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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the [b]let it rip crowd [/b]is like the jocks in school who were terrible at math and percentages, they just deal in absolutes.  Sports, good.  Kids in school, not at home, good.

Give them a statistics problem and they have difficulty balancing the risks.  Omicron is mild covid so is like a 5% version of Delta, but add to that a 20% chance that you develop long covid after omicron  -- hey, how do you expect me to calculate THAT?!

This isn't quite fair.  There are real mental health struggles to keeping kids at home without access to other kids and learning, and there are real food access and equality issues to kids who are living in poverty or on the edges of society.  But those kids aren't the ones who have parents complaining about sports being cut off for two weeks.  (Some of the kids I know on the edges like that are already in virtual, because their parents didn't trust the school system to protect them and their families from getting sick.)

This whining over the loss of two weeks of sports, when neighboring schools are actually closing their doors because too many teachers have caught covid to adequately staff the building, is insanely disproportionate.  "Omicron is like the flu, life has to go on and covid will always be with us now, sports forever!" and meanwhile so many teachers are getting infected from this super catchy variant that there isn't sufficient staff to run the schools. [b] Keeping the infected rate of students at a school low enough so that staff do not also become infected [/b]and are free to teach is more important than sports.[/quote]

This is truly one of the single dumbest things I have read so far. But the sad part, I know that you and many others truly believe it.
The infection rate in children in APS was tiny. 
And NO, my child doesn’t need to protect adults. My child isn’t responsible for the adults poor choices and behaviors. 
The adults need to be responsible and protect themselves.
except they don’t because they don’t. [/quote]

Also referring to now as "let it rip" is stupid too. Let it rip was before vaccines, now we have vaccines and boosters. Are red states canceling sports? Are they closing schools?

No, they're not. This is only happening in ultra blue states, especially in places with strong teachers unions.

And to get lectured by a COVID doomer about the actual flu level risk is hilarious. Please. Stop with the Long COVID scare porn - 20% - bahahaha. The research has shown how extremely rare it is, especially for healthy people. And it's similar to other viruses, like the flu.[/quote]

20% or 1% get Long COVID! Hilarious. I mean, I now know 300+ people who have had COVID, not 1 who has had Long COVID. Come to think about it, which is identical to the # of people who I've known who've had long-term symptoms after the flu - 0.[/quote] You knew 300+ people who got COVID?  Really?[/quote]

Of course - not all friends, but coworkers, acquaintances, etc. You don't know at least 50 who have?

Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to it for the rest of their lives. Some people will get it asymptomatically (like my kids).[/quote]

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