When Will MCPS Quarantine Rules Change?

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Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

What is interesting is look at the covid positives in MS and HS where MCPS is not testing vaccinated kids. So, they are just relying on parents being responsible and testing. If it were just as simple as vaccines, when 1/2 of MCPS isn't vaccinated and the rest still are at risk of catching covid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

What is interesting is look at the covid positives in MS and HS where MCPS is not testing vaccinated kids. So, they are just relying on parents being responsible and testing. If it were just as simple as vaccines, when 1/2 of MCPS isn't vaccinated and the rest still are at risk of catching covid.

But MCPS is testing vaccinated kids.

Also, on August 31 (the first day of school), the seven-day-average new case rate was 105.26 per 100,000 residents, and the percent of hospital beds occupied by patients with covid was 8.6%. Today (October 19), the numbers were 56.15 and 5.9%.

In August 2021 (i.e., before school started), there were 540 confirmed cases among people aged 0-9 and 557 among people aged 10-19; in September (i.e., after school started), there were 560 and 538.

So whatever MCPS is or isn't doing, the data show that school did not cause the predicted disaster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

What is interesting is look at the covid positives in MS and HS where MCPS is not testing vaccinated kids. So, they are just relying on parents being responsible and testing. If it were just as simple as vaccines, when 1/2 of MCPS isn't vaccinated and the rest still are at risk of catching covid.

But MCPS is testing vaccinated kids.

Also, on August 31 (the first day of school), the seven-day-average new case rate was 105.26 per 100,000 residents, and the percent of hospital beds occupied by patients with covid was 8.6%. Today (October 19), the numbers were 56.15 and 5.9%.

In August 2021 (i.e., before school started), there were 540 confirmed cases among people aged 0-9 and 557 among people aged 10-19; in September (i.e., after school started), there were 560 and 538.

So whatever MCPS is or isn't doing, the data show that school did not cause the predicted disaster.

Only if there is a concern and opt in. They are only trsting unvaccinated at our school staring this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

And you seem not to grasp that when people aged 12 and up are vaccinated, that helps to protect people under age 12 who are not vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

A better way of thinking of it is that the risk to unvaccinated children that COVID poses must be balanced against the negative consequences of quarantines and other mitigation measures. Some mitigation measures, like masks, are not disruptive to education. Others, like lone quarantines for close contacts, are highly disruptive on a number of levels. These quarantines keep kids out of school, they require families to take time off of work or make other childcare arrangements, and they are disruptive to teachers attempting to manage classrooms. Remember, these are kids who did not see the inside of school buildings for more than a year who are now being further excluded from their in-person education. The effects of this are cumulative.

Meantime, in areas using test to stay programs, they are finding very low levels of community spread at school. This means that quarantines are not doing much to control spread because the spread isn't happening. It's fair to say that despite the fact that some children become very sick or even die because of COVID, it is worth considering whether protecting against those rare cases by continuing to harm the educational experience of a larger number of children is a wise strategy. Caring about children under 12 should involve caring about more than COVID exposure, including the educational, mental, and social well-being of the kids, their families, and educators, all of whom these strict quarantine policies disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

A better way of thinking of it is that the risk to unvaccinated children that COVID poses must be balanced against the negative consequences of quarantines and other mitigation measures. Some mitigation measures, like masks, are not disruptive to education. Others, like lone quarantines for close contacts, are highly disruptive on a number of levels. These quarantines keep kids out of school, they require families to take time off of work or make other childcare arrangements, and they are disruptive to teachers attempting to manage classrooms. Remember, these are kids who did not see the inside of school buildings for more than a year who are now being further excluded from their in-person education. The effects of this are cumulative.

Meantime, in areas using test to stay programs, they are finding very low levels of community spread at school. This means that quarantines are not doing much to control spread because the spread isn't happening. It's fair to say that despite the fact that some children become very sick or even die because of COVID, it is worth considering whether protecting against those rare cases by continuing to harm the educational experience of a larger number of children is a wise strategy. Caring about children under 12 should involve caring about more than COVID exposure, including the educational, mental, and social well-being of the kids, their families, and educators, all of whom these strict quarantine policies disadvantage.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

A better way of thinking of it is that the risk to unvaccinated children that COVID poses must be balanced against the negative consequences of quarantines and other mitigation measures. Some mitigation measures, like masks, are not disruptive to education. Others, like lone quarantines for close contacts, are highly disruptive on a number of levels. These quarantines keep kids out of school, they require families to take time off of work or make other childcare arrangements, and they are disruptive to teachers attempting to manage classrooms. Remember, these are kids who did not see the inside of school buildings for more than a year who are now being further excluded from their in-person education. The effects of this are cumulative.

Meantime, in areas using test to stay programs, they are finding very low levels of community spread at school. This means that quarantines are not doing much to control spread because the spread isn't happening. It's fair to say that despite the fact that some children become very sick or even die because of COVID, it is worth considering whether protecting against those rare cases by continuing to harm the educational experience of a larger number of children is a wise strategy. Caring about children under 12 should involve caring about more than COVID exposure, including the educational, mental, and social well-being of the kids, their families, and educators, all of whom these strict quarantine policies disadvantage.

Yes to all of this. But a very small subset of posters are obsessed with Covid and only see the world through a Covid lens now. They're the ones having (or will have) trouble reintegrating into public society.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

A better way of thinking of it is that the risk to unvaccinated children that COVID poses must be balanced against the negative consequences of quarantines and other mitigation measures. Some mitigation measures, like masks, are not disruptive to education. Others, like lone quarantines for close contacts, are highly disruptive on a number of levels. These quarantines keep kids out of school, they require families to take time off of work or make other childcare arrangements, and they are disruptive to teachers attempting to manage classrooms. Remember, these are kids who did not see the inside of school buildings for more than a year who are now being further excluded from their in-person education. The effects of this are cumulative.

Meantime, in areas using test to stay programs, they are finding very low levels of community spread at school. This means that quarantines are not doing much to control spread because the spread isn't happening. It's fair to say that despite the fact that some children become very sick or even die because of COVID, it is worth considering whether protecting against those rare cases by continuing to harm the educational experience of a larger number of children is a wise strategy. Caring about children under 12 should involve caring about more than COVID exposure, including the educational, mental, and social well-being of the kids, their families, and educators, all of whom these strict quarantine policies disadvantage.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

And you seem not to grasp that when people aged 12 and up are vaccinated, that helps to protect people under age 12 who are not vaccinated.

I get it. You believe that kids under 12 aren't people and their safety is a big hassle for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

A better way of thinking of it is that the risk to unvaccinated children that COVID poses must be balanced against the negative consequences of quarantines and other mitigation measures. Some mitigation measures, like masks, are not disruptive to education. Others, like lone quarantines for close contacts, are highly disruptive on a number of levels. These quarantines keep kids out of school, they require families to take time off of work or make other childcare arrangements, and they are disruptive to teachers attempting to manage classrooms. Remember, these are kids who did not see the inside of school buildings for more than a year who are now being further excluded from their in-person education. The effects of this are cumulative.

Meantime, in areas using test to stay programs, they are finding very low levels of community spread at school. This means that quarantines are not doing much to control spread because the spread isn't happening. It's fair to say that despite the fact that some children become very sick or even die because of COVID, it is worth considering whether protecting against those rare cases by continuing to harm the educational experience of a larger number of children is a wise strategy. Caring about children under 12 should involve caring about more than COVID exposure, including the educational, mental, and social well-being of the kids, their families, and educators, all of whom these strict quarantine policies disadvantage.

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-1 MCPS is doing a great job keeping our kids safe in spite of the vocal COVID deniers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.

This again? Yes, you can get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.

A better way of thinking of it is that the risk to unvaccinated children that COVID poses must be balanced against the negative consequences of quarantines and other mitigation measures. Some mitigation measures, like masks, are not disruptive to education. Others, like lone quarantines for close contacts, are highly disruptive on a number of levels. These quarantines keep kids out of school, they require families to take time off of work or make other childcare arrangements, and they are disruptive to teachers attempting to manage classrooms. Remember, these are kids who did not see the inside of school buildings for more than a year who are now being further excluded from their in-person education. The effects of this are cumulative.

Meantime, in areas using test to stay programs, they are finding very low levels of community spread at school. This means that quarantines are not doing much to control spread because the spread isn't happening. It's fair to say that despite the fact that some children become very sick or even die because of COVID, it is worth considering whether protecting against those rare cases by continuing to harm the educational experience of a larger number of children is a wise strategy. Caring about children under 12 should involve caring about more than COVID exposure, including the educational, mental, and social well-being of the kids, their families, and educators, all of whom these strict quarantine policies disadvantage.

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