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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t trust Duran to make smart decisions with the data he collects.  After only testing athletes, he determines that athletes are a threat.  He’s a poor data scientist, and I’m not going to feed him data.[/quote]

Testing athletes makes sense to me.  Maybe there are some sports that don't have a lot of close contact, but I'm thinking of basketball and wrestling where kids are all up in each other's faces breathing heavily.  Seems there would be a ton of spread in such situations unless there was testing.  [/quote]

Testing athletes is not a problem.  ONLY testing athletes and then using those numbers to characterize athletes as a threat beyond the overall student positivity rate is a big problem. [/quote]

Is that happening?  I don't see that happening.  All kids can be tested, right?  If athlete testing rates are abnormally high, isn't that an argument for 1) regularly testing athletes, and 2) everyone else opting in to testing to see how the rest of the student population compares?  [/quote]

There is no data showing that athlete rates are any higher than the general population, but that didn’t stop Duran from saying it anyway because it fits his agenda.[/quote]

That’s exactly what the available data showed and that’s why sports were shut down.

If you want more and better data then push for everyone to get tested. 
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I thought sports all all extracurricular activities were paused for two weeks because they were.....extra.  I don't disagree that sports are important for a lot of kids, but lets not pretend public schools exist to teach kids to play lacrosse.  And its only a pause.  For two weeks I think?  You're free to keep up their rigorous training to ready them for college recruiting, just as I'm sure you've continued your child's training during winter break.[/quote]

The pause isn’t necessary.  Arlington is the only system in VHSL doing this.  Does Duran have data or risk that is somehow different from the rest of VHSL?  Why is Arlington alone on an island?  Does Duran somehow know something that hundreds of other VHSL members do not?[/quote]

We're also the most vaccinated county in VA, and one of the most vaccinated counties in the country. 16-17 year olds here have a 100% vaccination rate.

Obviously, Duran is an anti-vaxxer who doesn't think vaccines work.  Or he's a Zero COVIDian with Eric Feigl-Ding and Ventilation Woman, wanting Arlington kids to be warriors in their religious battle for scientifically impossible COVID eradication.[/quote]

:roll:  Once upon a time it was scientifically impossible for a man to determine the gender of their child, it was always a woman's fault if a girl instead of a boy was born.  Once upon a time it was scientifically impossible for the world to be round.  Once upon a time the "scientific" way to determine if someone was a witch was to try to drown her.  Good thing science has evolved.  Things as simple as penicillin and soap and water have eliminated so much disease.  Too bad there aren't simple things like...vaccines.....or masks....or staying home when sick that could really reduce COVID.   :roll: [/quote]

It took 400 years to eliminate smallpox. Let's wait it out.[/quote]

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