Student sent home for wearing swine flu mask

A seventh-grader who wore a mask that had been given to him by his mother to guard against swine flu was sent home from from school after he refused to remove it.

[engel]

I think this whole conversation is embarrassing! Why not wear the mask. The flu seems to be spreading faster here than anywhere else, and we dont really seem to be responding like we should. In other countries where there are cases in the single digits, they are protecting themselves with mask. It seems to me, we have the most cases, and we are not taking enough precautions. Everyone should be sending their kids to school with mask. If my teenagers would wear them, I would send them with them. You can't be sure when it will hit your childs school, your neighborhood, your place of business. Everyone should be protecting themselves, and especially their children.

[wondering]

i dont know why his mother is making him wear it an way because that isnt going to block the swine flu and yes it is embarrassing to be talking about it

[Sizzlean]

I am going to make a prediction here, I'll bet you guys who think the mask is un-useful, I'll bet you're going to lose your repulsion to the mask soon enough. I'll just bet that some day soon, you may find yourself unable to find one and wishing you'd already been wearing it, that is when you find out the facts about this man made virus. No you won't get no facts off your tv people, get real. George Carlin said it best with regards to them, Wake up! Here is a hint, all you have to do is take anything they say, from there you either look at the money trail and if it's obvious well there you go, but if it's not obvious, then just take the opposite of what they tell you.

When they tell you (the katrinans) to stay in your house and have some duct tape handy as the floods carry your house away, then do the opposite. If they tell you it's normal, not dangerous, and the symptoms are exactly the same, well what you gonna think?

[Becs Underwood]

All I know is I'm a senior at Eastside High School and everyone there has some kind of cold. That may not be the flu but so many people with sickened immune systems is a perfect enviornment for the flu to burrow and spread. Having a slight cold myself I'm afraid to attend daily. I just hope I don't catch it. I really hope not.

[sarah]

I dont understand why the schools arent doing anything about giving parents information about swine flu cases in the school parents should be aware of what illnesses are going around in the school, what to do to keep their kids from getting it, and what if they want to keep there kids at home and go get there work at the school