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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a sincere question.

With case numbers rising in the schools what is the solution besides masks and testing?

If the answer is "there's no solution because kids don't get as sick as adults" then what about the others in the community? And what about long Covid in kids?[/quote]

1.  the high-quality studies don't show that masking prevents transmissions in schools, and the transmission in schools was already low regardless.  Your kids are still welcome to wear masks, as is anyone in the community.
2.  "others in the community" aren't solely exposed to covid via schoolchildren who got it from school.  Again, schools aren't a big source of transmission; the studies showed that community rates weren't appreciably different when schools were closed versus open.  If anything, schools reflect the community, and cases are transmitted to kids by the "others in the community."  "Others in the community" are also out there doing a ton of stuff, including working.
3.  the studies that have control groups show that kids who had covid had the same rates of "long covid" as kids who didn't have covid.  I think there are people who get long-term issues from covid, but it seems that major issues are exceedingly rare.  At the very least there needs to be a better definition of 'long covid' for us to have any grasp at all of prevalence or severity.
4.  There seem to be a lot studies that suggest that vaccination significantly reduces chances of long covid, and kids over 5 can get the vaccine.  To the extent that long covid seems to be highest in people who had severe symptoms, and to the extent that kids don't get severe symptoms generally, they seem pretty well protected even if unvaccinated.
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You are so disgustingly full of it.[/quote]

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