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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m guessing CDC comes out with some revamped guidelines in light of Omicron. Current rules don’t make sense when cases transmitting regardless of vaccine status and most everyone is getting it. I expect we move to something more like this: https://time.com/6131104/rethinking-covid-19-restrictions-2022/?fbclid=IwAR1Xwqe7m4yI7n00ofI1-NuQifh9n3v3y_37H5sKgL2wdlF0yzhz7B-ZdpA[/quote]

On testing from link: Rational Testing Policies

We need to retire the policy of school closures and the cancellation of school sporting events based on asymptomatic testing. While testing and quarantines may have been rationalized as reasonable strategies prior to the availability of vaccines, these disruptions can no longer be justified as having any direct impact on lowering the risk of life-threatening illness among the lives of those subject to the disruptions, namely students, athletes, or even spectators.

Although schools reopened in 2021, parents and students continue to suffer from educational loss and work disruption due to school testing policies and quarantines. The CDC has recently endorsed test to stay as a safe and reasonable policy for keeping kids in school and minimizing educational disruption. This policy should quickly become the norm until school-based testing is completely phased out. Similarly, testing protocols should be updated for all places of work, shortening the period of isolation following infection. Returning to work (or school) as soon as a rapid test is negative, reflecting when COVID-19 is no longer transmissible, is more appropriate than the outdated 7 day period (with a negative test) of isolation.[/quote]

There's literally not been a single student disrupted from surveillance testing.  But now that you mention it, I'm glad that there's a convenient, free, totally optional testing policy. [/quote]

What are you talking about, not a single student disrupted from surveillance testing?  My kid missed almost week of school while waiting the five days to get a PCR test (which was negative) after they were deemed a close contact of an asymptomatic kid who was found during surveillance testing.  This was before my child could be vaccinated.  My child is now so they wouldn’t be excluded based on close contact alone, but there are plenty of kids who are not vaccinated based on their parents’ choices.  Those kids have no say whatsoever in whether they get vaccinated, but will lose out on education as a result. [/quote]

If kids miss school because they are unvaccinated, too bad. The parents can weigh that as part of the pros and cons of getting vaccinated. [b]Those families don’t get to have it both ways - no vaccine AND no quarantine.[/b] [/quote]

And many of those parents are [i]also[/i] pushing for no mask. 
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Exactly.  [/quote]

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