Anonymous wrote:Just voted for Youngkin - first time I've ever in my life voted for a Republican. Also voted for Miyares since he said he'll sue any school district that closes. And I voted for Sears just to troll the Arl Dems political leaders.

Once McAuliffe 2 weeks ago refused to condemn school closures 2 weeks ago to the National Journal, Youngkin was an easy vote. I trust Youngkin over the woke nuts on Arlington's School Board, County Board and Arl Dems Steering Committee any day.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

Nope. We still have “substantial” community spread - numbers are similar to last April.

Once we get down to yellow/blue, the mask requirement will drop.

No we don't. Especially not amongst kids.

Yes we do.

There is an elementary school in Alexandria that has 3/4ths of its 5th grade class out sick and there is a 6th grade class that has more than 1/2 of its kids out. Those kids were all masked and that apparently didn't make much of a difference at alll. Community spread is a real thing. Adult spread is low because adults are vaccinated. Kids aren't. Frankly I am appalled that we haven't begun closing schools and doing virtual for the K-5 set. The risk and negative health outcomes aren't worth the juice for keeping schools open. I would like to see K-5 schools closed until the kids are vaccinatedc.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

Nope. We still have “substantial” community spread - numbers are similar to last April.

Once we get down to yellow/blue, the mask requirement will drop.

No we don't. Especially not amongst kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

+1 There is an elementary school in Alexandria that has 3/4ths of its 5th grade class out sick and there is a 6th grade class that has more than 1/2 of its kids out. Those kids were all masked and that apparently didn't make much of a difference at alll. Community spread is a real thing. Adult spread is low because adults are vaccinated. Kids aren't. Frankly I am appalled that we haven't begun closing schools and doing virtual for the K-5 set. The risk and negative health outcomes aren't worth the juice for keeping schools open. I would like to see K-5 schools closed until the kids are vaccinatedc.

Nope. We still have “substantial” community spread - numbers are similar to last April.

Once we get down to yellow/blue, the mask requirement will drop.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing demonstrated above is that there are a lot of different types of kids and families. Let's support them by voting for McAuliffe and the Dem ticket. Voting for the R out of spite just reduces funding for schools going forward.

No. Not this year.

+1. And I reject the suggestion that such voters are acting "out of spite." It is not spiteful to want leadership that prioritizes academics, not politics, in the public schools. We have lost that in recent years.

Voting for Rs for “education” is certainly out of spite. The Rs are not a solution - they are a message that you’d rather burn it down than try to fix.

Voting R is the only solution. The local Democratic party activists who control the primaries and caucuses are completely out of touch. They need a wake up call in Arlington (just like they did with the street car).

Arab poster here. Not sure if I said this in a previous post but I’m not voting for McAuliffe since democrats don’t seem to have any solutions to make schools better. It seems like democrats think that throwing money at schools in a solution in and of itself without delivering better educational outcomes. I will not be voting for Youngkin because clearly the guy is bat shit crazy and doesn’t seem to have any solutions either. I usually can bring myself to suck it up and vote for the democratic candidate at the end but not this time. I just can’t do it. I will say that Youngkin’ ad highlighting McAuiliffe saying that parents shouldn’t tell schools what to teach really did it for me. I watched the entire clip and I am still bothered by what McAuliffe said. But still won’t be voting for Youngkin.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing demonstrated above is that there are a lot of different types of kids and families. Let's support them by voting for McAuliffe and the Dem ticket. Voting for the R out of spite just reduces funding for schools going forward.

No. Not this year.

+1. And I reject the suggestion that such voters are acting "out of spite." It is not spiteful to want leadership that prioritizes academics, not politics, in the public schools. We have lost that in recent years.

Voting for Rs for “education” is certainly out of spite. The Rs are not a solution - they are a message that you’d rather burn it down than try to fix.

Voting R is the only solution. The local Democratic party activists who control the primaries and caucuses are completely out of touch. They need a wake up call in Arlington (just like they did with the street car).

Youngkin is no Vihstadt. He’s a Trump Republican. The GOP offers no solutions - only to tear it all down

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing demonstrated above is that there are a lot of different types of kids and families. Let's support them by voting for McAuliffe and the Dem ticket. Voting for the R out of spite just reduces funding for schools going forward.

No. Not this year.

+1. And I reject the suggestion that such voters are acting "out of spite." It is not spiteful to want leadership that prioritizes academics, not politics, in the public schools. We have lost that in recent years.

Voting for Rs for “education” is certainly out of spite. The Rs are not a solution - they are a message that you’d rather burn it down than try to fix.

Voting R is the only solution. The local Democratic party activists who control the primaries and caucuses are completely out of touch. They need a wake up call in Arlington (just like they did with the street car).

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

Nope. We still have “substantial” community spread - numbers are similar to last April.

Once we get down to yellow/blue, the mask requirement will drop.

No we don't. Especially not amongst kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

Nope. We still have “substantial” community spread - numbers are similar to last April.

Once we get down to yellow/blue, the mask requirement will drop.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?

High schools are almost fully vaccinated with very low cases.

And they are still masked.

Don't assume that vaccinations and very low cases will get your kids unmasked with current leadership. It won't.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting until Election Day to see if McAuliffe or Northam discusses the availability of kid vaccines and impact on mask mandate. My kids are miserable in them. (Though sure there teacher would say - they totally wear them w no complaints and sometimes they forget they still have them on at lunch!) They now know that their cousins in Europe and in Midwest and are not wearing masks and are so angry and done with them. I am too. And yes, I will vote on this single issue because Ds need a wake up call that they are absolutely out of synch on this issue.

Masks will be off next year - either spring if the numbers are looking good or the fall at the latest. Why elect a Trump Republican for FOUR YEARS over an issue that won’t even exist months after the new governor will be in office?