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[quote=Anonymous]Wanting to see the faces of students and staff outdoors during school drop-off and pick-up in March 2022, now that experts have weighed in and determined it is safe to remove masks in this environment and the school district has okayed it, is not the same as threatening to bring guns to school to protest a mask mandate.

Wanting your child to be able to attend school without a mask, based on the advice of epidemiologists, pediatricians, and child development experts who believe the harm of longterm masking far outweighs the apparently minimal benefits of masking in a school environment compared to other mitigation methods, is not violent or unreasonable.

It's okay to disagree with these things but the idea that those of us who are advocating for looser masking rules, at this stage in the pandemic, must be in league with gun-toting anti-maskers in red states, is really troubling. We are all adults here and should be able to understand nuance.

I'm pro-mask, pro-vaccine, pro-science. I think it's time to loosen mask restrictions in schools, and I do think the issue is urgent because of how long children have been masked in this environment. I think it's easy to get complacent because we've been doing it this way for a long time, but that's all the more reason to be more vocal and assertive on the issue. Mask mandates will not lift themselves and it's going to take some effort and energy to shift course. It's going to be hard for some people to accept that masks are no longer the best or most appropriate mitigation method in schools. And I do think some of us are going to have to come to terms with the fact that we have probably already masked kids, especially young kids, for much longer than we should have given the the actual risks as we now understand them. I am already working through that with regards to my preschooler, and it's hard. So I get the reluctance. But we owe it to our kids to do the right thing now, and to examine how we've gotten to a place where we fell into a masking policy that hasn't made sense for a long time and are having so much trouble getting out of it.[/quote]

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