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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is a senior in HS.  I told DC that evidence suggests that continuing to wear a mask is beneficial but that the choice was his to make at school.  DC and many students stopped wearing their masks when permitted to do so at the end of last week.  By Tuesday, DC was too sick to go to school - sore throat, deeply exhausted, slight fever, stuffy/runny nose, slight cough and headache.  Too sick to do school or sports - so, genuinely not feeling well.  DC also says at least 6 other peers on same sports team are also sick, so whatever he has is very contagious.  In the before times, I never remember so many kids being felled at the same time by an ordinary cold.

DC tested negative repeatedly for COVID - PCR and then multiple rapids as his symptoms evolved.

So, IMO, masking was a good thing.  DC has missed 4 days of school from being unmasked for 2-3 days.  DC was diligent about wearing a mask for 2 years and never got sick with anything.[/quote]
This happened to my ES kid as well. Got sick twice after unmasking (no longer in MCPS so unmasked a month or so earlier), and was consistently negative for COVID. I looked at it a different way though, unless you are going to just mask forever your body’s immune system has to get accustomed to fighting off viruses, etc. I likened it to when my kids got sick a lot in pre-K and K because they were suddenly spending all day with lots of different people and exposed to a lot of germs, but after that just got common colds that they handled with ease because they had built up strong immune systems. [/quote]

This is an macOS board and if your kid spreads his illness it’s 10 times worse due to school size than your private.  [/quote]
Kids still in DMV public school, not private. So you think kids should now just mask forever in public schools to avoid spreading illness in general?[/quote]

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