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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never seen anyone, no matter how much in favor of IPL, say they would send their kids to school with Covid. Come on.

Also, asking an anonymous poster to commit to doing everything on your personal laundry list of safety precautions is beyond pointless. An excuse to argue.

I am in favor of asymptomatic testing, cohosting rules, travel restrictions and quarantines. Also favor masking and even brief periods of DL if the public health situation merits it (talking hiring rates not only of Covid but of hospitalizations, and obviously any uptick in serious illnesses or death should be taken very seriously), though I would like to see them linked to specific Covid metrics so that we know when we can ditch these measures, which I think have the most significant negative impact on school.

Once the policies are in place, you assume some amount of freeloading and rule breaking. I'm not going to freak out about that and I'm not going to expect or require 100% compliance because it's unrealistic. We're talking risk mitigation. 100% would be ideal, but 80% is pretty good.

And then I think public health policy makers need to go all in on vaccination. Bribes, rewards, requirements wherever we can. Restrictions and inconveniences for people who can vax and don't. I mean, the first thing we need to do is get rid of the emergency status for the adult vaccinations because that will actually free governments to do things like require vaccination or limit what unvaccinated people can do. And that should trickle down to kids as the vaccine is available to them. Very hard to require a vaccine under an emergency provision in order to go to school. Much easier once it has a regular approval. We need to be pushing on those decisions and doing whatever additional trials or research is necessary to get these vaccines to full approval for all ages as soon as possible.

Until then, accept there will be some measure of risk in schools. Do what we can to mitigate, but also just accept we have to live with it. Telling people "Your kids can't go to school in person unless we can guarantee that all people will comply 100% with restrictions until we have 100% vaccine uptake" is just another way of saying "No school for the foreseeable future.[/quote]

The purpose of the question is to see the overlap between those who reject virtual learning and those who reject measures that would make in-person learning safe. It's obviously not asking to commit to a laundry list. [/quote]

Ah, so you are trying to do a study on an anonymous forum! Well, that’s just as pointless.[/quote] I don't know where you're going with this existential questioning. Any conversation on here is pointless. You could also just tell me to shut up. Or go whine in Website Feedback to find out whether I'm inconsistent in my posts and 'just fear-mongering" or "have an agenda." [/quote]

No, not all conversations here are pointless. What’s pointless is to pretend like you can make any inferences from a few responses from anonymous posters on the extent of an “overlap” between two groups of anonymous posters. We can have discussions here, it’s not a place to run surveys.

The rest of your post is a total non sequitur to my comment.[/quote]

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