Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

Lookit…. Just wear the masks……. It’s no big deal.

All you have here is unqualified idiots trying to impose their lunacy on people.

Take the qualified advice .

You trying to defend a nasty point of view you put across ... I'd suggest stepping away from the keyboard for a while.

my kids are wearing masks and minding themselves so my 80 year old mother is at less of a risk when I go to visit her in the nursing home and I hope to be able to have her company for a few years to come not for her to be a sacrificial lamb so my kid won't have to stick a mask on for a few hours

Vaccination and boosters are supposed to mean there aren’t any ‘sacrificial’ lambs, why should the kids suffer?

For Christ sake. Have people really lost the run of themselves this much? Seriously? Complaining and whinging about the introduction of a measure that is PROVEN to mitigate spread. Which is better for the whole community!

Spread puts pressure on hospitals, increases the chances of people catching the disease, increases the chances of new variants emerging and increases the chances of more **** restrictions. Cop on.

The vast majority of kids will be absolutely fine wearing masks and allowances can be made for those that can't. Stop being bloody contrary for the sake of it and focus your energy on doing something that would actually help children/schools etc.

The vast majority of people who don’t want kids wearing masks is their parents. Kids probably won’t care if their parents didn’t make such a song and dance about it.

If they don’t want to wear a mask in school then why bother doing homework or wear a uniform or whatever other rule the school have

My kids see their grandchildren .. antigen tests are handy along with general day to day doing what you can to decrease the chances of passing on the virus ... it's not a binary choice

You could use antigen tests before visiting your mum if you are that concerned . Better than asking very small children to use masks in their daily life

I didn't misunderstand your point. Either you misunderstand the role of masks or else you have been swept up in the hype ...

Your child wearing a mask is not going to save Ireland's 85year olds. That is not why they are being asked to wear them.

Your child is being asked to wear a mask to prevent the teacher becoming a close contact in the event of there being a covid case in the classroom. The level of risk to their health comes not into it. If you are a close contact of a positive case, you must isolate for 10 days, regardless of vaccination status.

I am a second level teacher. I have had students in my classroom test positive. Because we are wearing masks I am not deemed a close contact and I can continue to show up and the school can continue to stay open.

If we are going to have a conveyor belt of teachers isolating due to being close contacts, the schools are not going to be able to stay open.

They said the same about lockdown, that worked well didn’t it???