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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montgomery County is 98.9% vaccinated amongst those who are eligible.

https://dcist.com/story/21/10/11/montgomery-county-hits-99-partial-vaccination-rate-for-eligible-residents/

When will we see adjustments to the quarantine policies that are putting an unnecessary burden on our kids and caregivers?  Who do we contact to get movement on this issue?[/quote]

Unfortunately, I think they want to use the quarantine policy as a way to effectively mandate vaccinations.

I’m not strictly opposed to a vaccine mandate, but I don’t think they should be playing games with the quarantine policy to do it. [/quote]

Having different quarantine policies for vaccinated and unvaccinated people isn't "playing games," it's basic public health policy.[/quote]

In diseases with other characteristics it could make sense. But given that we don’t quarantine students for the flu it doesn’t make sense to keep quarantine Covid, particularly once high-risk people can be vaccinated.

Heck, RSV is a bigger problem for kids right now than Covid and we’re not quarantining RSV contacts.[/quote]

Medical caregivers generally don't test for RSV, and there's no vaccine against RSV, but other than that...

In any case, you are not arguing against different quarantine policies for people who are vaccinated/unvaccinated against covid, you're arguing for no quarantine policy for covid at all.[/quote]

Correct, I don’t think there should be a quarantine policy for Covid at all. I think it’s mostly being kept around as a backdoor method for requiring vaccinations. Just based on individual and public health risk, it makes no sense that we’re quarantining students for Covid but not flu or RSV.[/quote]

Yep.   I will get my kids vaccinated to avoid quarantines.  That’s the bad outcome I am trying to avoid - not Covid, which doesn’t scare me for them.  It will work, but this is a disruptive way to get the desired outcome.  [/quote]

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