Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Some of us are not anti-maskers. (But you're not shaming anyone right?)

I have worn my freaking mask like a good solider to the cause and so have my kids. But it's time to be done. That doesn't make us anti-maskers. Why would masks even be recommended when cases are that low? Why are we even looking at cases anymore? That is not the metric anyone should be looking at.

And sorry an asterisk next to required that says parents may opt-out when cases are at 10/100,000 is an absurd position at this point in the pandemic.

Why isn't the burden on all of you to wear masks forever if you feel like it? The default should not be wear masks forever or opt out if you really want to with a tiny asterisk.

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I wonder if APS will require a hard copy of an opt-out form to be provided by the family to the school (no electronic opt-outs).

how can they? Not everyone has a computer and printer at home. Equity.

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics. If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks. In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year. Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count. For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.

This chart is such utter BS. Really. So irritating. They're going to try to shame us into keeping the masks on and they're hoping enough people will go along with it that families will feel pressured to keep it up.

The chart is from VDH, not APS. I'm hoping they do try to shame the anti-maskers, not that they are capable of shame.

FU

FU for not wearing a mask. Goes both ways.

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics. If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks. In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year. Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count. For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.

This chart is such utter BS. Really. So irritating. They're going to try to shame us into keeping the masks on and they're hoping enough people will go along with it that families will feel pressured to keep it up.

The chart is from VDH, not APS. I'm hoping they do try to shame the anti-maskers, not that they are capable of shame.

FU

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics. If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks. In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year. Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count. For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.

This chart is such utter BS. Really. So irritating. They're going to try to shame us into keeping the masks on and they're hoping enough people will go along with it that families will feel pressured to keep it up.

🙄 This isn’t shaming, it is a revision to APS’s policy as to when masks will be required vs recommended based on case metrics, subject to parent opt-out. If anything, it is a relaxing of their prior strict masking requirement. If you feel shamed by this, maybe you should consider what that says about your confidence in your own masking position.

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics. If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks. In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year. Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count. For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.

This chart is such utter BS. Really. So irritating. They're going to try to shame us into keeping the masks on and they're hoping enough people will go along with it that families will feel pressured to keep it up.

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics. If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks. In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year. Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count. For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.

This chart is such utter BS. Really. So irritating. They're going to try to shame us into keeping the masks on and they're hoping enough people will go along with it that families will feel pressured to keep it up.

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics. If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks. In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year. Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count. For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Damn, some of you are grasping at straws to find a way to punish the kids who end up not wearing masks.

Not surprised, I guess.

I don’t have strong feelings about masking one way or the other. I also don’t think anyone is trying to penalize going maskless, they’re just suggesting that we adjust other mitigation measures to account for the mitigation of masking dropping out. If the reason spacing requirements were reduced is because masking was in place, it is reasonable to revisit distancing requirements when students are unmasked. The same goes for the mechanics of determining if someone is a close contact or whether a student needs to quarantine. Going maskless is an assumption of risk and potentially an imposition of risk on others. The law now permits that step, but that doesn’t mean school districts are required to pretend it doesn’t change things and it doesn’t bar them from using permissible mitigation strategies to rebalance the risk of spread in the classroom.

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

This is a VDH metric.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/covid-19-in-virginia/community-transmission/

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?

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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when?