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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect that there will be a huge uptick in regular coronavirus cases, RSV, flu, adenovirus, etc in the fall. 
This will cause confusion and chaos again. It's going to be a s.show and honestly, focusing on masks is probably a distraction when we should be focusing on stopping all medical mandates.

More importantly: 
We all need to stop fighting each other as our freedoms and liberties are being stripped away. 
We are likely in two camps. 
You either support the idea that government agencies (not elected) have the right to mandate what goes in or goes on our bodies and our children's bodies or you are against it.

I am personally against it. I will leave the school system and homeschool, no need to make that comment.

Because DCUM is anonymous (which has positives and negatives) I think it is difficult to organize around volatile issues. 
And everyone is entitled to their own passions.

Our jobs as parents now is to make the most informed choices and that is a huge challenge when there is so much censorship of discourse. We cannot have true scientific consensus when state controlled agencies decide what is science. That is scientism.

Please please share any constructive avenues for meaningful debate and ways to make our voices heard.

My children will not be back in school with masks. At least not until a true discussion of the pros, cons, and effectiveness is had at a local and national level. I'm not taking about parroting  Fauci soundbites or only looking at Facebook for information.

There are a lot of intelligent people in this area and tbh, I'm appalled by people's willingness to accept the dominant narrative and not question things.  We all literally hold in our hands the most powerful research tool in the history of mankind.

Stop bickering, stop virtue signaling, stop blaming and shoulding others. 
We need to come together and demand the truth. Because things are definitely not clear.[/quote]

Sorry, I am in the camp of we should constructively follow scientifically-based official government advice, and not random "they are taking away our liberties!" calls to arms.  If you home-school your child, I wish you luck and all the best, but do not think we should "crowd source" government policy for public health.  It is clear that doing the right thing in a global pandemic is not popular -- apparently either telling people to do the right thing to keep as many people as safe as possible or telling others to stop doing things when they are no longer necessary.  Government officials will have to make hard calls, will get some of them wrong, but we should continue to have a little patience with them and with each other.[/quote]

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