If the county isn't allowed to placed a mask mandate in the classroom

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Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to get rid of the masks. We've been so careful for months upon months, only to get covid last month. My kid masked everywhere too.

Get vaccinated, get covid (or do both) but let's get rid of the masks. Causing more harm than good.

You’re a terrible person.

This is a PANDEMIC!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t tell the satire posts from the real Covid panic crew.

Is the covid panic crew people who don't want to get an infectious disease, or people hysterical over wearing a piece of paper over their mouths?

I think the government should always be able to tell people to shut up and put paper on their mouths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kindergartner doesn't remember being in a classroom where everyone isn't masked. If you don't think that's going to impact this cohort in the coming years, you are being (I hope) purposefully obtuse. Once vaccinated, kids shouldn't have to wear masks. If their parents want them to be, that should be their choice.

Kids should never have had to wear masks especially the little ones.

At this point, especially, it’s child abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kindergartner doesn't remember being in a classroom where everyone isn't masked. If you don't think that's going to impact this cohort in the coming years, you are being (I hope) purposefully obtuse. Once vaccinated, kids shouldn't have to wear masks. If their parents want them to be, that should be their choice.

He/she will be fine. Nothing is going to happen to them. All K moms are nervous.

[Anonymous]

cHIldrEn ArE ResILienT so it’s fine to restrict their lives on the off chance it might save a handful of 80 year olds.

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Anonymous wrote:cHIldrEn ArE ResILienT so it’s fine to restrict their lives on the off chance it might save a handful of 80 year olds.

A surgical mask is not “restricting their lives.” Do you always talk like this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartner doesn't remember being in a classroom where everyone isn't masked. If you don't think that's going to impact this cohort in the coming years, you are being (I hope) purposefully obtuse. Once vaccinated, kids shouldn't have to wear masks. If their parents want them to be, that should be their choice.

Kids should never have had to wear masks especially the little ones.

At this point, especially, it’s child abuse.

You are nuts. Wearing pants sucks too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartner doesn't remember being in a classroom where everyone isn't masked. If you don't think that's going to impact this cohort in the coming years, you are being (I hope) purposefully obtuse. Once vaccinated, kids shouldn't have to wear masks. If their parents want them to be, that should be their choice.

Kids should never have had to wear masks especially the little ones.

At this point, especially, it’s child abuse.

You are nuts. Wearing pants sucks too.

The fact that you are trivializing kids having to wear masks indefinitely tells us all we need to know. You are clueless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartner doesn't remember being in a classroom where everyone isn't masked. If you don't think that's going to impact this cohort in the coming years, you are being (I hope) purposefully obtuse. Once vaccinated, kids shouldn't have to wear masks. If their parents want them to be, that should be their choice.

He/she will be fine. Nothing is going to happen to them. All K moms are nervous.

I'm not "nervous." I'm pointing out the obvious: masking 3/4 of one's face for years is going to have a ripple effect on very young children. Social cues, speech, phonics -the mouth is a big part of all of those things.

Also, they're uncomfortable to wear for 7.5 hours straight.

[Anonymous]

FCPS should change their policy so that only unvaccinated kids have to wear masks. And that masks won't be required after hospital utilization hits a certain point.

If vaccines work, what's the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is not going to be an issue in Fairfax County. I was under the impression that Youngkin was going to get rid of the state mask mandate that requires all students, teachers, staff, and visitors age 2 and older to wear a mask indoors in private and public PreK-12 school settings, regardless of vaccination status. This includes private religious schools. But he was going to allow individual school districts and private schools to make their own decisions regarding mask mandates. I can't imagine with our woke school board that they will do anything but keep the mask mandate in place.

Now, in a year, if the pandemic becomes endemic but some districts still have mandates, I could see at that point Youngkin would prevent mask mandates. Individual students or teachers would still be allowed to make their own decisions, but FCPS would no longer be able to mandate masks.

It's already endemic

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're vaccinated enough so that our hospitals have plenty of room despite the "raging pandemic." Time for the mask mandate to expire.

anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention knows that this simply is not true. Hospitals are at capacity, over capacity, or near capacity throughout the country. There were articles about this again this morning in all of the mainstream news sources.

You are quite mistaken. Check it out for yourself: https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

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Anonymous wrote:^^^^ There are plenty of parents (like me) who have vaccinated and boosted kids that would prefer no mask mandate.

Well, the CDC disagrees. But I think we should do an FCPS survey and see what the numbers really are. As someone who has already had a kid who is vaccinated (not yet eligible to be boosted) have to stay at home as a close contact (masked if you're in 3 ft for more than 15 min you have to go home, unmasked--e.g. lunch or exemptions--it's 6 ft.), not really wanting to more than likely double the case of having to do that again.

The CDC also thinks that we should be canceling basketball, choir, and theatre in our area of high transmission. But we are choosing to not do that. Clearly, FCPS can pick and choose which CDC guidelines to follow. Personally, I feel that we should eliminate the mask mandate and eliminate the close contact quarantine requirements. Both are unnecessary given our highly vaccinated community.

+1 I agree with these steps. Whether or not you agree with the phrase "highly vaccinated," our hospital bed utilization percentages clearly show that Covid is not wreaking havoc in our community (well, other than the forced quarantine and isolation rules).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the county isn't allowed to placed a mask mandate in the classroom do you think teachers will call in sick and call it and force to have DL days?

What can happens if they tell teachers to take a sick day to protest?

The county is allowed. End of story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^^ There are plenty of parents (like me) who have vaccinated and boosted kids that would prefer no mask mandate.

Well, the CDC disagrees. But I think we should do an FCPS survey and see what the numbers really are. As someone who has already had a kid who is vaccinated (not yet eligible to be boosted) have to stay at home as a close contact (masked if you're in 3 ft for more than 15 min you have to go home, unmasked--e.g. lunch or exemptions--it's 6 ft.), not really wanting to more than likely double the case of having to do that again.

The CDC also thinks that we should be canceling basketball, choir, and theatre in our area of high transmission. But we are choosing to not do that. Clearly, FCPS can pick and choose which CDC guidelines to follow. Personally, I feel that we should eliminate the mask mandate and eliminate the close contact quarantine requirements. Both are unnecessary given our highly vaccinated community.

+1 I agree with these steps. Whether or not you agree with the phrase "highly vaccinated," our hospital bed utilization percentages clearly show that Covid is not wreaking havoc in our community (well, other than the forced quarantine and isolation rules).

Well, I have a medical situation currently. I cannot get in to see a single doctor, much less schedule my surgery, and they are all citing COVID. Hospital beds, alone, is not the only important metric here.

[Anonymous]

God, 67 pages of arguing about masks.

So sick of everyone’s BS.