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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here’s a question I have: if a kid who wears a mask at school sits next to a kid who isn’t wearing a mask, and the unmasked kid tests positive for Covid, is the masked kid now considered a close contact when before they wouldn’t have been (because before both parties were wearing masks)?

I hope the anti mask and anti vax parents (many of whom are the same) are really thinking through what this means for their kids. It’s going to result in their kids having a higher chance of being sent home for several days at a time, perhaps repeatedly. I am not seeing how that’s better than just wearing a mask to school? [/quote]

After a year and a half of wearing masks, I can say with experience that masks didn’t make any difference. In the context of your questions, if a MASKED student was sitting next to another MASKED student who tested positive for COVID, the student(s) sitting next to them are considers a close contact and asked to quarantine. And that’s with all kids masked.

Kinda shows you how much faith anyone had that wearing a mask did anything …

I imagine it will remain the same now that masks are optional. If a kid tests positive, any kids who were deemed in close contact before will continue to be deemed a close contact, regardless of anyone’s mask decisions. Nothing will change in that regard.[/quote]

What you are saying goes directly against the FCHD guidelines that the PP quoted. According to the health dept if both kids were wearing masks when the exposure occurred, then the kid near the positive case is not considered a close contact and is not asked to do anything differently. And it seems that masks DO change the equation such that a kid who tested positive and wasn't wearing a mask to school will cause a higher number of unvaccinated kids to have to quarantine than they would if the positive case had been wearing a mask.

What you say also goes against my own experience at a diocesan school. The child who sits next to mine tested positive for Covid and my child was not told to quarantine. Unfortunately my child ended up getting it anyway (my child says the kid was often not wearing their mask properly, so not too surprising). It sounds like your school has not been following the guidelines and was making anyone within 3 ft quarantine regardless of masking. But for other schools that were following FCHD guidelines for schools, this will result in more kids being named close contacts.[/quote]

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