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[quote=Anonymous]I have two middle schoolers. One chose to continue masking after the mandate ended and the other stopped wearing a mask. When we returned from spring break, I asked that child to wear a mask the first week back to school. I provided N95s. At that point, no one in our household had had covid. On April 30th, my child who never stopped wearing a mask to school came down with covid 3 days after the child who sat next to her at lunch got it. Lunch was the only time she wasn’t masked. My first child isolated and wore a mask if she had to come out of her room. No one else in our household got it. I asked my second child to keep masking.

On Monday, my second child forgot to mask. Child doesn’t eat lunch due to medication that suppresses appetite, so Monday was the only time that child was not masked. Yesterday that child got a bad sore throat and headache, so I’m pretty sure it’s covid.

Masks have kept us from getting covid when transmission was high. Our covid infections have exclusively occurred when we weren’t masked. I’m fine going without a mask when transmission is low, but we’ll continue to mask when transmission is high. I’m not worried about hospitalization or death, but I’d prefer to avoid several days of misery and falling a week behind in school.[/quote]

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