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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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[/quote]

How do you know the kids are asymptomatic vs. pre-symptomatic?

And asymptomatic cases can infect others...estimated to cause "one fifth of household infections". 
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00059-4/fulltext

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[url]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00059-4/fulltext[/url]

DP, but for future reference you can just copy and paste the text of the link and put in in your browser and hit go.  But do you actually not know and need someone to prove to you that people who have covid but are asymptomatic actually can and have transmitted the virus to others?  I thought we all learned that in early times even before Delta.  I don't understand how you don't know this.[/quote]

‘Can and have’ is extraordinarily different than ‘likely to’. So the study says that 20 percent of infections from a household member (eg those you live with, unmasked) were a symptomatic.   80 percent were symptomatic.   
Last year 1.4 percent of school contacts developed COVID.   That’s extraordinarily low.   Now make that asymptotic s hook contacts and we are way below a 1 percent probability.   Yet we are quarantining those kids and forcing them out of school [/quote]

Last year the kids were spaced 6 feet and 10 at lunch, and schools were far below capacity, and we were dealing with a different variant. We're in different times now. Or haven't you been keeping up with the news? [/quote]

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