I don't think kids should have mask requirements in school and I say that as someone who has been pro-mask.
The data is clear that kids aren't getting COVID as much as adults and severe illness is pretty rare.
Parents should make the call on if their kid needs to wear a mask.
If a school district's area is seeing a massive outbreak, of course they should have temporary restrictions such as masks.
But to have a blanket mask mandate for a state is silly without some data-driven metrics to work with.
Being flexible is the key for school policies.
Have you seen elementary school kids sitting with masks in the August heat for 6+ hours?
They hate wearing them and end up playing around with them all day. Those masks are pretty nasty after a full day of school- especially in these hot months.
They end up being a distraction.
While I am frustrated that my kid will have to wear masks again, my anger is not at the school districts or even our governor who imposed the mandate.
It's at all of the adults who refuse to get vaccinated which has allowed COVID to spike again, forcing kids into this situation.
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With all of the talk about inflation I wanted to do a quick thread to explain how inflation has been impacting my small business and will be impacting consumers even more in the days to come.
I've been talking about this all year, but this might give a better overview. 1/11
At the start of 2021 our supplier increased costs on all products by 20-35% due to the massive increases in materials on their end. We all saw this with the escalating costs of wood, glass, metal, etc.
That alone required us to increase costs on some items where we could. 2/11
Those price increases did not hit until about May because it takes ~90 days to get products from order to available for sale.
So we increased in very small amounts but have been waiting to increase further to absorb the increases in product costs.
For the "vaccines don't work so why would I get one" crowd:
Another very easy way to illustrate that the vaccines are not only working, but they're working amazingly well against the delta variant to prevent deaths.
I know a lot of people are profiting from pushing misinformation and the CDC is awful at messaging, but the vaccines work!
Here's yet another easy illustration of how well the vaccines are working: In Virginia, they've only had 17 vaccinated hospitalizations - just 0.0004%!
There are 42x more cases among unvaxxed Virginians even though over half the state (54%) is vaccinated.
Twitter has the right to suspend whoever they want, and Trump spent months begging them to do so.
But if they want to maintain any confidence in their rules, they need to apply them consistently across the entire spectrum of beliefs.
So far they have not come close to doing so.
Twitter kept Trump's account open because he brought in a ton of valuable traffic, but this week were forced to acknowledge that traffic was also coming from people who were seeking to do harm.
The media did the same thing after giving Trump two billion in free airtime in 2016.
We'll find out soon enough how serious Twitter is about no longer being willing to entertain accounts that promote outright hate, misinformation, and extremist politics.
Trump absolutely deserved to be suspended, but now the real work begins for Twitter to apply that uniformly.