Keep Healthy Kids in School - Don't Opt-In to APS' Surveillance Testing

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

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Anonymous wrote:We signed my fully vaccinated kid up for the new testing protocol as soon as we heard about it. Wishing you the best, OP!

Way for your vaccinated kid to be kept out of school for an asymptomatic virus (i.e., not sick)! And possibly locking other kids out of school. Clown.

In APS fully vaccinated kids who are close contacts don’t have to quarantine unless they develop symptoms. Unless you are also choosing not to vaccinate your kids, this doesn’t impact you. If you are choosing not to vaccinate, then it’s not my fault if they have to stay home. We are having our vaccinated child tested weekly.

“If you don’t look, you won’t find it” is the dumbest argument I have ever heard. Not testing is asking for it to spread further and impact more classrooms and families. The whole point of testing is to catch cases and exclude those kids.

If your kid is positive but doesn’t have symptoms that does not make them “healthy”. It makes you a selfish jerk who doesn’t care about other, more vulnerable kids and community members.

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Are OP's kids not vaccinated? That is messed up.

Only 20% of 5 to 11 year olds are getting vaccinated, and vaccinations in that age group has pretty much leveled off (the COVID paranoid ran out the first day Dear Sally was eligible). So getting your 5 to 11 year old vaccinated is actually pretty strange.

It's actually pretty strange to profess certainty but not know such a commonly known and easily checked point. But I'm glad you're the kind of person that "does your research" and shares it with the rest of us.

I was wrong - it's actually 16.7% of 5 to 11 year olds have gotten at least 1 dose (1 out of 6).
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/an-update-on-vaccine-roll-out-for-5-11-year-olds-in-the-u-s/

And further showing the COVID paranoid ran to get their no-risk 5 to 11 year olds vaccinated ASAP: "The rate of vaccination among 5-11 year-olds has slowed considerably, a drop that preceded the Thanksgiving holiday and has continued since."

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Anonymous wrote:We signed my fully vaccinated kid up for the new testing protocol as soon as we heard about it. Wishing you the best, OP!

Way for your vaccinated kid to be kept out of school for an asymptomatic virus (i.e., not sick)! And possibly locking other kids out of school. Clown.

In APS fully vaccinated kids who are close contacts don’t have to quarantine unless they develop symptoms. Unless you are also choosing not to vaccinate your kids, this doesn’t impact you. If you are choosing not to vaccinate, then it’s not my fault if they have to stay home. We are having our vaccinated child tested weekly.

“If you don’t look, you won’t find it” is the dumbest argument I have ever heard. Not testing is asking for it to spread further and impact more classrooms and families. The whole point of testing is to catch cases and exclude those kids.

If your kid is positive but doesn’t have symptoms that does not make them “healthy”. It makes you a selfish jerk who doesn’t care about other, more vulnerable kids and community members.

+1

Are OP's kids not vaccinated? That is messed up.

Only 20% of 5 to 11 year olds are getting vaccinated, and vaccinations in that age group has pretty much leveled off (the COVID paranoid ran out the first day Dear Sally was eligible). So getting your 5 to 11 year old vaccinated is actually pretty strange.

It's actually pretty strange to profess certainty but not know such a commonly known and easily checked point. But I'm glad you're the kind of person that "does your research" and shares it with the rest of us.

I was wrong - it's actually 16.7% of 5 to 11 year olds have gotten at least 1 dose (1 out of 6).
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/an-update-on-vaccine-roll-out-for-5-11-year-olds-in-the-u-s/

And further showing the COVID paranoid ran to get their no-risk 5 to 11 year olds vaccinated ASAP: "The rate of vaccination among 5-11 year-olds has slowed considerably, a drop that preceded the Thanksgiving holiday and has continued since."

This is a thread about Arlington. Arlington's numbers are easy to find here:
https://data-dashboard.arlingtonva.us/covidvax2

Again, over 50% of Arlington 5-11 has had at least one dose.

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But in Arlington, 51.4% of kids 5-11 have received at least one dose of the vaccine, as others in the thread have told you but you still choose to ignore. (vdh.Virginia.gov — sort by arlington county).

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Jinx!

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Haha!

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

COVID is not the flu. We are still in the middle of a global pandemic with a highly communicable novel disease that causes long-lasting health issues in people who get infected. Ask your pediatrician if you should send a “healthy” positive child into school and see what they say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

All of our friends are and so are we. So there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But in Arlington, 51.4% of kids 5-11 have received at least one dose of the vaccine, as others in the thread have told you but you still choose to ignore. (vdh.Virginia.gov — sort by arlington county).

Someone said it was strange for a 5 to 11 year old not to be vaccinated. I showed the opposite - it's very rare for a 5 to 11 year old to be vaccinated in the US.

Someone then showed how the vax rate for 5 to 11 year olds in Arlington is 51.4%, meaning 48.6% of 5 to 11 year olds in Arlington are not vaccinated (which is pretty much 1 out of 2). So it's actually very common that a 5 to 11 year old is not vaccinated in Arlington.

VA is 27% for 5 to 11 year olds, meaning it's also very common in VA for 5 to 11 year olds to not be vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

All of our friends are and so are we. So there.

I guess the extreme 10% all hang out together. The Branch COVIDian church has a strong community.

[Anonymous]

“You keep using that word (healthy). I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

COVID is not the flu. We are still in the middle of a global pandemic with a highly communicable novel disease that causes long-lasting health issues in people who get infected. Ask your pediatrician if you should send a “healthy” positive child into school and see what they say.

And FWIW I know of schools that have shut down in the past for fly outbreaks. They aren’t local but it does happen in some places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“You keep using that word (healthy). I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

COVID is not the flu. We are still in the middle of a global pandemic with a highly communicable novel disease that causes long-lasting health issues in people who get infected. Ask your pediatrician if you should send a “healthy” positive child into school and see what they say.

You're right - COVID is not the flu, but actually much milder in kids than the flu. It's not so novel anymore either, considering it's been around for 2 years now. Plus, COVID will be here forever.

Please don't start with Long COVID. Love it when there's a control group in those studies, and the control group has more "Long COVID" than the actual group that had COVID.

If you're scared to death about a less than flu level risk and now vaccines are widely available, keep your own kids locked up until they're 18 when they can disown you for ruining their childhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“You keep using that word (healthy). I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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Yes, you might have 0 symptoms, run a marathon and pop a positive for some dead viral cells in your nose, but you're not healthy at all.