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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a high school teacher.  I’m all about safety, but I’d like to think that by fall we’d be able to go without them.  The summer provides a reasonable amount of time for teens to get their vaccines.  The vast majority of my students have already started.[/quote]

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-1000  Every single teacher at my school who has spoken with me about it wants masks on everyone 100% of the time.  We don't want to have to worry about which kid is vaccinated and which isn't when we're looking at the sea of faces and having to teach.  We all want ALL kids to show proof of vaccination before returning to the classroom anyway.[/quote]

I'm an APS parent and I could get behind no masks IF AND ONLY IF APS requires proof of vaccination. Anyone who is unvaxxed should definitely wear masks. Unvaxxed and no masks = recipe for covid spread and I want schools to stay open and be safe. [/quote]

What about masks during flu season..and are we going to ask proof for flu shots.  The schools already require proof of vaccination for many diseases.

Masks for rhinoviruses or norovirus? [/quote]

You're conflating viruses, PP, but good try.  Covid is deadly and has killed 3.7 million (3,717,000) people in a year.  The average flu, not so much, at about 290,000 a year.  That's a sizable difference.  I'm sure even you can see that, can't you???

Although masks during flu season makes sense.  The reports from the CDC do indicate that because people were at home AND wearing masks AND social distancing this flu season, the number of reported cases was down significantly.

On second thought...maybe we should just go back to all that?  I'm game if it keeps me away from rocket scientists like you, PP.[/quote]

Why the attitude? People can't ask questions or make a statement without other people being a jerk these days.

I was thinking out loud in regards to mitigation of other illnesses. Flu and colds can be indistinguishable from covid at the onset of the disease.

We all know that there will be some kids sent to school sick.

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DP.  I think you were the jerk, PP, more than the PP you're responding to.  Your response had a ton of attitude and you were definitely trying to make Covid seem less dangerous than it is.  Covid is MUCH more deadly than the flu and the numbers prove that.  It doesn't make any sort of sense to relate it to the flu because the flu is much less deadly.  Your analogy was basically equating cancer to a canker sore.  Sending a kid to school sick with the flu is much, much, much less serious than sending a kid to school sick with Covid.  If you can't or won't see that then you don't belong anywhere near a school.  Thinking like that is why the pandemic wasn't contained quickly enough.[/quote]

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