If you really think your child is at higher risk of getting infected now than in January, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, I know that's not a nice word, but it's the only accurate way to describe you.

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Anonymous wrote:I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS

Then you know the PEP kids were regularly taking their masks off before. Some of them never wore masks. I really don’t know what you think masks were accomplishing in that setting.

At least they had some protection from everyone else around then masking. Now they don’t. There’s a difference between a bubble of 4 unmasked pre-k kids in the same classroom and hundreds of k-5 students + staff + bus drivers + teachers + visitors who surround them in that building being unmasked.

How much close contact are they really having with "everyone else" in the building though? Or do you think it's coming through the ventilation systems?

I mean, it feels a whole lot more Covid safe NOW, with low cases, than a couple months ago when masks were required but cases were high. But YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Are you suggesting you’re going to be desperately avoiding Covid for the rest of your life? Because otherwise I don't know why you'd be caring about the risk of getting Covid, rather than the risk of severe illness.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

Actually look at other articles that are concerned. Lots of them.

As this article notes, previous studies did not have a control group. While I fully recognize long COVID is real (a very close friend of mine has it), it is difficult to study. This was the first one that actually used a control group.

It wasn’t the first with a control group. But the results were consistent with the other controlled studies. As you said, long Covid is real, just like long flu is real. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003773

But the actual risks of long Covid have been grossly exaggerated.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

Actually look at other articles that are concerned. Lots of them.

As this article notes, previous studies did not have a control group. While I fully recognize long COVID is real (a very close friend of mine has it), it is difficult to study. This was the first one that actually used a control group.

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Nobody cares who gets COVID. Lots of people are getting COVID. They say BA2 is almost as infectious as the measles so good luck evading that based on other kids wearing a cloth mask under their noses. What matters is who suffers severe illness, death or long term disability as a result of the infection. Very few young children do, to the point that flu and RSV pose similar risks so if you weren't demanding all people wear masks around your child because of those illnessnes pre-pandemic then you're not making a lot of sense.

Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

They are at the same risk of getting Covid now.

Anonymous wrote:Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

Actually look at other articles that are concerned. Lots of them.

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Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

Like it or not, there are many, MANY parents in MoCo of children under age 5 who will think you are TRASH if you don’t wear a mask around their vulnerable kid.

We’re telling you.

If you DGAF, then whatever, but that’s what you’re doing- making parents of young kids fearful and enraged.

If the child under 5 isn't wearing a mask (which is very often the case), why should I care? I actually don't either way so it's a rhetorical question...

Because very often that child cannot wear a mask. How many 1 year olds do you know who wear a mask?

And how often does that one-year-old hang around with other one-year-olds? I’m not sure why you’re so focused on adults.

Luckily kids are low risk— even one-year-olds.

Young children are lower risk than a vaccinated adult, and we now know they aren't experiencing long COVID in large numbers
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/controlled-studies-ease-worries-widespread-long-covid-kids/#:~:text=Initial%20reports%20suggested%20that%20some,last%20for%20days%20or%20weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

Like it or not, there are many, MANY parents in MoCo of children under age 5 who will think you are TRASH if you don’t wear a mask around their vulnerable kid.

We’re telling you.

If you DGAF, then whatever, but that’s what you’re doing- making parents of young kids fearful and enraged.

If the child under 5 isn't wearing a mask (which is very often the case), why should I care? I actually don't either way so it's a rhetorical question...

Because very often that child cannot wear a mask. How many 1 year olds do you know who wear a mask?

So what?

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Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

Like it or not, there are many, MANY parents in MoCo of children under age 5 who will think you are TRASH if you don’t wear a mask around their vulnerable kid.

We’re telling you.

If you DGAF, then whatever, but that’s what you’re doing- making parents of young kids fearful and enraged.

If the child under 5 isn't wearing a mask (which is very often the case), why should I care? I actually don't either way so it's a rhetorical question...

Because very often that child cannot wear a mask. How many 1 year olds do you know who wear a mask?

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

I was at my kid’s school for a meeting yesterday and no one masked. Guess we will all burn in hell together.

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Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

Like it or not, there are many, MANY parents in MoCo of children under age 5 who will think you are TRASH if you don’t wear a mask around their vulnerable kid.

We’re telling you.

If you DGAF, then whatever, but that’s what you’re doing- making parents of young kids fearful and enraged.

If the child under 5 isn't wearing a mask (which is very often the case), why should I care? I actually don't either way so it's a rhetorical question...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

Like it or not, there are many, MANY parents in MoCo of children under age 5 who will think you are TRASH if you don’t wear a mask around their vulnerable kid.

We’re telling you.

If you DGAF, then whatever, but that’s what you’re doing- making parents of young kids fearful and enraged.

I’m curious what it will take for you to realize that you are speaking for a very small number of people. Most people absolutely do not agree with you and realize 99.999999% of kids under 5 are not “vulnerable”. What happened to your “kids are resilient” mantra?

They’d have to interact with other parents and kids, which the pp can’t do while sheltering in their basement.