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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don’t care if my kid gets Covid. They’ll be fine. I actually expect them to. They need to be in school. [/quote]

What if they get something else and there is no hospital capacity available to help them?
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What if the infect a lot of other people with this illness?[/b][/quote]

DP. +1 to the bold.

Scientists right now are concerned about the potential [i]even for [u]vaccinated[/u] adults/teens[/i] to get infected with Delta, have few or no symptoms, but also infect others with Delta who are unvaccinated/cannot be vaccinated and who will get very ill.

Clearly children who are too young to be vaccinated are potential carriers and spreaders, even if-- like this oh so optimistic parent above believes--they themselves end up fine.

I'm amazed at the adults who shrug and say "My kid will be fine, I expect my kid to get it" who have ZERO consideration of the larger health implications for their family members and their community as a whole.

"MY child will be fine." Lovely. Risk your own kid's health. Your prerogative. But it doesn't begin and end with your kid. If your kid gives the virus to you, a vaccinated adult, and you too are OK but pass it on--and it goes on and on -- that's how we never get past this. But posters like that PP won't know, and would not care if they did know, if their kid's infection ended up, several transmissions down the line, killing someone they'll never know about. Just does not matter to them. Their ignorance of public health is staggering and their lack of concern for those they won't ever meet is appalling. They don't want to see that they live in a world larger than their families. [/quote]

Kids don't transmit covid very much, not even delta.  Vaxxed adults with breakthrough cases don't transmit covid very much, not even delta.

We are all concerned with public health, with our communities, and with our children.  This is a Fairfax County thread.  That's who is posting here.[/quote]

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