This Thread Blows - C19 and beyond
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Kaleidopete
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Hopefully this means we can go back to not wearing masks at the climbing gym.
nope, not voluntarily. (some sports arenas arent letting people in without masks again, I.E. prudential)
mfennell
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Curious: what do your kids think? Mine (7th grade) hasn't complained once since about day 2. They don't even think about it. At pickup, 90% of them continue wearing it until they're in the car. For all I know, they're like my daughter: they wear it home, then take it off rather than carrying it around.
moose35
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I will if I go to a store and the employees have on masks.
Otherwise no.
My 1st graders never say a word about it. My 9th doesn’t say a whole lot either but wears it off his chin anyways .
Mine are younger and haven’t ever complained. All kids have to so it’s not a big deal. The biggest hassle is washing them and not having to find one at the last second before the bus comes.
But when I told them they could stop in a month they were visibly excited.
Strugglebus
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My daughter doesn’t seem to think about it (also in 7th grade). When I pick her up from school she wears it until she gets in the car. I usually have to remind her that the mask is not required in the car.
She seems to love to follow ‘the rules’ and will complain about the kids who don’t wear their mask properly in school.
I’m just hopeful that a return to an unmasked life isn’t to difficult for our kids
one of my daughters totally stresses over no mask. Honestly I think she prefers it.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
This is kind of fascinating ...
The place is older than England. It survived barbarian hordes, Viking raids, dozens of wars, several plagues (such as several outbreaks of the Black Death, the "Sweating Sickness", a few outbreaks of Leprosy, and multiple influenza epidemics) and multiple bouts of famine. It was over 700 years old by the time Henry VIII split with the Catholic Church, and pre-dates the formation of the United States by nearly a thousand years. It saw the world around it move from feudalism to mercantilism to capitalism (and existed throughout the rise of multiple other "-isms" throughout the rest of the world.) It witnessed the formation of world trade routes, the rise of literacy, the printing press, the age of discovery, modern medicine, nearly every invention we take for granted today and it saw the average lifespan of humans more than double during its years of operation. And after all that ... Covid. Closed for business. Wow.
The place is older than England. It survived barbarian hordes, Viking raids, dozens of wars, several plagues (such as several outbreaks of the Black Death, the "Sweating Sickness", a few outbreaks of Leprosy, and multiple influenza epidemics) and multiple bouts of famine. It was over 700 years old by the time Henry VIII split with the Catholic Church, and pre-dates the formation of the United States by nearly a thousand years. It saw the world around it move from feudalism to mercantilism to capitalism (and existed throughout the rise of multiple other "-isms" throughout the rest of the world.) It witnessed the formation of world trade routes, the rise of literacy, the printing press, the age of discovery, modern medicine, nearly every invention we take for granted today and it saw the average lifespan of humans more than double during its years of operation. And after all that ... Covid. Closed for business. Wow.
mfennell
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To that point, apparently my daughter likes that she can more easily curse at people under her breath when she's wearing a mask!
rick81721
Lothar
Is that relevant? If I had young kids in school, I'd be more concerned with what the experts think.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1075842341/growing-calls-to-take-masks-off-children-in-school
Captain Brainstorm
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Because throughout human history, especially all of the bad times, including diseases way worse, people have always been able to get together and commiserate over a pint, until COVID came and took that away.
bergsnj
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I told my 3rd grader yesterday that they dropped the mask mandate and she literally jumped for joy.
Wow all the arguments that “anti maskers” have been using for 2 years are suddenly legitimate concerns to the liberal media? What a Fucking joke.
mfennell
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To the decision? No. I was just curious, which is why I used that word. @jShort is "so freaking ready" but my own kid and her friends are indifferent.
Interesting comment from my daughter yesterday when I told her my friend's son got accepted to her school for Kindergarten next year. I mentioned that he scored great on everything except fine motor skills like writing. "Well, he's a COVID kid so he hasn't been getting much practice."
mfennell
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It's almost as if the situation has changed over two years.
It's funny that you have to say that. A lot of people act like everybody knew, or should have known, exactly what to do with a brand new virus.
Shit changes. We learn and adapt.
Accepted, fine motor skills like writing? Tough kindergarten!, in Morristown, they just show up to school at the assigned date.