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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The one or two days per week scenario should’ve been shot down in the initial meetings. What a god awful idea. All the exposure with none of the learning. I would rather take over myself at home then send my kid in to school to get sick at regular intervals. Especially if I know my kid will be attending on the same days as kids of medical workers. If we’re not ready, we’re not ready. One week on two weeks off makes more sense because then if a kid gets it their week “on” they might show symptoms during down period and not go back to school. These poor teachers though, they’ll all get infected and spread it to all their kids. Why TF aren’t they spending this energy making complicated and idiotic schedules into actually fighting this virus? This is a pointless dog and pony show with the “extra cleaning” and “social distancing”.[/quote]

The one or two day a week plan defies common sense.

Is being exposed to covid two days instead of five really that different?[/quote]

YES it really is that different.  Data, science, and humility are your friends.[/quote]

Please provide a source with a scientific study saying that having children attend fewer days will result in much better outcomes.

[b]But they have higher per capita rates!  Kids can be transmitters to adults!  [/b]And no kid will follow physical distancing.

I’m unaware of any such studies.  However common sense tells me that I don’t want to spend time with someone with covid, whether it’s 2x a week or more.

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Yes, I'd like to see those studies, too. All the currently available evidence points to kids not playing a major role in community transmission. Sweden never closed primary schools, yet had less pediatric cases and deaths than some other countries that did.[/quote][/quote]

No, the numbers I have seen were per capita. And the currently available evidence strongly points in the direction that kids are not strong transmitters. Just because people intuitively think kids are germy and schools have always spread infections doesn't mean that they necessarily spread this one.[/quote]

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