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[quote=Anonymous]a lot of this depends on what you believe---- I understand that if you believe that there are tons of asymptomatic cases that are efficiently spreading covid everywhere, and a fleeting contact can leave you infected, and that infection will leave you and your family sick for a long time, and possibly kill someone, then a surveillance asymptomatic testing program makes sense, and the consequences of false positives and needless quarantine makes sense.

However- I think this is contrary to all the evidence.
1. vaccines really work.   If I look at Falls Church City, an area with a high vaccine rate- there has been 1 person hospitalized with COVID since April.  1.   Think about that.  Contrast that to from Nov-March when there were 7 hospitalization pre-vaccine but with a complaint population who followed mitigation practices.   Arlington has had 75 people hospitalized since April.   Contrast that to from Nov-March when there were 254 people hospitalized.  
2. The vast majority of COVID transmission happens from symptomatic people, and sometimes the 24-36 hours before symptom onset.  Nearly every outbreak has an index patient or patients who 'weren't feeling well'.

I would be on board with a 'test to stay' program.  e.g. one in which if someone was identified as a close contact, they had daily testing to be allowed to come to school.   I just can't get behind a surveillance testing program for a disease that is extremely mild for children and the vaccinated in most cases, and is not likely being spread by the 'asymptomatic' cases that are found as part of surveillance testing.   [/quote]

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