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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. with  schools reopening during the delta phase of the pandemic, it will no longer be true that kids mostly get it from their parents.
2. no-one is really panicking about pediatric fatalities. We are however quite worried about long-covid and other sequelae (neurological, respiratory, cardiac). (POTUS has brought up long-covid today, because he is awesome and doesn't deny inconvenient science.)
3. A poster said 'when cases are low" well they are climbing rapidly. 179 cases over the past 3 days. That's 60/day on average.
4. Everyone keeps saying vaccination rates are high. While they just might be high enough not to overwhelm the hospitals, they're not so high that unvax'ed kids are protected. We haven't even hit 70% nationally yet. and we're at 53.7% in DC. You might feel you're in a great ward 3 or NoVa bubble of high vaccination rates, but you still live with the rest of the DMV, and considering how contagious delta is, you do have to consider the vaccination status of school staff, front desk at the pediatrician or dentist office, whatever gig economy workers you interact with, house cleaners, etc... may or may not be, but they're definitely not 70% vaxx'ed. 
5. As vacc'ed parents, we can experience breakthrough infection and pass it to our kids.[/quote]

And it still remains true that the risk of long Covid to kids, based on current science is tiny and largely theoretical compared to the well documented harms and potentially long term effects of school closures. If you come to the conclusion that for your individual child this risk benefit calculation comes out differently, you have the option to keep them home.[/quote]

Largely theoretical? Right, like long-covid in adults was psychosomatic in 2020, like the risk of kids even being infected was theoretical, or like global warming was a figment of Al Gore's imagination in 2006? That kind of "theoretical"? Yeah, not theoretical. Just not convenient.[/quote]

Al Gore? Climate change? Lady, you are getting hysterical. [/quote]

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