Anonymous wrote:Diocese of Richmond is mask Optional. Because they’re sane and not neurotic weirdos.

Hope the Arlington Diocese does the same!

Anonymous wrote:It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?

Whack A Do

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?

Plenty of evidence that shows the Delta variants:
1. Are spread by asymptomatic vaccinated people;
2. Children are hospitalized (ICU) at same rates as adults once they contract the virus.

On the contrary, masks are perfectly safe if you wash them regularly or buy disposable Medical grade ones.

This is incredibly shady and what consuming media without understanding any context does to a brain. Kids who are UNVACCINATED carry the same risk of hospitalization as VACCINATED adults. It's incredibly rare to die from COVID after vaccination. Kids literally have a 99% smaller rate of mortality without a vaccine -- fewer than 350 deaths out of 600,000. Thank goodness, right? Or perhaps we're immune to good news at this point. Vaccines are amazing and doing their job to protect adults -- similarly to the protection a child already has regardless of vaccinate status. Have whatever opinion you want, but don't insist others orient their behavior based on misunderstanding of the data. Less pearl-clutching, more educated analysis.

Pediatric deaths have topped 400 actually. (Just add numbers in the links you provided). In any case, Francis Collins, who is a good guy heading up NIH summed this issue up best on the morning show with Jake Tapper today, addressing the Desantis rule prohibiting masks in school:


And we do know that kids are capable of getting pretty sick. We have lost about 400 children who have died from COVID-19 since this all started. And kids can also get long COVID, where they don't maybe that sick with the acute illness, but then end up, months later, with difficulties with brain fog and fatigue that interferes with their school performance.

So, this is not to be just dismissed as a zero risk. And, of course, kids also live in homes. And there may be people in those homes who are perhaps immunosuppressed, and they could bring home the virus and cause a bad outcome.

So it just makes common sense in a community where the virus is spreading -- and that's pretty much all of Florida right now -- to do everything you can to prevent that, which includes mask-wearing for kids in schools, even though it's inconvenient. I think maybe, when you look on the scale of things that we're asked to do, being asked to wear a mask is perhaps not quite the huge challenge, burden that sometimes is being portrayed. Kids are pretty adaptable.

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2021-08-01/segment/01

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

This is all easy to verify from the CDC's data.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?

Plenty of evidence that shows the Delta variants:
1. Are spread by asymptomatic vaccinated people;
2. Children are hospitalized (ICU) at same rates as adults once they contract the virus.

On the contrary, masks are perfectly safe if you wash them regularly or buy disposable Medical grade ones.

This is incredibly shady and what consuming media without understanding any context does to a brain. Kids who are UNVACCINATED carry the same risk of hospitalization as VACCINATED adults. It's incredibly rare to die from COVID after vaccination. Kids literally have a 99% smaller rate of mortality without a vaccine -- fewer than 350 deaths out of 600,000. Thank goodness, right? Or perhaps we're immune to good news at this point. Vaccines are amazing and doing their job to protect adults -- similarly to the protection a child already has regardless of vaccinate status. Have whatever opinion you want, but don't insist others orient their behavior based on misunderstanding of the data. Less pearl-clutching, more educated analysis.

Sources for your data?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?

Plenty of evidence that shows the Delta variants:
1. Are spread by asymptomatic vaccinated people;
2. Children are hospitalized (ICU) at same rates as adults once they contract the virus.

On the contrary, masks are perfectly safe if you wash them regularly or buy disposable Medical grade ones.

This is incredibly shady and what consuming media without understanding any context does to a brain. Kids who are UNVACCINATED carry the same risk of hospitalization as VACCINATED adults. It's incredibly rare to die from COVID after vaccination. Kids literally have a 99% smaller rate of mortality without a vaccine -- fewer than 350 deaths out of 600,000. Thank goodness, right? Or perhaps we're immune to good news at this point. Vaccines are amazing and doing their job to protect adults -- similarly to the protection a child already has regardless of vaccinate status. Have whatever opinion you want, but don't insist others orient their behavior based on misunderstanding of the data. Less pearl-clutching, more educated analysis.

Diocese of Richmond is mask Optional. Because they’re sane and not neurotic weirdos.

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Anonymous wrote:Email the superintendent - that's what we did. Let him know that you don't want healthy kids masked!

Isn't this a forum for private schools?

They are referring to the Superintendent of Arlington Catholic Schools, Dr. Vorbach

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?

Plenty of evidence that shows the Delta variants:
1. Are spread by asymptomatic vaccinated people;
2. Children are hospitalized (ICU) at same rates as adults once they contract the virus.

On the contrary, masks are perfectly safe if you wash them regularly or buy disposable Medical grade ones.

Current data indicates its more contagious than the common cold (for every case, it's spread to 8-9 others. It's going to rip thru classrooms without masking.

Anonymous wrote:It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?

Plenty of evidence that shows the Delta variants:
1. Are spread by asymptomatic vaccinated people;
2. Children are hospitalized (ICU) at same rates as adults once they contract the virus.

On the contrary, masks are perfectly safe if you wash them regularly or buy disposable Medical grade ones.

Anonymous wrote:Email the superintendent - that's what we did. Let him know that you don't want healthy kids masked!

Isn't this a forum for private schools?

CYO was available for many schools. We had a short season and basketball was only 8th grade but tennis practices, X Country and track had short seasons as did volleyball.

Anonymous wrote:Email the superintendent - that's what we did. Let him know that you don't want healthy kids masked!

That is not the question that needs to be addressed, we aren’t talking a blanket statement about healthy kids, we are talking about masks. And how do you define a healthy kid?

For this school year, the number 1 question is: If kids are unvaccinated, should they be masked indoors when around lots of kids? The second question is about mask wearing indoors by vaccinated students and staff.

Email the superintendent - that's what we did. Let him know that you don't want healthy kids masked!

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Anonymous wrote:Now, the big question, will CYO sports happen? I am all for them playing in masks, if needed.

No way, its too dangerous to play CYO sports in masks. Volunteers could not take on that risk.

My little kids played basketball in masks last winter (not for CYO). It sucked but Fairfax required it to use the buildings (said it wasn't fair for rec kids to be unmasked if the school HS teams had to wear masks).

Anyway, if CYO uses any county gym space, they will have to follow the county's rules for permitting. That said, I really hope they don't have to play in masks again this winter.