If anyone recalls, a few months ago Lord Fauci was wearing not one but TWO masks even after being fully vaccinated. Rand Paul accused him of theater and this is when Lord Fauci first started getting legitimate pushback. His excuse at the time was 'the variants', but this message was too damaging to the overall vaccine agenda; too many people would not bother getting the shot if they still had to wear masks and it didn't even work against circulating variants. So the CDC backs down and changes their tune.
Fast forward a few months (a little earlier than I anticipated- I expected this in early fall) and we went back to "the variants" at the end of July. In a matter of days the knee jerk reaction to vaccine breakthroughs goes from 'rare' to 'you can still get it but the vaccine lessens symptoms and keeps you out of the hospital'. Mind you, vaccinated people in the UK who were covid positive died at a higher rate than their non-vaccinated counterparts.
And now look what the CDC is saying. That they'll soon make it so that you'll need three doses in order to be considered "fully vaccinated". Some "safe and effective" vaccine, eh? My point is, this was all in their minds from the very beginning. Those vaccine cards have like 6 lines for a reason.
This is a permanent clown world. Life as you knew it before March 2020 is fucking extinct.
The shifting goalposts are real and so frustrating. Here’s just one example: My kids’ school district is one of the only ones in the area that’s still mandating masks on children under 12. Students 12 and older are mask optional because they have been authorized to take the vaccine. Since the beginning of the school year, the district has said that after children under 12 have the vaccine authorized, they too will be mask optional.
Well guess what? After the FDA authorized the vaccine for 5-11 year olds this week, the district is now saying they’re going to wait until January to even consider switching to mask optional. None of them even seem to realize how maddening this is. It’s shifting goalposts like these that are convincing more and more parents to homeschool their kids. We might soon be joining them.
You should honestly consider yourself lucky that your kids don't attend a "masks required regardless of vaccination status" district. You know, like the entirety of CA, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, CT, ME, and 99% of MA and LA? As well as state-level mask requirements like DC, IL, OR, WA, NM, NV, and HI.
Though TBF, I do recognize that the only acceptable outcome is a return to 2019 normal, or even better, 1980s normal (i.e. vaccine passports).