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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.[/quote]

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS[/quote]

Then you know the PEP kids were regularly taking their masks off before. Some of them never wore masks. I really don’t know what you think masks were accomplishing in that setting.[/quote]

[b]At least they had some protection from everyone else around then masking.[/b] Now they don’t. There’s a difference between a bubble of 4 unmasked pre-k kids in the same classroom and hundreds of k-5 students + staff + bus drivers + teachers + visitors who surround them in that building being unmasked.[/quote]

How much close contact are they really having with "everyone else" in the building though?  Or do you think it's coming through the ventilation systems?

I mean, it feels a whole lot more Covid safe NOW, with low cases, than a couple months ago when masks were required but cases were high.  But YMMV.[/quote]

It is quite clear some posters are unable to think rationally about risk. The posters worried about kids in PEP are a very good example of this. It makes no sense, which would be quickly clear to them if they were willing to stop their meltdown briefly to think about the broader situation.[/quote]

Kids in pep are there for a variety of reasons from delays to disabilities to health issues.  Those kids are the most vulnerable.  If they weren't they wouldn't be in PEP.

It takes one person to create an outbreak.[/quote]

So what? It could be a masked kid that creates an outbreak. [/quote]

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