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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've just accepted that the anti mask screamers won, and anyone who doesn't wear a high quality mask as well as get al the vaccines is going to catch Covid. [/quote]

Except that vaxxed high quality mask wearers will get Covid too. [/quote]

Maybe someday, but not necessarily this month or this school year. It's still worth trying to avoid it. [/quote]

Then keep masking up, make outdoor arrangements for lunch if needed, and hope for the best.  My DH is an essential worker and we accepted a while ago there us only so much we can control.  Even with masks Covid spread around his workplace (although their ventilation systems are likely far worse than MCPS if you can believe that).[/quote]

PP here. That's what we do. All of us who sent our kids back to school have accepted the risk to some extent. We can't control everything, and the virus is everywhere. But accepting a level of risk for us doesn't mean abandoning all precautions, especially when community transmission is at such a high level. I'm tired of the "everyone is going to get it anyway so you are stupid to bother trying not to." I get it. People don't want to be bothered. But others, like my teens, don't mind masking indoors and would prefer to try to avoid getting COVID, so that's their decision. [b] If they get it, that's life, but it won't be because they threw caution to the wind.[/b] 
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Why does that even matter?  If you do nothing and get it, take every precaution and get it - still the same outcome. That’s where I’m at. [/quote]

You assume that we will get it or that we will get it now. The chance of getting it now is great because of the level of community spread. Why not mask indoors and see if we can avoid it as the kids close out the school year? Maybe we won't get it until more is known about long COVID.

It matters to me personally because one of my kids has an autoimmune condition, which itself might not necessarily increase the risk of a severe outcome from COVID. At the same time, it's a chronic health condition that requires a great deal of attention. Whatever that unquantifiable risk of long COVID is, our personal assessment is that attending school with a mask and playing outdoor sports are risks worth taking, but abandoning all precautions at a time of high community spread is unwise. All of my risk assessment turns on whether the risky activity is important to us. Attending an indoor wedding for a family member might be worth the risk, but a sit-down dinner at Olive Garden is not. Similarly, if we get COVID wearing a mask, so be it. If we get COVID because we decided we are too tired to try anymore and one of us had long-term issues, I will have regrets.  [/quote]

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