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After Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a statewide mask mandate for schools on Wednesday, the Illinois High School Association announced the directive applies to student-athletes, coaches, officials, other personnel and spectators for indoor fall sports as well as any other sports conducting indoor workouts.

Steven Winters and Regina Evans at their home in the 1100 block of North Lawler Avenue in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood on Aug. 4, 2021. The couple, their two children and Evans’ father were in their apartment in August 2019 when they say police busted into their unit by mistake looking for a person on a warrant. The family is now suing the city of Chicago. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

Here at our home, our basketball hoop, cones, chalk balls and trampoline are things that we allow other kids to use with a “play at your own risk” mentality, which we’ve shared with parents. However, the things that are unsafe, or things that we don’t want used, we keep in our garage. For example, we have an electric powered quad and when a kid does ask to use it, I ask them to grab their helmet and have their parent with them.

In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nation’s largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs. (David Goldman/AP)

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Ethically, it also depends on how things like lotteries are set up, said Jeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. “If everybody who’s been vaccinated gets put into the lottery, that seems to be a better approach than if starting today, those who sign up to get vaccinated get entered into a lottery. Because then you effectively punish the people who were responsible earlier in the pandemic.”