Victorian students aged eight and over will be expected to wear masks indoors as part of new Department of Education advice, but schools are not being required to sanction children who fail to wear a mask.
“We are asking for your support in explaining to your child or children the importance of this simple step that will help keep our schools as safe as possible,” the letter said. School staff are also expected to wear masks except in “teaching circumstances when clear communication” is needed. “Masks are not required to be worn outdoors but can be worn when physical distancing is not possible,” the operation guide said.“This expectation should not constrain student participation in the full range of school activities, including music, sport and performances.”
It won’t happen.
When the Titanic was sinking, women with children were rescued first.The society which is prepared to abuse their young to protect adults and elderly is morally corrupt.
During the last 20 years,each state has developed Pandemic Emergency Response Plan.Research, hundreds of meetings by 'experts'. Lock-down was never part it.Neither was a quarantine of healthy people. What did experts do at the start of pandemic? chucked those plans into garbage
child abusers
Do your homework muppet
Idiots.
The BS and the propaganda never ends. They must all get out of our lives.
But maximum harm
Disgusting.
Child abuse. You expect this in North Korea, not Oz. Plus masks have not worked anywhere in the world. Go look at the cases and deaths in Korea or Japan where they all wear them
Don't breath in your own germs, much healthier without mask
Disgraceful
So tell me, oh wise ones, what the f*** should schools do instead If masks are SO ineffective, what's the solution Children's education is being affected by so many students and teachers being off sick, but I guess that's OK.
Stop this madness, protect our children 😢
FAR COUGH
Child abuse!!
Principles ....not principals
Science isn't guesswork......well it use to be this way.
Masks don’t work….
So so cruel and pointless
The lunatics have taken over the asylum..
I guess one cannot infect others if they are 7 lol. Kfoff
Until the politician can explain to me & the public why they EXEMPT themselves from the covid vaxx. No thanks.
Don't
Lots of confusion in the Murdoch press and the Liberal Party about the definition of ‘recommended’. Unfortunately for them no confusion by the general public about the definition of ‘bias’, ‘contrarian’ or ‘moronic’.
Child abusers.
Absolute evil. This is not only mental cruelty it's unhealthy. Anyone who believes this will not damage these kids mentally and physically are insane. 🤬🤬
Cato Institute: Masks do nothing.
Even N95 masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Direct from the US CDC: Masks do nothing.
Cochrane review of RCTs on masks: Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
Masks do nothing.
This is child abuse.
And they can expect to be told to get fucked
They don't work
audreygrace83 I like how they say ‘asked’ or ‘expected to’ or ‘highly recommend’ because you can say NO🖕 to all of those things. If this winter has shown us anything it’s that we must stop wearing face nappies and allow our immune systems to redevelop its strength and do it’s job!
Anyone agreeing with this does not deserve to have children .. God help those poor kids is all I can say
You lost me at 'Leading epidemiologists are sceptical of mask-wearing in schools, saying it delivers marginal benefit at a significant cost to children’s learning'
There is no evidence that masks affect the spread of an aerosolized virus. In other words, no benefit. Masks do impair learning and are socially isolating. In other words, high cost. Why do it?
My kids never wore a mask and never would-I told their school they were exempt and that was the end of it. They're not abusing my kids...
Ridiculous
Yeah…… but nah…
Child abuse.
Croatian here👋Our kids barely wore it for a couple of months, we had mercy on them, the teachers and schools were relaxed about it despite the mandates. Please do the same, they deserve a future. Stand up for your kids, stand up for yourself.
Evil. Just evil.
Disability payments for decades
Schools for education only in name. Indoctrination camps to create obedient slaves for the NWO.
Stand up Australia.
Weak parents are allowing this nonsense to continue.
Child abuse
8 year old and above where masks at school? But 80+ crowds for sports - No Masks children attend these also. If people still can't see through the agenda I feel sorry for. Next No Jab No Education.
massformationpsychosis and child abuse!
'Expected'? How about no, not now, and not ever. Leave. Them. Alone.
Where did it all go wrong, Australia?
Because science when we say it
And yet people who can very easily and comfortably work from home are expected to head into cramped offices everyday. Why? For the sake of a few CBD traders?
I cant believe.. with all the research and real data out there from the last 2 years.. that shows the great harm to children's development by forcing masks on them..that any school on earth would mandate them..leftardation nation.
This is B S at its finest.
The opportunity cost is higher than a few cases of SARS CoV2. What the community is agreeing to is a continued neglect of the 78% of people who are ending up in hospital and worse from this virus: the obese. We need to protect the vulnerable, not virtue signal with children.
Good.
The rule should be if you want to wear a mask wear a mask. If you don’t want to wear a mask don’t wear a mask.
Get your kids out of public school
Nope
This is appalling. Have they not seen the studies highlighting the damage done to kids from mask wearing at school? They need to be charged with reckless endangerment covidmorons
What’s the big deal about masks, I’m a healthy young man & wear them indoors or when I use public transport.
They don't vote.. Andrews is just sick
If it's not a mandate get stuffed. Masks hurt kids health more than Covid, that's a fact. Masks on kids is all about adults, nothing about kids health
Get farked👍
Great decision Victorian Education System
Make the Teachers wear them if they are that worried, leave the kid's alone.
Ignore. Any school that enforces this should be shamed. Last-ditch effort to control the fear narrative. Other countries have moved on and facing better results without vaxxes/masks.
Stand up parents, tell them to get frakked.
Education Dept trying to protect itself.
Whoever is saying gains would be marginal from mask-wearing is spreading medical misinformation. There is plenty of evidence globally that well fitting quality masks slow transmission esp if mandated
Why not, the flu and covid are everywhere. It's a simple measure to ask people to do. How can countries like Japan do it and all we get are whining adults? Hopefully the next generation are more concerned for the greater good than previous ones. MaskUp
Current situation in Vietnam compared to us... population daily case ave masks Aus 26mil ~ 40,000 uncommon Viet 99 mil ~ 1,000 everywhere WearAMask 😷
Strong words, but I won’t be wearing one and I certainly won’t be asking my students to mask up. They can do so if they want to, but I wont be harassing my students to mask up if they don’t want to.
That's called child abuse.
Masks don't work at a societal level and they don't work in schools. All this will do is further inhibit their education and social development.
For ~10yo+ faces, I reccomend: Headloop: 3M Vflex N95 9105S size small Earloop: Savewo 3D Ultra size small Headloops are better because of lower face seal leakage. Both are ultra-breathable masks with 95%+ particle filtration effiency material.
Incredible double standard here by Prof Bennet 1/ You're a Prof of Epidemiology you're supposed to know whether or not the evidence exists and provide the sources 2/ What is the evidence that mask-wearing affects student learning? You can't just hand-wave that
Will be interested to see how many comply. Big political risk for the Andrews government
Gov locks down Says Vax will stop infection Vax will stop transmission Vax will stop hospital admission Says we can't come out till 95% Vax rate Achieve 95% + Vax rate Lock downs end Virus infects absolutely everybody Hospitals overwhelmed Midwit class 'yOu bEtTeR weAR a MaSK'
How can anyone reconcile using “not a mandate” and the word “expected” in the same sentence? Especially with kids. Are we all just stupid now? Cowardly also of our premier to have the department and minister mandate it on his behalf.
They have not damaged them enough as yet.
As of few mins ago There is absolutely nothing about this on VicGovDH twitter nor the Victorian Education Minister twitter nor Vic Health Minister twitter accounts ? Given social media is important re communication no wonder the confusion abcnews 9NewsMelb covid19vic
Just say no.
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Kids can’t vote But all kids have 2 parents that can vote + grandparents
Child abuse is a punishable crime, FFS leave the kids alone, leave us all a fuckng lone.
Children not a COVID risk cohort ? Most deaths in aged care even though staff mandated vaccinations and masks ?
Absolutely shocking, what evidence are they relying on to mask Kids? Where has this worked anywhere in the world?
Those poor children. I can only hope that they can overcome the damage to their development as time passes.
childabuse
Thought it was the elderly that were prone to the virus?
The anti vax loonies are in the minority again. 😂 MaskUp
All these negative comments explains why the government is hesitant to mandate. Silly parents don't want to stop their kids getting sick.
This is very smart. I'm having up to 1/3 of my students absent in Y11/12 lessons. About half who are still present are already masking - they don't want their studies interrupted any more than they already have been. Obviously not a guarantee against illness but it helps.
Fantastic🙏
Where is that paper Sutton was writing about masks and hepa filters in schools he talked about earlier in the year? I wonder why it hasn’t come out - Brett isn’t interested in the science - never has been?
JohnleBon123 it just for another two months, just to flatten the curve. Sounds reasonable.. clownworld
So is it a government mandate auspol
“Expected” is not the same as “required” and judging from this mornings drop off, parents are choosing to ignore the recommendation, there’s a lot of choice language being used to describe the government after targeting the kids again!
Sensible advice given the Covid surge.We can only hope schools are provided with quality N95 masks to distribute to students.These should also be given out on public transport and in shopping centres. We need to do whatever we can to stem the spread NatHutchins DanielAndrewsMP
Speaking of expectations, the Vic Govt was expected to prepare our hospital system in the 260 days we were locked down. Instead Dan locked playgrounds. Shove your mask.
Won't happen in this family.
Evil!
The just turned 8 year old who started prep in 2020, who has spent most of their schooling 'online learning', & is now at least a year behind in their reading/phonics - they're the ones to be impacted again? What rate of 8 year olds correctly wear kn95 masks at school (zero?)
Still 2021 in Victoria?
I’m also expecting the Andrews government to fix the hospital and ambulances systems and provide the 4000 beds they promised in early 2020.
If it's an expectation, but not a requirement, I'd be telling kids that it's perfectly reasonable to not wear a mask.
No f***ing way. My kids have enough challenges trying to catch up from the last 2 years of destruction by Andrews and Sutton. They will absolutely not be wearing face nappies to appease neurotic bedwetting adults.
Not a chance
Parents say no ! This is damaging to kids and cloth masks will make zero diff with the transmissibility of these newer variants. I’m yet to come across a person in their 80s+ (those we’re meant to be protecting) who wants these sorts of measures for *their* sake
Zero chance in hell of any of my kids wearing them
Yeah, nah not happening 🤡
Masks don't work as the data has shown but hey....why let that stop the fearmongering and alt-left scare tactics. It's amazing humans have made it this far just by letting their own immune systems, healthy eating, vitamins, etc. take care of things.
What terrible cruelty. Why do we allow adults to take out all their neuroses on kids? 😣
Inhaled microplastic fibres, raised CO2 levels, toxic materials, breeding ground for a range of bacteria including abx resistant strains. Oh & they were never designed to stop viral transmission.
Why does the Victorian government hate kids?
Disgusting! We live in Australia not China!
“Strongly recommended” has already been interpreted and communicated as compulsory at many schools. The same children that can go anywhere else in Victoria without one. The least susceptible with the most stringent mandates. Does Nanna have to wear one at the pokies?
My kids wore one at school in the US all year. Didn’t complain about it and they are just fine.
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There is NOTHING in the Pandemic Order Register today about a change to any of the Orders.
Encouraged not mandated. Wear one if you want & esp if you are in a vulnerable category. But leave the kids alone. Lucky it’s an election year or DanielAndrewsMP would be delivering more ridiculous measures like the 5km rule & closing playgrounds like last year.
Rockcliffe will you follow? As now is the time to act ! CassyOConnorMP themercurycomau jeremyrockliff RockliffTeam
Too young to vote for Dan sackdanandrews
Yeah nah
The demographic least likely to sue Dans arse off😡
Teachers will be frothing at this. Another chance to play cops on poor innocent kids and put them in a muzzle.
Watch the Unhinged/uneducated unvaxxed have a whinge 🙈
No offence but if a parent is gullible enough to continue to listen to this govt, I feel for their kids. Very sad, the mental health issues from all this are going to be debilitating for society
Why are the Govt & Schools big on damaging our youth...is the mental health crisis not severe enough
Why?
Using the kids again.. and the eduction department to do Dans dirty work. Mandates are very unpopular, we all know that, this would be worded very differently if there wasn’t an election a few months away.
PSYCHOOOOS
DanielAndrewsMP you are a melanoma
Why are adults such cowards. Leave children alone
Where is the health advice? And why is the department of education making health calls? They should just fix the education system
How stupid is this? Primary school kids wearing masks.
Hope all these non complying parents can teach math because they’ll be no teachers left in a few weeks. Based on the quality their tweets, I’d suggest they struggle tying shoe laces so math feels like a reach. MaskUp
They are not the problem!!!!!!!
BOOMERS: “we MUST mandatorily mask children for the benefit of society” ALSO BOOMERS: “we absolutely MUST NOT make any changes to negative gearing for the benefit of society”
That’s a NO 🤡
Hey Victoria, get rid of Dan Andrews!! VoteLaborLast
The absurdity never ends!! The forced masking of the community including children, especially outdoors is both disgusting and dehumanising!! Masks provide very little protection from the spread of the virus and are more a symbol of suppression and submission to the authorities.
So they plan on bullying the kids into and letting Dan get away with claiming it's not a mandate 🤬
🤣🤣 expected? it’s not mandated. so everyone is going to say no. already destroyed so many lives especially the kids. vic gov needs to be shamed for this
Piss of Dan!! Stop harassing our kids for ur health system mess
paulsakkal Can’t stop, won’t stop. The Sutton led dystopia continues.
This is disgusting. Leave the children alone
DOE can kiss my a$$
Expected = ' It's not mandated but if your child/vector doesn't wear a face covering to alleviate the anxiety of covid zero/vaccineplusplusplus zealots you and your child are evil people and should be expelled from society and the world'
Ritualistic shame muzzles not a mask. No n95 or respirator stops the spread of any virus or disease
Welcome to Dystopia.
Absolutely not! No masks at footy etc but the kids have to suffer Monday to Friday! This is ridiculous!
Listen to the self entitled refuse to mask up their little germ machines. Surely time for another protest in the CBD… if you can afford the petrol to get there. MaskUp
I expected the 4,000 icu beds to.....
*strongly recommended And expected until the end of winter. Yet they don’t have to wear them in shops (for example) and their parents don’t have to at work (depending on job role). More seen to be ‘doing something’.
2 words people, teacher unions.
Why? Hasn't anyone read any science on this on Australian?
F..K NO
Yeah mine wont be
Nope no thanks screw mask my life my rules I’ll do what I want
Gfy
That’s a hard NO!
Stupid and nonsensical
Until the end of winter or end of time?
And a generation of backward children with speech development delays...
That is beyond cruel ! Leave the kids alone !!!
No parent needs to feel guilty or pressured. It’s not a kid issue, it’s an adult one. Teachers can wear masks if they want. But leave children alone. aussieEd
Nope not happening
You mean just like people are recommended to wear them in crowded spaces or shops etc It is optional and not like a few years ago schools hands are tied and staff teachers etc know they cant push them once they ask and families refuse if they want to
its just theatre . Cloth masks do nothing to reduce viral transmission especially if they are worn by kids. But hey Victoria led by the authoritarian Dan with his state msm propaganda rag the Age believe in them .
Some loose quoting of the word 'expectation' there. Good one.
Fucking absurdity
About time 👏👏
Dan Andrews must go - this has to stop - our children are not monkeys!
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