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Old 09-25-2021, 03:40 PM
 
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I have no doubt, same goes in your state and in your school district. Maybe not in some Florida districts...



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Old 09-25-2021, 03:49 PM
 
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Ugh! https://www.reuters.com/article/fact...-idUSL1N2P929B

Online claims that children wearing face masks for COVID-19 are being exposed to dangerous levels of carbon dioxide are false. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends face masks for children over the age of two for protection against the spread of COVID-19.

An example of messaging suggesting that masking children for COVID-19 protection exposes them to harmful carbon dioxide levels is visible here . The post containing a screenshot from Life Site News, (here) reads, “Face masks cause children to inhale six times the safe limit of carbon dioxide, study finds.” The attention-grabbing photo is paired with a user caption reading, “Think there is nothing wrong with masks? Masks are harmful, don’t work, unnecessary, and unconstitutional!”


https://www.healthychildren.org/Engl...thbusters.aspx


Along with physical distancing and good hand washing, face masks help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This includes the more contagious Delta variant. Masks can be especially important for children younger than age 12, who are not yet eligible for the COVID vaccines.
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Old 09-25-2021, 03:52 PM
 
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I seen the saddest thing the other day. There were about 30 kids outside running around playing with masks on. Looked ridiculous
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Old 09-25-2021, 03:52 PM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
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Ugh! https://www.reuters.com/article/fact...-idUSL1N2P929B

Online claims that children wearing face masks for COVID-19 are being exposed to dangerous levels of carbon dioxide are false. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends face masks for children over the age of two for protection against the spread of COVID-19.

An example of messaging suggesting that masking children for COVID-19 protection exposes them to harmful carbon dioxide levels is visible here . The post containing a screenshot from Life Site News, (here) reads, “Face masks cause children to inhale six times the safe limit of carbon dioxide, study finds.” The attention-grabbing photo is paired with a user caption reading, “Think there is nothing wrong with masks? Masks are harmful, don’t work, unnecessary, and unconstitutional!”


https://www.healthychildren.org/Engl...thbusters.aspx


Along with physical distancing and good hand washing, face masks help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This includes the more contagious Delta variant. Masks can be especially important for children younger than age 12, who are not yet eligible for the COVID vaccines.
Ugh! Every other civilized nation on earth disagrees with masking little kids in school all day long. Unfortunately, here in the United States, the federal government is controlled by the teachers' union and there are enough mindless morons out there who actually believe 1) cloth masks prevent viral spread; 2) little kids wear the masks properly; 3) little kids change the masks after touching them each time and 4) little kids are at risk from the virus.

I'm guessing you are one of those people, nana. Go read some actual science instead of posting propaganda from the CDC, the Democrat Party, and the teacher's unions.

Oh, and if the vaccine can't stop the virus, which it oftentimes can't, your worthless cloth mask isn't stopping the virus either.
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Old 09-25-2021, 03:55 PM
 
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My local school district made national news this past summer as it relates to school board policies regarding masking. It got ugly, real ugly.

School board members who had yet to vote were harassed at home and in some cases their property vandalized.

There seemed to be a collective sigh of relief when the Governor mandated masks in schools. Those opposed to masks could redirect their anger at the Governor instead of friends, neighbors and locally elected officials.
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Old 09-25-2021, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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Way to miss the point, nana.
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Old 09-25-2021, 03:58 PM
 
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My local school district made national news this past summer as it relates to school board policies regarding masking. It got ugly, real ugly.

School board members who had yet to vote were harassed at home and in some cases their property vandalized.

There seemed to be a collective sigh of relief when the Governor mandated masks in schools. Those opposed to masks could redirect their anger at the Governor instead of friends, neighbors and locally elected officials.
And the sheep can wear their face diapers in peace. Pathetic.
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Old 09-25-2021, 04:06 PM
 
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Masks are also required on school buses.

One of my grand kids was recently unwelcome to attend school in person for 2 full weeks because someone on her school bus tested positive. HIPAA laws prevent disclosure of who. May have been one or more kids or the driver. A negative PCR test is not a free pass out of home quarantine.

The good news is that access to virtual learning has greatly improved over last year.
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Old 09-25-2021, 04:08 PM
 
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Way to miss the point, nana.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/east-...b61845586837f4

in East Asian countries, the majority of the public adapted quickly to mask-wearing (or were already wearing them to begin with) ― something experts believe has contributed to lower COVID-19 death rates.

“Because of the custom of wearing masks here, it wasn’t necessary for the government to mandate mask wearing for a long time because the public had already widely adopted their use,” said Ria Sinha, a senior research fellow at the Center for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. (Sinha is currently directing a COVID-19 archive project.)



Growing up in South Korea, Jamie Cho knew from childhood that if she got sick, she had to put a face mask on, even if it was just a common cold.

“My parents told me it was to keep myself and others safe,” she told HuffPost. “I would see others wear masks as well, especially during the winter seasons.”

The masks weren’t just a medical accessory, she said. For many, they served an aesthetic purpose: something a woman might put on to cover a makeup-less face while running errands or a K-Pop star might slip on to avoid being spotted by fans in an airport.

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Cho distinctly remembers that when her family moved to New York, her mom told her that she had to stop wearing masks in public because people would think she was ill or would look at her funny.

“She was scared of me seeming more foreign than I already was at the time as a young immigrant,” the college student said. “Because of that, I’ve never worn a mask in a Western country prior to COVID.”

Masking up is second nature to East Asian immigrants like Cho. But others haven’t taken so easily to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation to wear a facial covering. The guidelines have incited a nationwide feud about public health and civil liberties. Some Americans refuse to wear masks, claiming its contrary to their personal freedom. The most strident in the anti-mask movement have called them “unconstitutional,” “autocratic” and “muzzles.”

Meanwhile, in East Asian countries, the majority of the public adapted quickly to mask-wearing (or were already wearing them to begin with) ― something experts believe has contributed to lower COVID-19 death rates.

Naturally, there’s more to the story than masks: Compared to the West, East Asian countries tend to have much lower rates of obesity, a leading risk factor for serious COVID-19 cases. Preliminary studies have also suggested that East Asians may have built up an immunity to the virus, given the history of coronaviruses emerging in East Asia.

Pedestrians in face masks are a common sight in South Korea.
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Pedestrians in face masks are a common sight in South Korea.
But in light of overwhelming evidence supporting the efficacy of facial coverings, it’s probably fair to say the masks helped, too.

Take Hong Kong, for example.

“Because of the custom of wearing masks here, it wasn’t necessary for the government to mandate mask wearing for a long time because the public had already widely adopted their use,” said Ria Sinha, a senior research fellow at the Center for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. (Sinha is currently directing a COVID-19 archive project.)

There’s a long history of East Asian countries masking up.
Just as the anti-mask movement in America goes back to the 1918-19 flu pandemic (yep, there were protests over government ordinances then, too), so does the East Asian inclination to wear a mask.

In those pandemic years, mask-wearing was widely promoted in Western nations and only then exported to Japan.

“It stayed in Japan, but it disappeared in the West,” said Mitsutoshi Horii, a professor of sociology at the University of Shumei in Japan who’s currently working at its overseas campus at Chaucer College in England. “In Japan, then and now, people are generally concerned with the airborne transmission of the virus, so people wear masks in the hope of reducing the risk of infection.”

Years later, when the flu vaccine had been developed, the Japanese government said it was more important to get the shot than to wear a mask; even so, enthusiastic usage continued in the island country.

In China, the use of face masks against epidemics was practiced even earlier. In 1910 and 1911, citizens were encouraged to wear masks to combat the pneumonic plague outbreak in Manchuria. By the time the plague abated, more than 60,000 people had died in modern-day northeast China, making it one of the world’s largest epidemics at the time.
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Old 09-25-2021, 04:18 PM
 
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Nana, move to Japan or South Korea thx.
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