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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be THRILLED if that happened, because it would mean that the virus was being eradicated and in-person learning was safe.

But it's not going to happen.  There is ZERO chance of that happening.

The more likely scenario is that we gear up for a hybrid schedule and then have to return to DL on short notice when there is an outbreak at a school or when the area's cases/hospitalizations get too high. [b]The country has already returned to case counts like those at the beginning of the pandemic, and exponential growth is a bitch.[/b]  Testing won't be able to keep up.  Contact tracing won't do much good if the disease is running unchecked everywhere.  [/quote]

We should be aware of what's happening in the country, and also focus on what's happening locally. Fairfax county has returned (as in dropped) back down to where case counts were early in the pandemic as well (<100 new cases per day, lately averaging <50), and has hovered there for the past 3+ weeks. That's 0.1% of the county's population developing a new case monthly (at current rates), with about 0.01% getting hospitalized. Even 1-in-1000 of getting a case monthly merits vigilance, but not panic. Of course, Covid case numbers and case severity skew [i]heavily[/i] towards seniors, so the raw numbers for kids (and the risks of transmission to/from/amongst kids) is only a fraction of those numbers that we're seeing for the community at-large.[/quote]

Just 10 cases reported in Fairfax County today. [/quote]

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