King Charlie’s Guideline For Reopening Schools Is To Force Students To Wear Masks All Day While In School

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

That's intriguing...but to the much of the country, keep in mind, Baker smells like a Democrat so this would not represent enough of a contrast.

Baker has as much of a shot getting nominated as Bill Weld. Bill Weld couldn’t even get an ambassadorship. The Republicans blocked it. Cuomo doesn’t bear close inspection for how he handled the pandemic. “Better than de Blasio” is damning him with faint praise.

[LeavingMA]

I think most are missing the main part of the conversation. Children have been shown so far to be very low risk to this virus and there is no evidence they are "super spreaders" to adults. By the way, good luck getting an 8 year old to wear a mask all day and social distance. There is simply no need to put kids through this for another year. The damage from this isolation is worse than the virus from them.

Let kids be kids, and let the adults in the school systems social distance from other adults if they want.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by LeavingMA

I think most are missing the main part of the conversation. Children have been shown so far to be very low risk to this virus and there is no evidence they are "super spreaders" to adults. By the way, good luck getting an 8 year old to wear a mask all day and social distance. There is simply no need to put kids through this for another year. The damage from this isolation is worse than the virus from them.

Let kids be kids, and let the adults in the school systems social distance from other adults if they want.

So how do you accommodate parents with high risk chronic health issues? How do you accommodate multi-generational households and households where the grandparents provide all the daycare? We wipe out Chelsea and Brockton again and make all the failed cities high death rate hotspots.

If you’re white, suburban, automobile-centric, and 6-figure household income, you probably have a very different risk profile. You’re less likely to be obese. You’re less likely to be diabetic. You probably don’t smoke.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by LeavingMA

I think most are missing the main part of the conversation. Children have been shown so far to be very low risk to this virus and there is no evidence they are "super spreaders" to adults. By the way, good luck getting an 8 year old to wear a mask all day and social distance. There is simply no need to put kids through this for another year. The damage from this isolation is worse than the virus from them.

Let kids be kids, and let the adults in the school systems social distance from other adults if they want.

There's so far conflicting data about kids spreading. So let's say we send them back to school no masks, and it later turns out there IS significant spread among them/to adults. Would you then support requiring masks for them?

[LeavingMA]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

So how do you accommodate parents with high risk chronic health issues? How do you accommodate multi-generational households and households where the grandparents provide all the daycare? We wipe out Chelsea and Brockton again and make all the failed cities high death rate hotspots.

If you’re white, suburban, automobile-centric, and 6-figure household income, you probably have a very different risk profile. You’re less likely to be obese. You’re less likely to be diabetic. You probably don’t smoke.

I get it, not everyone has the same situation, but at the same time we will have make some sort of decision. So pick the kids or pick the grandparents if they have underlying issues. We can't play this game forever. The virus is here and we have to deal with it.