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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]COVID scares me because it is unpredictable. There seem to be some people who are more vulnerable then others but a decent percentage of people who have become serious ill or died are not in the groups that are deemed at risk. For many people COVID was nothing, they were asymptomatic. For other people it was “like the flu”. And for others, have never had an issue recovering from the flu, it was pure hell even when not hospitalized. Toss in the long term COVID cases and the comparisons to the flu are not helpful.

I can fully understand a parent of a kid who is medically vulnerable being worried about COVID. The patterns of illness are murky at best, the treatments are not really understood yet, and the lingering effects are real. So I don’t think comparing what a parent does during the flu season for kids who are vulnerable is fair. I know some who pull their kid from school, I know some who prepare for a long bout of the flu. But you can prepare for the flu and have an idea of how to treat and handle the flu.  COVID is different. And while I might be comfortable that my healthy kid is statistically unlikely to have much to worry about, the parent of a kid who is vulnerable has a whole host of reasons to not be comfortable.

And I do worry that my medically healthy kid will be the kid who is the exception to the rule because I have seen enough exceptions to the rule with COVID to think that the rules are less rules and more vague guidelines. [/quote]

What do you mean Covid is unpredictable? 331 kids 0-17 have died of Covid and it’s likely an overcount. All were medically fragile. Age is the biggest risk factor.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/

Covid is not an equal opportunity virus and we have known this since the NYC spring nursing home genocide.

My kid wearing a mask will not protect OP’s kid from contracting the virus. Best case the mask reminds the kids that Sars Cov 2 is still a threat and serves as a reminder to stay away from each other. That said, I doubt a group of kids who haven’t had normal school and activities for the last 16 months are really going to keep any kind of distance in the classroom.

The district should accommodate your child as they have for respiratory viruses prior to 2020.[/quote]

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