@scottwhitaker95 A few immediate thoughts:
1. Vax aren’t 100%, which for general population is probably good enough, but schools are collecting places a lot of un-vax’d kids. One transmissible staff mbr would have a lot of long contact periods with a lot of un-vax’d kids.
1. Vax aren’t 100%, which for general population is probably good enough, but schools are collecting places a lot of un-vax’d kids. One transmissible staff mbr would have a lot of long contact periods with a lot of un-vax’d kids.
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@scottwhitaker95 2. The study mentioned two layers of masking: staff and students. I’m sympathetic toward idea of adults, when not around kids, going un-masked, but students still should.
@scottwhitaker95 2a. While the raw number of adolescent kids who died of covid is small, deaths overall for that age are too. COVID is a top-ten cause of death for that age group right now.
@scottwhitaker95 3. As a general broad statement, masks were supposed to (and generally have) helped bridge the gap until we had vaccines. Let’s wait until we have that population vaxxed.
@scottwhitaker95 3a. Not dissimilar, if all older people are vaccinated, why mask at nursing homes? Or why the state is still requiring masks at state living centers? The risk is high enough still that the mitigation of masks is worth it. I offer this is also true for schools.
@scottwhitaker95 That said, I could appreciate and be fine with high schools being totally mask optional once % of vaxd students high enough (or schools with all 12+. Kids middle school is still a third kids too young, for example)
@scottwhitaker95 Final comment: I’m also not against masks being optional outside (as AISD recently made policy as opt-in via parental approval). The overall risk of outside play is a lot lower so maybe masks don’t matter in that setting. We didn’t opt-in b/c “let’s just finish this year as is”