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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish people understood that when you tell people that they should keep children home with any symptom, no matter how mild, or that any amount of infectious illness in schools is unacceptable, you pretty much guarantee that people will lie, not test, medicate to mask symptoms, etc. Because a zero tolerance policy for cold/allergy symptoms in schools would basically mean we shut down schools. There would be not point in keeping them open because there would be so few children to attend them.

If you want to propose COMMON SENSE policies to prevent the spread of those viruses that pose the biggest threat (RSV, flu, and at least for now, Covid) then do so. Any such policy should be targeted to impact only kids with testing positive for one of those viruses and should seek to balance the need for kids to be in school with the need to reduce the incidence of these viruses in schools.

Asking children who don't have one of those viruses, especially a child who has allergies, to mask "just in case" is not a common sense solution. [b]Indefinite and arbitrary masking in schools was a failed policy, it will not be reinstated. [/b]Voluntary masking for people who wish to do so (and making sure people who want to mask have access to good quality, well-fitting masks) is where we're at. Not forced masking of people who aren't even positive for an airborne virus. [/quote]

It won't be reinstated because it was never instated in the first place.

Masks at school for kids who are at school with allergies? That does not make sense. Masks at school for kids who are at school with communicable diseases? That does make sense.[/quote]

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