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I’ve stayed quiet and apolitical on here because, well, there’s a lot of crazy, but feel compelled to speak about what’s happening in schools, and I respectfully direct this to @adriandix and @jjhorgan.
Got a pic of my 10-yo child in her class. She wears a mask always, and here she is, cheek-to-jowl beside a bunch of other kids who are maskless. The kid who sits behind her tested positive the last day of school. She’s justifiably nervous.
I was hospitalized in acute care when she was 6-mo with a mysterious respiratory illness and I’m rightfully cautious about Covid. So I’m naturally asking why the public health directive has kids just not required to wear masks when we *know* this helps lower transmission rates.
*Why* are children and teachers forced to be in an environment where they are exposed to others who are not following the most basic public health guideline? My kid hasn’t been eating her lunch because she doesn’t want to remove her mask around others.
How can we be letting this very obvious loophole continue to remain open? I’m not soap-boxing here, I’m genuinely asking for science-based answers to a very relevant concern.
We have done our part since Day 1 to protect ourselves and others by the simple courtesy of wearing a mask. It’s a very simple solution to aid in curbing a complex problem - so what is the reasoning behind that loophole?
Not a week goes by that we don’t receive an email about exposure at one or the other child’s school. We’ve thus far been lucky - but is luck what we really want to rely on as a public health measure?
I’ve just read the remarkable and harrowing @newyorker exposé The Plague Year and it is so clear that masks prevent spread - why then are we just leaving a great swath of people (and their families) vulnerable and exposing teachers on a daily basis?
. @DFisman I’ve been checking in with your feed as I’ve found it informative and am interested in your perspective on this as well.
