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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This wave will be over before school starts, folks. I’m not a COVID denier (I’ve never stopped masking indoors and we kept DS home all year last year) but I doubt there will be any political will to shut schools down like they did last year. Teachers, kids, parents, and the government all want them back. Barring a very serious/large outbreak in DC, I think they’ll remain open all year (potentially minus small, single-school shut downs).[/quote]

STICK THIS SENSE OF CALM DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS.[/quote]

Yes, let me get some of that too.

I felt so absolutely betrayed and shocked by decisions made out of nowhere last year, that I would put nothing past our DC government, school leadership, even other parents.

I don't know where the political will or any other will lies, to be honest. [/quote]
The War Has Changed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-guidance/
[quote]The delta variant of the coronavirus [b]appears to cause more severe illness[/b] than earlier variants [/quote]
[quote] the agency knows it must revamp its public messaging to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a [b]variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus[/b], leaping from target to target more swiftly than Ebola or the common cold.[/quote]
[quote] there are 35,000 symptomatic infections per week among 162 million vaccinated Americans.[/quote]
[quote]Because public health officials had emphasized the great efficacy of the vaccines, the realization that they aren’t perfect may feel like a betrayal. “We’ve done a great job of telling the public these are miracle vaccines,” Seeger said. “We have probably fallen a little into the trap of over-reassurance, which is one of the challenges of any crisis communication circumstance.”[/quote]

[quote]f the war has changed, as the CDC states, so has the calculus of success and failure. The extreme contagiousness of delta makes herd immunity a more challenging target, infectious-disease experts said.
“I think the central issue is that vaccinated people are probably involved to a substantial extent in the transmission of delta,” Jeffrey Shaman, a Columbia University epidemiologist, wrote in an email after reviewing the CDC slides. “In some sense, [b]vaccination is now about personal protection [/b]— protecting oneself against severe disease. [b]Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections.[/b]”[/quote]
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The message I take from this is that there is no reason to NOT have in-person school, if all kids are going to get it and there's no ability to fight it.  [/quote]

+1. Also, Delta is in retreat in England and India. [/quote]

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