@vivify saidPlease. Vaccination doesn't hurt children. They get a shot and it hurts for maybe 5 seconds and then it's over.
Children are required to be vaccinated before they can attend schools. Do you agree with Metal Brain that "forcing" vaccines is wrong?
That's what you sound like.
Please don't compare that to wearing a mask 8 hours a day when in a classroom and during recess.
@vivify said===They're allowed to take masks off at their desks===
They wouldn't have to wear masks "all day", only when walking around. They're allowed to take masks off at their desks (where they spend the majority of their day), much like most restaurants.
The article you posted is irrelevant.
Really, now? Are you sure that no mask mandates are going to force children to mask while seated? I haven't seen that.
Anyway, if they really do allow the masks to come off when the kids are seated, then the whole thing is meaningless COVID theater, because while seated in the same room for hours on end with 30 other kids is exactly where COVID is MOST likely to spread.
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@sh76 saidYou're missing the point. Metal Brain would insist they do hurt, they kill children, etc. You and I know they don't hurt children, but you're using similar types of arguments.
Please. Vaccination doesn't hurt children. They get a shot and it hurts for maybe 5 seconds and then it's over.
Please don't compare that to wearing a mask 8 hours a day when in a classroom and during recess.
Masks don't "hurt" children. They've already had to wear masks during school in most of the country for over a year, in addition to wearing them in stores, doctor's offices, etc.
So, we're going to mask them during recess when they're outdoors and constantly in motion and when COVID is unlikely to spread and NOT mask them when seated in a poorly ventilated classroom for 3 hours aerosolizing their germs in the same air to be blown around the room by HVAC systems?
This makes so much darn sense.
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@vivify saidFor the 99th time, wearing a mask when spending 10 minutes in a supermarket isn't a BFD. Wearing a mask for 8 hours in school every single day is mild torture.
You're missing the point. Metal Brain would insist they do hurt, they kill children, etc. You and I know they don't hurt children, but you're using similar types of arguments.
Masks don't "hurt" children. They've already had to wear masks in most of the country for over a year, in addition to wearing them in stores, doctor's offices, etc.
@sh76 saidChildren have been in "poorly ventilated classrooms" since the 1800s. That's nothing new. You know, except for the global pandemic of a constantly mutating virus that gets more contagious and deadly with time.
So, we're going to mask them during recess when they're outdoors and constantly in motion and when COVID is unlikely to spread and NOT mask them when seated in a poorly ventilated classroom for 3 hours aerosolizing their germs in the same air to be blown around the room by HVAC systems?
This makes so much darn sense.
As far as wearing masks outside, you have a point. I'd be in favor of them not wearing masks outdoors, so long as social-distancing can somehow still be enforced.
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@sh76 saidFor the 99th time, they wouldn't be wearing masks for 8 hours a day. Kids are allowed to remove them at their desks, where the children spend the majority of their school day.
For the 99th time, wearing a mask when spending 10 minutes in a supermarket isn't a BFD. Wearing a mask for 8 hours in school every single day is mild torture.
@sh76 saidStop with the ridiculous histrionics. Last year, ten of millions of workers - bus drivers, grocery store clerks, servers at restaurants, bartenders etc. etc. - had to wear masks for 8 hours a day and somehow they were able to endure this awful "torture".
For the 99th time, wearing a mask when spending 10 minutes in a supermarket isn't a BFD. Wearing a mask for 8 hours in school every single day is mild torture.
@no1marauder saidI imagine very few of the bus drivers and restaurant workers were six years old.
Stop with the ridiculous histrionics. Last year, ten of millions of workers - bus drivers, grocery store clerks, servers at restaurants, bartenders etc. etc. - had to wear masks for 8 hours a day and somehow they were able to endure this awful "torture".
@sh76 saidAnd that matters ................................................... how?
I imagine very few of the bus drivers and restaurant workers were six years old.
Surely most didn't want to, but they did it because it was required. School is a coercive environment anyway, so what is the big deal requiring kids to do something? They probably don't want to sit at their desks all day either; maybe they should be freed from that "torture" too.
Since when did the preferences of children override the public health?
