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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am demanding that DCPS both give my child an education and not give my child a grave illness from possibly the most contagious virus that has even been seen.[/quote]

You are unhinged if you think this describes Covid.[/quote]
You are uninformed if you think this cannot describe Covid.[/quote]

I hope you don’t transfer your extreme anxiety about Covid to your kids. I’d feel really bad for them if they had to live in fear like you.[/quote]
The "I feel sorry for your kids" slur is months old now, and also, disgusting.[/quote]

No, this is a serious issue and not a slur. Parents who are gravely overestimating the risk of Covid to kids and communicate this fear to them are traumatizing their kids unnecessarily. This year has been hard enough on them without actually fearing for their own health and safety.[/quote]

Every single one of these risk estimates were based on the effect of the pre-Delta strains on kids.  If this were a year ago, I would agree with you.  But the situation is changing rapidly.  Too rapidly for large public health organizations to digest the data and come out with cogent messaging.  Some individual pediatricians are starting to sound the alarm.  Even the AAP, which has consistently advocated for in-person learning, has said that mitigation measures need to be layered, since before Delta, which we all KNOW is more transmissable, and was not present in the US when schools were open last year.  DCPS has made many of last year's required mitigation measures optional (while retaining the most asinine of them all -- the travel restriction).  We can expect significantly more transmission in DCPS this year than we saw last, but significantly less reporting, just when we are learning that the virus can seriously sicken children, and not just adults.  This is serious.

I'm raising my kids to be strong and resiliant.  I am not worried about the mental health effects of an additional 6 months of virtual learning when they emerged from over a year of it unscathed emotionally and academically on-track.  I am worried that they or one of their friends will need to be hospitalized for covid, which would be far more traumatic to them and everyone else in our family, particularly if Children's is short on beds like many pediatric hospitals in the South already are.  
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While the risk to get infected has changed, the risk of Covid to kids if they contract it has not changed. Therefore, while I avoid taking my unvaccinated kids into public indoor places as much as possible, I continue to make it very clear to them that the virus is not usually dangerous to them, and that this is mostly about us not wanting them to miss camp or school.

And you are in an extremely lucky position if your kids emerged from this year of virtual instruction completely mentally and academically unscathed. This is not true for the vast majority of kids. The risk of being hospitalized for Covid is MUCH lower to the average kid than the risk of being harmed by virtual school. And it isn’t a matter of their personal fortitude or that of their parents, so don’t pat yourself on the back too much. You are in a position of privilege on more levels than you realize.[/quote]

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