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??? I am pro-virtual for January, but can't imagine anyone FAKING a positive Covid test to achieve that goal. No family would ever wish to single themselves out like this, especially as they might not get the outcome they wish for, at least immediately, and so their child might end up without virtual instruction, stuck at home.

Not only do I disagree with you, OP, but I find your reasoning to be completely off, and quite mentally unhealthy.

It concerns me that you are projecting your own lack of ethics on others. You're only thinking this because it wouldn't bother you to lie yourself...

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This. Or OP has that little faith in humanity, and is, frankly, not the sharpest tool in the shed. Even if "we can all imagine it" this is not the kind of thing that actually happens more than very rarely because, like voter fraud, there's no good endgame when you play it out, and very little reward for a relatively big personal risk. [/quote]

Also! Not to get into an endless game of finger-pointing, but it is literally much easier and comes with many fewer enforceable consequences to do the opposite, which is maybe why OP and others are imagining the same thing on the other side. That is, UNFORTUNATELY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH, it's much simpler and less likely to lead to personal consequences not to report a positive (especially a rapid positive) than to fake a positive.

But even more psychologically attractive simply not to make a big effort to test knowing a child has been exposed or has even mild symptoms, and to say, technically truthfully, that you didn't know they had it-- if they ever do test positive, which they may not, because they may never be tested.

That's really the way human brains work. Denial and motivated reasoning. It's much harder psychologically for the vast majority of us to conduct a big active, conscious plan to defraud or game a system, risking punishment and probably failing anyway for the promise of a tiny reward (one additional case that MIGHT tip a school to red), than it is to simply be in some form of denial and/or care less about your actions affecting others than maybe you should. [/quote]

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