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I remember some serious mitigation measures at sleep away camp when a camper was diagnosed with chicken pox a couple of days into it in the mid-80ies. Those were not parties. They took it extremely seriously, but that was forty years ago. They didn't need to do 1917-type masking because it wasn't a deadly pandemic, but they didn't have access to the rapid tests and abundance of masks we have in 2021. There is no excuse for this.   [/quote]

This is not a "deadly pandemic" for the under 12s.[/quote]
If I had just written "they didn't have access to the abundance of masks we have in 2021", I'm pretty sure the tit-for-tat snarky retort would have been "Well in 1917 they figured out a way to mask up."[/quote]

It's just a fact that it isn't.[/quote]

Right. 
Yet, it's enough of a health risk to unvaccinated children and society at large that masks in school mostly mandated. School mask mandates are necessary but not sufficient, hence OP's alarm.
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No, it’s a large enough health risk to ONLY society at large, specifically the segment of society that is choosing not to protect themselves (immune compromised aside, sorry y’all). I could not care less anymore about that segment of society, but particularly when they force children to shoulder the burden of their selfish choices.[/quote]

This is where you lose me. Doctors and scientists are sounding the alarm on Delta in children. The latest stats are 1 in 22 children infected have long term symptoms. That’s very concerning, when you are talking about a highly transmissible virus. We should be working together to pressure DCPS to implement every mitigation strategy possible. Pretending children are not at risk is foolish. [/quote]

Citation, please.[/quote]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00198-X/fulltext[/quote]

You’ll need to copy/paste that link. Published yesterday. [/quote]

Thanks for posting this. It's a useful study, but for purposes other than what you've stated, because it emphatically does not indicate what you're talking about.

I don't think you read the introductory materials carefully. I can see why, because it's a bit confusing, but essentially they're saying the length is not very different from that of children who tested negative for SARS-COV-2 (and thus were infected with some other virus). And the length is certainly not what we would consider long term, since it's 4 weeks with mild symptoms like anosmia, headache, and fatigue, and max 8.  Fifty-six days of symptoms suck, but as an asthmatic child, I can tell you that I would regularly have a mild cough for months.

Please also note that this is all proxy-reported (not self-reported, even for 16-17 year olds!) data from an app available for free download. This is NOT a representative population. Also note that in the UK, the older children do not have access to vaccines like they do here. There is a significant age variation-- for ages 5-11, the duration for symptoms was typically 2 days.

Serious illness was statistically absent, and they couldn't do any sort of analysis based on hospital visits, since they were so rare.

Notably the children who were infected with something OTHER than SARS-COV-2 had a GREATER symptom burden over their entire illness, even if it didn't last quite as long.

There is not a single sentence in here which suggests substantial long-term illness in children. Parents should feel reassured by this study.[/quote]

Thank you for explaining![/quote]

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