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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, less than 3% of Fall Church PS parents have opted out of masking, as they now are able to.   Anti-maskers thinking they are in the majority are in actuality in some crazy echo chamber.[/quote]

I mean, it's been a day. Give it time.

Also, why is everyone so scared of a small percentage of the school population being unmasked?[/quote]

Exactly. If so few people choose to unmask then doesn’t that prove it should be mask optional? That allows the families whose kids are not doing well with masking to opt out and barely moves the needle. Of course, the reality is that most parents are afraid of being socially ostracized for wanting masks off their kids, but everyone can see which way the wind is blowing and it will soon be socially acceptable to go mask free. At that point the mask always crowd will have FOMO. [/quote]

Well I support Universal masking but I'm not having my kid mask if others in their classes are not showing them the same courtesy. I'm happy to participate in a group mitigation effort but not planning to give a special priviledge to a whiny subset of people that only cares about themselves. [/quote]

That... doesn't make sense. You're in favor of masking unless someone else doesn't have to, in which case you don't believe in masking? Sounds like you aren't actually that into masking after all. [/quote]

Agree.  If you believe masks provide significant benefit, wouldn't those that are masked have the special privilege?  [/quote]

My mask protects you, your mask protects me. Surely you’ve heard that. It’s a collective action.[/quote]

sure I've heard it- it just doesn't happen to be true.  It was based on probably 2 things that have been shown to basically be false.
1. the idea that COVID primarily spread through droplets rather than aerosols.  A cloth mask does a decent job of keeping in a cough or a sneeze- so masking an infected person (who is coughing and/ or sneezing) is an effective way to keep virus from spreading.
2. The idea that N95 masks were in very very short supply, so we needed to reserve those for health care workers.  This was true at one time, but it not true now.

Things change- our practices need to change too.   A person wearing a N95 is very protected- successful one way masking.  A person wearing a cloth mask is neither protecting themselves or anyone else (with the exception of if they are actively coughing or sneezing.)   A person who is actively coughing or sneezing is kicked out of school regardless of mask status (and indeed, removing the mask, should make it more obvious that this is happening.

Masking no longer is a collective action- those who want to be in masks can wear better quality masks.  Those who don't, can wear nothing.[/quote]

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