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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You get to make your own risk decisions for your own kids. I don't know your situation- perhaps you or another family member is high-risk and unvaccinated, in which case extra caution is sensible.

My son is one of those unmasked kids at the playground. He has ASD and simply won't tolerate masks- and yes, we and his therapists have been working on it daily. We're not keeping him away from parks and playgrounds indefinitely.[/quote]

Obviously not, if he’s already one of “those unmasked kids at the playground.”[/quote]

Correct.  We don't bring him other places, besides therapy and child care, but we've been bringing him to playgrounds since last summer.  In general, it had been surprisingly easy to avoid others until quite recently.  People were apparently (?)  too scared to go to playgrounds last summer, and parents don't seem to take their kids outside in our neighborhood when its below 50F.  But particularly this past week the playgrounds have suddenly had a lot more kids.  We try to keep our unmasked child away from masked children at the playground, but I can't really prevent another kid from walking up to him.[/quote]

Haha yes, for a while it was a small set of the same families at our local playgrounds, and then boom, they’ve gotten really crowded the last couple weeks.  Our 5yo is used to wearing a mask and always does, but we struggle with our 2yo and I know some parents are giving me the stink eye for it, even though all 2yo really wants to do most of the time is swing in the toddler swing.  Meanwhile their kids are literally wrestling with other kids, but apparently since they’re wearing masks it’s all good?[/quote]

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