“The Height of Ridiculosity”

I "finally" got COVID. Happy holidays!

Updated 1/1: I speculated that it would be difficult for my county to meet the CDC threshold for universal masking, given that South Carolina no longer has widespread testing. However, as of New Year’s Eve, my county, Richland, and other counties in the state are at a “high COVID-19 community level”. You can see your county’s level here. At this level, CDC recommends that everyone “Wear a high-quality mask or respirator” in public. Specific school-level guidance from CDC recommends: “At a high COVID-19 Community Level, universal indoor masking in schools and ECE programs is recommended, as it is in the community at-large.” Other updates with newer data on the drug Paxlovid are included in the body of the essay.

They should not be forced to wear a mask in school against the wishes of the parents. I think again it is the height of ridiculosity [sic] for a school district to make that decision for the parents, particularly since we know that even when the virus was rampant that the schoo…