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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1426318478861013001?s=19

I'm not really comforted by "the kids will probably be ok" arguments.  Why is that being accepted??

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Because as long as you are alive you make risk assessments.

The same way we let our kids get on the school bus even though a few die in bus accidents every year.

The same way we get in our cars and drive to work or to grandma's house for Thanksgiving or to Target even though 38,000 people die in car accidents in the U.S. Millions more are hospitalized from those accidents.

I don't think my neighbor has left her house except to walk or take a quick drive around the neighborhood for some fresh air and a change of scenery since March 2020.  She has judged the risk to herself and her household tp be high enough that not going anywhere makes sense.  [/quote]

+1.  My kids have been back in daycare since last summer, my rising kindergartener’s daycare class is essentially the same size as her upcoming kindergarten class.  It’s been fine, and yes I’m aware they could catch covid.  But it’s all about balancing risks/benefits and the benefit of in person school outweighs the covid risk for us.

This is also one of those times that I am grateful to live in MoCo- there are times where I felt the pandemic response and level of cautiousness was OTT.  But because of that, we never had the type of surge last winter that other areas did, and the vaccination rate is very high.  Masks are NBD, the kids all wear them already.[/quote]

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