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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because we are shrugging our shoulders at the increasing cases all around the country (except for the coasts, which took significant mitigation measures and are reopening cautiously), we're going to have a massive problem by the fall. I think schools will wind up doing the hybrid model but the virus will causes closures. Half the people here are in denial about that and some are the other end of the spectrum and are convinced it's all shut down until the mythical vaccine. Neither is probably what happens.

But it's not going to be a normal year by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm a teacher and there's no way I can teach in a mask all day. And there's no way kids keep them on (and I teach HIGH SCHOOL). Forget about it at the ES level. [/quote]

Teacher, I think you underestimate people.  Kids can be taught to keep the masks on.  Sure, it will take reminders in the beginning and you will have the unruly kids who take them off to break the rules.  But, for the most part, you will see compliance.  [/quote]

I think it is extremely challenging to keep a mask on as an adult. This is not realistic. Kids can't do this. [/quote]

From what I've read,[b] the plans in other countries for re-opened schools include kids wearing masks. So either kids [i]can[/i] do this, or the countries where schools have re-opened are making unrealistic plans.[/b][/quote]

Yes, because kids in other countries and other countries are FAR less entitled and whiney than we are in America.  That is one thing that this virus has made abdunantly clear.

Listen, I work as a nurse.  I've worn a mask for 12 hour shifts for years because I work with bone marrow transplant patients who have very little immune systems. 
Surgeons wear masks for 10 and 12 hour surgeries all the time. 
Now with covid, every one at hospitals are wearing masks--security guards, food service workers, social workers, custodians, doctors, nurses.  Entire hospital staffs are wearing them for 12 hours at  time. Why?  Because the alternative is 1) lose your job and/or 2) get sick. 
No-one likes wearing them.  No one likes the feeling of breathing through one.  It's not comfortable for ANYONE to wear a mask for hours at a time.  EVERYONE looks forward to that first sweet breath when you finally take it off.

But we all do it daily  (including all the people who aren't trained medical professionals and in many cases are doing manual labor) because we value our jobs and we value our lives and the lives of our patients.

So really teachers, quit your whining that you "can't breath in a mask" or "can't teach in a mask".  You could learn to do it if you wanted to and wanted to keep your job.  
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