Anonymous wrote:My Wilson junior said that nearly everyone remained masked, including her.

Heard the same from a senior.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is still masking because we have two younger, unvaccinated children.

Who are at zero risk, barring extreme existing health issues.

So, good job teaching your kids to ignore science.

Sadly, you are wrong about that.
The latest CDC report says that during the omicron wave, 63% of hospitalized infants and children had no underlying medical conditions.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7111e2.htm

My K student in ward 5 did not mask today and said she was the only one - all other kids and teachers in class wore masks. Everyone I saw at drop off and pick up had masks on.

She had a mask in her backpack in case she wanted to wear it and she did not. I asked her how she felt about not wearing a mask and she said “great.”

Fwiw, I did speak with our pediatrician about it and she fully supported our kid dropping the mask.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is still masking because we have two younger, unvaccinated children.

Who are at zero risk, barring extreme existing health issues.

So, good job teaching your kids to ignore science.

And you don’t know they don’t have another medical reason. So good for you for pushing your shame.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. The pressure to unmask is sort of disgusting. I am fine with DCPS making it an option but if we as a family have decided to continue to mask, that should be our choice. It is not hurting anyone else. If anything it could be helping control spread. But it is certainly not hurting anyone, so why the pressure to remove it?

Your child has been receiving pressure to unmask?

Check some of the other threads. 100% ok with dropping masks but there have been some odd statements from the anti-mask at all costs people. Personally, I’ll let me kid decide when he is ready. No pressure either way

Oh, so you feel pressured by DCUM! Well, that is your problem.

Yep the only pressure to unmask is here

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to un-scare people once you have scared them for two years, and politics are a powerful force especially in this town, so I'm not surprised it's hard for parents and even kids to let go of masks.

Maybe kids who lost a parent or guardian were scared of that and not a simple common sense public health measure.

At this point their parents and guardians should be triple vaccinated and shouldn't need to burden their children with the fear of transmitting the virus to somebody vulnerable.

At this point you can have an unmasked child so maybe you stop telling people how to feel. I’m sure you have no fears of anything and are incredibly socially adjusted and full of empathy for others.

NP. The forever-maskers I know are overwhelmingly anxious introverts who spend way too much time on Twitter and aren’t what I’d call “socially well adjusted” but I’m sure you got lots of likes and retweets in your head for this comeback, so as long as you don’t hassle my unmasked kid for their “selfishness” or whatever the f** then I’m glad you’re happy.

I’m the OP to this “comeback” and my kid went unmasked all day. He said it was great. I told him to do what felt comfortable and he walked to the playground masked. I picked him up I masked. He said half his friends were unmasked and half were masked.

The kids I know still masking are doing the same w their kids, letting the kids decide when they feel comfortable. But after a week of their kid is still masking they will start a nudge. One kid walked out of the school unmasked and she put the mask on to hug her dad. As her dad said “it’s her body so her choice”.

If we lived in Florida or Georgia we would all feel differently. But we are here and vaccinated and we cautiously move forward and will not shame anyone who is taking a step slower than us.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is still masking because we have two younger, unvaccinated children.

Who are at zero risk, barring extreme existing health issues.

So, good job teaching your kids to ignore science.

My kid is still masking because we have two younger, unvaccinated children.

Anonymous wrote:JKLM, 2-4 masked kids per class.
Most teachers unmasked.

For context and a good sense of what DMV hospitals will look like in June:
This past 'unmasking' week in DC, 9 out of 220ish democratic representatives tested positive, along with one former president and the vice-president's husband.
The country supplying us all of our stuff shut down hard.
BA2 is now 23% of all sequenced covid samples in the US.
Pfizer has requested authorization for a necessary 4th dose of vaccine.
CDC published a report on deaths of kids under 5 in the omicron wave.

For context:
None of said representatives or former president or vice president's husband were reported to be seriously ill
We have replenished our reserves of masks and tests
Pfizer requested authorization for a 4th dose only for elderly people
The headline for the Washington Post report for that CDC report literally reads: "Hospitalizations of young children increased fivefold during omicron surge, *but few died*"

My Wilson junior said that nearly everyone remained masked, including her.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. The pressure to unmask is sort of disgusting. I am fine with DCPS making it an option but if we as a family have decided to continue to mask, that should be our choice. It is not hurting anyone else. If anything it could be helping control spread. But it is certainly not hurting anyone, so why the pressure to remove it?

Your child has been receiving pressure to unmask?

Check some of the other threads. 100% ok with dropping masks but there have been some odd statements from the anti-mask at all costs people. Personally, I’ll let me kid decide when he is ready. No pressure either way

Oh, so you feel pressured by DCUM! Well, that is your problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. The pressure to unmask is sort of disgusting. I am fine with DCPS making it an option but if we as a family have decided to continue to mask, that should be our choice. It is not hurting anyone else. If anything it could be helping control spread. But it is certainly not hurting anyone, so why the pressure to remove it?

Your child has been receiving pressure to unmask?

Check some of the other threads. 100% ok with dropping masks but there have been some odd statements from the anti-mask at all costs people. Personally, I’ll let me kid decide when he is ready. No pressure either way

Specifically, not surgically

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Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten at a bilingual DCPS. Slightly under half of the class didn’t mask, kid says all of the teachers did. I would love to see more teachers unmask because I’m noticing a lot of spelling “mistakes” that make it clear she can’t hear the differences between sounds, and I think seeing (teacher) mouth movements would help with that. I get the impression from her teacher that staff doesn’t want to rush and make families uncomfortable, so hopefully they’ll feel okay taking masks off as people adjust to the change.

Are you being facetious? You think the reason your kindergartener has spelling mistakes is because of masks? Wow.

No, she has a bit of a speech impairment and struggles with certain sounds. So since she has trouble saying “b vs d” and “m vs n”, she mixes them up when writing and reading as well. It’s the letters that she has existing issues with surgically. And not being able to see the difference in how the mouth moves between the letters has not helped the issue resolve. That’s according to her speech therapist though, perhaps you know better?

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to un-scare people once you have scared them for two years, and politics are a powerful force especially in this town, so I'm not surprised it's hard for parents and even kids to let go of masks.

Maybe kids who lost a parent or guardian were scared of that and not a simple common sense public health measure.

At this point their parents and guardians should be triple vaccinated and shouldn't need to burden their children with the fear of transmitting the virus to somebody vulnerable.

At this point you can have an unmasked child so maybe you stop telling people how to feel. I’m sure you have no fears of anything and are incredibly socially adjusted and full of empathy for others.

Not telling anyone how to feel, but I do care what adults are doing to children. If children are scared of the virus, or are burdened with the fear of infecting someone, it’s the adults around them who are responsible.

Do you suggest children not live in the reality of their world? I worry about what adults are doing to children, when they go so far in shielding them from any of the discomforts of reality that these children grow incapable of coping with reality and its discomforts.

The reality of their world is that this virus has never been a significant risk to children, and that the adults around them are now vaccinated and boosted. Also, yes, I do believe that we must not burden children with the idea that they could be guilty of killing someone because they transmitted a virus. Transmitting viruses has always been part of the human condition, and should never be a source of guilt unless done carelessly or intentionally. It has nothing to do with shielding kids from all discomforts.