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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Testing asymptomatic kids is not necessary to keep schools open. Did we ever test asymptomatically for flu to keep schools open? No.

And masking is not necessary to keep school open. As Leana Wen said, a cloth mask is simply a facial decoration (as we all knew already).

Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID the rest of their life.  We have to learn to live with it, and some people appear to be having a hard time with that.

Masks gone January 15th!  Can't wait for Youngkin. [/quote]

But we do test for flu. When my family had had the flu in 2017 and 2018 (despite flu shots, but our illness was 1-3 days not a week like my unvaxed coworker who gave it to me) both urgent care tested me and the Ped tested my kids for flu/RSV/strep and then we knew we had Flu A or Flu B and got Tamiflu. This is just like finding Covid early so you can get Monoclonal antibodies or the new pill. 
In past years when the % of students with flu or norovirus was high enough, schools have closed.

We will all get Covid. Covid will become endemic like the flu. However in my 40+ years, I have had the flu once - and I fully admit I never got a flu shot until I was pregnant with my first kid. The difference is that we are literally living through the pandemic now and we don’t know as much about the virus as we do flu. Covid will likely mutate to be more contagious and less severe - but we are not there yet.

You can’t manifest the end of this pandemic through the wishful ignorance that is refusing to test because you don’t want to quarantine if positive. [/quote]

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