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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t see why it matters. None of us are keeping our kids home because of this.

[b]If it’s another month or September does it really matter?[/b]

My kids cry about wearing a mask. I have never seen one kid of our 400 plus ES cry about wearing a mask.  Do your kids cry about wearing pants or shoes? We make them do that and they survive and thrive.

It does feel like we are getting out of this but hastiness isn’t going to win this race.[/quote]

What makes you think DCPS will unmask children in September if they aren't able to do it now?  Right now we have all the data we need to prove that

(a) masking in schools is not effective - it didn't stop Omicron and pretty much across the country infection rates were the same regardless of mask policies
(b) Omicron - the version of COVID circulating right now is the equivalent of a cold for most children; even unvaccinated children have equivalent outcomes to the flu [which has no school interventions]
(c) overall hospitalization rate is at an all time low
(c) students are suffering - they are increasingly disaffected and not forming relationships in the school community that are associated with long term positive outcomes
(d) school age children over the age of 5 have ample access to vaccines

Now is the right time to do this, not 6 months from now.  [/quote]

I don't disagree with anything above - but I think people are not giving enough thought to peer pressure.  Every other state/liberal municipality is either dropping or will drop in school mandates soon.  DC will not remain the outlier in the entire US.  The entire masking phenomenon in the US has been a farce . . . and that truth is slowly coming out (i.e., equivalent rates of covid infections everywhere, regardless of mask mandates).  I do tend to think "good" masks make a difference (and afford one way protection, so you can mind your own business and not worry about what everyone else is doing)  . . . but I have to check myself somewhat in that belief given that Germany mandated KN95 equivalents - yet still experienced a huge surge.  So - who knows?  But what we do know, is that school masking, as in effect now, is a joke.  And if KN95s would work much better - well, at that point you can one way mask, so stop with the mandate nonsense.[/quote]

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