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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And here’s one lawsuit:

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FCPS’s school board met with their lawyers this afternoon too. What about APS? Guess is they’ll be moving together.[/quote]

I'm assuming ACPS will join them. This just sucks, my kid does have a disability that masks are definitely not helping and actively hurting, but ACLU isn't interested in those kids I guess. Everything I've seen about the cases they are representing are for kids for whom it will literally never be safe to unmask, ongoing lung issues, significantly immunocompromised. So is that the end game?[/quote]

I wonder this too. I know a kid with a condition ACLU is yelling about. Despite the family’s warranted extreme caution he still got Covid (thankfully he was fine, because kids with his condition have entire protocols they use for every respiratory disease, plus yay vaccines!). Universal masking didn’t make him safer enough - but treatment and vaccines did.[/quote]

Are you unable to understand the concept of a multi-layered approach to public health, or is this more of a willful ignorance thing?[/quote]

Idk you’re pretty willfully ignorant about the low risk of covid to kids so you’re not setting a good example of taking your head out of the sand. [/quote]

You’re not exactly demonstrating an understanding of a multi-layered approach. [/quote]

I think multilayer can NOW include less restrictive measures such as air filtration, open windows, and vaccines - and that in 2022 we don't need to force the restrictive mask layer approach for all and allow people to do it optionally as they want.  That's what multi layer looks like in 2022.[/quote]

It's really to soon to know. Omnicron could circle around and wallop the same people again in a month or two. Or it could not.

Willfully ignored in this politicization of masks are the following points:

1.) We've been dealing with an evolving virus that has become more infectious and not less lethal for the unvaccinated.

2.) We still don't know the long-term effects of covid, but the stats we have aren't great.

3.) The vaccination is great at preventing serious illness, but its effect in preventing any illness at all is imperfect and gets even worse over time. Boosters help a lot. Is it time to get a fourth booster? Probably.

4.) Kids under five have no protection. We are blessed they don't usually get very sick, but we don't know the long-term effects.

5.) Vaccinated people who are elderly and / or infirm are actually getting sick and dying.

6.) Vaccinated people can be asymptomatic and infectious. In fact it's common.

Covid is not a *hot* virus. It doesn't burn through a population like, say, ebola, killing everyone in its path. In fact a large number of people catch it, carry it, and pass it on to others without ever knowing they're sick. That's one reason it's so pervasive and devastating: it is a sleeper virus. When unleashed in an institutional setting it can have a ton of hosts. For at least half the pandemic people were arguing that kids weren't spreading it while ignoring the rates and reasons for their own community transmission.

Your viral load upon infection seems to have an effect on how sick you get. Inhaling fewer particles  because you are wearing a mask improves your odds and the odds of others.

Our country has fumbled the mask message so badly it might be comical in a century. Like, "look what morons those 21st-ers were comical." Masks work. Good ones work the best. When there was a mask shortage people were using cloth masks with liners or cloth with surgical. Even those options can also help reduce spread. The argument "most wear cloth and it doesn't work anyway" is as true as "it will be gone by Easter." The virus changed. People 's mask habits also changed.

If we are extremely lucky it might be better by THIS Easter.

All versions of covid have been shown time and time again to have the potential to reinfect previously infected individuals. Vaccine efficacy also wanes. This combination alone should alarm you.

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All of your ramblings are based on the flawed assumption that masks block the spread of Covid.  We now know this is incorrect.  [/quote]

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