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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect our school will have indoor masks and opt in weekly testing but quarantines will be only for those either not vaccinated or not willing to do test to stay (assuming there is still access to lots of rapid tests).

If kids are given an option of either, I think the concerns about certain groups being more vaccine hesitant than others are pretty well addressed?

Still, we might be one of the last areas in the country not fully returned to life as before and I'm not sure how to feel about that. [/quote]

TTS wasn't done above the ECE age for most schools, I think.  I don't even know if it was done for the ECE age at many schools.

[b]But the vaccine, as has been shown, does extremely little for preventing spread, particularly in the school age group. [/b] It is therefore difficult to use it to distinguish children on the basis of who can stay in the building and who can't.  When the negative repercussions of the policy are large (keeping kids out of school, particularly ones that have already suffered extended periods of time out of school), and the positives are small to negligible, then the policy is bad.  The policy is PARTICULARLY bad when it disproportionately hurts Black kids' education.

You can either keep disproportionately Black kids out of school or change the policy.  [/quote]

I’ll take: “Not supported by science and bullshit accusation of racism for $100, Alex!”[/quote]

What?  No, it's common thinking by now that the vaccines aren't great at preventing transmission.  That's how you get surges of cases even in highly vaccinated places.  An example of the literature:

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298
"Most papers to date (notably, many are preprints and have yet to be peer reviewed) indicate vaccines are holding up against admission to hospital and mortality, says Linda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, “but not so much against transmission.”"[/quote]

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