Let The Children Decide to Mask or Not at School
How the kids have better answers than many of their conflicted parents
Around the country there is so much division about to mask or not to mask, to social distance or not social distance, to go to school or not, there are endless questions in the midst of COVID-19 and few answers coming from parents, politicians, and the likes. Children are not tainted with the woes and cares of life that includes many of the politicians that are driving misinformation that has adults totally confused as all fight against each other while their innocent children are caught in the middle. Note, some adults are anti-vaccine and anti-maskers and the irony is that some don’t have children in school just making a stance on an issue and imposing their standards on innocent others.
Kids are very adaptable when left alone. Most kids all-around appear to be okay with masks, it is the parents who have the problem. Do these same parents want to go back to online classes? Probably not. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Closed the schools down again, and watch those same parents outcry. Children need to help their parents decide because parents are clueless.
Another thought, die or live, it is just that simple. Everyone has a choice. Parents can save their children from COVID-19 or expose them to a virus that can prove detrimental to their health and/or have long-term residual effects.
Watching children wearing a mask around, I have not seen one child crying or screaming about having to wear a mask. None wore their mask below their nose or mouth like many adults. As a matter of fact, each appeared to be more adaptable than many of the adults that I have seen who resist constantly with protests around the country.
The answer is to adapt and eventually, we all will overcome eliminating much strife and discord between so many confused and misinformed adults. Children have a lot to teach by their civil behavior.
Children understand more than adults that the masks are a means to an end for the betterment of the world. American, one of the richest countries in the world, has lost human civility, become barbaric, and is worst and more deadly than the most dangerous animals on this planet.
Children treat the mask as they do their clothing, a necessity when away from home. Parents and adults need to follow the lead of their children and stop the bickering. Kids manage and parents and other adults can do the same if they would only give it a try.
The normalcy the world had yesterday is gone forever, with COVID-19 the world has a new normal and no one can change this profound fact but God who controls all. With adulthood comes knowing that there are limitations in most if not all aspects of life. Accepting these limitations is comprised of maturity and adulthood.
Some parents who feel more privileged than others have displayed an attitude of hysteric regarding children being exposed to limitations of today pertaining to wearing a mask and unconsciously pass on their biases to their children, and all become an out-of-control roller coaster.
These privileged parents make their children incapable of suffering and discomfort. This is a recipe for disaster now and later for these privileged children who may evolve like the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers that are running rampant around the country.
Some of these same privileged parents who belong to two-parent groups have gone on to file lawsuits against the Orange County Department of Education. These two groups need a wake-up call. Perhaps, they should home-school their children since they are too precious to wear a mask but should roam free around other children without a mask possibly affecting others as they go. This is not privileged, but selfishness.
Presenting their case, the agenda was one of misrepresenting, bashing, critical race theory, and suing Governor Newsom for his mandating masks. The California Supreme Court rejected their lawsuit.
Kids as they grow, come to understand restrictions and the mask-wearing is no different. It is what it is, is a kid’s attitude. Life is comprised of rules for everyone that is born into this world. No, kids are not the problem, but the parents and other ill-meaning adults. Oftentimes, in the public, children are often embarrassed as their parents behave in an unseemingly and negative fashion in the public regarding mask-wearing.
An entitled society of people becomes a threat not only to their children, themselves, and the country at large. Everyone is connected to someone else and that someone connects to another and the chain reaction continues. For the good of humanity, each needs to learn how to walk in another’s shoes and see the world through another’s eyes.
Oftentimes, the apple does not fall too far from the tree. If these privileged parents continue, their kids will eventually model their behavior, and the cycle continues spiraling out of control. Entitlement and selfishness would perpetuate more the same in the same environment.
Schools like other institutions have dress codes and thus far all kids have adhered to these dress codes. No one brings their children to school wearing pajamas or barefoot. It is just the way it is and the same should apply for mask-wearing until COVID-19 is contained.
Parents need to wake up, they can not have it both ways, either mask up your kids and allow them to attend school and socialize with their peers or stay home, no mask and be homeschool. It is just that simple but many are trying to make all more complex than it really needs to be.
Over 600,000 people, young and old, are dying from the virus, there is no time to be inundated with such frivolous behavior. With masks, the children can be socially, academically, and physically involved returning to school or the reverse staying at home isolated.
The news media and statistics have indicated that COVID-19 and the Delta viruses are on the rise among the youth and each week thousands of students are testing positive across the country at various schools. What does it take for these parents to put away their frivolous desires and do the right thing for their kids, themselves, and others?
Children can get sick and die from the viruses like many others adults. Parents have a responsibility to protect their children and not to triumph their privileges on humanity to the detriment of society.
Many anti-makers and anti-vaxers on their dying beds have told the world on news media of their error in not believing that the virus was real and not a hoax, shared their sentiments to save others since they no longer had the ability to save themselves. Yet, many still don’t hear or heed the warning until it hits home, but sometimes it's too late, or much damage with long-term effects is done.
Lock down and follow the mandated rules, or be hooked up to ventilation fighting for life with much regret. It is just that simple. We have choices and sometimes when the wrong choice is made against humanity, then that choice is not a privilege but a detriment.
In conclusion, COVID-19, has taught the world a lot. We are vulnerable, have little control, and are all a part of the game of life. Each has been dealt a hand and how that hand is played is up to the individual.
While life is not fair, it never has been and never will be but it goes on nevertheless. If you are not a part of the solution. then by default or choice, you are a part of the problem.
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