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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seeing this argument play out here is helping me firm up my sense that our kid is not going to in-person school until he gets vaccinated. Thanks, all.[/quote]

you know that no child has died of covid in DC?[/quote]

As of last week, 423 kids 0-18 have died of Covid in the US and the trend may be going up for young children. I hate the callous dismissal of a child's --or any person's -death.  It is STILL exceedingly rare and each parent has to make their decision connected to their analysis of risk. I'm deciding to send my kids to in-person school (I look at my behavior on all other risky things--I let my kids drive in cars, ride bikes, and cross the street--in 2019 there were 844 deaths of children under 13 for vehicle crashes.  I even occasionally let my school-aged kids play on a trampoline--which has a worse rate among child users. I feel like it would be personally hypocritical of me not to let them go to in-person school given all that).  BUT I don't think it's crazy for another parent to decide to wait for the vaccine and I'll keep my eye on the data and maybe revisit my thinking.[/quote]

2 in Virginia

0 in DC?

This isn't NYC, Texas, Kentucky, etc.  But sure, each parent has right to pull their kids and home school if they can and want to.[/quote]

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