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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of an infant, thanks to everyone who will continue to wear a mask indoors at essential places. It sucks being a forgotten parent of a kid under 5. [/quote]

Yes, and high risk folks who are unable to be vaccinated are also forgotten. We'll continue to mask, for those at higher risk. It hurts us zero to wear a mask inside. [/quote]

The challenge is infants and imunocompromised folks have always been at higher risk of many things besides Covid. Infants do not have bad cases of Covid. At some point this has to end. We won’t be masking forever, and thankfully that is ending now. Parents and the imunocompromised will need to determine their own risk and accommodate as they did pre-Covid. [/quote]

Thanks for making my risk analysis for me! Also, I bet you may feel differently it it was your kid. We are so close to a vaccine for kids under five that it is infuriating to feel dismissed here and else where like kids are fine so get over it. I love my child and I want my baby to have the same chance for protection as everyone else. Guess many people really are selfish.[/quote]

As someone with both an immunocompromised family member and two kids under five who have struggled with speech and socialization, I would say you’re the one acting selfishly given the low risk of Covid in kids. Are you going to suggest we now also institute mask mandates every flu season since kids are similarly at risk to that as Covid?

And you really don’t know we’re close to a vaccine for kids under five. You could have just as easily made the same statement last summer and you would have been wrong.[/quote]

Covid isn’t the flu. Thanks for playing. [/quote]

It’s not, but outcomes/severity are similar in kids between Covid and the flu. A lot of people seem to forget that since Covid is much more severe than the flu in adults. Or at least it was before they could be vaccinated.[/quote]

You mean immediately identifiable outcomes are comparable. Still way too soon to know the long term effects and outcomes. [/quote]

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