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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my prediction (watching from over the border in maryland).  It will be messy and ugly for 3-5 weeks.  Protests, parents keeping kids home, misc. messiness and I feel deeply for school admin who is going to be in deep water.  But then it will subside.  People will realize that the mask mandate wasn't actually doing much (you all realize that everyday from 9-9:15 my kid sits crammed in his hallway outside his classroom waiting for them to open everyone eating breakfast like both sides of the hall are shoulder to shoulder kids eating).  Anywho, the sky won't fall and you all will be free.  With any luck the fresh air will drift over the potomac to MD.  Good luck and god speed.[/quote]

I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. At some point, we have to realize that the masks - apart from N95’s and the like, which certainly not everyone wears, especially not kids - just aren’t the end-all, be-all. If they help a little “around the edges” with the infection rate, then we also have to consider the trade offs of people - again, especially little kids - not being able to see facial expressions. People who are hard of hearing can’t see your mouth for lip-reading. Kids who are in speech therapy need to see mouths/lips and their speech therapists need to see their mouths. I could go on and on. Maybe the trade offs of masks just aren’t worth it anymore. Maybe this isn’t going to be the OMG DISASTER that everyone is breathlessly predicting. Honestly not too many people will probably opt out at the beginning anyway, so there’s that, too. [/quote]

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