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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Settle down! Elementary kids are just now getting 2nd shots. We just had a holiday when lots of people gather and travel. Can we just get 3-4 weeks past New Years or better yet, 2 weeks past Spring Break and then be done with outdoor lunch and masks?

I want to be back to normal, but my 2nd grade kid seems to not care. I’d rather not rush it than have to backtrack if there is an outbreak.

[b]I am friends with teachers in mask optional places and their schools have had outbreaks - spread among students within a classroom.[/b] As far as I know, APS has onsie - twosie cases and spread to larger groups has been due to extracurriculars. [/quote]

Any evidence that it was caused by the lack of masks? No.

There are plenty of outbreaks at mask mandatory places too. I caught COVID while wearing a mask (I did not do a post on Facebook though about how I'd done everything right).  It is a highly transmissible respiratory virus.  If you're worried about COVID and kids (the risks are already lower for kids than the flu), then there are vaccines available.

Have you seen the results of the Bangladesh RCT on masks? Cloth masks did not work when they actually had a control group and looked at how they worked in real world setting with real people. Masks do work when perfectly fitted on mannequins, but have you ever seen kids wear them?  Or adults for that sake?

Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID for the rest of their lives.  Everyone.  Trying to pretend otherwise is really a fantasy.  Considering how well vaccines work and the fact COVID will be here the rest of our lives, asking for mitigation to continue is logically the same as (a) asking mitigation to continue forever (but only for kids - adults aren't subject to any) and (b) wanting a standard that no one ever gets a cold again.[/quote]

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