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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ANTI TEST:  Covid is less lethal to kids than the flu!
PRO TEST:  Actually covid has killed more kids than the flu ever has in the last year, and compared to some years 10x as many so...
ANTI TEST:  Car accidents though!  You can't make me test!
PRO TEST:  Just try it, you'll like it.
ANTI TEST:  You can't make me.  What if my kid misses school for a week even though he's doesn't have it?
PRO TEST:  Okay but what if your kid is asymptomatic and but for testing would spread covid to other kids and households?
ANTITEST:  They should be vaxxed.  That's their problem.  This has to end!  You can't prove testing is worthwhile!  Show me some studies saying it's worth it.
PRO TEST:  Shows recent study proving testing saves money by catching cases early and saving on healthcare costs for people who would otherwise get infected absent early detection through testing.
ANTI TEST:  NOT THAT STUDY.  A study I like, which shows testing from last month!  And which doesn't show any positive effects because I don't want to see them!
PRO TEST:  This is clearly really going well.
ANTI TEST:  Yeah you guys are totally unreasonable.[/quote]

Sigh. You ignore the reasonable responses about how a study with results from Jan. 2021 all across the country and across grade levels up to college without any discussion of other mitigating preventative factors may not be an apples to apples comparison to APS with mask mandate and vaccination available for those 12+. You’re just insisting that *this study* must only be interpreted the ONE way that YOU insist or else parents are selfish for doing their own critical thinking. You ignore complaints about how APS has poorly communicated how this program works, how the algorithm works, or any acknowledgment that false positives exist that could lead to multiple children in a pool plus their siblings being excluded from school unnecessarily. You also ignore the fact that education loss after 18+ months of virtual learning is a legitimate hardship that needs to be weighed against any potential benefit of catching an asymptomatic infection of a masked child (don’t we all still believe that masks work a significant amount of the time?). Also you ignore the fact that even with Delta spread not one child in Arlington County has died this entire pandemic. So you’re proposing actual harm to children through continued learning loss for a tiny statistical risk of of COVID.

Plus it’s INCREDIBLY privileged to tell people to just try it and deal with the week or so inconvenience of having your kid potentially excluded from school due to a false positive or being in a pool with a positive person when there are parents who need their leave for when their child is actually sick and will not get paid if they do not go to work. Can you imagine risking your paycheck to APS’s vague algorithm?

Stop acting like COVID is the be all, end all of harms to children and families during this pandemic. 80% of us have moved on.[/quote]

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