Should elementary schools require masks in the fall?

Asked by KTVZ

2,169 Votes

Should elementary schools require masks in the fall?

33%

Yes, masks should be required! Yes, masks should be required!

67%

No more masks! No more masks!

33%

Yes, masks should be required!

we should follow guidelines set by doctors and the state. Our children haven't been vaccinated yet. I don't believe it's safe for them not to wear a mask.

we should follow guidelines set by doctors and the state. Our children haven't been vaccinated yet. I don't believe it's safe for them not to wear a mask. Show Less

6 Comments

Richard Head

if not masks, how about clear face shields.

k san

Schools should follow the guidance provided by the State and local health depts. This guidance could vary by state.

Dianne Price

There are many children who have not gotten the covid shots!

Sheri Clarke

Because kids are just as vulnerable! They pass sicknesses to each other!!!

Foster Fell

Way the question is framed sounds like a push poll. Anyway, the virus in question is extremely opportunistic. Masking policies should reflect its deviousness and depend on day to day positivity rates and types of variants. 100's of children have died and/or have gotten the MIS disease. Testing!

Emily Gibson

With the Delta variant on the rise, we need to ensure the virus will not spread in our schools among our children, who can not be vaccinated yet. It is a little thing, wearing masks, which makes a huge difference. I taught all winter/spring with masks. Kids are resilient and flexible.

67%

No more masks!

Our children shouldn't be required to wear masks anymore. The risks outweigh the benefits.

Our children shouldn't be required to wear masks anymore. The risks outweigh the benefits. Show Less

16 Comments

Karen Maccari

Follow the science, there are too many adverse side effects to children wearing masks all day. UNNECESSARY!!! ENOUGH!!!

Alex Lifeson

Follow the science. Kids don’t need to wear a mask. Besides, it is instilling fear in them. Let the children be free. What’s next, should we build each kid a bubble to live in? Come on man enough is enough

Tanya James Lysaught

Kids aren't even at risk for covid. To require masks for children is pure insanity.

Sussie Due

I dont know why this is even being discussed AS per news report right here on this website schools here will open in the fall WITHOUT masks for teachers or students.

Stephanie McMillan

No healthy children have died from CoViD!!!

Scott Albert

It's been proven that any "Variant" has little to no effect on children and they do not transmit.

kayte eck

Based on the fact my little one comes home with a SOAKING WET mask every day last year, I'm not sure the mask helped reduce anything. I personally feel no mask would spread less germs

tim collins

Let them be kids

Vanessa Cardui

The scientific evidence does NOT support masking. In fact, the literature shows masking can INCREASE risk of viral and bacterial infections AND can cause hypoxia. No child should sacrifice the right to breathe due to protocols that are not evidence-based.

Angie Kelly-Hagen

Unhealthy and unsanitary. Emotional abuse

Fallon Sherman

Team no masks!!

Kristina Biederman

Why are we teaching out children to be in fear while at school, the place they should feel the most safe? They do not need to wear them anywhere else. Let it be a choice!

Rick Allen

NO more masks period!!!

Latterdaysaint

No one should wearing masks especially kids they are less affected by covid

Tarasem

Public schools are socialism. Pull your kids out and educate them yourself. However the publicly funded child care is probably worth the property taxes it costs, so it's a wash for most folks.

Fred Waren

Enough is enough...stop spreading the fear

Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?

Asked by KTVZ

250 Votes

Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?

26%

YES YES

74%

NO NO

26%

YES

0 Comment

No one has commented yet

74%

NO

2 Comments

Latterdaysaint

Of course not, trump will make America great again!

Jeff Sanders

I am glad that we were Blue over all on the West coast. Those flyover states have too much say.

Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?

Asked by KTVZ

535 Votes

Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?

30%

YES YES

70%

NO NO

30%

YES

2 Comments

Kit Cohan

I prefer metering to increasing the number of lanes. More than one lane makes roundabouts much more dangerous to navigate, especially with drivers who are not locals and do not understand how roundabouts work. 2 lanes = many more accidents plus 2 lanes need to be a much larger diameter for safety.

Jeff Sanders

You're literally bumper to bumper from the Bill Healy bridge. The people from the Old Mill Never Cease coming.

70%

NO

9 Comments

Dennis Douglas

If it weren’t so maddening, our City counselors would make for a cast in a Monty Python show. They befuddle themselves with ludicrous ideas and foist them onto the taxpayers. Bend is becoming a laughing stock to outsiders and a source of continual angst for the residents.

SUE ABERNATHY

Isn't that why they put the round about in because stop lights were going to cost to much????? Just saying.

sara kreps

doesn't this defeat the purpose of a roundabout? might as well make it a regular intersection with lights.

Dave Krajczynski

If people used the roundabout correctly and actually filled in the gaps and went when there was an opening it would flow just fine. People wait for a bus sized gap before they go.

Jeff Sanders

The people coming from the Old Mill Never Cease coming. Traffic is backed up to Bill Healy bridge everyday. At least in the winter.

Kathy Brown

Make a LARGER round-about!! A stop light will only make it worse!!

Chris Gonzales

A roundabout's primary purpose in traffic management is to improve safety and traffic flow, resulting in less congestion and fewer accidents compared to traditional stoplight intersections. Key words: Flow, less congestion and Stoplights. Now they want to add Stoplights!!! City waste at its Best!

Latterdaysaint

The point of the roundabouts was to get rid of lights

Fletcher Jackson

What's the point of having a light at a roundabout? The point of a roundabout is to get rid of the lights. Widen it and start growing for the people coming here. The way bend builds, everything is obsolete by the time it's done.

Tim Walker

I drive through this around about several times everyday and it is never an issue very rarely. Is it an issue? The reason they put roundabouts in for the first place was to get rid of stop lights and stop signs

Jeff Sanders

It's bumper to bumper from the Bill Healy bridge.

KTVZ

Should elementary schools require masks in the fall?

33% Yes, masks should be required! Yes, masks should be required!

67% No more masks! No more masks!

33% Yes, masks should be required!

67% No more masks!

Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?

26% YES YES

74% NO NO

26% YES

74% NO

Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?

30% YES YES

70% NO NO

30% YES

70% NO

33%

Yes, masks should be required! Yes, masks should be required!

67%

No more masks! No more masks!

33%

Yes, masks should be required!

67%

No more masks!

26%

YES YES

74%

NO NO

26%

YES

74%

NO

30%

YES YES

70%

NO NO

30%

YES

70%

NO