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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wearing masks is part of a caring culture. You know, trying to keep others safe. Not just caring about yourself, etc. [/quote]

Respecting others choices is what the caring culture is about. Transmission risk is low and FCPS agrees.[/quote]

If you looked at how we got to 'low' status, it was because CDC redefined what high/medium/low meant - it *used* to mean transmission rates, now it means basically, risk of an average, healthy person ending up in the hospital with severe COVID/how crowded are the hospitals.

We didn't magically go from high to low transimission overnight. There's still a lot of transmission going on in the community ([b]even with 80-90% masking at my kid's school, we're getting daily notices of new covid cases[/b], and I'm sure that there are a bunch going unreported.)

If you're an average, healthy family, sure, you can unmask, and yeah, *you* are not likely to go to the hospital. When you get covid, you might just be out for a few days feeling like crap.

But for those of us with kids too young to be vaccinated, or other health risks, we cannot afford to get COVID, and transmission rates are still very risky. So yeah, wearing masks is still part of a caring culture, we've basically just decided that we're done being inconvenienced, and we don't care enough as a society about protecting little kids and immunocompromised people who we don't know.[/quote]

This is very curious to me. We are 2 teachers who both teach in elementary schools. My class has had about 20% masked over the past 2 weeks and I'd say the school as a whole is a bit higher, but not much. Spouse's school is probably around 50/50. My school's last notification came out on Feb. 25 and the other school hasn't had one since before March 1. I have yet to have any students on pause (knock on wood). It's just interesting how things vary.[/quote]

Sounds like PP’s school is full of families who engage in risky behavior but then signal virtue by masking up in school.[/quote]

Or one of the schools has mostly families where parents can wfh and get groceries delivered and the other has parents who are working face to face cleaning bathrooms or changing sheets in nursing homes. [/quote]

I’ll wait for PP to come back and confirm that.[/quote]

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