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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Travel quarantine is for unvaxxed only. [/quote]

Which is all kids under 12. Most of the school system. Why are people so obtuse?[/quote]

I get that it really sucks to not be able to get younger kids vaccinated. But it also sucks for those kids to get COVID, [b]especially given mounting evidence that the Delta variant is resulting in more, sicker kids[/b]. So the travel quarantine—which as another poster notes can be shortened via testing—seems like a reasonable way to help stem spread. Most travel is a choice, and we’re all having to make hard choices right now.

All of that said, I agree that the travel quarantine could be more refined/nuanced than it is. It is silly that you can travel to the VA-TN border, where vaccination rates are likely quite low and COVID-19 rates much higher, but not to Philadelphia or NYC or Boston, where the opposite is the case.[/quote]

The delta variant is more contagious, but in the past day or so I've seen quotes from pediatric infectious disease specialists saying that the delta variant is not necessarily resulting in a more severe case of COVID than either original COVID or other variants, though it is early.

If that is not correct, can you point to the information on severity?

And before this potentially goes off the rails, I'm not saying I want anyone's kid with underlying health conditions (or anyone else) to get COVID or denying that MIS-C exists. [/quote]

Well a 5 year old with no underlying conditions just died of Delta…[/quote]

A 5 year old did die. In northern Georgia, where their vaccination rate is incredibly low, less than 20% in some counties. The articles that I've read also don't tell if the immediate family members were vaccination - just that the dad at the time of the article was coughing from also having covid. And the boy died of a stoke. Not saying covid wasn't the catalyst, but there's also a lot of information missing. [/quote]

The vaccination rates are not relevant here.  The point is that Delta has high spread among the unvaccinated, and children are unvaccinated.  We could have the scenario that most kids get the virus between now and vaccine approval.  If even a small amount of cases are severe, that would still be a substantial number of kids.  [/quote]

And yet, children are in the vast, vast majority of cases, not at risk of harm. The only people at risk are unvaccinated adults. That's their problem.[/quote]

If you have 50,000 kids in DCPS and if 100% get Covid, and if the death rate for kids is 0.005%, then 2 or 3 DCPS students will die of COVID.  It's a small number, and I (like everybody else) is appropriately 99.995% sure that it won't be my child.  But it makes for dramatic headlines.  Particularly if that means the number for DC kids regardless of where they go to school is then 6 or 7.  Lots of ifs, lots of unknowns.  Just saying that a tiny risk seems bigger if the denominator gets large.[/quote]

It’s nice that you’re cool with three dead children *in our city alone*. [/quote]

DP. Nobody is “cool” with any children’s deaths. But we also can’t keep tens of thousands of kids home to save three lives. Society has never operated on the  principle that we must do everything possible to prevent every single death, or we would drop the speed limit to 15 on all roads and ban swimming pools.[/quote]

Not to mention what we would do about guns.[/quote]

That is true, but I deliberately omitted this example, because the PP probably agrees that we should severely restrict gun ownership (I certainly do), whereas she would probably also agree that it would be unreasonable to set an extremely low speed limit everywhere and ban pools. The point is that certain restrictions interfere with important functions of life (transportation and learning to swim/recreation) and we take risks for them. That includes education and childcare, but not gun ownership, which just doesn’t have the same risk-benefit ratio.[/quote]

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