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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think this scenario is far-fetched, considering the public figures saying even today that masks are becoming necessary again, in-doors, even if you are vaccinated.

However, I think it is a real stretch to predict that the high schools won't open, as those kids are vaccine-eligible.  I think DCPS will require those kids to be vaccinated in the classroom.

But the trouble is for the under-12 year olds who, so far, are not vaccine-eligible.  [b]Even with masks, there will be social distancing requirements for the unvaccinated, which will not allow for in-person schooling 5 days per week[/b].  Every parents' choice will be up to their own resources, that point, terribly.[/quote]

I thought we were done with the idea that social distancing made a difference for an airborne virus?

Let’s hope you are wrong. Young kids are at low risk. They need school.[/quote]

I hope I am wrong, too -- but I am not wrong about social distancing indoors (although it makes less of a difference, the longer anyone spends in a non-ventilated room) and the latest data on the Delta variant is that kids are no longer low risk.  The Delta infects kids at a rate significantly higher than the 1.0 version.  [/quote]

Even with delta, kids are still at low risk for serious illness or Long Covid.[/quote]

No, they aren’t. Research shows “long covid” is minimal in kids.

Again, feel free to join Friendship Online Charter. Leave the rest of us alone. [/quote]
No "research" shows no such unambiguous thing. We. don't. know. yet. The most optimistic study brought up shows at least 2% of infected kids get some long covid symptoms. We know very little about what proportion gets debilitating symptoms, when/if they subside, how level of infection, predisposition, age, variant, treatment of initial infection all impact likelihood, severity, duration of long-covid. 
But, no, there is no consensus of research showing that it's minimal in kids. It is a huge area of concern for experts around the world, particularly in the UK, where they've YOLO'ed kids into schools unmasked and are "celebrating" reopening day today, halfway through a huge spike in cases.[/quote]

Go wear your N95 alone in your car.[/quote]

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