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There's a big difference between high school volleyball or cross country and a dozen 5 yos cramming themselves into a tube slide.

Yes, there is. High schoolers transmit COVID to on average 3/4 of a person. Kindergarteners transmit to on average 1/2 of a person. So kindergarteners breathing in each others' faces are half as likely as teenagers breathing in each other's faces to transmit COVID.

While most kids will be okay, there are and will be immunocompromised children and those who cannot/won't get vaxxed in our classes at some point. I know of two EL school classrooms that are currently quarantined. We wear our masks to protect them.

Give it up. The quarantines are ending. A few states have eliminated them already since that stats just don't support keeping kids home when the "exposure" was between kids were wearing masks indoors. You're just grasping for anything to throw back since she made you look silly by pointing out that younger kids spread it less than high schoolers.

Anonymous wrote:I’d rather we follow the science that transmissibility outdoors is nonexistent to negligible and certainly more dangerous than overheating concerns. My 5 yo is constantly chewing on his masks and they get so wet and gross. We have to give him like 4 day for school to change. Our pediatrician offered to right a note for him not wear one outside. He has asthma and she’s worried about kids breathing in air from gross wet masks in the heat.

So give him severally individually wrapped surgical masks to take to school and let him change masks after recess!

I have asthma and this is absurd. I hate doctors who do sh*t like that just to make the parents happy. Such BS. People with asthma can wear surgical masks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There's a big difference between high school volleyball or cross country and a dozen 5 yos cramming themselves into a tube slide.

Yes, there is. High schoolers transmit COVID to on average 3/4 of a person. Kindergarteners transmit to on average 1/2 of a person. So kindergarteners breathing in each others' faces are half as likely as teenagers breathing in each other's faces to transmit COVID.

While most kids will be okay, there are and will be immunocompromised children and those who cannot/won't get vaxxed in our classes at some point. I know of two EL school classrooms that are currently quarantined. We wear our masks to protect them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There's a big difference between high school volleyball or cross country and a dozen 5 yos cramming themselves into a tube slide.

Yes, there is. High schoolers transmit COVID to on average 3/4 of a person. Kindergarteners transmit to on average 1/2 of a person. So kindergarteners breathing in each others' faces are half as likely as teenagers breathing in each other's faces to transmit COVID.

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There's a big difference between high school volleyball or cross country and a dozen 5 yos cramming themselves into a tube slide.

My young elementary students are terrible at staying distanced in any way and the school isn't cohorting for recess, so literally the entire elementary school is on the playground at once. I'm fine with masks at recess. If there were a couple of cases (e.g., siblings) and no masks, there'd literally be no way to track close contacts. It could shut down the whole school.

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Anonymous wrote:Masks for recess are not a big deal. My kids are 4.5 and 7 and it’s easiest to have them keep masks on anytime they aren’t at home instead of a complex set of rules of when to wear a mask and when to take it off. Both are in person now at preschool/ private and masks at recess are no big deal.

Mask off at recess = so many lost masks.

Also if masks at recess make the worried parents feel better, my kids will gladly comply if it gets them back in public school with their friends.

I kind of agree, but this pandemic theater is getting old.

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Anonymous wrote:Masks for recess are not a big deal. My kids are 4.5 and 7 and it’s easiest to have them keep masks on anytime they aren’t at home instead of a complex set of rules of when to wear a mask and when to take it off. Both are in person now at preschool/ private and masks at recess are no big deal.

Mask off at recess = so many lost masks.

Also if masks at recess make the worried parents feel better, my kids will gladly comply if it gets them back in public school with their friends.

My kid wears a mask when he plays soccer with his masked team. They've been doing it for over a year now. Mask wearing is so not a big deal to them, except to some parents who don't science.

Look at you, so cosmopolitan and moral.

My neighborhood is fussy, but reports from colleagues and friends living elsewhere in the city — in Park Slope, Crown Heights, Harlem and Morningside Heights — suggested a continued high compliance despite the relaxation of mandates. In this way, it is easy to see the mask evolving as an expression of cosmopolitanism long past its necessity. If defiance was the style of one kind of culture warrior, mask commitment, regardless of the science, would be the ritual of another. New York is not Daytona Beach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-cdc-masks.html

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Anonymous wrote:Masks for recess are not a big deal. My kids are 4.5 and 7 and it’s easiest to have them keep masks on anytime they aren’t at home instead of a complex set of rules of when to wear a mask and when to take it off. Both are in person now at preschool/ private and masks at recess are no big deal.

Mask off at recess = so many lost masks.

Also if masks at recess make the worried parents feel better, my kids will gladly comply if it gets them back in public school with their friends.

My kid wears a mask when he plays soccer with his masked team. They've been doing it for over a year now. Mask wearing is so not a big deal to them, except to some parents who don't science.

So my kids wear masks outside, but they also know that the science actually says there have been zero documented incidences of kid-to-kid or kid-to-adult transmission of COVID outside. Only 1 out of 1,000 adult-to-adult cases of COVID were transmitted outside in places where contact tracing was detailed enough to find that kind of info (that's not your risk of getting it from an adult outside). Even CDC's little graph says people in small groups outside don't need to mask, vaccinated or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Masks for recess are not a big deal. My kids are 4.5 and 7 and it’s easiest to have them keep masks on anytime they aren’t at home instead of a complex set of rules of when to wear a mask and when to take it off. Both are in person now at preschool/ private and masks at recess are no big deal.

Mask off at recess = so many lost masks.

Also if masks at recess make the worried parents feel better, my kids will gladly comply if it gets them back in public school with their friends.

My kid wears a mask when he plays soccer with his masked team. They've been doing it for over a year now. Mask wearing is so not a big deal to them, except to some parents who don't science.

Anonymous wrote:Masks for recess are not a big deal. My kids are 4.5 and 7 and it’s easiest to have them keep masks on anytime they aren’t at home instead of a complex set of rules of when to wear a mask and when to take it off. Both are in person now at preschool/ private and masks at recess are no big deal.

Mask off at recess = so many lost masks.

Also if masks at recess make the worried parents feel better, my kids will gladly comply if it gets them back in public school with their friends.

Masks for recess are not a big deal. My kids are 4.5 and 7 and it’s easiest to have them keep masks on anytime they aren’t at home instead of a complex set of rules of when to wear a mask and when to take it off. Both are in person now at preschool/ private and masks at recess are no big deal.

Mask off at recess = so many lost masks.

My 4th graders class plays soccer at recess - making the most of it.

Good for Fauquier.