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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. My child is wearing a KN95. And plenty of other kids in the school are, but it’s the kids who aren’t, whose parents send them in sick, and who aren’t vaccinated concern me. I understand the political concerns about reinstating mask mandates but honestly isn’t the point that when there’s high transmission in a particular school you bring them back temporarily and then as cases lower you remove it? Like are we literally so dumb we can’t understand how to implement a protective measure when it’s warranted? Seems silly to have masked the kids for the better part of a school year when numbers were lower only to refuse to bring them back on a case by case basis in schools with High transmission because elected reps are more concerned with their re election than keeping kids safe and well?  [/quote]

I feel bad for your kid. Kn95 all day? During crucial developmental years? I think you need a reality check. You can’t hide from covid. Kids are low risk. You can get vaccinated/boosted. If other people decide to vaccinate themselves or their kids that doesn’t affect you at all. People get to make their own risk analysis. My kids will never mask again. Neither will I. [/quote]

That is so selfish. School is not the same as going out to a bar or movie theater. Every kid deserves an in person education.  Some kids are immunocompromised, high risk for complications or live with family members who are high risk. We need to be thinking of them too, and when there are huge surges like this we absolutely as a community should be putting the masks back on in an effort to do our best to protect our vulnerable kids/families who deserve to keep going to school in person too just like everyone else.   I initially didn’t make my daughters mask when the mandate dropped and numbers were low, but now they are back on to protect them and everyone else. [/quote]

And all that vulnerable families had the option to enroll in VA- the ones I know took advantage of that opportunity.  Asking kids to wear properly fitted KN95s all day is a selfish request.[/quote]

How is it selfish to ask children to mask for a few weeks to limit the number of kids who get COVID? It’s a prudent, caring action. If you are a religious person of any sort you would know that we have a moral duty to care for one another and to protect each other. If You identify as a religious person, you have a moral duty to encourage your children to mask to protect them and other children and families who may become sick or otherwise be vulnerable.

There’s a lot of gray area between believing masks are evil and should never be worn to believing masks should be worn all the time and acting like we are all under COVID lock downs a la 2020. Most people are in the gray, and are not a part of a false oversimplified binary. [/quote]

This is very well said.

Sadly, this board is infected by a troll who puts everything in the binary. [/quote]

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