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Yes. Except they probably should have daily tested everyone for two weeks solid. [/quote]

That might be nice but is hardly realistic. The worst of this wave of covid is behind us (if you don't believe me, look at the Montgomery county covid data) and the simultaneous testing earlier this week has been really helpful for helping us ride this wave. 
So many people I've talked to think we're all going to end up catching Omicron. Maybe they're right. I'm no longer so afraid.[/quote]

Good for you!

I've never been afraid. I just don't want to catch it. And more than that, I don't want to catch it twice. Or three times. Or six.

[b]I feel like I keep repeating this until I am as blue in the face as your grandmother with covid[/b], but here we go again:

1.) Deaths and hospitalizations are lagging indicators. We may be past the holiday omicron peak of rising infections, but there's still a lot of tragedy ahead for a lot of people who will need support. Some of those people are your children's friends and some of them teach and help them. It's not just about little Larla not missing school.

2.) We are in Maryland, near DC. Cases *here" may be peaking, but there's a whole lot of hurt coming for a lot of unvaccinated people in all the states surrounding us. Some of those outbreaks could easily trigger another outbreak here.

3.) Studies are somewhat optimistic that omicron provides some immunity to Delta. But this is far from a done deal. Studies are less optimistic it provides immunity to omicron.

I'm sending my kid to school next week. But I am doing it cautiously and with outdoor lunch and masks. And should numbers spike, should I hear about teacher absences, classes in cafeterias... Any sign of their school being under strain... We will go virtual again.

Again, this isn't fear. [b]I'm just trying to do the least harm and the most good during this time as I can.[/b] [/quote]

The first bolded sentence directly undermines the second.  Doing the least harm also extends to how you treat other people and how you talk about things.  Contributing to our mean-spirited culture isn’t doing “the most good;” far from it.  Keeping your child virtual doesn’t change that.[/quote]

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