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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quite clear OP doesn't care about high risk kids and whether they can go to school. [/quote]

At this point, all school-aged children are able to be vaccinated. If you do not vaccinate your child, or they are that fragile, they need to be at home. The model has got to shift from working from the optic that the school population isn’t protected, to one where the community is good enough. That being said, I’ll all about mandating the vaccine for school attendance, like we do for other vaccines.[/quote]

Oh so now you want to keep other kids home??? [/quote]

Kind of, yeah. The vast majority of kids took the hits in the last year and a half to protect the most vulnerable. There was no other option. But it’s just like allergies - you can only go so far, and if you have the kid who will die if they even touch something that had a peanut on it, or a microdot of peanut dust in the air, it’s up to the parents to,protect those children - make those kids wear the masks and gloves to prevent contact with the allergen, or put them in a sterile environment. I think there’s a lot of hysterical parents who think any little bit of asthma in a kid makes them “extremely high risk” and they are trying to ride the coattails of the much smaller population of kids with profound illnesses to not normalize regular behaviors when we now have much better mitigating factors. If I had a kid receiving chemo, no way would I be sending them to school. It sucks, but the actual risk profile is such that I just couldn’t do it. My kid with asthma? Got the vaccine, made sure he knew where his inhaler is, and off to school he goes. He eats whichever place he prefers.[/quote]

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