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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone saying “testing is not invasive and not a big deal” is missing the point. This is covid theater pure and simple. Most other districts throughout the country, including in blue states, aren’t requiring this before school starts. DC holding on to something like testing before school is a sign it is not following public health guidance and hasn’t moved on in an appropriate, informed way, which makes many of us nervous we’re looking at more silly quarantines and closures when/if cases go up. [/quote]

It isn’t Covid theater. Kids who are asymptomatic with Covid need to go home to contain the spread. Some kids aren’t vaccinated or have family members who are immunocompromised. Other states don’t have the resources to test to return.[/quote]

School closures and quarantines did very little if anything to contain the spread. Just as schools were not shown to be major contributors to community spread. Asymptomatic testing does not contain the spread and is a waste of time and resources. It’s a virtue-signaling gesture. Nothing more. Vaccines are available to all school-ages kids. I am fully vaccinated and boosted and am not worried about my fully vaccinated and boosted child going to school with an symptomatic kid. It’s time to move on in a reasonable way. [/quote]

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