just 5 weeks away from the start of the SY and COVID is still here

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And I don’t see any reason for vaccinated adults to wear masks. When will you be comfortable with them stopping? It’s not going to be gone.

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Anonymous wrote:Duran should walk back his position to end outdoor lunch. Principals should be encouraged to schedule lunch outside, to the extent practicable. In bad weather, kids can eat inside. But on all other days, kid should absolutely eat outside. It's a low cost, low effort way to drastically decrease transmission risk.

Too bad they didn't allocate some of the ARP funds for tents. Virtual school gotta virtual school.

Kids ate outside all spring without tents. Let's not let APS's poor planning be a barrier to common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:What I don’t get, are people who ever thought that covid was ever going to go away. Last year I think most practical people knew that it was here to stay, and we’ll just have to get used to it as well as modify according to our own health predicaments.

100%

Covid is here forever.

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Of course Covid is still here. They always said it would be here. I'm surprised that we have some vaccines already, just wish they were able eradicate it better. But, it's a start.

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Not only is it still here, but there are super contagious variants. Gamma is coming.

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I’m really getting worried that the vaccine is not going to be approved as soon as we think. APS has been assuming. We just need to get thru fall and the kids will be vaccinated by then. I just don’t think that’s going to happen that soon. And even when kids can get vaccinated, I don’t think parents will be running to vaxx their elementary kids. I would vaxx my kid if it meant no masks but otherwise I will prob wait to see what the consensus is outside of the US. The argument to stop the next variant is not persuasive, while we should do everything to stop the spread to prevent new variants, the best way to do that is to pump vaccine to adult populations around the world. I’m keeping an eye on the UK: https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1417667672158867463?s=21

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Here's the thing. We are averaging 250 COVID deaths per day in the US. And something like 99.5% of those are unvaccinated AND old enough to be vaccinated. A few months ago we had 3-4000 dying of COVID every day. So even if cases skyrocket, if people are not dying in huge numbers, it will not require a lot of restrictions.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing. We are averaging 250 COVID deaths per day in the US. And something like 99.5% of those are unvaccinated AND old enough to be vaccinated. A few months ago we had 3-4000 dying of COVID every day. So even if cases skyrocket, if people are not dying in huge numbers, it will not require a lot of restrictions.

It's not IF but WHEN cases skyrocket.
The IFs are long-covid and kid hospitalizations.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing. We are averaging 250 COVID deaths per day in the US. And something like 99.5% of those are unvaccinated AND old enough to be vaccinated. A few months ago we had 3-4000 dying of COVID every day. So even if cases skyrocket, if people are not dying in huge numbers, it will not require a lot of restrictions.

YES. Vaccination rates are HIGHEST in the categories of people most likely to be seriously sickened by covid. That means that those who are NOT vaccinated are *typically* healthier and younger and although perhaps they are also stupider, they are *probably* not going to cause the same levels of hospitalizations that we saw earlier, especially in regions like the DMV where the vaccination rate for the 65+ group is very, very high.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe if everybody vaccinated, but instead vaccine centers are empty and hospitals are full.

Our local hospitals are not full.

And vaccine centers aren't empty, just no lines. My teens went last week.

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Anonymous wrote:Not only is it still here, but there are super contagious variants. Gamma is coming.

I'm not quite sure you understand the Greek alphabet

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Still here? With Delta and Lambda varients it’s going to get worse before it gets better again. This is inevitable. Also I don’t understand why everyone is guessing about the masks... all children in school will be wearing masks. Virginia has already stated they’re following the AAP recommendation that all children over two regardless of vaccination status will be required to wear a mask.

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It’s not going away. It will become endemic like flu. I am willing to deal with restrictions for another 6 months or so until the vaccine for kids under 12 is approved. But at that point we have a solution we know works and life should go back to normal. People who choose not to get the vaccine can just play Russian roulette and it should have no impact on the rest of us. If I were king, I’d pass a law saying insurance doesn’t have to cover medical bills from Covid for anyone who didn’t get the vaccine by choice. Same as when you leave a hospital against medical advice. Don’t want to listen to your doctor? Fine. But the rest of us don’t have to pay for any of it either financially or socially.

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Shrug. People knew this, knew there were tons of antivaxxers with certain political beliefs, and still traveled this summer, ate out indoors, and refused to wear masks inside.

Assume we will have 5 day in person school no matter what, until kids start dying.

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Anonymous wrote:Still here? With Delta and Lambda varients it’s going to get worse before it gets better again. This is inevitable. Also I don’t understand why everyone is guessing about the masks... all children in school will be wearing masks. Virginia has already stated they’re following the AAP recommendation that all children over two regardless of vaccination status will be required to wear a mask.

This. Get those masks for your kids, because they will be on if you want them to return to in person school.

People were way to optimistic that adults would do the right thing and get vaccinated earlier this summer.