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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.[/quote]

This is irrelevant now. The variant predominantly in circulation at the time span of the study was different: less infectious, lower viral load. The delta variant is 200% more infectious and we now know it is airborne, not droplet-transmitted, and requires only fleeting instead of prolonged contact to transmit. The 15 minutes nonsense no longer applies. The Australian taxi driver who started their delta outbreak passed it to like 50 people just by walking by them.

I'm not saying there should be continued DL. There is no will for it and that ship sailed. But likely the reason MCPS seems to have no plan is that there is no plan that will work. At 100% capacity 5 days a week, cohorts are not possible, and physical distancing is security theater given that the HVAC will just be blowing particles all over the room. Cloth masks poorly worn are not really effective for delta but KN95 is not coming. Contact tracing is pointless because the exposures are going to be constant and the symptoms of delta are so variable that unless they're testing every single student and staff member every single day, they simply aren't going to catch enough cases to matter so really we should just bury our heads in the sand or it's going to be basically constantly having 25% of a school in quarantine at any given time. We are going to be in a sea of virus in every school, particularly every ES, by the end of September. Probably better just to act like an ostrich and let it burn through.

As the chief engineer said in Jurassic Park before he got eaten by a velociraptor, "Hold onto your butts."[/quote]

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