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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I strongly disagree.  They should go virtual through mid January when omicron is expected to peak and then subside.  There simply are not enough tests or lab capacity to do this right.  Two weeks of virtual is small price to pay.  I worry about the unboosted kids whose immunity has waned from vaccination more than 6 months ago.  I worry about the teachers — a lot.  If we lose even one teacher by returning January 4 vs. January 17, it will not have been worth it.  I hope Sidwell makes the right decision.  [/quote]

[b]Aren't you just delaying the inevitable?[/b]  So you keep schools closed until Jan 17th.  You open them then and then Omicron spreads and peaks.   You just delayed the inevitable by 2 weeks.  Meanwhile, kids have just lost 2 weeks of in-person school.  
Can you speak to this?
I'm genuinely curious what your thinking is and I'd like to understand. [/quote]
You’re only “delaying the inevitable” if school gatherings themselves are inevitably a source of infection and spread. Is that what you’re suggesting, that schools are a primary source of spreading of Covid?

I suspect what the medical experts are thinking is that they want the wave of Covid infections from the holiday break to die down before they put kids together in schools, precisely to minimize the risk of spread at school.  If Family A has Covid circulating in it from having attended a New Years gathering or Xmas at gramma’s house, they want Family A to pause long enough to let the virus develop and show itself in testing, all *before* the children from Family A go sit in a classroom and spread it to half a dozen other families. It’s sort of like having a soft quarantine after the holiday period when lots of people were tempted to travel and gather.

I don’t see any harm to waiting a week after the holidays to allow that to happen. Given the rates in many cities, it seems the infection has been spreading rapidly. Seems more sensible to pause on school return for a bit. Lots of businesses are delaying planned employee returns for this exact reason.  [/quote]

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