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In reply to FTACo88-FDT24dad • 1:03p, 8/19/21

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FTACo88-FDT24dad said:
I'm not trying to start a war. Just want to know if there are any such studies that assess the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of masks. Anything?

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I'll just say this. My kids were in school last year and were required to wear masks all year last year and we experienced just a few cases throughout the year. This year back at school for less than 2 weeks without masks and the cases have already exceeded last year.

No science applied to this study just a real life observation. Either Delta is just that much more infectious with kids or masks were working last year.

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For children Covid is like chicken pox. You want children to get it because it's a very minor ailment to them. Sweden never stopped in person(no mask) schooling last year. They found that Swedish teachers had a lower rate of covid infections than the general populace. Kids should be in school. Kids do not need a vaccine for covid.

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In reply to t - cam • 2:18p, 8/19/21

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FTACo88-FDT24dad said:
I'm not trying to start a war. Just want to know if there are any such studies that assess the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of masks. Anything?

TIA

I'll just say this. My kids were in school last year and were required to wear masks all year last year and we experienced just a few cases throughout the year. This year back at school for less than 2 weeks without masks and the cases have already exceeded last year.

No science applied to this study just a real life observation. Either Delta is just that much more infectious with kids or masks were working last year.

Delta is roughly 4x as contagious. I have serious doubts that kids wearing mask makes any significant difference.

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In reply to ham98 • 2:23p, 8/19/21

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ham98 said:
For children Covid is like chicken pox. You want children to get it because it's a very minor ailment to them. Sweden never stopped in person(no mask) schooling last year. They found that Swedish teachers had a lower rate of covid infections than the general populace. Kids should be in school. Kids do not need a vaccine for covid.

here's my issue with this line of thinking, everyone agrees COVID is very contagious so wether you believe it's serious or not is irrelevant. The volume of cases is the concern. With more cases comes more serious infections.

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In reply to KidDoc • 2:25p, 8/19/21

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t - cam said:
FTACo88-FDT24dad said:
I'm not trying to start a war. Just want to know if there are any such studies that assess the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of masks. Anything?

TIA

I'll just say this. My kids were in school last year and were required to wear masks all year last year and we experienced just a few cases throughout the year. This year back at school for less than 2 weeks without masks and the cases have already exceeded last year.

No science applied to this study just a real life observation. Either Delta is just that much more infectious with kids or masks were working last year.
Delta is roughly 4x as contagious. I have serious doubts that kids wearing mask makes any significant difference.

Yeah, if we are going to go anecdotal I had one kid in a junior high with a mask mandate (100% of kids wore them) and the other kid in an elementary without a mandate (less than 5% wore masks) and the campus with the mask mandate had several times the number of confirmed cases over the other campus without masks.

My take on it was that masks don't make a difference junior high kids probably tend to have more symptoms when they get it and probably do more social activities which leads to more cases.

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In reply to t - cam • 5:03p, 8/19/21

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ham98 said:
For children Covid is like chicken pox. You want children to get it because it's a very minor ailment to them. Sweden never stopped in person(no mask) schooling last year. They found that Swedish teachers had a lower rate of covid infections than the general populace. Kids should be in school. Kids do not need a vaccine for covid.

here's my issue with this line of thinking, everyone agrees COVID is very contagious so wether you believe it's serious or not is irrelevant. The volume of cases is the concern. With more cases comes more serious infections.

I'm okay with a lot of adults getting sick so long as kids get in person schooling. The societal damage to kids not going to school is far worse for us all than having scared adults getting sick. It's selfish garbage

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