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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An APS parent and doctor on masks. Start speaking up, people! It’s insane to me that the school board just assumes the community wants mandatory masking. That might be true for right now but they should be surveying before they make these assertions.

https://time.com/6145291/end-mandatory-masks-schools/[/quote]

Oh a non-practicing INTERNIST with medical degree from Missourah.

https://www.emporiaindependentmessenger.com/news/article_500ec634-156c-11ec-a883-fbd7a2e2a3b9.html[/quote]

Attacking the messenger without addressing the message or the truth of the matter asserted?  You are lazy and wrong, PP.
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DP.  The author is the one who put her medical credentials at issue by relying on them to try to give herself the air of greater authority on the issue.  It is absolutely appropriate in that context to scrutinize her credentials in order to evaluate how much direct insight they actually give her.[/quote]

+1 NP - agreed. Does she even live in Nova? It sounds like she lives in Norfolk - or does she commute every day? I could see Norfolk populations wearing only cloth masks to meet the requirement; at our APS elementary & preschool I pretty much only see n95 style masks. Saying that they shouldn’t be usedbc they aren’t 100% effective is like making the argument that birth control is only effective if you take it consistently - people still use it though. I will also say, I find the message confusing. The argument is that masking is detrimental to kids under 5 so elementary kids should not wear masks? Also, i keep seeing that Europe doesn’t require masks, but then in actual news I read that the schools DO mask. So are they arguing for no masks among non-vaccinated preschoolers? And a lot of the argument for elementary through high school seems to be, we let our kids unmask and party outside school, so why bother masking? [/quote]

[b]Sounds like her DH is military and they have been all over - mostly recently he was posted at the Pentagon.

Military + 4 kids? Not your average Arlington mom. 
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Interesting, at least it’s not an obvious astroturfer, although it’s possibly Youngkin’s team is catching on after their last high profile failure with the wife of Trump’s OMB guy.

But It does kind of remind me of the nurses that refuse to get vaxxed because of fertility concerns. People assume they have some sort of special information or training that they do not have. An adult internist would not have special information regarding pediatric COVID, mask efficacy, or epidemiology. They are reading scientific articles same as you and me. [/quote]

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