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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Importantly, this is CDC guidance on 'close contacts' in k-12 settings.  I imagine, like other surrounding school districts, this will soon be adopted by OSSE:

"Exception: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) where
both students were engaged in consistent and correct use of well-fitting masks; and
other K–12 school prevention strategies (such as universal and correct mask use, physical distancing, increased ventilation) were in place in the K–12 school setting."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

Meaning the exposure quarantines wouldn't send the entire class home.

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If children have 10min mask-free morning snack time in the classroom, and 20 mini mask-free lunch in the classroom, they did not engage is consistent use of well-fitting masks.
If children are wearing surgical masks, which by design are not well-fitting, or masks that frequently fall under their nose, they did not engage in consistent and correct use of well-fitting masks.[/quote]

Yeah, you can't expect perfect adhesion to the guidelines, and it unenforceable anyway.  But we know that, and the CDC knows that.[/quote]

If I was referring to perfect adhesion to the guidelines, I would have mentioned kids lifting their masks to scratch their faces or drink water.
What I described isn't imperfect adhesion to the guidelines, but potentially broad failures to even seek to follow the guidelines, that could be addressed by schools.[/quote]

look, masks just are not magic in that way. A short lunch period is not a superspreader event. [/quote] With delta in a classroom of 25, sure it can be, even if they do the 'eating in two waves' thing, with every other kid and every other row. [/quote]

please show me the research where a 20 minute unmasked lunch period is so consequential. [/quote]
please Google fleeting + delta.[/quote]

No no, link us to the research.  You are doing the anti-vaxxer thing of saying "just google it."[/quote]

You are doing the thing of demanding peer-reviewed published research on a topic that is too fresh for it.[/quote]

OK well we're not going to close schools because you're convinced that lunch will be a superspreader event. [/quote]

This is the CDC presentation that was released 2 days ago.
https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/54f57708-a529-4a33-9a44-b66d719070d9/note/753667d6-8c61-495f-b669-5308f2827155.#page=15
It is stated right there that the delta variant is as contagious as the chicken pox.
15 minutes indoors unmasked with someone who is contagious with the chickenpox puts you at risk of being infected if you're not vaccinated against chickenpox.
https://www.healthline.com/health/chickenpox-in-adults#risk-factors
Note that those 15 minutes don't say anything about distance. [/quote]
 
 "Healthline" really?  Listen lady.  Please enroll your child ASAP in Friendship Online Charter and leave DCPS alone.  You clearly have no ability or interest in engaging with this topic in an informed manner. [/quote]

Oh for f's sake, call me Doctor.
All i needed was a number of minutes we traditionally use as a threshold for contracting chickenpox. I'm not writing a meta-analysis here.[/quote]

You're on a thread with people arguing that SCHOOLS SHOULD CLOSE aren't you? So you're being tremendously irresponsible about this.  If you have a genuine piece of evidence, please present it. Otherwise, gtfo with all the unsupported, goal-shifting allegations that are oh-so-familiar the last time WTU was trying to keep schools shut. [/quote]

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