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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what? The answer isn’t to lock kids up for two years. The answer is to figure out how to reduce the risk of them infecting teachers and each other. There are a ton of possible mitigation measures. None are perfect but layering them helps a lot. The answer is school with mitigation. [/quote]

This, and also prioritizing schools instead of putting them last, as the DC area has been.  The issue isn’t whether kids can transmit COVID, it’s that the costs of keeping them out of school outweigh the costs of their COVID transmission *which can be mitigated*.  We KNOW that adults transmit COVID; that hasn’t stopped them from gathering.  Children’s education > adult leisure time.[/quote]
No, large gatherings of all kinds (church, concerts, restaurants, bars, cruises, schools) need to be forgone. There is no moralizing this-the virus does not discriminate.[/quote

Ok. Forgone for how long? Foregoing cruises and concerts causes a lot less harm than foregoing school. Should we forego school until when? No virus? Kids can get vaccinated? Foregoing in person school for two years seems extreme. [/quote]

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