Lifting the statewide mask mandate for school-age children Monday yielded vastly different results in classrooms and school systems and communities across California and the Bay Area.
“It was very surprising to see most people were still wearing their masks,” said Angelo Lee outside San Jose’s Mount Pleasant High School. Lee told KPIX the number of his classmates wearing masks voluntarily far outnumbered the students going maskless.Many Mount Pleasant students said it came down to comfort and safety and expressed concerns about ditching their masks prematurely.
“This is really refreshing. I’ve been looking forward to it — allowing these kids to be able to breath,” Lane said. “Is it generally safe for a kid to take their mask off? I would say yes with an asterisk next to it. And the asterisk depends on who they are, who they live with and are they vaccinated,” Dr. Peter Chin Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF.
Olivia Ajoluny is a 8th grader at Stone Valley Middle School in Alamo. She has been waiting for this day.
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