Our youngest child's daycare is not mask mandating the children but after the latest governor proclamation along with recommendations by DHS and the State Health Department who are strongly encouraging kids age 3 years and older wear masks we sent our 3.5 year old with a mask on today. My wife made a comment that it will be interesting to see if the mask possibly helps out with not getting all the other crap that you usually goes around daycare too around this time of the year like the colds, coughs, runny noses, viral bugs/flus etc that daycare centers are known germ factories for.
I'm tired of the mask debates and if they are effective or not. I would rather wear one and eventually be proven wrong that they aren't effective at all than to be careless and not wear one and possibly add to the mess we already are in with this pandemic. I already had 1 exposure this summer to covid that I'm pretty sure the social distancing and mask wearing our group of 10 did probably saved us from getting it too. One of the guys in the group was a healthy and fit guy that had no symptoms of covid at the time and just days later started to develop some mild symptoms and tested positive. My initial reaction was shock then I started to replay in my mind if I had possibly come into any incidental contact with him or anything he may have handled or touched. Whatever we have all been doing up until this point it is becoming obvious that some need to take things more seriously to help get the numbers down. People who have other medical conditions or emergencies are going to also be at risk of not getting prompt health care if we don't.
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