I hope their school has put plans in place to accommodate kids who want to wear masks and maintain distance. It might be worth checking.
Even with the vaccine, my son plans to mask up indoors at school.
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Schools here (northern part of Alabama) are allowing masks, not requiring them. Distancing measures are over, back to normal classroom density. And Alabama now has the lowest vaccination rate in the country - Mississippi just passed us, barely. Going to be a long fall and winter here in the land of willful stupidity.
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Iām sorry to hear that. As a parent, thatās a lot of anxiety heaped on top of the baseline anxiety of parenting.
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Iām sorryā¦ stay safe from your Eastern neighbor.
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Itās even worse than it sounds.
Edit: didnāt notice thereās already a bbs topic:
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Ars has a pretty good take down on this, and as usual with this community, the comment section is actually worth reading.
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You could make a lot of money betting that DeSantis will be wrong whenever he opens his mouth, but I doubt any sane bookie would take that line.
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Good for him! Here I am proud of a kid I donāt even know
Our kid is still in preschool and her school continues to require masks for the teachers. Iām glad sheāll be there for another year. Because of our murderous governor, Texas public schools can no longer require masks.
Yeah. I want my kid vaccinated ASAP. We tried to enroll in a local trial, but didnāt get in.
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There have been more than 2.4 million coronavirus cases reported in Florida, with more than 38,000 deaths.
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Five percent. Five percent of all visitors to an OPEN AIR music festival.
Well, shit. Also:
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A little humor for the timeline:
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Itās not that hard to get people to get the vaccine.
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But my freedums!
And on Bastille day!!!
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Considering the lyrics of La Marseillaise and the background of the holiday, I guess the citizens knew Macron wasnāt messing around. 
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Those French people also have these weird concepts, āegaliteā and āfraterniteā, whatever they are.
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This is just perfect
Amidst a mental health crisis brought on by the pandemic, we are closing psychiatric beds due to inability to staff them. I am beyond furious, but I also fully understand that if you treat staff like shit, and underpay them, a situation made much worse by the pandemic, they will leave. Nurses always have options as far as employment, and this was handled very badly. We are so fricking screwed.
Also, keep in mind, this is the tip of the iceberg. Primary care is also tanking as far as staffing goes, hospitals are struggling to find staff, and being treated like āenemy agentsā by a certain segment of the population adds an unacceptable level of stress to an already fraught situation. Absolutely predictable, and has been predicted, but seeing it play out is painful, man.
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Yes, finally
We are finally sort-of mandatory here. You can get vaccinated or have weekly covid tests. I guess that was the consolation to the āmah free-dumbsā crowd. Not entirely happy with that, but I guess itās pretty good.
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