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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's odd to me that the pediatric hospitalizations are being touted as a reason to close schools since

1) school spread isn't leading to these cases (since the kids aren't in school), and 
2) the thing that IS leading to these cases -- parents not being vaccinated -- is completely ignored.

It's like the drive should be squarely aimed at parental vaccinations, but instead we throw up our hands and say "oh obviously anti-vaxxers gonna be anti-vaxxers, so let's just destroy all kids' education instead."[/quote]

exactly[/quote]

Sometimes you need to advocate for fire retardants and sometimes you need to advocate for fire extinguishing. 
Right now there are fires to put out. DCPS starts in 2 weeks, and there is a raging covid fire. We are an area of high covid transmission of a very high transmission variant, the school-age population is either unvacc'ed or undervacc'ed, and we've been told there will be fewer mitigation measures than last year.

Yes, let's vaccinate adults, but no, I don't think we should ignore the skyrocketing pediatric hospitalizations, and I don't think we should throw up our hands and say "oh, covid's gonna covid and let's just let all kids get it anyway at the same time." [/quote]

Pediatric hospitalizations aren’t skyrocketing in this area, despite kids having been in camps all summer.[/quote]

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