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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Taking it back to the original topic…I’m an educator who’s been tutoring some children with learning disabilities throughout the pandemic. One family assured me that they took things seriously, but when I worked with their child, the kid never had a mask that fit properly, and the whole family was venturing out often for meals and snacks. I declined to work with them in-person any longer. Not long after that, I met with the child online. Poor kiddo could not stop coughing and complaining of feeling cold. I met with another student in-person in a different household that was taking things “seriously.” At the end of our hour together (one of several meetings over a few weeks), this child said they were excited because a household employee was coming back to work soon after having been absent with “flu.” Days later I fell ill, and the family never mentioned their viral exposure to me.

These families know I am not meeting with many people in-person right now. They see me taking steps to mitigate everyone’s risk, like quarantining and moving appointments online after seeing my elderly parents at the holidays. They haven’t been willing to take additional safety measures. I’d don’t have a lot of faith that behavior will magically change when more schools re-open.[/quote]

Yes, people have very different meanings behind being "careful." This is sort of like the kids who don't always use condoms but are "really careful" or adults who drink and drive because their "tolerance is really high." Or maybe even sort of like the parents who don't "supplement" like tiger moms, but then you find out they have a private tutor or do workbooks or math problems almost ever night. In their minds they are not even lying - the words mean different things to them, and that's not "supplementing" or what they think it is. Or have their kid compete play on multiple sports teams of the same sport but "we're not super competitive and we don't take sports that seriously."

We know someone who was adamant that in person is not safe but her kids were playing unmasked outside with many kids, unsupervised, closely all summer, then puts the kids in indoor sports and is traveling to ski and do those types of things. In their minds, they are behaving more safely than others who want to return to school. 
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