And the future anti-vax, perpetual contrarians are born. Great! At least I’d know who not to socialise with if I was in school.
Worked with 18 to 25 year olds over Xmas. Nearly all of them wouldn’t wear masks (literally bragging they’d lied about being exempt) or did so around their chins as soon as a manager walked away.
Fair enough, they believed they are vaxxed and will be fine but they just had no concept of other vulnerable people around them.
Guess who got COVID for Xmas.
Good on them.
Kids know an idiotic rule when they see one.
When will kids be able to *stop* wearing masks, if not at this point where 90% of adults are vaccinated and booster uptake is soaring?
Some folks must be still entertaining this “zero covid” lunacy if they think kids should stay masked.
There’s people in this article talking about the risk for immunocompromised folks. That’s understandable, but are we to conclude that everyone must wear masks in perpetuity? It wasn’t necessary before covid, and it shouldn’t be necessary anymore now that the vaccine program has succeeded.
Given that there’s no good evidence that mask mandates are effective even in reducing Covid cases in schools (as per yesterday’s thread), and Covid cases in schoolchildren have a very low chance of causing a problem – so what?
“Vulnerable” people – schoolkids or adults – should be protecting themselves with higher grade masks that will stand a chance at filtering out virus particles. Expecting everyone else to protect you is never realistic.
Masks are clearly optional everywhere else. Why should kids comply when adults don’t?
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And the future anti-vax, perpetual contrarians are born. Great! At least I’d know who not to socialise with if I was in school.
Worked with 18 to 25 year olds over Xmas. Nearly all of them wouldn’t wear masks (literally bragging they’d lied about being exempt) or did so around their chins as soon as a manager walked away.
Fair enough, they believed they are vaxxed and will be fine but they just had no concept of other vulnerable people around them.
Guess who got COVID for Xmas.
Good on them.
Kids know an idiotic rule when they see one.
When will kids be able to *stop* wearing masks, if not at this point where 90% of adults are vaccinated and booster uptake is soaring?
Some folks must be still entertaining this “zero covid” lunacy if they think kids should stay masked.
There’s people in this article talking about the risk for immunocompromised folks. That’s understandable, but are we to conclude that everyone must wear masks in perpetuity? It wasn’t necessary before covid, and it shouldn’t be necessary anymore now that the vaccine program has succeeded.
Given that there’s no good evidence that mask mandates are effective even in reducing Covid cases in schools (as per yesterday’s thread), and Covid cases in schoolchildren have a very low chance of causing a problem – so what?
“Vulnerable” people – schoolkids or adults – should be protecting themselves with higher grade masks that will stand a chance at filtering out virus particles. Expecting everyone else to protect you is never realistic.
Masks are clearly optional everywhere else. Why should kids comply when adults don’t?