Reply to Why aren’t schools with high COVID rates masking?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Why aren’t schools with high COVID rates masking? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion has become ridiculous, but an interesting issue is being raised: the impact of masking for younger children who are in before and aftercare and, therefore, required to mask for many hours per day.

All children must attend public school (unless other arrangements are made). Nearly everyone agrees that virtual schooling is not a long-term solution for most kids and works very poorly for many. Given that COVID is here to stay and we are currently in a surge, it is fair to say "no masks" in school at all during periods of significant community spread simply because some kids attend before and aftercare.

I wish more people were reasonable and not screaming about being done with masks. Masks should be worn by those with symptoms, those returning after being positive, and those who have been exposed (although I could live without that). If people embrace only the "no masks required" part of the CDC guidance but completely ignore the advice about staying home when sick, testing, and masking with a high-quality mask when you have symptoms or when returning or if a close contact, some cases could be prevented. Sure, one-way masking offers personal protection, but it is less effective when so there are so many cases and when people feel entitled to send maskless kids to school or to ignore testing and isolation advice. You can't wear an N-95 for an entire day without eating or drinking some water. [/quote]

So anyone talking about mask mandates or required quarantine periods is effectively proposing those as permanent practices.[/quote]

Only in your own deranged fever-brain.

You keep making this simplistic argument over and over again like a parrot. "If we do this now it will be forever! So we can't!"

There's no logic that exists that makes that true in the real world. What the future holds depends on factors we can influence and predict, but not know. Things we do know: getting covid repeatedly is bad for you. It's bad for your kids.

So I get your state of denial about it. It's sad, but understandable. But, again, a sane dad would make every effort to make sure his kids didn't keep catching it [/quote]

Given that selective pressure heavily favor more transmissible variants, it isn't rational to think we can sustain significantly lower case rates than what we're seeing right now. 
[/quote]

Is that your USSR education, telling you how viruses work? Do you believe that giraffes grew longer necks when they realized they could eat from the top of trees too?

There's no "selective pressure" there is a simple numbers game.

More people infected = more variants and subvariants + more continued infection.

Less people infected = less variants + virus goes away. As indeed it DOES in countries who take mitigation seriously, however inconvenient that is for your conscience.

Are there still outbreaks and flare ups? Of course. And when they happen, we mitigate the risk of infecting ourselves or spreading infection.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics