Trumpers. If you’re a dumb Trumper, or pretending to be one, brava.

New poster and I’m a liberal, trump hater and believe masking kids at this point is doing way more harm than good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, your reasons for forever-masking your children don’t make
any sense. Please discuss this with your pediatrician. Masking for short periods in certain scenarios can be helpful. Having a healthy young child mask through school and all social settings forever is harmful.

BTW, the “forever masking” lie is propaganda perpetuated by dumb Trumpers. If you’re a dumb Trumper, or pretending to be one, brava.

New poster and I’m a liberal, trump hater and believe masking kids at this point is doing way more harm than good.

What harm has it done? Its the first time we haven't been constantly sick.

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I would NOT be offended if a child wore a mask at my child's party.

I would also NOT visit the NICU nephew until he's bigger and stronger and the winter germ fest has passed.

I WOULD have the kids test before visiting Grandma.

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Anonymous wrote:There isn't really a way to participate in an indoor birthday party with a mask on. We haven't gone to one.

Huh?

Eating and drinking are kind of central to a birthday party, no? Can you do that with a mask on? lol You're a better eater than I am, perhaps.

For most kid parties they are maybe a quarter of the time. So you can go and leave early, or go and keep you mask on and ask for your slice of cake to go, or you can decide that the smaller risk of being unmasked for a shorter time when you aren’t moving so you are only exposed to the few people near you is worth it, and still mask the rest of the time.

I appreciate all of the suggestions, but for the most part our kid's friends are also still having outdoor parties, so we haven't had to navigate any of this.

It is remarkable how fast a thread asking a question of people whose kids do mask at school is overtaken by people who want to argue about whether masks are a good idea in the first place. If OP wanted opinions on that, presumably they would have asked for them.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be offended, but I'd be uncomfortable if a child wore a mask to my house, and we'd not invite them again.

You must live in Texas

I'm not allowed to be uncomfortable around anxious people? I fought severe anxiety for years, and part of my recovery is not being around people who cling to it...because I tend to jump right back in. Yes, it means I have to do things I'd rather not do and not be around people I'd like to get to know better, but my mental health comes first.

If your anxiety is so barely controlled that social exposure to other anxious people in a setting as limited as a birthday party is a problem, you need more treatment before you're "recovered."

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I assume people still wearing masks have covid or another illness. So I would appreciate the information that you aren't sick before coming to my home, and I would judge you for being a bit weird, but I would not in the least bit he offended.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be offended, but I'd be uncomfortable if a child wore a mask to my house, and we'd not invite them again.

You must live in Texas

I'm not allowed to be uncomfortable around anxious people? I fought severe anxiety for years, and part of my recovery is not being around people who cling to it...because I tend to jump right back in. Yes, it means I have to do things I'd rather not do and not be around people I'd like to get to know better, but my mental health comes first.

Weird

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I would not be offended if a child wore a mask at my house. We just held a birthday party at center and about a third of the parents and 1 child wore masks. It was fine.

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Anonymous wrote:There isn't really a way to participate in an indoor birthday party with a mask on. We haven't gone to one.

Huh?

Eating and drinking are kind of central to a birthday party, no? Can you do that with a mask on? lol You're a better eater than I am, perhaps.

For most kid parties they are maybe a quarter of the time. So you can go and leave early, or go and keep you mask on and ask for your slice of cake to go, or you can decide that the smaller risk of being unmasked for a shorter time when you aren’t moving so you are only exposed to the few people near you is worth it, and still mask the rest of the time.

I appreciate all of the suggestions, but for the most part our kid's friends are also still having outdoor parties, so we haven't had to navigate any of this.

It is remarkable how fast a thread asking a question of people whose kids do mask at school is overtaken by people who want to argue about whether masks are a good idea in the first place. If OP wanted opinions on that, presumably they would have asked for them.

OP also asked whether people would be offended if her DC wore a mask. Presumably that question was open to people who don’t mask.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume people still wearing masks have covid or another illness. So I would appreciate the information that you aren't sick before coming to my home, and I would judge you for being a bit weird, but I would not in the least bit he offended.

Buy bye nobody’s coming to your house

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, your reasons for forever-masking your children don’t make
any sense. Please discuss this with your pediatrician. Masking for short periods in certain scenarios can be helpful. Having a healthy young child mask through school and all social settings forever is harmful.

BTW, the “forever masking” lie is propaganda perpetuated by dumb Trumpers. If you’re a dumb Trumper, or pretending to be one, brava.

New poster and I’m a liberal, trump hater and believe masking kids at this point is doing way more harm than good.

Not sure I follow. First you self-identify as a crazy person, then you somehow believe that justifies some crazy talk?

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Anonymous wrote:Cake to go. ☹️

How about wear a good mask around grandma and baby and let the kid live his life.

Not the OP (I am the PP who wrote that). My kids think grandma is a more important part of their life then the location they eat cake in. If your kids bake family so little you can’t relate that’s really sad.

The whole “they need to live their lives just stop seeing the disabled people!” Nastiness completely ignore the fact that people with disabilities are part of other people’s lives.

Enough with the you don't care about grandma histrionics. You're not the only one with a grandma. There is a way to see vulnerable people in your life and still allow a child to go about daily activities without a mask on. Wear a mask around the person and the other person masks and test before you see them. It's a pretty obvious answer.

The obvious answer is to have the newborn right of the NICU mask? Really?

No the obvious answer there is don’t let the kid near the newborn which would be quite easy to do. The newborn out of a NICU shouldn’t be around people anyway.

This exactly…a newborn right out of the NICU should be nowhere near an elementary school child if it can be prevented. OP’s kid can wear an N95 around grandma.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, I’m DC right now the CDC guidelines call for wearing masks in public indoor settings. I get that most people choose to ignore that. But why judge those who don’t?

Our grandkids wear masks in school without giving it a second thought. It’s not a big deal.

Do you wear a mask 24/7 also? Or is the masking burden just on your grandkids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is 8 and still masks at school. We have two vulnerable people (infant nephew who is recently out of the NICU and grandmother with parkinsons and heart issues) who we see a lot, so we mask when in public / at work / at school.

I am just starting (late to it) to do more indoor things and take kids places again. I am letting DD do birthday parties, but just like at school she wears a mask when at the play place or the arcade or wherever.

She was invited to a home birthday party.

1. If you still mask, would you also mask at a home birthday?
2. Would you be offended if a child wore a mask at your house?

Time to discover Science, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, I’m DC right now the CDC guidelines call for wearing masks in public indoor settings. I get that most people choose to ignore that. But why judge those who don’t?

Our grandkids wear masks in school without giving it a second thought. It’s not a big deal.

Do you wear a mask 24/7 also? Or is the masking burden just on your grandkids?

Yes