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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys you're not going to believe it but the same people who said that results from a study on schools doing asymptomatic testing that was just published about three weeks ago were not at all relevant to the asymptomatic testing that Arlington was doing because the data was too old (didn't take vax rates into account) and was not from an area demonstrably similar to Arlington are now posting dashboards from SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, possibly the safest city in the United States, to argue that Arlington shouldn't do asymptomatic testing!

[quote]One year later, the Seattle area has the lowest death rate of the 20 largest metropolitan regions in the country. If the rest of the United States had kept pace with Seattle, the nation could have avoided more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths.[/quote]  [url]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/coronavirus-seattle-success.html[/url]

Some might say this is hypocrisy, but I have to commend the creative view of applicability over time.

By the way -- not that this will make a difference to you -- but Seattle and King County which are the subject of the dashboard you posted (and it's a dashboard, not a study, but again, high marks for creativity) is -- and you're not going to believe this, but -- IMPLEMENTING COVID TESTING FOR ASYMPTOMATIC KIDS this year, although they have not had time to start the program up yet.  They are doing this because in the past they have stayed ahead of the curve by employing safe practices and believe that asymptomatic testing is a good way to do that in the schools.  I know, right?  So crazy!
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Making the contacts of asymptomatic Covid positive kids stay home from school is unnecessary and cruel.  It will make no dent on the spread of Covid, but it WILL cause damage to kids who have already missed 1.5 years of schooling.  Arlington has a high 12+ vaccination rate, kids are masking in schools, most adults appear to be masking in public places.  In that regard, Arlington is very similar to King County.  And guess what -- Covid is almost exclusively a serious disease of unvaccinated adults both there and here.  I have run out of sympathy for unvaccinated adults.  Keeping them healthy is not the responsibility of children.[/quote]

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