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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genuine question for the people who support remote learning and other Covid prevention measures in schools: do you envision using these measures forever to control the spread of Covid? If not, what would have to happen for you to believe they are no longer necessary?  Is it better treatment, different vaccines, more herd immunity?

We know kids are statistically very unlikely to get very sick from Covid (so much so that it's been hard to even prove vaccine efficacy for this cohort), and we also know we are all statistically very likely (if not guaranteed) to get Covid (probably repeatedly).  Given this, what is the perceived benefit of school interruptions, and what is the basis for believing it outweighs the known harm?[/quote]

Answer - no, I don't. I expect our government to tire of it as well, and fund the next wave of research (as Biden has been begging Congress to do this spring) for a universal vaccine /booster. The army has been working on one for three years. Pushing this over the finish line would help a lot - then, like measles, mumps, polio we wouldn't have to "just live with it". This is solvable.  I do hope that good air filtration continues - seems like an overall good since kids lose a lot of school days to transmissible crud in a normal year.[/quote]

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