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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on what you mean. The isolation policies will probably technically remain for quite a while, but people will stop testing. If you don’t know it’s Covid, then you can follow the regular rules for illnesses.[/quote]
Pretty sure a lot of people have stopped testing for minor illness.[/quote]

OP here - I agree with you and it’s part of what prompted my question. My son is part of the testing pool at school but we also test our son and ourselves when we have cold-like symptoms. I don’t want to spread Covid. But when I shared this with a couple of parents from my son’s school they said not only are they not part of the testing pool but that they long since stopped testing at home for what one parent called “sniffles”. When I asked if they were concerned about Covid they both said that unless the symptoms were severe, in which case they’d keep their kids home, their kids went to school. On one hand that’s frustrating because that’s how Covid spreads but at the same time, my son had what was essentially “the sniffles” and missed a whole week of school. [/quote]

Why in the world would you still be doing random testing? You realize random PCR testing is more likely to pick up a case after you’ve already recovered than a current asymptomatic case, don’t you?

I really don’t get what the objective is. Covid isn’t going anywhere, and it looks like the current level of spread is similar to what we can expect for the foreseeable future. Sure, we’ll see case numbers drop, but simply because people are going to stop testing. After all, did you go in for a flu test any time you got mildly ill before Covid? I doubt it.[/quote]

This is the OP. We signed up for the PCR testing pool when we returned to in person and I actually valued the periodic reassurance that my son was Covid negative, especially prior to vaccinations being available for the under 12 set. But symptoms are milder with this variant and my son is vaccinated so I am starting to question it. I will potentially pull him from the testing pool next year - not sure. The school nurse told me earlier this week that only 70 kids are part of the pool out of a school with 500+ kids. [/quote]

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