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No one can keep up with the rapidity of the surge, OP. By the time governments ramp up efforts there will be significant closures because of staff shortages, and then Omicron will recede as rapidly as it came.

Our best bet is to pivot to virtual teaching now while teachers are still not positive and can teach, keep schools open with skeletal day care staff, and those of us who can, work from home the month, to keep EMS and hospital services running. But people don't want that, so we're going to have a disaster instead. Oh well.[/quote]

This would only delay the inevitable. Teachers and everyone else will eventually get infected, if everyone stays home again now they will get it later and the whole ordeal will be more drawn out. Last time we could say we are waiting for vaccines, this time there is nothing to save us. Yes, drawing it out overall (“flatten the curve”) may help hospitals, but closing schools is going to be a drop in the bucket for that issue. Better keep them running as best we can and avoid the definitive harms closures inflict on children.[/quote]

No, “let all the kids get covid” is not an acceptable policy.

There’s an easy answer here, and it’s testing.[/quote]

Testing may slow the spread, but you will need to come to terms with the idea that eventually most people, including kids, will get Covid. I know that’s a tough thing to accept if you’ve been zealous about avoiding the virus for nearly two years. We haven’t caught it yet but I know we will eventually, unless we want to keep up extreme precautions for the rest of our lives. And it will be ok because we are vaccinated.[/quote]

Even if you believe that catching Omicron/COVID is inevitable, everyone catching it at once certainly isn't.[/quote]

And that's why you test to slow the spread. But if you close schools, and if that were to actually accomplish your goal of protecting all those kids from the virus for the time that schools are closed (it won't since many will congregate elsewhere), then you would have just delayed the inevitable, as the school population would have to meet the virus eventually. Fortunately, kids are so low risk that it won't send masses of them to the hospital even if they all got infected in relatively short succession.[/quote]

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