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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is amazing, the same people who called last year's virtual schooling "garbage, non-existent education" now say they would totally sign up for APS's asymptomatic testing if virtual schooling were available while their kids were in quarantine!

So APS virtual schooling last year sucked, unless its unavailability can make me try to seem more reasonable, in which case it is a good thing.

I'm getting whiplash from your quickly changing positions.

I mean, you asked for evidence and I gave it to you, but you have nothing to say about it. You just go back to how hard this would be on your family to have kids home from school for any length of time.

And PP upthread is MAD because this study which was just published 14 days ago is not using recent enough data, because it studies kids from mid-2020 through January 2021!!!  Nevermind that it takes several months to compile your data, analyze and write up the results, and get the study accepted for publication.  This PP will only be convinced when someone gets results from the last several months, writes up the results and gets them published, and then travels back in time to show us those results in real time.  Talk about moving the goalposts!! (PS -- the fact that this study uses earlier data just shows, if anything, that the results NOW with the more virulent Delta virus would spread even faster given its higher transmissiblility than last year's virus, but okay. I wouldn't expect a different result from you guys anyway.) (BTW APS's testing also includes high school kids which you seem to object to in this study for some reason -- if high school kids have higher levels of potential exposure, seems like that's a good reason to test them at APS, and the study tested lower grades as well just as APS is doing but I guess you need to object to something so...)[/quote]

I'm PP above and I concede you all make a good point about this study being conducted before vaccinations were widely available.  I don't think that would affect the data much for the K-5 grades but it should probably affect it for the older kids -- most importantly it should make any infections to vaccinated kids less lethal.  Again, though, I can't really fault the timeline of the study for not being more recent when it takes time to compile data and publish a study.  Moreover, none of you are mentioning the Delta effect either -- because it's decidedly inconvenient for you -- which makes the virus MORE transmissible than the old virus even in vaccinated people.  If anything the 2.4 infection rate estimation is probably a severe undercounting when you are talking about Delta.[/quote]

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