After over two years of everyone wearing masks and being 6 feet apart, all of that changed this year. On March 12 masks were no longer required in school, restaurants and other places. This means people could go out of their home without being told to put a mask on.
At SWHS there are a lot of differing opinions about masks coming off. When schools lifted the mandate it was hard for some families and their kids to be around others without wearing masks.
Some people are against all these changes. It’s new for people to go back to normal life. People are still afraid that they could get infected. At SWHS there are a lot of differing opinions about masks coming off.
Lesly Chavez is a senior at Burlington-Edison High School.
“I think people should wear masks no matter what. Especially in school since it’s so crowded and no one is wearing them,” Chavez said.
They can expose other people and especially older people that are really sick with other sicknesses and can have problems later on, but not just older people can get sick, it can be anyone. I think covid cases are gonna start going up anytime and it’s all over again it would be like starting over again.”
Janet Delgado is a senior at Sedro Woolley High School.
“At this point it doesn’t matter anymore,” said Delgado. “It’s been two years since everyone has been wearing masks and feeling trapped. People should finally feel free finally not wearing them any more.”
People should enjoy this opportunity to be going out having fun and not being so scared Overthinking makes it worse.
“And people can get more scared of what can happen. This impacted me in a way because I lost a lot of things I could have done before covid started and I feel like I should’ve done them and now it’s too late,” said Delgado.
One thing for certain, many are happy to finally be able to breathe without the uncomfortable feeling of a mask. Not just that, but also that events not just in school, but in society, are finally starting to come alive once more.
Still, the fear of these mutations still stand and, like many that choose to wear these masks even if they’re uncomfortable, all have very reasonable reasons.
Worldwide, the virus is still strong and very much not over. Just in our country alone there were 203 deaths and 1,119 people were hospitalized since March 12, 2022.
“Still not necessarily normal,’’ said Chris Spencer, a staff member at Sedro-Woolley High School. “It’s nice to see peoples faces. Communication is better when you can see their face. You know, for those types of things, I think it’s positive.”
Now that masks are not required, will it bring peace of mind to most or still enhance and scare some of us even more than we already are with this pandemic? Will this pandemic ever truly come to an end? Who knows.