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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how "keen observers" miss the alarmingly high COVID rates in countries with open schools, and in areas of the US with open schools. If anything, politics have forced schools to open when they should have stayed shut.[/quote]

Did you read the article? There is no correlation between covid rates and school openings. I’m still agog at supposedly progressive and intelligent DC parents who don’t get this. [/quote]
NP. My observational data...
I'm not in DMV. Live just outside a mid-sized city in Pennsylvania.  County has a mix of urban, suburban, and rural population. State shut down severely in late March.  Phased re-opening started mid-May, but my county did not re-open until mid-June.  The limitations have varied from month to month with the government updating / changing /refining restrictions, but restaurants and bars have been open since mid-June. Kids returned to travel soccer and baseball in June. Gyms re-opened in June. Kids camps opened, to include indoor (like gymnastics) in June.  Churches began in person services - initially limited to 25 in person, but that increased to 50% of fire code max occupancy. 
State has a mandatory mask mandate. I rarely see anyone not wearing a mask, except for outside.
My county has 8 school districts, plus a variety of private and charter schools. Roughly half began school in late August or early September under a hybrid model, and half went back full time. A few remained full online.  One of my children went back in a hybrid model in late August (in the biggest district in the county with 14k students), the other remained online (charter). In October, the largest district began full in person for elementary (middle and high remained hybrid). My son's charter school went hybrid in October. Since late September, various schools have had some classes / sections / grades /entire school quarantined for 2 weeks.  
July - averaged 19 new cases a day  
August - averaged 22 new cases a day
September - averaged 17 new cases per day
October - averaged 36 new cases per day - over double the month prior
November - so far, averaging 76 new cases per day - again, over double the previous month.
Correlation does not equal causation... but the what changed from August to October? Schools re-opening.  [/quote]

Or, I don't know. A drop in temperatures? More indoor unmasked indoor social activities? Trump rallies?

I mean, you can say that, my the numbers in my county look pretty similar and no public schools are open. So if our numbers increased similarly, they maybe it isn't schools.[/quote]
Did your county numbers triple in 2 months?
Temperatures did not drop until the last 2 weeks... and even then, not much. It was 70 degrees last weekend. Most people have been outdoors until daylight savings. Cases in November (since it is still the beginning of the month... and  tests can take 2-6 days to come back)  equals exposure in October. 
Trump rallies - eh, maybe. They were outdoors... but a lot of cheering and not a lot of masks. 
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There are no public schools open in my county. Very few privates open fully. Most use hybrid. The 7 day average case rate per 100,000 people on August 30 was 5.9.  Today it is 22.3.  So, no, the cases didn't double in a little over two months - [b]they almost quadrupled with no public schools open.[/b][/quote]

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