Keeping schools closed until children are cleared for the vaccine isn't quite the same thing as a forever lockdown. But people still seem to be laboring under this notion that it's "less dangerous" for children. When in fact that because the delta variant is so transmissible, more children are becoming infected, and more are becoming very sick. And that in reality, they've been susceptible to the virus from the very beginning. Not to mention the educators and other staff who have to be around this. You guys don't even get the hospital hazmat kit.
As to your deleted point, which I think is an important one, the fix for mask-muffling of voices is to speak the fuck up. It's a piece of cloth/paper, not a ball gag. You shouldn't have to get in someone's face to hear what they're saying. Some of the girls in my high school were the noisiest human beings I've ever heard. Masks wouldn't stand a chance. Your school could pick out some of these girls to run a few training sessions on how to rattle skulls with vocal chords.
One of my more fence-y conservative friends (who doesn't have any school-age children) was very positive about reopening. "They're keeping social distancing y'know, and masking up!" Sure, that's only two steps, but we need more people vaccinated. I don't particularly care to make it look like I'm ready to initiate more of these conversations, so I'll wait to see if he wants to offer his opinion on the dramatic backfire. Maybe he'll acknowledge that in hindsight (interjection - even though this was a predictable outcome) it was a poor idea to reopen. Or maybe he'll blame it solely on politicians (partly valid, not the whole picture).
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Covid anecdote from author Lauren Hough:
https://twitter.com/laurenthehough/stat … 64257?s=20Some other funny stuff posted too. Anyway, have any parents recently told you there's "some virus" going around.
The anecdote strikes home, in a way. People who aren't specifically antivax, just anti-covid-vax. Really familiar stuff.
