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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That’s nice.  Most camps have been largely or completely outdoors, and the indoors camps have taken more mitigation measures than schools plan to.[/quote]

I see that you’re desperately hoping for a huge wave of pediatric covid hospitalizations to materialize, and you keep throwing out excuse after excuse for why it hasn’t happened yet but is definitely imminent any second now. It’s not going to happen, and you need to find a new target fixation for your uncontrolled anxiety.[/quote]
Well hello gaslighting. [/quote]

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