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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Importantly, this is CDC guidance on 'close contacts' in k-12 settings.  I imagine, like other surrounding school districts, this will soon be adopted by OSSE:

"Exception: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) where
both students were engaged in consistent and correct use of well-fitting masks; and
other K–12 school prevention strategies (such as universal and correct mask use, physical distancing, increased ventilation) were in place in the K–12 school setting."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

Meaning the exposure quarantines wouldn't send the entire class home.

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If children have 10min mask-free morning snack time in the classroom, and 20 mini mask-free lunch in the classroom, they did not engage is consistent use of well-fitting masks.
If children are wearing surgical masks, which by design are not well-fitting, or masks that frequently fall under their nose, they did not engage in consistent and correct use of well-fitting masks.[/quote]

Yeah, you can't expect perfect adhesion to the guidelines, and it unenforceable anyway.  But we know that, and the CDC knows that.[/quote]

If I was referring to perfect adhesion to the guidelines, I would have mentioned kids lifting their masks to scratch their faces or drink water.
What I described isn't imperfect adhesion to the guidelines, but potentially broad failures to even seek to follow the guidelines, that could be addressed by schools.[/quote]

look, masks just are not magic in that way. A short lunch period is not a superspreader event. [/quote] With delta in a classroom of 25, sure it can be, even if they do the 'eating in two waves' thing, with every other kid and every other row. [/quote]

please show me the research where a 20 minute unmasked lunch period is so consequential. [/quote]
please Google fleeting + delta.[/quote]

No no, link us to the research.  You are doing the anti-vaxxer thing of saying "just google it."[/quote]

You are doing the thing of demanding peer-reviewed published research on a topic that is too fresh for it.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

ok so in the absence of peer reviewed research, shut all the schools down!

ps - there is actually plenty of research on schools during covid that kept rates down with mitigation. presumably all those kids ate lunch at school with their masks off. [/quote]

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