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[quote=Anonymous][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]

By that logic we would need to test every day but that is completely ridiculous. Vaccinations and watching for symptoms is what we should be doing. Testing on one random day is just theatrics. And it continues to teach our kids to fear COVID when we are well past that point and should be helping them to move on and learn to live with it. [/quote]

We use both both periodic, incidental and random sampling techniques to measure all sorts of things.  To suggest that using these techniques means it's necessary to "to test every day" is completely wrong and a misunderstanding of the value of fairly basic statistics that are used in not only epidemiology but many other disciplines as well.  If application of basic statistics teaches your children to "fear COVID", you probably should probably spend a bit of time on wikipedia so you can better explain to them why it's a useful technique that in no way impedes your ability to get vaccinated or watch for symptoms. [/quote]

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