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That as well. My children my choice. I don't expect school to stay open past September. My kids will love it, me not so much. The day they mandate masks is the day my kids become home schooled. I doubt we have to worry about that here though. Too much common sense here for that kind of idiocy.
I guess it all depends on the number of cases at the school. At some point, if those numbers get too high, they will be forced to either mandate masks, or shut down school and have the kids go virtual. I prefer the minor inconvenience of a child wearing a mask, over parents not being able to go into their office/work, due to virtual learning.
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Unless all children wear n95 mask they won't be protected.
It's not a binary. All children and staff wearing mask is a layer of protection - one of many.
Think of it like driving a car. People wear their seatbelts, turn on their light, stay within the speed limit, avoid texting or holding their phone, avoid driving while impaired, and pull over every few hours for a break. Some of those things are legal requirements, others are just good sense. And yet you can do everything right and still be in a horrific car accident, but no one would argue that each of these measures adds another level of mitigation.
The same is true of COVID policies. We know a lot more now than we did a year ago, but are still figuring things out with the increased transmission issues with the delta variant. We know that both vaccines and masks are less effective at completely preventing delta as they would have been with initial covid waves, but we also know that masks reduce (but not eliminate) both spread and viral "dose", and that vaccines prevent the vast majority of hospitalizations and almost all deaths. You can do everything right with covid and still get it, or do everything wrong and never get it - we all have anecdotes on both sides. But as an aggregate, what matters is on a population level to keep our healthcare system going. Right now, the heathcare system is failing in places like Texas and Florida where surgeries are being cancelled and chemotherapy postponed due to lack of staff or space.
With regard to schools, Texas started almost a month ago and one of my best friend's children has been out on quarantine almost the entire time. She had an exposure on the first day of class - 2 weeks out. She came back to class, and surprise! Two more positive students in her class that she has close connections to. Two of her teachers are currently out with active covid now. This is pretty extreme, but teacher friends in my homestate of Georgia are also reporting that teachers are going down with covid and whole classes are quarantining. Masks are not required in either state in schools, but I suppose that is a moot point if you're constantly being booted out of the classroom due to quarantines or sick teachers.
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There are no absolutes, but cotton mask are a waste of time and give a false sense of security. If a n95 is worn correctly it will give you 95 percent protection against air borne pathogens, but you can't get a child to properly wear a mask. Trying to keep a mask on a child is the equivalent of trying to herd cats.
When I worked for Abbott Vascular, we had to dawn a new (N95) mask after every break and a new gown and booties.
No one suffered any respiratory damage as a result to my knowledge. The same mask was not worn all day.
After wearing a mask for several hours it loads up with the humidity your exhaling, the ability to filter goes away and you end up rebreathing that humidity as well. The mask can only absorb so much.
ANYTHING that is not an N95 mask is not going to be an equivalent substitute.
Some of these masks people wear look like they were fashioned for a dog, not a human, which means that it is like blowing into a balloon and rebreathing the same carbon dioxide. The closer to the face the N95 fits the better, if it is going to work at all.
Now I realize that it becomes expensive to replace the mask every few hours however if you put it in the sun between uses and trade off during the day the sun will both dry it out and kill any germs present. I put mine in the dash of the car while driving from place to place.
I guess it all depends on the number of cases at the school. At some point, if those numbers get too high, they will be forced to either mandate masks, or shut down school and have the kids go virtual. I prefer the minor inconvenience of a child wearing a mask, over parents not being able to go into their office/work, due to virtual learning.
Yeah. The problem is states like Texas, Florida and Arizona that is blocking this self-determination by the districts who are on the ground and better know the pulse of the area in regards to the virus.
Yeah. The problem is states like Texas, Florida and Arizona that is blocking this self-determination by the districts who are on the ground and better know the pulse of the area in regards to the virus.
Well...in Texas, people are still free to wear masks to school. The governor is just not going to issue mask mandates.
Wear it all you want or don't wear it. You know...freedom. Everyone seems to forget what freedom was like. LOL
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