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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wishing there was a box to check for “yes, my student will attend once vaccinated.” DC will be 14 with respiratory issues.
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Do you keep your child out of school during flu season?  Both my pediatrician and my pulmonologist strongly encouraged us to send our severely asthmatic child to in person school.  Children’s did a study showing that asthmatic children with covid did fine, no difference based on asthma [/quote]

not the PP, but there's a vaccine for the flu plus doctors know how to treat it. Totally different scenario. [/quote]

for kids- its really not.   The flu vaccine is typically 40-60% effective (contrast to the well over 90% effective COVID vaccines).  The flu sets off kids with asthma, covid doesn't it.  I'm not sure what the 'doctor's know how to treat it' means.  I mean the flu is a virus, there are things they can do (like they do with COVID) but it basically has to run its course.   My asthmatic flu vaccinated kids had the flu a few years ago- and it was a miserable time for us, in and out of hospital etc.  I am vastly vastly less concerned about COVID.  This wasn't true at the beginning of the pandemic, but we have learned so much.

Here is my 'unpopular opinion.'  We need to stop deferring to parents judgement- so many people who claim to have 'high risk' kids- the condition the kids have is extreme parental anxiety.  ALL kids need to be back in school.  Special tailored accomodations need to be provided for those children who have a doctors note saying they should not attend in person school- and individual appropriate plans worked out for them.  But this 'opting for virtual' is garbage.  [/quote]

This is insane. The issue is not parental anxiety. There is literally a list of high risk conditions from the CDC. People just don't "claim" to be high risk. You may not like it but it IS a real thing. The Covid denial is out of control. [/quote]

This. [/quote]

You do realize covid will never completely disappear, right? [/quote]

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