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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except no kids under 12 are vaccinated and you can still get Covid vaccinated.  [/quote]
This again? Yes, you [i]can [/i]get covid post-vax. But the chances of catching it are greatly reduced, as are the chances of transmitting it to someone else.[/quote]

And nobody cares about people under 12! They're not even people right?[/quote]

Exactly. It's so disappointing to see parents in MoCo being blissfully ignorant of the impact quarantine policies are having on elementary school kids (and worse, preschool kids) now that their high schoolers are vaccinated and largely exempt from those policies. The risks of COVID are incredibly low for young kids, yet we're kicking them out of class for 10-14 days at a time to placate a small number of hysterical parents that don't understand statistics.[/quote]

Ummm - I think that post saying that children aren't people was sarcasm. The hysterical parents are the ones who can't seem to grasp that nearly a million Americans have died from covid and it shouldn't be taken lightly.[/quote]

And the vast majority of the most at-risk individuals to COVID have been vaccinated, or at least had an opportunity to get vaccinated. We're not in the same place as a year ago. It doesn't make sense to fixate on the past. That's not to say there isn't some residual risk, but the situation with breakthrough infections looks an awful lot like what we see with the flu and other viruses: it's mostly elderly individuals and others with complicating medical conditions. But COVID isn't significantly changing their overall risk when viewed in the context of those preexisting conditions/age and the risk of other infections.[/quote]

That's great and all but you seem not to grasp that children under 12 are not vaccinated.[/quote]

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