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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some say with the airborne nature of omicron, most masks are just decorative. And most kids aren’t really affected by Covid including omicron in a way that warrants masking and the like. Time to move on. People who need protecting, have vaccines now. Kids don’t need masks. [/quote]

“Some say” LOL[/quote]

Exactly. Who is “some”? Steve Bannon? [/quote]

CNN medical analyst?

"Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There's no place for them in light of Omicron,"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/health/cloth-mask-omicron-variant-wellness/index.html
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The doc you quote (Wen, at GWU) very clearly advocates for wearing a better mask—not ditching masks altogether because some types are not effective against omicron. She also has said many times that everyone—including kids—DO need to be wearing masks.  Your original post was framed as an argument to do away with masking but the stance of expert you cite to back up your post couldn’t be further from that. [/quote]

Have you seen the masks kids wear at school and how they wear them? I’d agree that a class room full of kids wearing N95s would be ideal but that just isn’t the case and won’t be. But let’s be realistic on what we are protecting kids from with these masks i these ideal conditions… a cold equivalent in most cases, while vaccines are available to kids and parents alike to protect themselves. Now kids will be strapped up all day in n95s for something people can protect themselves against and rarely even affects kids?  :lol: [/quote]

Yes. Because kids themselves can get pretty sick and even die. Even if rare, I’m all for taking easy steps to avoid that, no matter how rare. Also, unmasking kids in schools means that all of those unmasked kids who pick up the virus will then take it home and everywhere else they go, contributing to the spread to susceptible/vulnerable people
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It’s weird we weren’t doing this for the flu which killed 3-6 children every year in VA. So far since Covid started the past two years, there have been 17 pediatric deaths in VA. It’s tragic, but not worth flipping school upside down. Plus why ignore the fact that the vaccine is available to all these children? A lot has changed since March 2020. Time to adapt.[/quote]

Never mind. 12 pediatric deaths in VA. Roughly the same rate of our flu deaths in VA.[/quote]. That is 12 deaths while masked, not unmasked.[/quote]

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