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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Keep in mind that school masks are not the only thing that has changed recently.[/b] Pretty much everyone has gone back to normal life. Federal offices have lifted mask requirements and have started sending people back to the office. I live on the Hill, multiple families on our block go to SWS and our kids have lots of friends there... I know 3 families that traveled on airplanes for February break that hadn't traveled for 2+ years. The masks are one single variable in a much more complex picture.

My kids go to LT, which had Omicron rip through it just before Christmas despite masking and other measures. We are still doing random testing and have like 95% participation in PK/K weekend testing, which they are pushing despite it being optional and... zero more cases for us. (In fact, the only positive since the break was a staff member who got it during break.) I have no doubt we'll get our uptick at some point and the second Omicron variant is likely coming, but I don't think SWS getting 8 cases at the same time DC returns to business as usual means going mask optional is the culprit.[/quote]

This. There are a lot of confounding variables around masking. One particularly irritating comment I hear from people is "I'm never unmasking because I haven't gotten sick in 2 years!" (oh, ok... and were you socializing, out and about, traveling, going to the office, attending birthday parties, etc etc etc during those last 2 years too? Mmm?)

In any case, yes. Omicron hit my masking school  hard in January. They went mask optional on March 1st and no cases have been reported. Does this mean that masks are garbage because when they were wearing them they got sick and now that they're gone they haven't? No. Absolutely not. [/quote]

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