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[quote=Anonymous]Please provide a source stating that when schools are in session, most transmission of covid to children happens from adult to child rather than from child to child.

Because there are certainly studies that show that children -- even very young asymptomatic children -- can easily transmit covid an in fact are usually the ones who bring it home and infect their families, over and above older teenagers.  https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210817/youngest-kids-more-likely-spread-covid-to-family

You guys seem really mad.

I can see that you guys are saying that there is a cost benefit analysis to what the early testing can do, and I'm not going to add my kids into the testing group when getting a negative result might adversely affect them over other kids who aren't getting tested.  Why should my kid be disadvantaged and unnecessarily miss school in such a small pool of kids when we don't really know if it will help anyone?

I mean, you're not crazy.  I can understand your position.  I just think it's very me-first and selfish in the same way that people who refuse to wear masks in grocery stores are being selfish.  You know that accepting this inconvenience to yourself could hurt someone in the community, but your own need to stay on top is primary, so you won't do it.

Instead, you require curious levels of PROOF for an idea that is at it's core very rational -- early testing in schools can detect covid cases that otherwise wouldn't be caught, and thus quarantining those cases can stop kids from spreading covid to others in the school.  Nah, you guys need stats from vaccinated people, and just kids in K-8, and a study that excludes the university kids, and a study that captures the same masking rates we have here in Arlington.  We will be good and virtuous, you promise, if you just provide us exactly the precise study data we need at precisely the moment we need it.  Whereas I thought people were just supposed to be good and virtuous and protective of their fellow community on principle, but I must have missed some meetings I guess.[/quote]

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