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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I finally wrote to my councilmember, the at-large councilmembers and the mayor.

I was writing in particular because I swear a Washington Post story said that parents weren't complaining about the mask mandate.  I can't find that in the article about lifting the outdoor mandate anymore.  I wonder if it was edited out.  I will check my print edition.[/quote]

Correction - it is still in the article - "The city has not received widespread parent complaints about the indoor mandate"[/quote]

Maybe the activity on this board is not actually representative of the DCPS parent community as a whole. I personally have advocated to the mayor to keep the indoor mask mandate for schools for now.[/quote]

DP. Serious question, do you really think public health policy should be dictating by public opinion? If 60% of the public woke up tomorrow and said “I don’t think meat needs to be regulated, I don’t think food workers should have to wash their hands, we should save needles by re-using them with blood draws” then our public policy should reflect the majority?

I just can’t understand how the majority rules thought should outride science and public health experts. Make it make sense for me.[/quote]

This is not the same thing and I don’t think people are advocating for majority rule here.  But if the public health officials are going to stray from published science and from the guidance of the National health organization, they should articulate a pretty good and logical reason.  That has been the nature of my communications - please explain why are you dropping all restrictions on adults but keeping them on students.  How are you balancing the burdens on students compared to the benefits from masking  in schools (which post Omicron, really seem to be minimal at best)?  Why are you not adopting the CDC guidance?

I am not able to see the logic behind it and if there is no public health data and logic supporting it, they will not get buy in from the population now - and especially won’t get it the next them there is a crisis (or variant) that warrants a public response.  [/quote]

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