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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t have the vaccination numbers to let it blow through schools. Some children will die.

What we should be doing is identifying the problem spots (indoor lunch) and figuring out how to mitigate them. [/quote]

Agree with mitigation methods, but the average unvaccinated child has a lower chance of severe illness or death from Covid than a vaccinated adult, statistically. And that was true before omicron, so if omicron really does prove to be less virulent, it will be more true now.

I do think vaccinating kids helps overall as a public health measure because it reduces the number of friendly hosts for the virus. But the reason these numbers don’t panic me is that the numbers simply don’t back up panic as a response. I keep my kids home this week because I know the school is stretched thin and I had the flexibility to do that. But I’m not really worried about them getting Covid, even though older kid only has one shot and younger kid is not old enough to be vaxxed at all and won’t be until summer.[/quote]

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