CONWAY — Superintendent Kevin Richard told the Conway School Board Monday night that students and staff will open the school year on Sept. 2 wearing masks indoors but not outside if they can social-distance adequately.
“If the conditions are what they are right now, which I don’t expect big changes over the next five, six days, that will be the case,” Richard said Monday about masking.
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That's roughly 1 case for every 5,000 people in the State. And in Conway statistically less due to low population density. Plus, "cases" doesn't equal severity, and of course doesn't show the age group.
But this doesn't seem to matter.
It's all about fear and liability now.
As was pointed out; How is it that so many Summer Programs ran successfully without any reported cases with NO MASKS???
This has nothing to do with Science.
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