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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a highly blue school district and with the exception of the spring of 2020 my kids have been doing in-person school and in-person activities this entire time. None of us have gotten covid (at least not that we know) and[b] I don't know anyone personally who had a severe case or died. [/b]The red areas around us were even more wide open. Your individual experience does not equate to what the entire country experienced.[/quote]

That’s nice. Some of us know several people who had severe cases and multiple people who died. And the idiotic assertion that cramming kids, teachers and staff, all unvaccinated, into enclosed Petri dishes for 30+ hours a week “didn’t spread it” is a lie born out of convenience.[/quote]

I'm truly sorry for your loss. However, my anecdotal experience is that of all the kids that I know who were exposed at school, only one actually contracted COVID. It was a lunch exposure when they were unmasked. All of the other cases that I know of came from eating out, carpooling, sports, outside of school activities. Again, I haven't done a peer-reviewed research study, but I find it hard to believe that the risk was ever that great when mitigations like masking, social distancing, and improved air filtration were in place.

This is still important to me because we could face another wave like Omicron, and as a society we need to be ready to react appropriately.[/quote]

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