Posted on 09/18/2023 7:20:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
… While some families never stopped masking, a recent Yahoo News/YouGov survey of 1,665 adults in the U.S. found that just 12% had practiced regular mask-wearing outside of the home over the previous week.
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Dr. Zachary Hoy, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Pediatrix in Nashville, says he doesn’t believe that families should overreact to the uptick in COVID-19 cases just yet, though it is worth monitoring.
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If your family decides to return to masking, Amodio suggests including kids in any discussions. “Help them to understand the reasons behind the choice, and be sure to validate their emotions even if those emotions are anger, frustration or annoyance,” she says.
Now that community mask-wearing is less common, it’s important for kids to learn ways to advocate for themselves around peers and feel more empowered. Some phrases Amodio suggests to help kids communicate their return to masking include: “This is how I feel most comfortable,” “I prefer to wear a mask for personal reasons,” “I have a compromised immune system” or “I have a loved one with a compromised immune system.”
Darby Fox, a licensed clinical social worker and author of Rethinking Your Teenager, says a simple statement should be sufficient to stop anyone from probing a child’s decision to wear a mask.
“If a child is wearing a mask at school and others inquire or make fun, the best thing to say is, ‘I need to protect a family member,’” she says. “Hopefully we are teaching our children to be empathetic and nonjudgmental regarding these health choices.”
Fox says that while kids may be worried or resistant if they have to wear masks again, it’s also best to remind them it’s only temporary and that it helps keep people who are compromised safe.
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Where have I heard that before? In many states "temporary" was a year or more. If masks work, then the compromised can wear then and be safe, right?
The income tax was also technically “temporary”
Here's how to behave if people tell you to wear a mask:
I get my medical advice from female preschool teachers.
“Experts weigh in.”
LOL. The ‘experts’ have been wrong about almost everything since the beginning of this madness. Why the hell should we listen to anything they say?
Fool me two thousand times...
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+101
Don’t get too excited....I know binary.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Thanks for that info…
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Kma, how about that, commies.
Well, we're waiting...
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Unfortunately two old old friends have been casualties to the WuFlu panic. A buddy from youth died from blood clots. An old widowed girlfriend became a hermit and has not left her house or allowed anyone in since March 2020. Her sons bring her what she needs and leave it on her doorstep and DoorDash leaves her meals at her door.
The Democrat-Pharma-Media cabal has to keep pushing this BS lest even more of the low-info throughout the world come to the realization that it was a bogus scam from the beginning.
In case any of the low-info (none of them here) haven’t figured out the aims of “COVID” by now:
Democrats: Get rid of Trump
Pharma: Reverse the work Trump and his people were doing to reduce prescription drug costs.
Media: Bought-and-paid-for by the above to carry the propaganda ball.
It was NEVER time to put masks on children.
How tragic it will be for those who die without having truly lived.
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Isn't it obvious? 30 days prior to election day, of course.
“Experts.” But they’re not.
Just people who think they know better than you.
Leave me alone.
Good lord…she has isolated herself for 3 1/2 years . Sad .
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