Posted on 08/27/2021 12:42:43 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
When the coronavirus first swept across Florida last year, Angela Gambrel did everything she could to lock down her home in Sumter County, northeast of Tampa.
Her 10-year-old grandson Jayden has a rare brain disease that disrupts his immune system and impairs his memory, making it harder for him to process complex tasks. His doctors urged her to take every possible precaution against the virus. No more supermarket runs. No more football scrimmages with his Special Olympics team.
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Donate Jayden’s school, like others across the state, halted in-person instruction, distributing worksheets to students to complete at home. The only time Jayden was around other people was when he had bloodwork done or underwent his monthly treatment about an hour away at Tampa General Hospital.
When schools reopened last fall, Gambrel, who’s been Jayden’s guardian since he was a toddler, kept him and his brother home, unwilling to risk exposing Jayden to a virus the world was just beginning to understand.
But without the intensive in-person instruction that he had been receiving for years, Jayden struggled, unable to keep up with his coursework.
Watching him languish, Gambrel knew he needed to go back to school as soon as it was safe, and so she was relieved to hear last month that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was advising school districts to have students and teachers mask and socially distance and to vaccinate staff. Jayden, she thought, could finally go back to school in person....
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Yes, dick everyone over for one kid.
Oh, masks don’t do shit either.
he can still wear the mask.
he can wear two masks...
he can do the trifecta if he would like.
If I had an autoimmune disease so bad I couldn’t go to the store, there’s no way I’d be stupid enough to think a single piece of cloth on everyone’s face would be helpful
Remember the anecdotal rage when Trump presented evidence? I call anecdotal on this one.
exactly, the ignorance in the article is astonishing- it’s nothing but a lame desantis bashing attempt- fail!
Cloth masks are something like 10% effective. With or without mask, if your kid is super high risk he probably should not be out.
Trying to keep a virus away with these cheap masks is like using a chain link fence to repel mosquitos.
Masks in special ed classes? My grand daughter is autistic and in special classes. It’s hard to keep pants on some kids and shoes are routinely removed. Masks.. duh
So stay home Bubble Boy.
The world does NOT revolve around you.
Putting a mask on the kid (or other kids) is like putting up a chain link fence so your kid can play in the backyard without your teen aged neighbor shooting him with a BB gun.
When the polio virus was rampant, it was discovered that slum kids and farm kids had more natural immunity. It was middle class and upper middle class kids who were hit harder by polio.
In any case, changing the rules for everyone is not right. The kid can stay home and be home schooled.
If we only had masks back in the 70s John Tranvolta could have left that bubble and been a normal teen.
I stopped right there. If she was told that by doctors why is putting him back in a classroom acceptable risk even with a mask?
In a classroom you are in close contact for long periods, in a grocery store who is in line 15 minutes or more? Come on now
Masks do NOTHING for CCP virus.
Masks are unhealthy period.
MASKS WEREN’T GOING TO PROTECT HIM!!! IDIOTS..
Show me any study, done anywhere that shows that universal masking provides ANY statistical difference in infection rates for respiratory viral infections....
Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Sucks to be him.
Why should everybody have to suffer just to accommodate him?
So put an N95 and a shield on him and send him to school. Problem solved!
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