Originally Posted by
Kestrel
I hear you. I do. But where do you draw the line?
Where is it my responsibility to protect those who choose not to vaccinate? I support those who choose not to, but they have to deal with the outcome of that choice. Or the choice they make for their kids. Is there ever going to be a point where we can go back to school _normally_? Either it's safe to send kids back to school, or it's not. Those who choose not to vacc for whooping cough or measles have to stay home when it is detected in their school. If you choose not to have your kids vacc'd, and it is a choice, you have to deal with the results - staying home. We don't have everyone mask because we have four kids in our school who aren't vacc'd for measles. We are _never_ going to get "everyone" vacc'd. I hate to think that children will be expected to wear masks as the status normal. It's not normal, and should never be.
Little kids not yet able to get vacc'd are a different story. In my opinion, it is not safe to send them back to school now and they should be home.
At this point, nearly everyone - with a few rare exceptions - has had the chance to get vacc'd. There are some that will never change their minds. There are some who cannot, for various medical reasons. There are a few who might change their minds... - I did myself. (I got the vaccine I was comfortable with.) But we are not going to suddenly get millions more adults to decide to get the shot after all. We were repeatedly told we had to mask up until we had enough vaccine to get everyone vacc'd. I agreed. Now we do. At some point, we have to stop thinking it's selfish to want to go back to normal and start thinking it's selfish for those who choose not to vacc to expect us to protect them.
And now - add in rumors that we will need boosters to shots given less than a year ago - how many will actually get boosters? The one vaccine that our tweens/teens were able to get may already need to have a booster at just six months!
For those whose kids are fine in a mask, I'm glad you have it so easy. Really, I do. Mine is miserable, can't concentrate, keeps fiddling with it constantly, coughs, says he can't get comfortable, is short of breath, has no attention span with it on. He's not going to learn that way. (We have tried ten different masks we couldn't really afford to buy. Nothing works.)
When is it enough? What are we waiting for? What are they thinking is going to change?
The finish line keeps moving.