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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two questions for those of you committed to masks for the foreseeable future:

1) Would you be willing to give up a mask mandate in exchange for a true testing plan— weekly testing for all, on-site rapid tests for anyone with symptoms, test to stay for anyone exposed to a positive? There are indications testing is much more effective than masking at preventing outbreaks.

2) Is there any level of Covid (like for instance an R0 below 1) at which point you would be okay forgoing masks even with unvaccinated students?[/quote]

Daily testing is an interesting idea but certainly not weekly testing, it's not enough. And certainly not ok with replacing quarantines with test to stay AND take away masks too. Are you crazy? Test to stay makes it less safe not more.

Also daily testing didn't even seem to work with the athletes. We have the worst outbreak in a school right now at WHS and it's all from athletes who are not masking and who are daily testing so that didn't seem to work very well.

Everyone wanted full time school so we had to stop distancing for the most part. Not really sure how good ventilation is. Masks are probably the most important thing we have. Case rates are still quite high.

[b]Get back to me when we stop having new cases in Arlington like we had in June. [/b][/quote]

I can get back to you right now and say that will never happen again. The Delta variant and declining vaccine efficacy (at least in terms of sterilizing immunity) means that there are always going to be cases, even with boosters. They will just be breakthrough cases.

There's no going back now. That's what "endemic" means. [/quote]

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