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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids went in-person, including lunch inside, all last year.  Not shut down one day.  You all need to calm down.  Your poor kids.[/quote]

So did mine. Pulled them out and put them in a private school which they are going to this year as well. That being said I’m really nervous. Delta changes the equation when it comes to spread. This virus is much more contagious.[/quote]

Also pulled my kids for private last year and so happy we committed to stay again this year. I am much more nervous though. I’m just coming to terms with the idea that my kids will likely get COVID. My DH and I are both vaxxed as are all the eligible people in our family. I do worry but my kids need (real) school. I’d even be okay with no masks if they’re not going to require n95. Someone on of the Sunday shows described cloth masks as trying to keep water out of a submarine with a screen door.  N95s or it’s all for show. I doubt APS would require them because of equity concerns. [/quote]

A reasonable compromise on the whole masking debate is schools provide KN95/N95s to students who want them and masks are optional.  A number of major scientists (Osterholm, Gounder) are saying that since COVID is aerosols (more research came out this week), cloth masks really do hardly anything, especially when you're going to be sitting in a room with the same group of people all day.  Gounder had a good chart on her Twitter page, showing the limited protection cloths masks provide vs. N95s.  The comparison I hear was a cloth mask is like the protection a chain link fence provides when sand is thrown at it.

If you're worried about a child getting COVID at school, it's KN95 or N95. I'm personally not worried (as shown by the research, my healthy child will get at worst a cold).[/quote]

Most comments like the above seem to be based on old information.[b] From most of the news I have read, Delta does seem to have a more severe effect on children.[/b] Children can have long haul symptoms, and if Delta is more severe, I think it’s reasonable to assume the risk of long covid is higher as well. My kids need to be in school, but I am nervous to have them there without social distancing. Covid is a moving target, the evidence increasingly suggests Delta this fall is not the same As Covid last spring. The insistence that kids are immune is like willful ignorance, and the statement that parents aren’t worried bc it’s just a cold blows my mind - how many unvaccinated adults are quoted saying this then ending up in the ICU w delta?  Kids should definitely be masked, schools should provide kn95 and make every effort to keep kids outside or from congregating. [/quote]

I've been seeing more infectious, so higher numbers, but not more dangerous for any given infection. [/quote]

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