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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes! Masked, playing outside.  Sheesh, what are we doing to our kids? Let them see their friends, it's been 6 months.  Have them sanitize their hands before and after playing.[/quote]

"Sanitize their hands?"  Have you been asleep since April?  The predominant transmission risk has nothing to do with their hands.[/quote]

NP, yes, this is true AND the time "fomite" transmission does come into play is when they touch their faces or eat something right after. With younger kids, especially, there's risk of them touching their faces (eyes/nose/mouths) more and not thoroughly washing hands before eating with them, etc. In terms of sanitizing or thoroughly washing before play-- lots of kids might have just eaten something or picked their noses or whatever before leaving the house.

Sanitizing hands really couldn't hurt, and could help *in a global pandemic*.[/quote]

Like... there's a difference between thinking you need to treat all of your groceries to a bleach bath (we now understand this is overkill) and making sure your young child's hands are very clean before/after a visit to a playground with friends.[/quote]

Hey, that's all well and good.  Sanitize their hands to your heart's content.  Just don't try to convince yourself (or others) that their playdates are So Very Safe because your kid wears a thin, fallible mask and you erroneously believe they fully distance 100% of the time.  Take the risks you want to take, but don't lie to yourself or others about it.[/quote]

Not PP. But 4 year old DS does go to the playground without a mask and plays with other kids, 90 percent of who don’t wear masks. I don’t think it’s so very safe with 0% risk. I do believe that all evidence points to it being an extremely low risk activity. Please let me know if any superspreading (or really any) transmission events worldwide that occurred because of kids playing masked or unmasked on a playground. It’s like parents can’t win during this thing. My kid isn’t going to PreK this year even though we could have sent him because we think it is a riskier activity so letting him play with other kids outside was our compromise. What’s going to happen when only adults can get vaccinated first because there have been no pediatric efficacy trials on the vaccines? Are you still going to keep your kids confined to just interacting with siblings and you and keep them out of school?[/quote]

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