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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So absurd.  They'll require masks in classrooms and as soon as students leave class, the mask comes off.  This does absolutely nothing except annoy everyone.  [/quote]

Indoor masking to keep professors and vulnerable students save. [/quote]

Professors can be vaccinated and double boosted if they choose to be.  Students don’t need to make to keep them safe.  [/quote]

Professors cannot work if they get sick with covid.  Vaccines help with symptoms not transmission so you need a new talking point.[/quote]

But these "my kid shouldn't have to mask to protect professors" posters will be the first ones to squawk when a prof is out sick or isolating and not able to be in class with their precious unmasked kids. They'll also be the first to complain that their kid can't hear a masked professor through the prof's own mask, etc. etc. Anything to try to force the world to look like they want it to look. And zero understanding of how the vaccines work, how the virus mutates and spreads, plus zero compassion for even the idea that their own masking might protect someone [i]else[/i]. It's an all-about-me world for them.

Our DC's small college has done incredibly well re: covid through requiring vaccines, boosters and masking as appropriate, changing up the mask rules in responses to surges and variants. The students get that they can only manage a "normal" college life if they accept some restrictions and mask up. It's been stressful--but DC hasn't missed any school at all other than the initial weeks in March-May 2020 when most colleges sent kids home. The students would rather be AT college, attending classes and events in person, with masking as needed and other protocols, than risk having to shut down or take classes online while sitting in their dorm rooms like some colleges did. [/quote]

Guess what ... plenty of schools in other parts of the country did none/very little of that, and stayed open and didn't close.  It's a false dilemma to say "you must vax and mask or the school will close."  Schools closed for political reasons, not because covid rates forced them to close.  That's why I would be mad about the new mask requirement in California, because it shows that they are STILL relying on talismans instead of prioritizing staying fully and normally open.  [/quote]

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