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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools are magical places. Kids can infect parents at home, but the virus dare not enter a school building. It knows better! Even in those districts that refuse to enforce student masking. We could end this pandemic now if we just declared all public places school buildings. [/quote]

You are the one who doesn't understand. No one is saying that schools are magical places where transmission does not occur. At the same time, if widespread transmission was happening, SOME students would be getting sick. If widespread community transmission was happening because unidentified asymptomatic student spreaders were spreading COVID-19 throughout the community, as the poster claims, SOME of the families of those students would be getting sick.  That's not what has been observed.  Actually the magic is in the PP's version of the facts, which suggests that magically, every student is an asymptomatic superspreader AND every member of the students' family remains healthy or asymptomatic.

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But some students and their families ARE getting sick. For example, the NYC DOE is open (80% of students are remote, by choice, and only special ed and elementary are currently "in person", so numbers don't reflect the 1.1 million students who are technically enrolled) and there have been 6,411 known student cases so far, and 7,572 staff cases, for a grand total of 13,983 COVID cases between 9/21 and 2/1. They've had to close 7,548 classrooms so far, and implemented nearly 1300 extended building closures (meaning multiple COVID cases that couldn't be traced shut the school down). Some states don't require reporting of COVID numbers, and many teachers have gotten in trouble for telling their students' families that they themselves tested positive. There's very much a belief that things should be kept quiet to avoid getting in the way of the "Open Schools! They're Safe" rhetoric. I agree with the PP-let's just open up restaurants inside these magic school buildings, since indoor dining is so safe in a classroom setting.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-year-20-21/return-to-school-2020/health-and-safety/daily-covid-case-map

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