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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

Germans mostly wear N95 masks in public. It is required in stores and public transport. Its an extra level of protection for everyone and service workers. This is true of many other European countries.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210120/what-you-should-know-about-germanys-new-mask-rules-for-public-transport-and-shops/

This is a fairly recent development. And as others have mentioned, they do not require masks in elementary school. Not in the classroom. Since this thread is about the distancing requirements within classrooms, that is the only relevant point, besides the question of community spread (which, as is becoming increasingly clear, is actually not that relevant for the safety of schools).

Well, as long as you decided what was relevant to discuss - there you go. Community spread in schools with mirror community spread in the general population.

It’s not what I have decided, it’s what a number of experts have lately been saying. And the spread within schools is usually lower than that in the community.

Spread "within" schools, but schools are not immune. All our neighborhood schools have had to quarantine classes.

Quarantining is good. It means the system is working. The goal is not to not have quarantined (at least not now or anytime in the foreseeable future when covid is actively circulating). People are getting covid in the community, just like other people. Spread though is significantly lower in schools than in the community, meaning it’s safer being in schools, unless of course you’re just locked in your house still without any family and friend exposure.

Do the Germans quarantine? How many times has the JKLM quarantined?

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

Germans mostly wear N95 masks in public. It is required in stores and public transport. Its an extra level of protection for everyone and service workers. This is true of many other European countries.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210120/what-you-should-know-about-germanys-new-mask-rules-for-public-transport-and-shops/

This is a fairly recent development. And as others have mentioned, they do not require masks in elementary school. Not in the classroom. Since this thread is about the distancing requirements within classrooms, that is the only relevant point, besides the question of community spread (which, as is becoming increasingly clear, is actually not that relevant for the safety of schools).

Well, as long as you decided what was relevant to discuss - there you go. Community spread in schools with mirror community spread in the general population.

It’s not what I have decided, it’s what a number of experts have lately been saying. And the spread within schools is usually lower than that in the community.

Spread "within" schools, but schools are not immune. All our neighborhood schools have had to quarantine classes.

Quarantining is good. It means the system is working. The goal is not to not have quarantined (at least not now or anytime in the foreseeable future when covid is actively circulating). People are getting covid in the community, just like other people. Spread though is significantly lower in schools than in the community, meaning it’s safer being in schools, unless of course you’re just locked in your house still without any family and friend exposure.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

But do Germans know the difference between "then" and "than"? Why are the dumb ones always the loudest?

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

Germans mostly wear N95 masks in public. It is required in stores and public transport. Its an extra level of protection for everyone and service workers. This is true of many other European countries.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210120/what-you-should-know-about-germanys-new-mask-rules-for-public-transport-and-shops/

This is a fairly recent development. And as others have mentioned, they do not require masks in elementary school. Not in the classroom. Since this thread is about the distancing requirements within classrooms, that is the only relevant point, besides the question of community spread (which, as is becoming increasingly clear, is actually not that relevant for the safety of schools).

Well, as long as you decided what was relevant to discuss - there you go. Community spread in schools with mirror community spread in the general population.

It’s not what I have decided, it’s what a number of experts have lately been saying. And the spread within schools is usually lower than that in the community.

Spread "within" schools, but schools are not immune. All our neighborhood schools have had to quarantine classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Germany is run by a scientist and so cases have been low in Germany. They’ve risen a bit, but nowhere near 500,000 deaths as we’ve seen in the US.

The US was run by a corrupt criminal installed and kept in office by oligarchs like Koch and Murdoch and Sen Purdue and Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell.
We did something rare: we voted out oligarchy. And in the deal we got a better COVID response too.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

Germans mostly wear N95 masks in public. It is required in stores and public transport. Its an extra level of protection for everyone and service workers. This is true of many other European countries.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210120/what-you-should-know-about-germanys-new-mask-rules-for-public-transport-and-shops/

This is a fairly recent development. And as others have mentioned, they do not require masks in elementary school. Not in the classroom. Since this thread is about the distancing requirements within classrooms, that is the only relevant point, besides the question of community spread (which, as is becoming increasingly clear, is actually not that relevant for the safety of schools).

Well, as long as you decided what was relevant to discuss - there you go. Community spread in schools with mirror community spread in the general population.

It’s not what I have decided, it’s what a number of experts have lately been saying. And the spread within schools is usually lower than that in the community.

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Anonymous wrote:Germans had anti-mask protests like us. They also have neoNazis. Not sure why you assume they did so great

Exactly. After watching the way things went with Covid, I am not convinced their undoubtedly more competent government made such a huge difference in the long run. The main difference is they made school opening a true priority.

Anonymous wrote:CDC has updated other guidelines, and the updates have been ignored by DOH or OSSE or DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Germans had anti-mask protests like us. They also have neoNazis. Not sure why you assume they did so great

Exactly. After watching the way things went with Covid, I am not convinced their undoubtedly more competent government made such a huge difference in the long run. The main difference is they made school opening a true priority.

Anonymous wrote:Germans had anti-mask protests like us. They also have neoNazis. Not sure why you assume they did so great

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

Germans mostly wear N95 masks in public. It is required in stores and public transport. Its an extra level of protection for everyone and service workers. This is true of many other European countries.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210120/what-you-should-know-about-germanys-new-mask-rules-for-public-transport-and-shops/

This is a fairly recent development. And as others have mentioned, they do not require masks in elementary school. Not in the classroom. Since this thread is about the distancing requirements within classrooms, that is the only relevant point, besides the question of community spread (which, as is becoming increasingly clear, is actually not that relevant for the safety of schools).

Well, as long as you decided what was relevant to discuss - there you go. Community spread in schools with mirror community spread in the general population.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Also, they have gone through two total lock-downs where regulations were completely observed. Apples and Oranges here.

What matters is to compare the level of community spread. And it has not been lower in Germany, despite the lockdowns. During which, by the way, elementary school stayed open in many areas

Schools were open when everything else was closed. Again, everything that I heard about the lock-down was that Germans complied with strict regulations and at times there was a curfew. There was no indoor dining and no one traveled to beaches or went skiing over the weekend and then brought their kids back to in-person learning. It's a little different here.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally. That was long overdue. Germany has no distancing requirements at all for schools.

Germany is not a country of morons who see mask wearing as a political issue.

Mask compliance is no better in Germany then in DC. The comparison to Texas is irrelevant here. And by the way, Germany only requires masks in schools for fifth grade and up.

Germans mostly wear N95 masks in public. It is required in stores and public transport. Its an extra level of protection for everyone and service workers. This is true of many other European countries.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210120/what-you-should-know-about-germanys-new-mask-rules-for-public-transport-and-shops/

This is a fairly recent development. And as others have mentioned, they do not require masks in elementary school. Not in the classroom. Since this thread is about the distancing requirements within classrooms, that is the only relevant point, besides the question of community spread (which, as is becoming increasingly clear, is actually not that relevant for the safety of schools).