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[quote=Anonymous]NP. People in that locked/redirected thread are way off the mark.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1029053.page

"The fact that an entirely arbitrary percentage of a highly-vaxxed, low-risk population is "infected" is irrelevant to reasoned decision-making."

Yeah, so the percentage of people infected (that's a fact, scare quotes are insulting) actually does have bearing on making reasoned decisions. It kind of tells you how fast and how widely the disease is spreading. Weird, right?

Now, it's only one factor, I guess? It is *less* closely correlated to very high rates of death, thanks to vaccinations. But, yeah, monitoring infections tells you how many people are infected-- and infectious! With a disease that still kills people. And at the very bare minimum, renders many of them temporarily unable to work or go to school.  A small percentage of an extremely high number is still a lot of deaths. A significant percentage of a extremely high number is a significant disruption to the workforce, etc.

But no, of course infection rates have no place in "reasoned decision-making" about an... infectious disease.

(And, sure, school kids may be at relatively low risk, and MoCo may be highly-vaccinated. But MoCo school kids are not highly-vaccinated.)
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