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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I have heard that at one DC charter that already started back this week...25% of classes are now quarantining at home due to confirmed COVID cases in the room.

What a mess this will be. I think people have no idea how much of a disaster this fall will be. [/quote]

What they need to do is stop quarantining everybody. If this will be a mess, it will be a mess of our own making.[/quote]
You forgot the entire plot here. COVID is real. The mess of our own making is what would happen if we pretend it isn't in the classroom, and let it spread.[/quote]

You forgot that the plot originally was that we need to protect the vulnerable and slow the spread so as not to overwhelm hospitals. Then the plot evolved to we need to wait for vaccines so the vulnerable can be protected. Nobody ever worried about kids until those things were achieved, and some people had now shifted their perspective to the idea that nobody must ever be put at risk of catching Covid, even if their risk of severe illness is close to zero (not zero).

Look, I’d rather my kids don’t catch Covid either. I don’t let them be unmasked in indoor public places. But schools need to function, and at some point we need to wonder if constant quarantine disruptions are worse than getting a probably mild case of Covid. Especially after they have already lost over a year of school, and given that it looks like the vaccines don’t prevent all infections either. Daily antigen testing of the whole exposed class, as was done in Britain, seems like a better approach.[/quote]

I have a lot of compassion for you, your kids, and mine.

You misunderstand, or misrepresent for the sake of your point, how the plot has changed with respect to protecting children. The delta variant changed the plot. You make it sound like we are looking for excuses to disrupt normal life. That is not true. You sound like you're intentionally obscuring parts of the plot so you can pretend you can go back to an undisrupted normal life. That is not true either.[/quote]

You seem to have some reading comprehension issues. I’m not pretending we can go back to an undisrupted normal. Did you miss the part where I said I’m not letting my kids be unmasked in indoor public spaces? In fact, I’m keeping them out of those spaces as much as possible, even when it meant that on a recent trip to Delaware, we had extremely limited restaurant options and we can’t engage in our usual summer activities of visiting museums. I also said that exposed asymptomatic kids at school should undergo daily antigen testing for a period of time, which is an acknowledgment of the need to curb the spread. This approach has been used in the UK [i]during delta[/i]. But no, the plot for kids hasn’t fundamentally changed with delta, because this virus, while presumably as contagious as chickenpox, is still extremely low risk for children of elementary school age. We never imposed lengthy quarantines on kids exposed to chickenpox or the flu or norovirus. All of this is only happening because so many parents have been whipped into a frenzy of fear by misleading media coverage, making them believe Covid is the biggest risk their kids have ever faced.[/quote]

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