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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The virus is not going to be eliminated, true. But that doesn't mean we should abandon all efforts to keep it from spreading easily, such as telling people who are actively contagious not to come to school. We should also, in the Before Times, have been telling people who actively had the flu not to come to school, it's just that we didn't have at-home rapid flu tests.

Testing and finding out who has it is a big step AWAY from the kind of restrictions that everyone is — correctly, now that we have many effective vaccines and, at least at the moment, an apparently less dangerous strain of the virus circulating — objecting to. If a large number of the people who actively have covid don't come to school, there's much less of an argument to close the school. Same thing goes for any other public setting.[/quote]

I am the PP whom the immunocompromised poster above was attacking, and I completely agree. I also agree that we should have been more pro-active about keeping sick people out of school pre-Covid. So I am not opposed to rapid testing, especially symptomatic people. I only objected to the idea that the testing in schools would somehow end the pandemic sooner, as I believe the virus will ultimately make its way though nearly the entire population. People at high risk despite vaccination, like some of my family members, will have to take additional precautions in the long term beyond what society as a whole does.[/quote]

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