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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk). [/quote]

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.[/quote]

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done![/quote]

EVERYONE has been home with their kids for almost a year. Everyone is ready for this stupid virus to go away so that kids can safely be in school, and so that their loved ones will stop dying.

I’m not UMC, but my family has been very very fortunate the past year. I’m not ready for my actions or my selfishness to contribute to any more spread in communities that have been harder hit. [/quote]

Actually, EVERYONE hasn’t.

—Signed, healthcare worker who has lost a family member (and many patients) to Covid, and thinks schools can open without contributing to spread.

Fortunately, I know that it’s not “selfishness” that spreads viral illness, no matter how much we all love that narrative.  [/quote]

Do you support what this thread is about, which is full opening with no distancing and cohorting?  Or do you support following the CDC guidelines?[/quote]

Well, I'm not reading the OP as saying that, exactly.  I think the 6' "rule" has been widely debunked and we have all seen abundant evidence that there is nothing magical about 6' versus 3' versus 10'.  That seems to be the area that people get really stuck on, but it is really just one layer of many.  The other mitigation efforts that have been outlined here and elsewhere are vastly beyond what I receive as a healthcare worker: cohorting, ventilation, outdoor activity, random/surveillance testing, free symptomatic testing, etc.  I have read and reread the plans in APS and I am entirely satisfied that they are sufficient.  I have also felt all along that if we open schools 2 days/week, what we create is a nightmare scenario where on the other 2-3 days families are "bubbling" all over the place, sending their kids to alternate childcare sites, etc, and that 5 days/week, with all of the outlined mitigation, actually makes MORE public health sense (to me) than having this weird scenario where we pretend that on the days kids don't attend school they will remain in their households at all times.

I also think PPs have correctly noted that CDC guidance was for all the things workplaces/schools need to do BEFORE people are vaccinated.  I am interested to see what is forthcoming based on where things stand, today.  That said, I'm also with PPs that this year is just trashed and we really need to collectively get on board with FT, real school this fall. [/quote]

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