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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is deciding whether good masking protocols were followed well enough that no quarantine is warranted for unvaxxed kids? I doubt any school/teacher is going to say they’ve been lax about masking, but some will be. And then there’s lunchtime… [/quote]

I'm a teacher with a baby at home and I'm pretty worried about this. My school is masks required but not enforced. In the spring there were multiple kids who would flat out just not wear a mask and would roam the room and halls (which is totally normal for my school). If there's a class of 20 kids and 3 of them don't wear masks, if there's a positive case, will they tell us which kid it is to confirm whether he/she wore a mask?  Probably not. I bet they will just assume all kids wore masks all the time.[/quote]
Technically, whether it's one of the under-masked kids who tested positive or not won't matter. In your classroom, over two weeks, the 3 kids who don't wear their masks will serve as the amplification system for the infected person's exhaled virus. One or more of them will catch it and then the next week they will broadcast it to the other kids, in the classroom and those who walk the halls in the hour following the unmasked infected kids. This thing is contagious. It isn't last year's virus.[/quote]
Same PP. If we care about keeping them safe from the virus, or even if we cared about flattening the pediatric ICU curve, a small curve at the measure of the small number of pediatric ICU beds in this city, we would do better.

We would do real asymptomatic testing of everyone, everyone including vaccinated teachers, because it is an accepted fact, a CDC-broadcasted fact in fact, that vaccinated adults can catch and transmit the virus and therefore must  continue to undergo asymptomatic testing.

We would allow students to participate in synchronous learning.

We would provide much more specific guidance and rules about the type of masks children and adults must wear.

We would provide much more specific guidance about in-classroom unmasking, or indoor unmasking. By stating that it cannot happen or superspreader events will happen.

Instead, we're setting the stage for simultaneous superspreader events around the city, while smashing every warning system that would let us know they're happening.

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