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

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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.

Trying to rationalize your decision to not vaccinate your kid?


Thanks for providing additional support for why we need testing in our schools. Weirdo.

[Anonymous]

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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 messed up to be in the minority of families vaccinating their kids AND to encourage others to not test. Like seriously messed up.

[Anonymous]

I agree with OP but good lord is he (I assume he) going about this the wrong way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We see grandparents regularly who are still at risk, even if vaccinated and boosted. I want to know if my kid is a carrier.

I also have no problem keeping my kid home if they test positive, even if asymptomatic.

Historically schools have closed for flu or norovirus outbreaks and I have no problem with them closing for a significant covid outbreak, as long as it is time bound to address that specific outbreak.

You can still do this just without the school doing it for you. Just saying.

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If your kid is positive, they are not “healthy.” They are a spreader.

So no.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Way to stick your fingers in your ears and chant LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU so you won’t be inconvenienced during a pandemic. Moron.

[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.

Once again, HEALTHY kids do not “just happen to pop positive on a test.” If you are positive, you are not healthy. You have COVID-19 and can spread it, whether you have symptoms or not.

[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.

“You’re hoping for less than 5%?”

ROFL. Where did you get this overly heightened sense of self-importance?

[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.

Wow, you’ve got done real issues. My kids are by no means locked up, they are in school and extracurricular activities but we take COVID seriously because of an immunocompromised family member and to protect our community as much as possible. If my kids tested positive, you can bet we’d quarantine them as required under public health guidelines. Again, ask your ped if a positive child should go to school or not and report back.

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OP, are your kids vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, are your kids vaccinated?

Not OP but my kids are not vaccinated. I'm like the 83% of Americans who have not vaccinated their 5 to 11 year olds.

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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.

Wow, you’ve got done real issues. My kids are by no means locked up, they are in school and extracurricular activities but we take COVID seriously because of an immunocompromised family member and to protect our community as much as possible. If my kids tested positive, you can bet we’d quarantine them as required under public health guidelines. Again, ask your ped if a positive child should go to school or not and report back.

The adults in your community have had almost 1 year to get vaccinated.

If I knew my kid was positive, I wouldn't send them to school. But there's 0 reason to test kids who will be around healthy adults all day (not senior citizens with 5 comorbidities). We didn't do it for H1N1.

All of you coronaphobes and hypochondriacs, breaking news -> COVID is going to be here for the rest of your lives. You will all get it. Continuing your cult-like following to mitigation methods for 2+ years, even when you're vaccinated, is such a waste of your life. But that's fine if you want to do it - just stop forcing your religion down our throats.

Bring on Youngkin. Hopefully he'll end quarantines for close contacts on day 1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, are your kids vaccinated?

Not OP but my kids are not vaccinated. I'm like the 83% of Americans who have not vaccinated their 5 to 11 year olds.

Then you have no right to complain when people opt their kids into testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol. Trying to convince others NOT to test?

You are mental.

x1000

[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.

Wow, you’ve got done real issues. My kids are by no means locked up, they are in school and extracurricular activities but we take COVID seriously because of an immunocompromised family member and to protect our community as much as possible. If my kids tested positive, you can bet we’d quarantine them as required under public health guidelines. Again, ask your ped if a positive child should go to school or not and report back.

The adults in your community have had almost 1 year to get vaccinated.

If I knew my kid was positive, I wouldn't send them to school. But there's 0 reason to test kids who will be around healthy adults all day (not senior citizens with 5 comorbidities). We didn't do it for H1N1.

All of you coronaphobes and hypochondriacs, breaking news -> COVID is going to be here for the rest of your lives. You will all get it. Continuing your cult-like following to mitigation methods for 2+ years, even when you're vaccinated, is such a waste of your life. But that's fine if you want to do it - just stop forcing your religion down our throats.

Bring on Youngkin. Hopefully he'll end quarantines for close contacts on day 1

There aren't quarantines for close contacts, at least not if the close contact is fully vaxxed. My son was identified as a close contact the other day, but because he's fully vaxxed, he didn't miss any school.