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Asymptomatic testing?!?  No thanks - way too much of a chance of false positives, which will mean unnecessarily closing the school to my kids again.

[i]The current prevalence rate for the coronavirus in the United States is roughly 15 cases per 10,000 people per week. (Prevalence in schools tends to be similar to, or lower than, that in the surrounding community.) If you give 10,000 people a test that produces false positives 2 percent of the time, that means you might get 215 positives: 15 true positives and 200 false positives. In other words, more than 90 percent of the positive test results will be incorrect.[/i][/quote]

No, the rate of false positives is low. Much lower than 2%.

Overall, it's fine to have some false positives if that means we are also able to identify true positives and quickly shut down spread. 
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Nope. My kid is not unnecessarily missing school for a week when COVID barely transmits in a school setting.  They missed way too much last year and during the spring 2020.[/quote]

You'd rather have a large outbreak that may send whole classrooms home? Or grade level?

Anyway, the chance of false positives is very low.

If you can't uphold the social contract, then keep your kids home. 
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[b]The chances of a large outbreak are so, so tiny[/b], especially at the ES level.  We have a year's worth of evidence that demonstrates that tiny risk. Then add in the tiny risk to children from COVID (less than the daily risk of them riding in our car to go to school), the risk becomes so minute that it's a no brainer to opt out of asymptomatic testing.

Those that have a different risk profile, feel free to get your kids asymptomatically tested as much as you want.  We're passing for DS.

Asymptomatic testing is not part of the social contract.  If it was, the school system would require it.[/quote]

....IFF we are masking, testing, distancing, ventilating, vaccinating, etc.

Doing basic things that help our society is part of our social contract. Mask, test, and vaccinate. And, yes, the school should absolutely mandate it.

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