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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]No athletics= no testing for those kids. You really think they aren’t hanging out together anyway? Did you see the sports fields this weekend, lots of teens “practicing”. Life goes on no matter these “rules”. [/quote]

If they had responsible parents, they’d get testing anyway. You don’t need schools to do that for you, in addition to taking over every other job of parenting.[/quote]

They won't though. APEs are against screening testing. [/quote]

And these are precisely the kids we want tested. Outside APS no masking with these folks. [/quote]

Why on earth should we test kids to go to school when much higher risk adults aren’t tested to go to restaurants, bars, gyms or anywhere else?

This is a Zero COVID strategy, which is impossible, but solely at expense of children. Completely illogical.

No wonder there’s not any tests for people who are actually sick since these closed schoolers are testing themselves all the time when they’re not even sick.[/quote]

100%. This is why the cancellation of athletics is even more frustrating. Those athletes are (unnecessarily) tested every day, so they could see an outbreak in advance anyway.[/quote]

They could “see an outbreak in advance” are you kidding me?  The testing doesn’t find the outbreaks in advance!  The testing finds the outbreaks after they happen and tries to prevent them from spreading further. Have you noticed the bunches of covid positive tests showing up for kids at the high schools?  Those are from the athletics testing, genius, and it’s rarely one kid at a time. Omicron spreads at rates that some scientists have estimated is 70% more effective than previous variants. So as soon as you find one case around kids breathing heavily in close contact with one another, you will find multiples, and those kids may take out the rest of their families (per Mike Sullivan, the local Arlington ER doctor who noted that with Omicron he is seeing many many cases where one case of Omicron hits everyone in the entire family whereas previous variants were not necessarily getting everyone in the family).

Seriously, the temerity of these sports families to underestimate the virus at every turn, complain about masks, complain about a two week sports hiatus when more staff members at APS have caught covid in the last WEEK (140+) than have caught covid in all the other weeks of the school year combined (121) and school principals are just doing everything they can to find staff to cover every class and tape together some plan to keep academics going relatively safely, and you are upset about SPORTS?  About SPORTS???

Smdh [/quote]

COVID will be here forever and everyone will be repeatedly exposed to it the rest of their lives. People like the Smart Restart think COVID is Ebola (and that is who is writing these posts supporting closing sports as the decision is universally unpopular among APS families). It’s pathetic.

They’re essentially pushing to close sports every year since COVID will be here forever. Next, it will be once flu season returns too. They don’t want life to return to normal.

These are triple-vaccinated adults with vaccinated kids (and kids under 5 have less than a flu level risk) trying to avoid at worst a bad cold. [/quote]

Screw sports and normal childhoods. We need 0 colds. No one can ever get a cold again[/quote]

It’s not even sports and extracurriculars. Their main people are on social media, complaining about how VA state law now requires schools to been open. They’re for closed schools. That’s who they are.[/quote]

Maybe your pet law isn’t as popular with the general parent population as it is in your echo chamber. [/quote]

Get ready for a form of it to be enshrined into law permanently with R governor, R House of Delegates and a state senate effectively controlled by Rs on school returning to normal.  Plus, there will be a strong push for it to be extended to extracurriculars now too as a result of Arlington’s actions.

A majority of APS families at all times last year wanted kids in school. I can only imagine how overwhelmingly popular that would be now at APS if they resurveyed families. That’s in bright blue Arlington too. You can only imagine how popular that is statewide.[/quote]

No law is permanent. Have you not taken high school government class yet? Don't worry. You'll get there.[/quote]

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