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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t have the vaccination numbers to let it blow through schools. Some children will die.

What we should be doing is identifying the problem spots (indoor lunch) and figuring out how to mitigate them. [/quote]

More children will die in a cross walk in DC than from COVID. Even unvaccinated kids. We need to move on to the acceptance part of grief with this virus.[/quote]

THIS! Let’s switch focus away from COVID, which we will likely all get at some point or another just like we all get colds or even the flu on a bad year, even if vaccinated. Kids are overwhelmingly not dying from COVID.*

Let’s focus instead on something that families and government in DC can actually do something about! The horrendous lack of safety for pedestrians and cyclists everywhere in the district.

*of course people who are immunocompromised have to take special precautions, but that is not new with COVID. I have worked with more than one colleague who wore a surgical mask to the office during cancer treatment, well before COVID.  [/quote]

As others have said, the mortality risk to children (and honestly, folks under 30) is infinitesimal.

I have young kids, one of whom is too young to be vaccinated, and I worry WAY more about cars and traffic safety. When they're older, I'll worry more about alcohol and drugs. You can smart be and careful about COVID, not to mention other illnesses, while also not over-stating the risks. We need to focus our efforts on those who need our help (older and immunocompromised folks), rather than drive ourselves nuts trying to get the risk down to zero for groups that aren't at much risk to begin with.

I don't think extending winter break by a couple days is a big deal, but I also don't see what it accomplishes unless you can somehow guarantee that everyone will isolate for 48 hours? I'd rather my kids be at school with vaccinated adults and good supervision than everyone spend two more days in ad hoc childcare arrangements (which often can fall to older relatives, who are the most at risk).

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The point of the extra 2 days is to allow DCPS time to distribute tests.  From the sounds of things they will at least request (if not require) a negative test before coming back to school.  So they are not asking anyone to quarantine for those 2 days or do anything differently than they normally would.  They just need the time to distribute tests.  Given omicron's hyper-contagiousness I agree that we need to give up on trying to prevent any transmission in schools.  But I think that saying you should not come to school if you are covid-positive is a reasonable mitigation measure.  And asking for tests after returning from break when families will be traveling and mixing it up with new people seems very reasonable (even in non-covid years there are a lot of viruses going around the schools post-break for these reasons).  And they need two days to put the system in place to allow for the testing.  And they have given families a reasonable amount of time to plan for this.  Extend your vacation if you want, or don't.  NBD.[/quote]

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