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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.[/quote]

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.  [/quote]

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.[/quote]

YOU don't care.  Some of us do.  And, masking makes common sense based off your post as it also protects agains flu and RSV.

I have older kids who still mask.  They know to stay away from people like you and they know decent people mask.[/quote]

If you're going to demand that people wear masks forever, I recommend that you start wearing your mask 8 hours a day for a couple of weeks, then come back and let us know if you still want to ask your children to do this for the rest of their lives.[/quote]

You lack all logic.  No one is talking masking forever.  You just are making up nonsense.  If you don't want your kids masking, why not homeschool?  You can make up any rules and teach them any non-sense you want.[/quote]

Again if you're going to just say we need a mandate without any real kind of timeline or criteria for when it could end then you're effectively saying you want it forever.

I mean there aren't any districts in the area with a mask mandate soooooo I guess that "homeschool the kids if you don't like mask mandates" thing isn't working for you.

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Can you give me a timeline on how covid is going to react in the next few months from now to the end of school?  NO!  No one is saying forever but to watch to see if there is another surge, especially given the vaccines only help against hospitalizations and in MCPS there is no other real mitigation and very large overcrowded schools

You aren't talking about a school of 100 kids.  You are talking about schools of 500-3200 or so kids plus adults who work there.[/quote]

Covid isn’t being eradicated. There will be seasonal differences in case numbers. There will be new variants. There will be months or years with large numbers of cases. That’s the world we live in. And it isn’t all that different from the world we had before covid.

You’re going to have to come to terms with that.[/quote]

Of course its not going to go away but it could be under better control with simple mitigation.  How hard is that to understand?  That's how covid got under control in previous versions in other countries.

The do nothing, its no big deal got us into the last surge.  You may be ok with your kids getting sick, but I'm not.  Who wants their kids to suffer for a few days or a week or longer because of the selfishness of someone like you?[/quote]

Given that kids (and adults) have always gotten sick, and nearly no one was hysterical over it before covid, I think it’s safe to say you have a fringe viewpoint.[/quote]

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