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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

[b][i]Look at the story of Georgetown Prep:[/i] [/b]100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 [b]asymptomatic[/b], vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down.  Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible.  Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime.  Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
•	Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
•	Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
•	Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted?  We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. [b]Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing![/b]
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LOL, love the totally bizarre anti-testing vibe.  So, don't do something that it's completely optional and won't impact you in any way if someone else opts in?  Why on earth anyone should care at all if a parent wants to opt in?

Let's do away with masks and quarantining even if positive while we're at it.  Down with vax too, amiright?[/quote]

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