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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Regardless...any kind of magnet brings kids from one are to another. If you move the magnet to a Bethesda school (the one that has room for about 400 extra kids) then you will be pulling kids from other areas there.[/quote]

Exactly, take Poolesville as another example. Poolesville is not located in an area with high density low income housing like Blair. Its mostly farms, SFH, some townhomes and a few mobile homes. If Poolesville had an identified carrier and did not have a magnet then there would be a lower risk to areas in Rockville, Darnestown and Gaithersburg. With the magnet though all those areas come into play.

Blair is a little worse than Poolesville in that it is already a hot spot due to the high density low income housing. The outbreak is likely to be higher if a magnet is infected because they would pass it on not only to magnet kids but the local population that lives in high density housing. [/quote]

It's not high-density housing, unless you consider all apartment buildings to be high-density housing (which I don't).

What's more, it's not the density of housing units that's the issue, it's the number of people who live in each housing unit. The virus doesn't care whether the people in a ten-person household are living in a detached house or in an apartment.[/quote]

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