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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There some people on AEM who seem to think that getting kids back in schools in the fall with no plans for distancing is wildly reckless and will lead to a resurgence of the pandemic. I don’t understand this thinking, given that Arlington and the wider DMV area has extremely high uptake of the vaccine. Kids 12+ will be able to get it very soon. Younger kids will be masked, and for them covid is (extremely) rarely a danger anyway. The adults in the community who want to be will be fully vaccinated by the fall. Do these people think that we should just not take steps to get back to normal? Are we all supposed to pretend that covid has worse outcomes for kids than flu and strep?[/quote]

But but but! If it’s not safe for 100%, no one can go! They want distance learning to be an option but now complain that the DL offered is “separate and unequal”. You can’t have it both ways. Their arguments strike me very much like “if I can’t have exactly what I want, no one else can either”. Honestly by fall we should be at a place where the only people impacted are going to be medically fragile kids or kids with very medically fragile household members.

There have always been kids with cancer treatments or similar immune issues. What did those kids do normally during cold and flu season? By fall this should be no different. Pre-pandemic these asthmatic kids or kids with immune compromised parents went to school and were exposed to cold, flu, norovirus and the like. Have these parents always been this anxious and now they finally have an audience? Has Covid awakened something that will never go back in the bottle now that remote learning is an option on the table? [/quote]

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