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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think this scenario is far-fetched, considering the public figures saying even today that masks are becoming necessary again, in-doors, even if you are vaccinated.

However, I think it is a real stretch to predict that the high schools won't open, as those kids are vaccine-eligible.  I think DCPS will require those kids to be vaccinated in the classroom.

But the trouble is for the under-12 year olds who, so far, are not vaccine-eligible.  [b]Even with masks, there will be social distancing requirements for the unvaccinated, which will not allow for in-person schooling 5 days per week[/b].  Every parents' choice will be up to their own resources, that point, terribly.[/quote]

I thought we were done with the idea that social distancing made a difference for an airborne virus?

Let’s hope you are wrong. Young kids are at low risk. They need school.[/quote]

I hope I am wrong, too -- but I am not wrong about social distancing indoors (although it makes less of a difference, the longer anyone spends in a non-ventilated room) and the latest data on the Delta variant is that kids are no longer low risk.  The Delta infects kids at a rate significantly higher than the 1.0 version.  [/quote]

It is called Teh Google, oh uncurious one:

https://www.wave3.com/2021/07/19/delta-variant-spreads-virus-surges-with-children-low-immunization-areas/

Stay current, please, for your own health and others'.

You're absolutely wrong. We reopened for T3 when cases were still very high due to that variant, and prior to widespread vaccination.  It was fine.  In T4 vaccination was more robust and classes were reopened at full capacity.  It was fine.  There is ZERO indication (except for among fearmongers) that the fall will be anything at all different.  More importantly, we have plenty PLENTY of evidence that covid does not pose a unique risk to kids different from other communicable diseases; and we also have PLENTY of evidence that school closures are very harmful.  [/quote][/quote]

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