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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't feel you need it outdoors if you can be 6 feet apart.  I think I can stand 6 ft from other adults.[/quote]

Op here. I have been to playgrounds when we are the only ones there or another family or 2. If one family is alone on the equipment very far away, it is fine.

This was a packed playground. Now that I think about it, it was probably more like 50 kids and 30+ adults. These unmasked people were right next to people.[/quote]

Hmmm it sounds like even with masks it wouldn’t feel safe for someone with your risk tolerance. You are going to need to start making some tough choices. Change is coming. People are done. More and more everyday and I’m here for it! We have literally destroyed our society and our happiness and our kids happiness and 500,000 died anyway. Now we have vaccines to protect them and I’m done. [/quote]

I’m done with people arbitrarily saying I’m done. Lots of people still testing positive out there. We’ve had six kids at our school in the last two weeks.   I guarantee not everyone ditching the masks is fully vaccinated.

Such weak selfish jerks. [/quote]

And what was the outcome for the six kids who tested positive?  Did they end up in hospitals?  Were there any serious complications for them?[/quote]

Dense people such as yourself have been the problem in this pandemic.  I don't know the outcome so far for these children, but hopefully it will just be mild illness.  However, it means it's spreading in the wider community and the concern is who else they will have had contact with, who their adult family members have had contact with, and who they spread it to.

Don't be so stupid.[/quote]

I don’t think I’m being stupid.  I think there is very little risk to school-age children WRT COVID.  I think schools should have been fully open and in-person since at least September.  I think kids should be allowed to participate in extra-curricular activities.  I think ADULTS should make the sacrifices necessary to prevent the spread of COVID to vulnerable people, not the children.

I think our society has shown in sharp relief that we do not give a damn about the kids.  But I’m dense, so whatever.[/quote]

I am the PP you responded to and I agree that schools should be open and that for MOST kids, COVID will be a mild disease.  My kids go to school right now.

[b]But you know what?  They wear masks the whole time they are there. Masks are a critical piece of the mitigation strategies that are needed to keep schools open.  All of the research available now points to mask wearing and other mitigation strategies being critical to the success of keeping schools open and preventing spread in schools.[/b]

This thread is about wearing masks.  The point of mentioning that six kids at my kids school have tested positive in the last few weeks is to indicate that community spread is still happening in our area; therefore, masking in the community is still necessary.  The vaccines are great and I think we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we are not AT the end of the tunnel yet.  Your question about what happened to the kids (not sure yet, they just tested positive recently, but I hope and expect they will be okay) seemed like a pointed one that indicated masks were unnecessary, because kids don't get serious disease.  I disagree, unvaccinated people, which includes all children, need to keep their masks on when they are in riskier situations, which includes a crowd, perhaps even outside in some circumstances.

If you are walking alone and you don't wear one, I don't care, but who are these PPs saying someone is nuts for wearing them at a crowded playground?  Especially because OTHER people wearing masks is never going to be harmful to you.  People have started to mock and insult people who continue to wear masks outside.  Since this behavior is in no way harmful to them, it is a bizarre and immature response that suggests seeing others wearing masks makes them feel bad or guilty.

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