Many students and staff chose to continue wearing masks Monday; some districts are still requiring them
Students and staff at many, but not all, San Diego County school districts got the chance to go without a mask indoors on Monday for the first time since the pandemic began.
“Things have been working. You don’t stop doing them just because the situation gets better,” said Dr. Omid Bakhtar, a pathologist with Sharp HealthCare who sits on the county’s COVID testing task force. “You stop doing them when you’re comfortable that you are past the threat, and I don’t personally feel we’re there.”
Kelly said she worries about keeping her family safe from COVID and about being around people without masks.Natasha, who has family members with asthma, said she gets nervous when she sees people coughing without a mask and fears COVID cases will surge again because the mask mandate was lifted.Other Mission Hills students said they are so used to masks that it feels too weird to go without them.
The lifting of the mandate brought relief and celebration to parents who say masks are unnecessary and that masks are harming their children, although experts say studies have not shown that masks hurt students developmentally or socially. Jones’ two children did not receive a teacher’s instruction, she said. Instead they sat outside on lunch tables or in a library or in a separate classroom designated for mask protesters. They were supervised by an adult and completed assignments they received from their teachers.
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