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Susan Martin4 said:I was reading another thread where they mentioned FOX reported about 2,000 infected students. Does that mean we're looking at nearly half of all active cases?
Susan Martin4 said:If my goal was to cause trouble, I'd rather vent about everything else instead of dragging my kid into a fight.
I'm genuinely curious to see what the rest of his classmates are saying about all this.
And honestly, what on earth are his parents doing that allows them to sit outside with him all morning?
Susan James said:Why not?
The whole point is that a kid wears a mask so they don't bring the virus home, right?
If the people at home who had contact with the virus in one way or another are already protected, then everyone's safe.
As for those who refuse to get vaccinated—well, maybe they’re just waiting to catch it naturally and then lie about being vaccinated.
Do we really need to protect people like that? Personally, I don't think so.
If you give some people permission to stop wearing masks, everyone else will either lie about it, stay obedient by wearing them, or just go get the shot.
In theory, we could all be mask-free.
There's a tiny minority who can't get vaccinated for various medical reasons, and they've been staying safe through different means for years. Some of them kept their kids in online school last year until the vaccine arrived. They might still be doing that now. But they are a very small group.
And honestly, this "separation" isn't the disaster people make it out to be.
Think about how the high schoolers feel—those who got vaccinated but still have to sit there with those cloths over their noses just because their parents refuse to get the jab.
By the way, talking about discrimination is a bit moot when we still have all these restrictions in place.
If vaccine passports were implemented everywhere, everything would be wide open without any delays. But since we're dealing with our usual local bureaucracy here, even those passports would probably end up getting lost...
The way they're introducing this only for essential workers sends a pretty ugly message to the rest of the public.
A kid wears a mask so they don't bring the virus home, right?
Susan James said:If everyone in a classroom stays on the same page about being against masks, you could look at the size of the room to see if maintaining a 1.5m distance is actually doable. Plus, having instructors who are either vaccinated or have already recovered would help a lot.
It’s definitely not impossible.
In theory, if everyone at home has already had it, the kid and the rest of the family are likely safe.
If the household is vaccinated, there's really no risk of the child bringing it home, and since kids mostly catch things from those they are in close contact with—basically their family—the chances of infection stay low.
Now, I'm not advocating for anyone to storm a school building for any reason, nor am I for a mountain of restrictive measures that basically contradict the goal of vaccination.
But if you have a classroom where more than half the parents are vaccinated, it might be worth trying to push back against the mask mandates.
Who knows, maybe there's even a class where every single parent is onboard.😲
In my opinion, high schoolers who are vaccinated or have recovered shouldn't need to wear masks.
The same goes for kids under 16, provided they've had it or their parents are vaccinated.
(And how would anyone even monitor that? They wouldn't. It really comes down to personal responsibility and being honest.)
We're all pretty exhausted by this whole circus, which ended up settling down in Denmark once people got vaccinated. Here in America, I actually think we don't even need such massive vaccination rates because so many people have already recovered—they just don't have the paperwork because they didn't get tested or used a faulty test (though, I suppose, they still want to use up the vaccine supply).
vividstag6 said:It is quite somber to observe that certain "individuals" see absolutely nothing wrong with facilitating the spread of a virus. They argue that because it's difficult for children to wear masks, we should simply allow them to act as vectors for the virus to reach those who are more vulnerable... how tragic indeed.
hiddendriver34 said:From where I’m standing, I’m pretty convinced those types don't even exist—and if they do, they’re definitely some kind of weirdo.
Every single professor I personally know seems to be dealing with some sort of digital-age burnout from all that remote learning.
Based on what the current projections are saying, we're looking at needing an 85 percent vaccination rate among folks aged 12 to 59 to actually stop this fourth wave from hitting us.
lonemaker14 said:Took my 15-year-old over to San Francisco yesterday to get him his Pfizer shot. I won't pretend to be jumping for joy about it—the benefits feel a bit murky, I guess. But honestly, our quality of life is sliding downhill fast, and he won't stay fifteen forever.
Travel, sports games, concerts.
Plus, I figure it’s one way to help out the community. My wife isn't on board, though. We had ourselves a bit of an argument.
Maybe she's got a point. 🙂