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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got an email about this on Tuesday saying this masks for the whole class for 10 days policy went into effect on Monday.[/quote]
FINALLY!!!
Seeing students and teachers still unmasked, and untested, after spending days unmasked with an unmasked positive was outrageous.[/quote]

Why? Everybody will get Covid eventually. They should tell the parents, and then those who are worried can send their kids in a high-quality mask. If they want to be extra careful, they can ask everybody to test on day five. But we can’t continue masking all kids for every Covid case in a class. Covid isn’t going away, and we’d be masking kids forever. Or what do you think the endgame is?[/quote]

Eventually? At the point, it's in number of times they will get it, and interval between infections. It isn't one and done. It's as many as your behavior gets you, and then it's a quite large risk of many of a quite long list of quite serious long-term ailments.

Wearing a mask for a couple of weeks after a case in the classroom absolutely beats organ failure or chronic fatigue.[/quote]

Quite a large risk? Where is your evidence for that? And where is your evidence that multiple infections exacerbate the risk of long term ailments?[/quote]

If you can't be bothered to pay attention to the research and are willing to take no precautions and just risk that your kid gets multiple infections, go for it.  I'd like to protect mine, especially in a way that means she's still in the classroom for school.  [/quote]

DP.  So, you don't have any evidence?[/quote]

She doesn't. I have been paying attention to "the research". There is currently no indication that catching Covid multiple times increases your risk of  complications, long-term or otherwise. There also isn't any evidence that there is "quite a large risk" of long-term ailments.

We used to take precautions, but stopped after omicron subsided. We haven't had Covid yet (to our knowledge), but I know we will eventually. The kids missing school or camp because of it is my biggest worry, but not a reason to limit their lives any further.[/quote]

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