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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's winter time, vaccines are widely available for kids, and families having been dining indoors at restaurants since June 2020, but our kids are forced to eat outside at APS like prisoners.  It's really beyond absurd.

My family dines in at family restaurants throughout Arlington, and we often see other APS families (and say hi).  The vast majority of families are doing indoor playdates and birthday parties.  Why is the burden being put on the least at risk members of this society (kids)?  This charade has to stop.

And before you say "that's why we have cases" - COVID is never going away!! Look at Portugal, with 90%+ of people vaccinated. Most of Florida does none of these things and has the least amount of cases in the country right now. There are seasonal surges and these types of nonpharmaceutical interventions don't stop the spread of a highly transmissible virus, as is obvious. [b]And what is the point of doing these procedures? [/b]

These [b]Arlington COVID extremists are essentially saying our kids have to do these mitigation methods the rest of our lives,[/b] but they can stop when they become adults. There's 0 logic to this disparate (mis-) treatment of children. And newsflash - everyone will get be exposed to COVID repeatedly in their lifetime. Everyone.

This policy is simply appealing only to the most COVID extreme in Arlington. As Anthony Fauci is making clear, COVID will not be eradicated.  If you're that concerned about your child getting a case of COVID (which almost everyone will in their lifetime) that you only "feel" safe if they're eating in "light rain" or with frozen hands outdoors, then you're free to have your child eat outside. But the rest of our children need to be allowed to continue doing exactly what the law allows in every other part of society and most are already doing every weekend with friends and family - eating indoors.  
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There are no children under 12 who are fully vaccinated.  None.  Zero.  So, you need to be patient.

Schools telling children where to eat has happened since the beginning of schools.  If you consider being told where to do things is treating children "like prisoners" then you should probably homeschool.

Your argument about children having to do things the rest of their lives, and also stopping when they are adults makes zero sense.

The reason we have these restrictions is because selfish people like you have been dining indoors.  [/quote]

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