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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The data is wrong. It is wildly underreporting the number of cases at my kids' school, so I have no reason to trust the rest of it.[/quote]

Agreed. My kid and at least 2 others tested positive in random asymptomatic testing a few weeks ago (and it may have been more), which ended up in 50% of two different classes being quarantined... and those cases were never reported to the school community. We did receive ~5 other positive notifications over the next week, but none with matching numbers or dates.

That said, all 3 kids I know about were totally asymptomatic, tested negative on PCRs within 24 hours of the initial test, never got a positive rapid and never spread it to anyone (including, in 2 of the case, unvaccinated family members)... so I am also somewhat skeptical of the testing.[b] Are we sure they're matching student to test correctly? That there's no contamination? It just seems so strange that it happened in 3 cases in the same round of testing.[/b][/quote]

I doubt there are many mix-ups or lab errors. Your story is evidence of the needlessness and harmfulness of asymptomatic testing in schools. We all need to opt out of that racket.[/quote]

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