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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]mom and teacher here.  masks are NBD.  at all.  the people who care so much about masks are not the kids at school.[/quote]

Masks are big deals for kids that are in speech therapy and need to see mouth and tongue placement. [/quote]

Masks are needed for immunocompromised individuals that can't be vaccinated. So your child can't see someone's mouth and tongue and has trouble speaking, while my child can die because of covid. Some of you are so selfish.[/quote]

Talk about selfish.  You think the entire education population should sacrifice their own education and social development, mental health and overall well being in an fruitless attempt to maybe, slightly reduce risk of exposure [although no data shows that it actually does] to a few - even while those few still are free to promote their own social life and mental well being by eating out in restaurants, going to bars, and generally participating in society while also protecting themselves by vetting vaccinated, wearing masks, and having priority access to the entire suite of medical treatments if they do get sick?  Read the room. The rest of society is done with this false narrative that we somehow need to continually make sacrifices to "protect the vulnerable".  Its not working and its not fair.   [/quote]

Particularly when “the vulnerable” are a self designated group of people who may not actually be more vulnerable.

Most of the people I know who are actually at higher risk for Covid (elderly people, my asthmatic mother, my dad with a heart condition, my friend the organ recipient on lifelong immunosuppressants, etc.) are triple or quad vaccinated, wear good quality masks in higher risk settings, and then otherwise get in with their lives. I’ve never heard any of them freak out about this stuff, and they are all in favor of in person school and dropping restrictions on kids where we can.

The people I know who scream about “the vulnerable” are healthy, with healthy kids. But they say things like “we don’t know about the long term neurological consequences of long Covid in young kids!” Which… true, but what’s your plan? Everyone stays home forever until we can conduct a decades long study? We know for a fact that RSV can have dire consequences for young kids and we still send them to school. A friend of mine has a child who will always have have respiratory issues because of a bout with RSV when she was 5 that almost killed her. But that’s just life. We can’t protect our kids from the possibility of every negative consequence.[/quote]

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