Should schools require masks for everyone amid rising delta variant cases?
By Serena Gao
About a week ago, I was shopping at Walmart with my mom, and saw people with no masks inside, including kids who are under twelve and weren't vaccinated. Lately I've also been noticing a trend that many people in public places have not been wearing masks, schools included. Which brings my main concern to the safety and health of young children and adults in the school building.
Currently, lots of people who were vaccinated don’t wear masks indoors and outdoors. As we all know, the COVID-19 situation has continued to evolve this summer.
Soon, school is going to start but at the same time Covid-19 has evolved into delta. Many schools require masks indoors for everyone. My opinion is although you're vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask.
First, if the kids that are vaccinated at school don’t wear masks, then unvaccinated kids will feel like it isn’t fair that they have to suffer with the masks on, so they will start taking off their masks too. Then, the mask situation will get messed up and then people will get the virus, and the school cannot do in person classes.
Second, there is a new covid variant called the Delta variant. Delta is highly infectious, more than the variants we dealt with last academic year. If we still don't wear masks, then more people will get delta, and covid will be hard to deal with. “We still need to wear masks indoors and outdoors,” my friend said. She also said that if we don’t wear masks indoors, we have a better chance of getting the virus because the air is not in a spacious place, it's all trapped in one room. So if one person has the virus, we all get it.
Third, one way to reduce Coronavirus spreads is to wear your mask, social distance, and have good hygiene habits. Although keeping your mask on and washing and sanitizing constantly won’t stop coronavirus right away, at least it’ll slow down transmitting the cases, and then it will eventually be gone.
Many people are not aware though, so it will be difficult for everyone to follow these rules. A solution we could get people to be aware of covid is making television ads about how serious delta is, radio ads, and handing out flyers.
Some people are saying that masks are uncomfortable, and why do vaccinated people have to wear the mask? Isn’t the vaccine made so they will be immune to COVID? Well, first the vaccine isn’t 100% going to fight off regular covid. Second, the vaccine might not make you immune to the new variant, delta. Third, I know the mask is uncomfortable but would you rather not wear it but risk getting delta? I wouldn’t, because when I have the mask on, it gives me a safe feeling so I can have peace in my mind.
Overall, we should wear masks indoor and outdoor, because the mask situation will be easier to control, the new delta variant, and you will have a safe feeling if you wear a mask.
About a week ago, I was shopping at Walmart with my mom, and saw people with no masks inside, including kids who are under twelve and weren't vaccinated. Lately I've also been noticing a trend that many people in public places have not been wearing masks, schools included. Which brings my main concern to the safety and health of young children and adults in the school building.
Currently, lots of people who were vaccinated don’t wear masks indoors and outdoors. As we all know, the COVID-19 situation has continued to evolve this summer.
Soon, school is going to start but at the same time Covid-19 has evolved into delta. Many schools require masks indoors for everyone. My opinion is although you're vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask.
First, if the kids that are vaccinated at school don’t wear masks, then unvaccinated kids will feel like it isn’t fair that they have to suffer with the masks on, so they will start taking off their masks too. Then, the mask situation will get messed up and then people will get the virus, and the school cannot do in person classes.
Second, there is a new covid variant called the Delta variant. Delta is highly infectious, more than the variants we dealt with last academic year. If we still don't wear masks, then more people will get delta, and covid will be hard to deal with. “We still need to wear masks indoors and outdoors,” my friend said. She also said that if we don’t wear masks indoors, we have a better chance of getting the virus because the air is not in a spacious place, it's all trapped in one room. So if one person has the virus, we all get it.
Third, one way to reduce Coronavirus spreads is to wear your mask, social distance, and have good hygiene habits. Although keeping your mask on and washing and sanitizing constantly won’t stop coronavirus right away, at least it’ll slow down transmitting the cases, and then it will eventually be gone.
Many people are not aware though, so it will be difficult for everyone to follow these rules. A solution we could get people to be aware of covid is making television ads about how serious delta is, radio ads, and handing out flyers.
Some people are saying that masks are uncomfortable, and why do vaccinated people have to wear the mask? Isn’t the vaccine made so they will be immune to COVID? Well, first the vaccine isn’t 100% going to fight off regular covid. Second, the vaccine might not make you immune to the new variant, delta. Third, I know the mask is uncomfortable but would you rather not wear it but risk getting delta? I wouldn’t, because when I have the mask on, it gives me a safe feeling so I can have peace in my mind.
Overall, we should wear masks indoor and outdoor, because the mask situation will be easier to control, the new delta variant, and you will have a safe feeling if you wear a mask.
Currently, lots of people who were vaccinated don’t wear masks indoors and outdoors. As we all know, the COVID-19 situation has continued to evolve this summer.
Soon, school is going to start but at the same time Covid-19 has evolved into delta. Many schools require masks indoors for everyone. My opinion is although you're vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask.
First, if the kids that are vaccinated at school don’t wear masks, then unvaccinated kids will feel like it isn’t fair that they have to suffer with the masks on, so they will start taking off their masks too. Then, the mask situation will get messed up and then people will get the virus, and the school cannot do in person classes.
Second, there is a new covid variant called the Delta variant. Delta is highly infectious, more than the variants we dealt with last academic year. If we still don't wear masks, then more people will get delta, and covid will be hard to deal with. “We still need to wear masks indoors and outdoors,” my friend said. She also said that if we don’t wear masks indoors, we have a better chance of getting the virus because the air is not in a spacious place, it's all trapped in one room. So if one person has the virus, we all get it.
Third, one way to reduce Coronavirus spreads is to wear your mask, social distance, and have good hygiene habits. Although keeping your mask on and washing and sanitizing constantly won’t stop coronavirus right away, at least it’ll slow down transmitting the cases, and then it will eventually be gone.
Many people are not aware though, so it will be difficult for everyone to follow these rules. A solution we could get people to be aware of covid is making television ads about how serious delta is, radio ads, and handing out flyers.
Some people are saying that masks are uncomfortable, and why do vaccinated people have to wear the mask? Isn’t the vaccine made so they will be immune to COVID? Well, first the vaccine isn’t 100% going to fight off regular covid. Second, the vaccine might not make you immune to the new variant, delta. Third, I know the mask is uncomfortable but would you rather not wear it but risk getting delta? I wouldn’t, because when I have the mask on, it gives me a safe feeling so I can have peace in my mind.
Overall, we should wear masks indoor and outdoor, because the mask situation will be easier to control, the new delta variant, and you will have a safe feeling if you wear a mask.
About a week ago, I was shopping at Walmart with my mom, and saw people with no masks inside, including kids who are under twelve and weren't vaccinated. Lately I've also been noticing a trend that many people in public places have not been wearing masks, schools included. Which brings my main concern to the safety and health of young children and adults in the school building.
Currently, lots of people who were vaccinated don’t wear masks indoors and outdoors. As we all know, the COVID-19 situation has continued to evolve this summer.
Soon, school is going to start but at the same time Covid-19 has evolved into delta. Many schools require masks indoors for everyone. My opinion is although you're vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask.
First, if the kids that are vaccinated at school don’t wear masks, then unvaccinated kids will feel like it isn’t fair that they have to suffer with the masks on, so they will start taking off their masks too. Then, the mask situation will get messed up and then people will get the virus, and the school cannot do in person classes.
Second, there is a new covid variant called the Delta variant. Delta is highly infectious, more than the variants we dealt with last academic year. If we still don't wear masks, then more people will get delta, and covid will be hard to deal with. “We still need to wear masks indoors and outdoors,” my friend said. She also said that if we don’t wear masks indoors, we have a better chance of getting the virus because the air is not in a spacious place, it's all trapped in one room. So if one person has the virus, we all get it.
Third, one way to reduce Coronavirus spreads is to wear your mask, social distance, and have good hygiene habits. Although keeping your mask on and washing and sanitizing constantly won’t stop coronavirus right away, at least it’ll slow down transmitting the cases, and then it will eventually be gone.
Many people are not aware though, so it will be difficult for everyone to follow these rules. A solution we could get people to be aware of covid is making television ads about how serious delta is, radio ads, and handing out flyers.
Some people are saying that masks are uncomfortable, and why do vaccinated people have to wear the mask? Isn’t the vaccine made so they will be immune to COVID? Well, first the vaccine isn’t 100% going to fight off regular covid. Second, the vaccine might not make you immune to the new variant, delta. Third, I know the mask is uncomfortable but would you rather not wear it but risk getting delta? I wouldn’t, because when I have the mask on, it gives me a safe feeling so I can have peace in my mind.
Overall, we should wear masks indoor and outdoor, because the mask situation will be easier to control, the new delta variant, and you will have a safe feeling if you wear a mask.
Serena Gao is a Session 1 participant of the First to the Frontpage Summer of 2021 program.