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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. Our kids have spent a year and a half of their childhoods wearing useless cloth masks over their faces.

Vaccines are available for anyone who wants one.

COVID is here to stay; it’s already mutated into a highly-transmissible (hello, silly cloth masks!) but far less serious virus on par with the flu. It is far less of a threat to children than countless other risks and diseases which we have learned to live.

Anyone who is still concerned now has access to PPE (n95 masks, face shields, latex gloves) and can make use of that. The era of dictating to other people’s children about this stuff is over.

I think what’s really irking people is that compliance with mask and vaccine mandates has become a political thing. Thank God that the Arlington Diocese has done the right thing and trusted parents to make the choice that’s right for their family. [/quote]

WELL SAID. The mask nuts need to move on. It’s over. Get a life. [/quote]

If you can afford to pay for private school for your kid/s, then you can also purchase  higher quality masks.  Since last week, many students have shown up wearing kn95s. They are not hard to find now.

Don’t complain when your kid has to stay home for five days when a classmate tests positive. Also, do not make extra work for teachers. [/quote]

It’s funny you say that, because this already happened to us while the mask requirement was in place. These masks do not stop people from getting COVID; they just don’t.

No peer-reviewed scientific studies—the kinds with control groups etc.—have shown any appreciable benefit to wearing the cloth masks that our kids have been wearing for a year and a half. And any parent knows how unrealistic it is to even expect young kids to even properly wear these masks for a full school day; and then consider all the exceptions (no masks for lunchtime, no masks while enabled in physical exercise, no masks while drinking) which would have to be factored into the analysis as well.

And even if there were some marginal benefit of masking, it must be weighed against the obvious negatives and potential harm that years of masking might inflict on the mental, social, and psychological health of children. Where are the scientific studies to show that masking is safe, or quantifying these other emotional/mental health risks?

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