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[quote=Anonymous]I support vaccination mandates. I would be thrilled if that happened. But I don't think we're getting those for kids this year. And given the low numbers for 12-18 year olds, we should expect that just approval for younger kids isn't going to have much of an impact. So 'virtual until all children get vaccinated' is the same as 'no school for the indefinite future, and probably not all year.' The idea that we should just wait a bit longer or catastrophe will happen is what we've been told for the last year and a half, and the track record has been so-so, with the reality usually being that the connection between policy and outcomes is harder to predict.

If dcps said 'vaccination mandates for older kids' now, and they could actually make that happen, I'd trust them a lot more if they also said 'and we need to delay fully opening for younger kids, because we'll mandate for them as soon as it's available' I'd think they were wrong, but I'd at least think they were credible. But just waiting, with no real plan -- you might as well just say "let's all miss 2.5 years of school."[/quote]

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