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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even with all the denier effort to highjack this thread, I think it'll be very useful, considering the days-long lag between when teachers and parents of the positives find out, and when the notifications go out.
I hope we help each other's families stay healthy and safe.[/quote]

The reason for the lag is usually waiting for an official positive test. The system is working as it should:

- Person shows symptoms or becomes aware of a close contact necessitating quarantine.
- Person leaves school and quarantines, takes Covid test.
- Test comes back positive, anyone in close contact with the person in the days before they left school is notified and quarantined.
- Test comes back negative, person returns to school.

I know people are paranoid about the idea that the person could infect others before they leave school, and then those people will infect others, etc. I get it. But that's why everyone is wearing a mask, schools invested in HEPA filters, and kids are social distanced and outdoors as much as possible. We do have to rely on those measures to some extent, and trust that they will prevent rampant spread if a Covid-positive person is in the building for some length of time.

Other things to keep in mind is that asymptomatic people cannot be as infectious as others, especially if wearing a mask, because symptoms are a big part of how viruses proliferate. They make you cough and sneeze, thus sending the virus to others. So if someone is not showing symptoms, or has just begun to show symptoms, they aren't at peak infectiousness. And wearing masks, even cloth ones, will help because it's going to block at least some of the Covid particles that an infected person might expel via talking or laughing. Then the Hepa filters and outdoor time help to dilute even those.

It's not perfect and people will still get infected. But it's actually pretty effective system based on what we know about Covid and how it spreads, and it's worked fairly well in schools around the world for the last year. Yes, we have Delta now, but we also have tons of vaccinated adults and many vaccinated teens.

Information is power. But "positive cases" is not the only piece of information we have. We know a lot. Trust what we know.[/quote]

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