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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the face of everybody in the world, it seems, doing everything they can to keep the schools open, it’s not enough for you.  You still have to come on here and complain.  So many of you are so damned selfish, thinking only of how the pandemic affects you and your family and no one else.  It’s really sad.   [/quote]

I actually think the schools-open-at-any-cost folks are the selfish ones. Totally ignoring that large swaths of our city are still unvaccinated, that immunocompromised folks exist, that hospital workers are at their breaking point and that schools have proven to be a major source of infection in our city. But we can’t possibly close school for three days!!! [/quote]

If they are unvaccinated that's their fault. They've had ample time to get free shots to protect themselves and their family. If they failed to do that, that's on them.

Also, there is zero proof that schools are a "major source of infection in our city." You are spreading panic and misinformation. Get your doctor to prescribe you something for your anxiety.

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DP: This is getting so silly. Where do you think all these teachers and students are getting infected. I feel like at this point we need a moderator to step in bc there’s no way to prove it one way or another[/quote]

Where are they getting infected? Literally anywhere. The equivalent of .5% of the city's population tested positive over the weekend. You think all those cases are because of schools? It's because of two things: One, the omicron variant seems to be hypercontagious. And two, everything else in the city/region/nation is open for business as usual, 2019-style. Masks weren't required until yesterday at 6 p.m. I wouldn't be surprised if the transmission rate in schools is lower than it is in the community as a whole, because the schools at least try to require masks, at least some schools have implemented other mitigation strategies (like better ventilation or outdoor lunches), and at least attempt to do some surveillance testing.

Unless students and teachers are living an entirely sequestered life when they're not in school, there is no way to keep covid out of the schools -- and no way to prove that the schools are where people are catching it.

I don't want to get covid, and even more than I don't want to get covid, I don't want to pass covid on to someone who's at higher risk than I am (and I am relatively high risk, with Type 1 diabetes, but I'm also otherwise healthy and vaxxed/boosted). But after two years of this, I'm not interested in shutting down schools for my kids or anyone else's if the main goal is to keep unvaccinated people from getting sick. They've had almost a year to go get a free, safe, effective shot. They haven't. Now covid is everywhere, and pretending it's only in the schools or that you can address it by only focusing on the schools is pointless.[/quote]

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