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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SWS has more cases today.  I went back and looked at the stats, and verified that there have been more positive cases documented at SWS over the past 5 school days than any other week this school year (to include the height of omnicron).[/quote]

You have an uptick citywide. If cases are rising at a school this could be due to the citywide uptick rather than to the lack of masks. I am not convinced personally that the masks are worth it at school. Despite masking a third of my daughter's class got COVID and most got it outside of school or from a sibling. [b]Haven't they said that on the aggregate there wasn't a difference between school districts that used masks and those that didn't?[/b] I think the masks should be used at school only when there is a high incidence rate.[/quote]

The best study on in-school masking we have is the recent one out of Spain, which was a large study where they compared cohorts within the same school districts over the same time periods: the over 6 year olds, who were required to mask, and the under six year olds, who were not masking. They found that transmission was actually *higher* in the masked cohorts, concluding that age, not masking, made the difference in how Covid spread in schools.

[b]The costs of masking in schools, especially for younger kids, are almost certainly higher than the benefits, and so mask *mandates* should never return for school children. Find more effective ways to try to curb the impact of the virus (most importantly vaccination, most importantly of the elderly), and stop trying to manage the pandemic on the backs of children.[/b][/quote]

^Thank you 🙏

So nice to know that in a sea of irrational parents on the Hill, there are some that see this for what it truly is![/quote]

You are welcome, although I don't live on the Hill (we're in Upper NW, which has a lot of irrational parents as well)!  :) [/quote]

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