All schools should offer an all-virtual option

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Thank you to those taking the time to explain articles.

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

Agree 100%. The delta virus is more contagious and now it is also looking to be more virulent. And hospitals are seeing more serious pediatric cases. The only reason that this is not being talked about is that no politician wants to face these facts, and no public health official wants to receive death threats from angry parents. Many schools in DCPS recognized that they could not possibly open up safely last year for 100% of their students 100% of the time, whether that was due to overcrowding or other issues. Now we are supposed to celebrate 100% re-opening for everyone 5 days a week. But the virus is more dangerous and it is more contagious, and nothing has changed about schools' ability to open safely at 100% capacity. And, yes, they have dropped mitigation measures. There is no longer random asymptomatic testing. There is no longer quarantining close contacts (based on the CDC fiction that every child will be "properly wearing a well-fitted mask.") There is no longer cohorting.
And distancing is encouraged only "when possible" (which, as previously mentioned, it is not at many schools).

As part of the pro-vax campaign, public health officials are basically now screaming from the roof tops that anyone left unvaccinated against covid will eventually catch the delta variant. Of course this also applies to unvaccinated children. I'm not sure why it is so much to ask to give parents a virtual option until their kids can be vaxed. Distance learning worked very well for both of our children last year. Not only did they not fall behind academically, they achieved MORE than they had in previous years because they had so much down time when we could add supplementary material. If your child's needs to be in-school outweigh their health concerns, then that is a fine choice. But why should we be forced into a dangerous situation when we have proven that we can excel at home, and the pediatric vaccine is on its way? Then, of course, kids should all be back at school.

It is not looking like it is more virulent for kids.

You notice that you are developing in your mind a large conspiracy about pediatricians and public health experts, yes?

Parents have been given a virtual option. You have other options.

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Edit: Politicians, not pediatricians.

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

Agree 100%. The delta virus is more contagious and now it is also looking to be more virulent. And hospitals are seeing more serious pediatric cases. The only reason that this is not being talked about is that no politician wants to face these facts, and no public health official wants to receive death threats from angry parents. Many schools in DCPS recognized that they could not possibly open up safely last year for 100% of their students 100% of the time, whether that was due to overcrowding or other issues. Now we are supposed to celebrate 100% re-opening for everyone 5 days a week. But the virus is more dangerous and it is more contagious, and nothing has changed about schools' ability to open safely at 100% capacity. And, yes, they have dropped mitigation measures. There is no longer random asymptomatic testing. There is no longer quarantining close contacts (based on the CDC fiction that every child will be "properly wearing a well-fitted mask.") There is no longer cohorting.
And distancing is encouraged only "when possible" (which, as previously mentioned, it is not at many schools).

As part of the pro-vax campaign, public health officials are basically now screaming from the roof tops that anyone left unvaccinated against covid will eventually catch the delta variant. Of course this also applies to unvaccinated children. I'm not sure why it is so much to ask to give parents a virtual option until their kids can be vaxed. Distance learning worked very well for both of our children last year. Not only did they not fall behind academically, they achieved MORE than they had in previous years because they had so much down time when we could add supplementary material. If your child's needs to be in-school outweigh their health concerns, then that is a fine choice. But why should we be forced into a dangerous situation when we have proven that we can excel at home, and the pediatric vaccine is on its way? Then, of course, kids should all be back at school.

You are making a lot of unsupported claims here.

And you are free to homeschool your kids or enroll them in an online charter or private virtual academy. The reality is, your kids are part of a small minority of children in DCPS for whom virtual worked well. Why do you expect the public system to expend scarce resources on a privileged minority? The entitlement is mind-boggling. Are you at a charter where you don’t want to lose your spot? Is that what it is?

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^^^that's got to be it. Or they are OOB.

The poster, if they believe their children's health to be at grave risk with in-person school, should be consistent and not put their kid in in-person school. Regardless of losing the charter spot or OOB spot.

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

But ... that’s not what they are doing. classes in the spring were normal sized. They are keeping masking, ventilation, and cohorts. and now of course all adults should be vaccinated.

What school is your child at? Classes at my son's school in spring were a fraction of the size of a normal school year. His class had 7 kids compared with 25 kids. They were cohorting but that also included eating lunch as a class and not in the cafeteria as is proposed for the fall. As I understand it, DCPS is scaling back significantly on asymptomatic testing, but correct me if I'm wrong on this. Kids were masked in spring as they will in be in fall, so that reassuring. I think a majority of the teachers are vaccinated but I haven't heard anything regarding the rates for other staff (custodians, admin). There was no aftercare in spring, and I have no idea what aftercare will look like in the fall but in previous years, kids from different classes and age groups were put together in an aftercare class. So potentially cohorting will be out if aftercare practices from the past are factored in. So in short, I have no idea if our school will retain the same mitigation measures as spring or not. I wish DCPS gave us some guidance already.

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Is there some administrator who has received a *death threat* from a parent regarding school opening? That seems truly far-fetched.

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I dont think any individual school should offer all-virtual option. That's taking away resources from the vast majority of families and kids who will be in school. If you're concerned, get a friggin' vaccine. This pandemic would be over if these morons would just vaccinated.

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OP, when you have asked your school about an all-virtual option, what is the response?

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

But ... that’s not what they are doing. classes in the spring were normal sized. They are keeping masking, ventilation, and cohorts. and now of course all adults should be vaccinated.

What school is your child at? Classes at my son's school in spring were a fraction of the size of a normal school year. His class had 7 kids compared with 25 kids. They were cohorting but that also included eating lunch as a class and not in the cafeteria as is proposed for the fall. As I understand it, DCPS is scaling back significantly on asymptomatic testing, but correct me if I'm wrong on this. Kids were masked in spring as they will in be in fall, so that reassuring. I think a majority of the teachers are vaccinated but I haven't heard anything regarding the rates for other staff (custodians, admin). There was no aftercare in spring, and I have no idea what aftercare will look like in the fall but in previous years, kids from different classes and age groups were put together in an aftercare class. So potentially cohorting will be out if aftercare practices from the past are factored in. So in short, I have no idea if our school will retain the same mitigation measures as spring or not. I wish DCPS gave us some guidance already.

There were about 2/3 of the students back. Class sizes were normal. Only real difference seems to be the lunch situation. Otherwise afaik all the mitigations are the same. Asymptomatic testing btw was intended as surveillance, not to prevent cases from getting in, so I don't really think that's a big deal. And unlike Feb, we now have every adult who wants to be vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

Agree 100%. The delta virus is more contagious and now it is also looking to be more virulent. And hospitals are seeing more serious pediatric cases. The only reason that this is not being talked about is that no politician wants to face these facts, and no public health official wants to receive death threats from angry parents. Many schools in DCPS recognized that they could not possibly open up safely last year for 100% of their students 100% of the time, whether that was due to overcrowding or other issues. Now we are supposed to celebrate 100% re-opening for everyone 5 days a week. But the virus is more dangerous and it is more contagious, and nothing has changed about schools' ability to open safely at 100% capacity. And, yes, they have dropped mitigation measures. There is no longer random asymptomatic testing. There is no longer quarantining close contacts (based on the CDC fiction that every child will be "properly wearing a well-fitted mask.") There is no longer cohorting.
And distancing is encouraged only "when possible" (which, as previously mentioned, it is not at many schools).

As part of the pro-vax campaign, public health officials are basically now screaming from the roof tops that anyone left unvaccinated against covid will eventually catch the delta variant. Of course this also applies to unvaccinated children. I'm not sure why it is so much to ask to give parents a virtual option until their kids can be vaxed. Distance learning worked very well for both of our children last year. Not only did they not fall behind academically, they achieved MORE than they had in previous years because they had so much down time when we could add supplementary material. If your child's needs to be in-school outweigh their health concerns, then that is a fine choice. But why should we be forced into a dangerous situation when we have proven that we can excel at home, and the pediatric vaccine is on its way? Then, of course, kids should all be back at school.

It is not looking like it is more virulent for kids.

You notice that you are developing in your mind a large conspiracy about pediatricians and public health experts, yes?

Parents have been given a virtual option. You have other options.

Actually PP is correct. It is looking more virulent.

And asking parents to lose their spot in a school system that is built on the luck of the lottery is a ridiculous position to take.

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

Agree 100%. The delta virus is more contagious and now it is also looking to be more virulent. And hospitals are seeing more serious pediatric cases. The only reason that this is not being talked about is that no politician wants to face these facts, and no public health official wants to receive death threats from angry parents. Many schools in DCPS recognized that they could not possibly open up safely last year for 100% of their students 100% of the time, whether that was due to overcrowding or other issues. Now we are supposed to celebrate 100% re-opening for everyone 5 days a week. But the virus is more dangerous and it is more contagious, and nothing has changed about schools' ability to open safely at 100% capacity. And, yes, they have dropped mitigation measures. There is no longer random asymptomatic testing. There is no longer quarantining close contacts (based on the CDC fiction that every child will be "properly wearing a well-fitted mask.") There is no longer cohorting.
And distancing is encouraged only "when possible" (which, as previously mentioned, it is not at many schools).

As part of the pro-vax campaign, public health officials are basically now screaming from the roof tops that anyone left unvaccinated against covid will eventually catch the delta variant. Of course this also applies to unvaccinated children. I'm not sure why it is so much to ask to give parents a virtual option until their kids can be vaxed. Distance learning worked very well for both of our children last year. Not only did they not fall behind academically, they achieved MORE than they had in previous years because they had so much down time when we could add supplementary material. If your child's needs to be in-school outweigh their health concerns, then that is a fine choice. But why should we be forced into a dangerous situation when we have proven that we can excel at home, and the pediatric vaccine is on its way? Then, of course, kids should all be back at school.

It is not looking like it is more virulent for kids.

You notice that you are developing in your mind a large conspiracy about pediatricians and public health experts, yes?

Parents have been given a virtual option. You have other options.

Actually PP is correct. It is looking more virulent.

And asking parents to lose their spot in a school system that is built on the luck of the lottery is a ridiculous position to take.

No, it is not "looking more virulent." All we have is anecdotes. The same rumors were spread about Alpha and it turned out not to be true.

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

Agree 100%. The delta virus is more contagious and now it is also looking to be more virulent. And hospitals are seeing more serious pediatric cases. The only reason that this is not being talked about is that no politician wants to face these facts, and no public health official wants to receive death threats from angry parents. Many schools in DCPS recognized that they could not possibly open up safely last year for 100% of their students 100% of the time, whether that was due to overcrowding or other issues. Now we are supposed to celebrate 100% re-opening for everyone 5 days a week. But the virus is more dangerous and it is more contagious, and nothing has changed about schools' ability to open safely at 100% capacity. And, yes, they have dropped mitigation measures. There is no longer random asymptomatic testing. There is no longer quarantining close contacts (based on the CDC fiction that every child will be "properly wearing a well-fitted mask.") There is no longer cohorting.
And distancing is encouraged only "when possible" (which, as previously mentioned, it is not at many schools).

As part of the pro-vax campaign, public health officials are basically now screaming from the roof tops that anyone left unvaccinated against covid will eventually catch the delta variant. Of course this also applies to unvaccinated children. I'm not sure why it is so much to ask to give parents a virtual option until their kids can be vaxed. Distance learning worked very well for both of our children last year. Not only did they not fall behind academically, they achieved MORE than they had in previous years because they had so much down time when we could add supplementary material. If your child's needs to be in-school outweigh their health concerns, then that is a fine choice. But why should we be forced into a dangerous situation when we have proven that we can excel at home, and the pediatric vaccine is on its way? Then, of course, kids should all be back at school.

It is not looking like it is more virulent for kids.

You notice that you are developing in your mind a large conspiracy about pediatricians and public health experts, yes?

Parents have been given a virtual option. You have other options.

Actually PP is correct. It is looking more virulent.

And asking parents to lose their spot in a school system that is built on the luck of the lottery is a ridiculous position to take.

Sorry, I should have more virulent IN KIDS. There's no evidence that it is more virulent in kids.

See articles posted here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

[Anonymous]

Minimizing childhood Covid in the US—a play in 4 acts

Act 1 “Kids don’t get Covid”
Act 2 “Kids get Covid but don’t get ill”
Act 3 “Kids die from Covid but don’t worry, only kids with pre-existing conditions die”
Act 4 “Don’t worry, kids also die from drowning or car crashes”

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Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

So much this.

But ... that’s not what they are doing. classes in the spring were normal sized. They are keeping masking, ventilation, and cohorts. and now of course all adults should be vaccinated.

What school is your child at? Classes at my son's school in spring were a fraction of the size of a normal school year. His class had 7 kids compared with 25 kids. They were cohorting but that also included eating lunch as a class and not in the cafeteria as is proposed for the fall. As I understand it, DCPS is scaling back significantly on asymptomatic testing, but correct me if I'm wrong on this. Kids were masked in spring as they will in be in fall, so that reassuring. I think a majority of the teachers are vaccinated but I haven't heard anything regarding the rates for other staff (custodians, admin). There was no aftercare in spring, and I have no idea what aftercare will look like in the fall but in previous years, kids from different classes and age groups were put together in an aftercare class. So potentially cohorting will be out if aftercare practices from the past are factored in. So in short, I have no idea if our school will retain the same mitigation measures as spring or not. I wish DCPS gave us some guidance already.

There were about 2/3 of the students back. Class sizes were normal. Only real difference seems to be the lunch situation. Otherwise afaik all the mitigations are the same. Asymptomatic testing btw was intended as surveillance, not to prevent cases from getting in, so I don't really think that's a big deal. And unlike Feb, we now have every adult who wants to be vaccinated.

That's a pretty big difference, isn't it? What is the point of masking and staying with cohorts if your unmasked with a large group of people?