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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are doing masked outdoor play dates, including playgrounds. Sticking with families who we know are vaxxed and cautious, fortunately there are plenty. Farmers market is a yes. They’ve been in one store since the pandemic started. They use a N95 equivalent for kids for any indoor situation with the exception of school/ camp which has weekly PCR testing (they’re still masked and mostly outdoors, just not with the N95 — that’s more for doctor’s visits). We are doing trips that involve driving and rentals. May try flying in August.[/quote]

Masks - outdoors? Why? I’ve read no evidence of outdoor transmission as a major risk. [/quote]

I know a lot of people who work in the field. The variants that are coming are more aggressive. And outdoor interactions now are prolonged, as compared with earlier in the pandemic. We will probably continue masking through to next spring. Breakthrough infections are a thing. Long haul symptoms after asymptomatic infections are a thing. Lack of data about long term effects and about variants is a consideration. Our kids are doing great and not missing out on a thing, so we don’t mind being cautious a little longer. Our exceptions for masks are visits to close family, eating with vaxxed friends, swim lessons. Everything else they can enjoy masked.[/quote]

+1. Intellectually I agree with everything you wrote. I have loosened our rules by a lot, though, and tried to push those facts aside as being just a relic of the old scared me. Thanks for the reminders.[/quote]

PP here. Yes it’s a really confusing time to “follow the science” as we’re not quite out of the woods yet but numbers are temporarily low. I would say for anyone interested to have a look at what is happening in Israel now as they are a month or two ahead of us with vaccines but Delta is arriving. My hope is that things stay calm here through the summer, though that really depends on how people behave. Come fall we will definitely need to mask again for one more season til we are over this.[/quote]

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