Reopening Schools

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(07-14-2020, 06:02 PM)masterpanthera_t Wrote: There are so many failures with this line of thinking, that you have to wonder how incompetent are the buffoons making this decision. Just to connect it to a point made by Belsnickel, there are others besides kids at schools, who are much more at risk. They can also end up spreading the disease to the rest of the community after catching it from the kids at school. Why not take the online option to protect the community? Or at the least, require the kids to wear masks? The kids themselves might not be at risk, but the chances of spreading to the rest of the community just goes way up.

Wearing a mask protects others more than the person wearing it. Therefore, even if the adults wear a mask, they have a much higher chance of getting infected when hundreds of kids don't wear them. Heck, they might get infected even if the kids wear the masks, simply due to the hours spent breathing the same air. Some mitigations like opening windows might help, but it's that a possibility for all areas of the school? Again, asking the kids to wear masks will decrease the chances, so why not do so? 

The only reason not to mandate masks is to appease the people who are against masks. Children 2 and younger should not wear masks, but those children are not in school. Children with breathing problems or who cannot manipulate the mask themselves should also not wear masks for a long period of time, but those children would be covered under an IEP or a 504, and individualized plans would be made for them.

There just isn't any reason to say "no masks" other than to appease anti-maskers.