Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: » Hold my bucket while I vomit. Look at the virtue signalling out of you and 5 likes to show for it. I bet you feel good about yourself showing the internet how compliant you are. What are we turning into indoctrinating kids with this stuff.
robinph wrote: » What exactly is the kid being indoctrinated with?
John O.Groats wrote: » Not "indoctrinating" them but turning them into responsible citizens hopefully though you seem to have an issue with that for some reason.
Away With The Fairies wrote: » I've seen the smartest kid in a shop today. About 5 years old, going around the shop with their parents wearing a face mask. When they got out to their car, their safe place, the kid took off their mask. 5 years old and can wear a mask inside a shop and didn't make a fuss and knows they can take it off outside the shop.
Overheal wrote: » Same way I was indoctrinated to wash my hands after I went for a piss in kindergarten.
weldoninhio wrote: » Fear. U-13s shouldn’t be wearing masks according to the HSE (Face coverings are not recommended for children under the age of 13.) So should we be following their advice about masks or not?
Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: » Kindergarten? Wow we really have been Americanised in Ireland. Not only do wish we were part of America so we could blame Trump and get more outraged about this stuff than we already are, bad enough everyone spouting links from the American CDC when we have a European CDC but now Junior infants is called kindergarten!!!
Polar101 wrote: » Yes, it's a completely American word and definitely in the local language as well. Do you have any logical arguments on why it is a bad idea to wear a mask in supermarkets or in close proximity to people you don't know? Or is this just a "masks cause communism" -kind of a campaign?
Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: » Because masks are ineffective
and unnecessary
and there is no co-relation btw wearing masks and a reduction in cases not to mention that you are statistically highly unlikely to catch the virus and in the off chance you do it will be a 9/10 chance that you didn't catch it communally and even after all that you have even less chance of dying from the virus. Knowing all this you can wear a mask if it makes you feel better but that’s all it will do.
Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: » Secondary school in Clare? I don’t buy, I think you’re hamming it up for attention from the locals. Why would you use kindergarten when you know it’s junior infants in Ireland. Rule #1 Understand your audience.
jam_mac_jam wrote: » What is the big objection to wearing a mask? I am not being smart, I honestly do not understand why it is a thing. You forget you are wearing it after a few minutes, it's not painful, why is this such a big deal?
_Kaiser_ wrote: » I too would share serious concerns about instilling a culture of fear in young children over what is something that if anything is of extremely minimal risk to them Take my own situation. My little lad's mother has bought wholesale into the fear over CV-19 to the point that she continues to self-isolate for the most part and has convinced herself that it would be a death sentence if she or her parents contracted it. I was down that way over the weekend and she insisted upon 2m distancing and going around wiping every surface repeatedly even though I'm not sick, haven't been sick, and am statistically MORE likely to catch it from them than I am at home. That's bad enough. It's no way to live, but she has him very aware of it all and keeping his distance and concerned too. He's 8. It's ridiculous behaviour IMO There's something wrong when a father can't hug his son because of the fear and doom that's being peddled over this issue, and for what? A virus that has predominantly hit those already seriously or terminally ill and even then in very low numbers overall. I fully expect that if/when schools reopen, that'll be a mess too - although that one I don't disagree on as the department is leaving it to the schools, and the schools are waiting for the department so I expect the result will be a situation where it varies from school to school (fun if you have kids in different ones I imagine!) and every sniffle has to be treated as a potential outbreak (bearing in mind every class is riddled with colds for the first few weeks back as they pass it to each other). I think that's when all these measures will come to a head and something will have to give.
Overheal wrote: » :rolleyes: Why would I say I learned about washing my hands after a piss, in Junior Infants, when I never attended an Irish Junior Infants school? There was a lesson plan about it in Kindergarten, and I attended Kindergarten, in Arlington WA. And I attended Secondary in Ennis, Ireland. I live in Clemson SC. Do you need a blood sample?
Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: » Wherever you grew up, is not the Bronx. Try and have a bit of decorum in your posts.
Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: » Sure why not wear a mask or better yet - download an app on your phone. Next we’ll have people carry a sign and then a yellow ribbon if you’d had the virus and a red one if you don’t and let’s make all these changes in the work place so people don’t get infected and close all these businesses and then every time you want to get something done and it’s delayed or broken or wrong, the reason for that delay will be “Covid-19” and nobody will be allowed question that excuse because “it’s about saving lives” even though the chances of getting and dying from the virus are close to zero but let’s not let that get in the way because “people have died” which no reasonable person could ever argue against so we all just have to accept what we’re told and be good little citizens even though we can see the reality is something different.
Deleted User wrote: » Vietnam yesterday. That is what a society with what must have been 90%-100% mask usage two and a half months ago looks like now. They're really not that scary. Wear them for a while to help and then stop wearing them. I'll never understand the issue people have with them.
Kendrick Jolly Ibex wrote: There is no co-relation btw wearing face masks and a reduction in the number of cases which is the whole argument behind wearing face masks.
Results show a near perfect correlation between early universal masking and successful suppression of daily case growth rates and/or reduction from peak daily case growth rates, as predicted by our theoretical simulations. Taken in tandem, our theoretical models and empirical results argue for urgent implementation of universal masking in regions that have not yet adopted it as policy or as a broad cultural norm. As governments plan how to exit societal lockdowns, universal masking is emerging as one of the key NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions) for containing or slowing the spread of the pandemic. Combined with other NPIs including social distancing and mass contact tracing, a “mouth-and-nose lockdown” is far more sustainable than a “full body lockdown”, from economic, social, and mental health standpoints.
John O.Groats wrote: » It really isn`t except for the drama queens who try to make a big deal out of it for their own bizarre reasons.
