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Do we have any licensed lawyers on this forum who could discuss the legal ramifications of mask mandates in public schools?For grade school children it's probably an easy calculus that they could all be in a room together and catch coronavirus and nearly all of them would be perfectly fine. Even at this point it appears that historically flu is still killing more children than this is.
But then what do you do about the teachers? I have classroom full of children and a 50-year-old teacher with blood pressure and sugar problems.
In my area a significant portion of children live with their grandparents due to poverty and drug use. If you create an outbreak amongst the children what's the second halo effects for these families?
I don't have great answers for these and I think they really are at the core of the highest risk for schools. There may be some different calculus when you get into the high schoolers but for a great majority of students this is very low risk. But there's not only students in the building and there can't be.
Also be on mask You've had a year now the schools could have retrofitted and I just think about increased ventilation and other strategies that are less politically contentious and also probably useful adjuncts to masking.