Families are choosing whether to mask or not
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| As COVID cases plummet, students take off their masks | As COVID cases plummet around the state, schools are relaxing their masking rules. Rochester Public Schools is the latest district to relax its masking requirements, making them mandatory only under specific circumstances. For one family, choosing to mask now is a matter of individual choice. Molly Thorson's 10 and 13-year-old daughters, Ruby and Norah say they are going to continue to mask most of the time at school. “I'm also going to mask because I feel like the rates are going to go up without it. But there are certain subjects that I won't wear a mask," says Norah. But their older brother, Max, a 15-year-old in high school, said he's over masks "because I already had COVID and I don't think the whole thing is a big risk in general,” he said.
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