Dear School Board
Dear Editor,
I want to share my public comments to the school board with your readers. The Guilford County school board meets tonight to discuss the status of mask wearing for kids in the 2012-22 school year and I hope they will do the right thing for our children.
Dear School Board Members,
Let’s start this new school year on a good note!
Since March 2020, kids have suffered enough with masks, distancing, testing, debates, division and fear. Most parents and kids just want to get back to normal.
The virus is now an endemic, not a pandemic, meaning it has spread around the world and it will continue to mutate and, with each mutation, thankfully it does not get stronger or more deadly. If that were the case, we would not have survived prior diseases. Instead, COVID-19 will become less and less contagious and eventually become a yearly bug that we will all endure much like the common cold or flu. (Some people will choose to get a flu or virus shot each subsequent year. “Choose” is the key word here.)
If we continue to mask children, we are denying them the opportunity to boost their own immune systems by being exposed to germs in general. Their health, not to mention their psyches, will continue to be damaged even more with another year of mandated restrictions.
Please unmask the children in our schools. It is a method of torture that has to end.
Thank you for all your service during a stressful time for all, and know you have the power to make things easier for all in the next school year.
Lynn Henson
Lynne Henson”s letter to the School Board makes good sense. We pray the School Board does likewise in deciding this issue.
How timely! A local “expert” wants kids maskless the same day the CDC says everyone at schools should wear masks indoors.
Please, go ahead and ignore the guidance of medical professionals and listen to your local and loco Lynn.
If I have to choose between Lynn Henson, who has offered a polite and well thought out approach, and you, who offer insults and tell us that we should trust the fip flopping CDC, I’ll go with Henson. She made a good case. You didn’t.
Fortunately, GCS makes the decision and they have decided on masking to start the school year. Hope you aren’t too triggered.
Oh look, WS/FCS also made the decision to mask up for school. Was Lynn Henson not listened to by anyone that actually makes these decision. Thank spaghetti monster!
Please go ahead and ignore all the emotional problems of this group of kids as they try to navigate another insane school year. Don’t forget the physical ones either as some kids have suffered CO2 poisoning.
Oh look, even Alamance county is requiring masks – arguably the most conservative and white empowered county in our area. Hmm, even the conservatives are starting to figure this stuff out, just not Karen.
Where in the letter did she assert she was an “expert”?
As a parent, and a person capable of making my own conclusions, I am inclined to use DATA to form opinions and make decisions. Unfortunately, the “experts” you trust have furnished none.
When she so confidently stated that the virus will continue to mutate to a weaker and weaker state which is absolute trash.. Thank God Polio kept getting weaker and weaker or we would’ve never survived it!
Austin, We are not disrespectful to “other humans”, and your snide character assassination is completely unwarranted.
Sadly, GCS will follow the politics and not the science. Control is what’s at stake here, not Science and Children.
It’s so good to see that Lynn Henson is finally pro choice! Glad we only had to kill 600,000+ adults to convince you!
And what is the total for you baby killers?
(BTW, should she be happy to see you are now anti-choice?) (My Body My Choice – right?)
Uh, that would be the alleged 600k deaths since Walensky & CDC admitted that only
5-6% were Covid only. Compare that to the number of aborted babies we’ve mourned.
That’s like saying you didn’t die of cancer or a car accident because you were also a fat, lazy Karen.
Good point, Karen, good point.
Lynn, it seems you have wasted your common sense on some people who don’t have any nor want any.
And they will not be reasoned with.
What basis does a virus get less effective as it mutates? The delta virus has shown that mutations can very much become for aggressive in terms of transition between hosts. It has also shown to be more aggressive in symptoms impacting younger hosts?
I am not a fan of masks as they are themselves not highly effective by themselves. Social distancing and frequent hand washing has to be a part of a good strategy for protecting against the virus for those who have not had the vaccine.
I am very much pro vaccine. By all accounts it is safe in the short term based on the millions of people who have had the shot will no more than minor reactions. The long-term risks of covid clearly out weigh the risks of the vaccine. Once approved for children, I hope more will encourage the vaccine versus the politicizing as Lynn does by calling a mask a torture devise.
I for one have loved not getting even a sniffle this last year or so and I thank the real knowledge experts who and those smart enough to listen to true experts on the subject.
Best Wishes
The delta variant is more transmissible but much less potent. Where did you find it was ‘shown to be more aggressive in symptoms impacting younger hosts’? Please share with us!
Are you aware of all the private schools around the country which have operated just fine with limited restrictions and no masks? Life can get back to normal soon. Let’s do an ‘about face’ so all the smiling faces of students can be seen and their voices heard!
I find most that ask for sources often just want to troll but I will humor you.
WHO has stated that Delta Variant hospitalizations are at a higher rate with slightly different symptoms from those of the alpha strain. BUT, if you have the vaccine, your symptoms are far less severe than those who elected NOT to have the vaccine.
If you don’t trust WHO. The Lancet medical journal found that with the Delta variant younger patients were twice as likely to be hospitalized as those with the original Alpha strain.
So again Lynn, please stop spreading your misinformation. Please.
Anyone paying attention to any outlet (News or otherwise) would see the evidence that the Delta variant is more potent in both transmission and severity. Get vaccinated.
The Lancet Medical journal notes the higher hospitalizations especially for younger patients that were twice as likely to be hospitalized.
Liz, please stop spreading your misinformation. Please.