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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would rather risk unchecked spread for the extra 5 minutes of learning that might be lost if they don't pull kids out during lunch?  All of us that watched the last 1.5 years go down know full well there is a huge amount of filler in the school day.  I'm OK with my kids missing some of that filler in order to be sure they aren't unknowingly spreading to their classmates or teachers.[/quote]

Spreading to teachers?  Those teachers are mandated to be vaccinated.  Are you one of these anti-vaxxers that think vaccines don't work?  This is exactly why they were put to the front of the line to get a vaccine!  [/quote]

I'm not an anti-vaxxer at all, but where have you been the last month?  Vaccinated people are getting this.  I will give up 5 minutes of my kids learning during a week to get them tested to make sure they are not unknowingly positive and spreading the virus...what exactly is your problem?[/quote]

COVID is not going away.  There's not going to be Zero COVID.  And vaccinated people are getting the equivalent of a cold or less.  That is the purpose of vaccination.

It sounds like you're saying vaccines don't work then.  Stop with the anti-vax, stay in your home forever nonsense.  It's causing people to not get vaccinated.[/quote]

You are missing my point entirely.  Vaccines do work, but my kids cannot yet get the vaccine.  I don't want them to get it or spread it to anyone else.  This is about protecting the community at large.  We aren't staying home, we are living our life.  Going to work, going to school, participating in extra curricular activities.  At the same time, we are trying to protect ourselves and others by limiting the spread by wearing masks inside and getting tested if it is available.  Everyone in my household that can get the vaccine has gotten it, and my under 12 kids will get it as soon as it is available.  This was all a discussion about getting kids tested in school which i support to limit the spread and reduce the risk that we will have to close down on a wider level.[/quote]

Kids have a lower risk of COVID than a [b]vaccinated[/b] 35 year old.  Reduce the spread?  The virus is going to continue to spread, no matter what.  It's a virus that is endemic!  Do you demand such things for the flu?  No.

We all have our own personal risk tolerances, but stop trying to impose your irrational risk tolerances on other people. If you want to fight an endless war to control the spread, then be my guest.  This "let's not cut and run" mentality reminds me of Iraq War supporters in 2007.[/quote]

DP but I don't understand how people could possibly be anti-testing except out of sheer obtuseness.  The false positive rate on these Biomax tests is less than 1%, besides which according to APS's own testing procedures once they get a positive test, they test the kid again right away!  Seems like the chances of a false positive are pretty low.

PP above seems to be saying that they expect kids to get Covid and that's just fine with them since chances of fatalities in kids are very low.  That is not where most other people are right now -- in general the government and health authorities wants to prevent all spreading of Covid because (1) all spread increases the chances of further mutation into an even deadlier virus; and (2) any spread risks further spread, i.e., before Delta every person getting Covid spread it to like 3 people, and now with Delta that number has at least doubled, and every transmission risks transmission to others who haven't been vaccinated.

PP above is also ignoring the high risk to families who have others living at home with them who perhaps cannot be or cannot be convinced to be vaccinated and could get the disease from an asymptomatic child coming home from school.

PP is like "I and my family will be fine what's all this about testing eh?" whereas most other people want to help others in the community by reducing further spread of the disease and bringing the infection numbers down.  Rather than working together, PP is like "if this might POSSIBLY inconvenience me in any way even though it's for the greater good, count me out."

Man, that is cold.[/quote]

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