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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the thing gang, we don't know for sure and we are playing with people's lives. Here's a report about Texas daycares and outbreaks.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/01/texas-day-care-coronavirus-cases-rising/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2DWuY1GwMETH3GXg2d_aq0WOR3KlNAe15X9y-Le0uP3YHt65cxi77Vl2Y

I think Fall 2021 is our best bet. Don't forget the people who won't want to vaccinate their kids assuming we have a vaccine. What do you do with them? [/quote]

Those employees weren’t taking even the most basic precautions, such as wearing masks.[/quote]

Right?  There are *adults* working in these settings, and if you don’t think they contribute to community transmission, I don’t know what to say.[/quote]

Sure. But not nearly as many as kids, the density of which is always cited as the reason schools can’t open. [b]The adults can protect themselves from each other (and the kids from them) with masks. If it’s mainly the adults who are infectious, a school is not that different from any other workplace where you have to interact with people.[/b] In other countries where schools have opened or never closed, teachers have not been found to be at higher risk relative to other professions.[/quote]

I work in a hospital. Do you think all of us hospital employees are low-risk? We're not. I'm only 35 but I've had some strange autoimmune issues in the past. There are lots of employees in their 60's and up. God knows how many of us have asthma, or live with at risk family members. But our job requires us to be here in person to take care of the rest of you, in proximity to other people, including known Covid cases. And while our adult patients shouldn't be as bad as booger eating kindergarteners, some are actually worse at life and health.... So, if we don't feel it's safe to do our job in person, we have to find another job. Otherwise, we wear our masks, perform diligent hand hygiene, distance from each other on the rare occasions it's possible and keep on keeping on.[/quote]

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