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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandparents were told to hide under their desks if the US was hit by a nuclear bomb from the USSR. That was theater. But at the time it was all they could do.

My kid’s school protesting climate change is also theater but no one complains about that.

Are the same people advocating to not wear a mask in school also advocating for parents to be able to back in the building? Volunteering anything at the school?

Wearing a mask for the three minutes for drop off especially when kids couldn’t be vaccinated is the least of my problems.

So I agree this sounds like people complaining to complain.[/quote]

I definitely had less of a problem wearing a mask outside to drop my kids off than I did with air-raid drills when I was in elementary school in the '80s. I grew up just outside D.C. It was pretty obvious even to a 10-year-old that our survival in the event of a nuclear war wasn't going to come down to whether we did or didn't follow the protocols.[/quote]

Straw man comparison. Nobody truly cared about wearing a mask at drop-off, except for what it signified regarding the masking policy at school overall. What we do care about is what our kids have to do, which is wear a mask *all day* indoors.

And I too grew up with a fear of nuclear war. That was terrible, but it is completely irrelevant to the mask discussion. If I had had to mask all day back then and learn to view my classmates as disease vectors, that would have been pretty terrible, too. The threat of nuclear war, by the way, has never been as high as right now. Thankfully, we aren't doing drills for it at school. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't remove the other burdens we are placing on our kids right now.[/quote]

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