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Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

With regards to this upcoming school year and Delta generally, I find parents have split into two groups.

1. I will double down on my efforts to keep my kid from Covid. Because delta is more transmissible and the world is more open, this means being highly restrictive and curtailing their participation in school, activities, experiences but I am willing to do that.

2. Because Delta is so much more transmissible and we clearly aren’t reaching herd immunity as planned and hoped for, I have to accept I probably cannot keep my kid from getting Covid any longer. They will likely contract it at some point because the world is more open and Delta is highly transmissible but I can’t keep them out of schools and activities and experiences any longer so I have accepted Covid for them is probably going to happen but will, for the vast vast majority of them, be a non event.

This is a good assessment. I'd add that some posters from category #1 point their finger at posters from category #2 and effectively say "it's your fault the pandemic isn't over", which is naive, simple-minded, and untrue.

It’s a terrible assessment and one that is incredibly divisive. Isn’t it obvious which group is supposed to be the reasonable one and which one is the straw man? Jesus. This is why we need better educated teachers.

There is a growing realization/acknowledgment that there is no foreseeable light at the end of the tunnel. On one extreme, some people think the best approach is to shelter away from the virus. On the other extreme, some people think that exposure is inevitable. And then there is a spectrum of people in between (i.e., take steps to avoid exposure with exceptions A, B, C, etc.) I'm in the latter camp. I'm vaccinated so I'm comfortable with that. I wish the FDA would hurry up with the pediatric EUA so that we can close that hole in the system, though. I think people in the other extreme are reaching a breaking point because after 1.5 years of being hyper careful, they're beginning to realize that there is no end to that lifestyle. That 2022, 2023, etc. is just more of the same, and that's untenable.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

With regards to this upcoming school year and Delta generally, I find parents have split into two groups.

1. I will double down on my efforts to keep my kid from Covid. Because delta is more transmissible and the world is more open, this means being highly restrictive and curtailing their participation in school, activities, experiences but I am willing to do that.

2. Because Delta is so much more transmissible and we clearly aren’t reaching herd immunity as planned and hoped for, I have to accept I probably cannot keep my kid from getting Covid any longer. They will likely contract it at some point because the world is more open and Delta is highly transmissible but I can’t keep them out of schools and activities and experiences any longer so I have accepted Covid for them is probably going to happen but will, for the vast vast majority of them, be a non event.

This is a good assessment. I'd add that some posters from category #1 point their finger at posters from category #2 and effectively say "it's your fault the pandemic isn't over", which is naive, simple-minded, and untrue.

It’s a terrible assessment and one that is incredibly divisive. Isn’t it obvious which group is supposed to be the reasonable one and which one is the straw man? Jesus. This is why we need better educated teachers.

I actually don’t pass judgement on group 1 people. I just think they need to quit trying to make school systems operate on their risk assessment. They have a virtual option.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

With regards to this upcoming school year and Delta generally, I find parents have split into two groups.

1. I will double down on my efforts to keep my kid from Covid. Because delta is more transmissible and the world is more open, this means being highly restrictive and curtailing their participation in school, activities, experiences but I am willing to do that.

2. Because Delta is so much more transmissible and we clearly aren’t reaching herd immunity as planned and hoped for, I have to accept I probably cannot keep my kid from getting Covid any longer. They will likely contract it at some point because the world is more open and Delta is highly transmissible but I can’t keep them out of schools and activities and experiences any longer so I have accepted Covid for them is probably going to happen but will, for the vast vast majority of them, be a non event.

This is a good assessment. I'd add that some posters from category #1 point their finger at posters from category #2 and effectively say "it's your fault the pandemic isn't over", which is naive, simple-minded, and untrue.

It’s a terrible assessment and one that is incredibly divisive. Isn’t it obvious which group is supposed to be the reasonable one and which one is the straw man? Jesus. This is why we need better educated teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

With regards to this upcoming school year and Delta generally, I find parents have split into two groups.

1. I will double down on my efforts to keep my kid from Covid. Because delta is more transmissible and the world is more open, this means being highly restrictive and curtailing their participation in school, activities, experiences but I am willing to do that.

2. Because Delta is so much more transmissible and we clearly aren’t reaching herd immunity as planned and hoped for, I have to accept I probably cannot keep my kid from getting Covid any longer. They will likely contract it at some point because the world is more open and Delta is highly transmissible but I can’t keep them out of schools and activities and experiences any longer so I have accepted Covid for them is probably going to happen but will, for the vast vast majority of them, be a non event.

This is a good assessment. I'd add that some posters from category #1 point their finger at posters from category #2 and effectively say "it's your fault the pandemic isn't over", which is naive, simple-minded, and untrue.

It’s a terrible assessment and one that is incredibly divisive. Isn’t it obvious which group is supposed to be the reasonable one and which one is the straw man? Jesus. This is why we need better educated teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember when we were kids and getting chickenpox was pretty much an inevitability and some parents would purposely expose their kids to kids who had chickenpox because they knew it was going to happen but this way they could just get it out of the way and have some say so in when it would happen? I kind of think Covid is like that for us as parents. Obviously we don’t want them to get covid and our parents didn’t want us to get chickenpox but the contagiousness of it meant it was going to happen so they just has to accept it and deal with it when it came. That’s where I’m at. When Covid felt like something that would go away with vaccines it was easier to be like “yeah we can stay home and do DL.” It’s now a long term thing. I can’t evade it forever so until my kids can vaccinate it’s a healthier mindset for me to be like “we will mask and take precautions but also understand in the course of life they probably will get it and we will manage.”

And you think that was good practice? Tell that to the people whose varicella zoster virus reactivated as shingles. Jesus.

Anonymous wrote:Remember when we were kids and getting chickenpox was pretty much an inevitability and some parents would purposely expose their kids to kids who had chickenpox because they knew it was going to happen but this way they could just get it out of the way and have some say so in when it would happen? I kind of think Covid is like that for us as parents. Obviously we don’t want them to get covid and our parents didn’t want us to get chickenpox but the contagiousness of it meant it was going to happen so they just has to accept it and deal with it when it came. That’s where I’m at. When Covid felt like something that would go away with vaccines it was easier to be like “yeah we can stay home and do DL.” It’s now a long term thing. I can’t evade it forever so until my kids can vaccinate it’s a healthier mindset for me to be like “we will mask and take precautions but also understand in the course of life they probably will get it and we will manage.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

With regards to this upcoming school year and Delta generally, I find parents have split into two groups.

1. I will double down on my efforts to keep my kid from Covid. Because delta is more transmissible and the world is more open, this means being highly restrictive and curtailing their participation in school, activities, experiences but I am willing to do that.

2. Because Delta is so much more transmissible and we clearly aren’t reaching herd immunity as planned and hoped for, I have to accept I probably cannot keep my kid from getting Covid any longer. They will likely contract it at some point because the world is more open and Delta is highly transmissible but I can’t keep them out of schools and activities and experiences any longer so I have accepted Covid for them is probably going to happen but will, for the vast vast majority of them, be a non event.

This is a good assessment. I'd add that some posters from category #1 point their finger at posters from category #2 and effectively say "it's your fault the pandemic isn't over", which is naive, simple-minded, and untrue.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

With regards to this upcoming school year and Delta generally, I find parents have split into two groups.

1. I will double down on my efforts to keep my kid from Covid. Because delta is more transmissible and the world is more open, this means being highly restrictive and curtailing their participation in school, activities, experiences but I am willing to do that.

2. Because Delta is so much more transmissible and we clearly aren’t reaching herd immunity as planned and hoped for, I have to accept I probably cannot keep my kid from getting Covid any longer. They will likely contract it at some point because the world is more open and Delta is highly transmissible but I can’t keep them out of schools and activities and experiences any longer so I have accepted Covid for them is probably going to happen but will, for the vast vast majority of them, be a non event.

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Anonymous wrote:LA County is doing weekly testing of staff and students.

there is zero chance that I'd consent to that and risk weeks of no school while my asymptomatic kid quarantines.

If your kid has covid and is asymptomatic, they should quarantine so they don’t spread it.

I'd rather not know in the first place if there is no plan for virtual while they quarantine

Well, we don't know 100% that there's no plan for virtual or concurrent during quarantine.

COVID-19 Exposure and School Closures

FCPS works closely with our health partners to determine the proper response should there be an outbreak of COVID-19 within a school, including the possibility of a short-term closure. It would be inappropriate to guarantee that we would never close a school. If we have learned nothing else from this pandemic, circumstances change rapidly. The safety of our students and staff will always be our greatest priority. We do have plans in place to ensure continuity of learning for students should the situation deteriorate within our community.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LA County is doing weekly testing of staff and students.

there is zero chance that I'd consent to that and risk weeks of no school while my asymptomatic kid quarantines.

If your kid has covid and is asymptomatic, they should quarantine so they don’t spread it.

I'd rather not know in the first place if there is no plan for virtual while they quarantine

Anonymous wrote:Remember when we were kids and getting chickenpox was pretty much an inevitability and some parents would purposely expose their kids to kids who had chickenpox because they knew it was going to happen but this way they could just get it out of the way and have some say so in when it would happen? I kind of think Covid is like that for us as parents. Obviously we don’t want them to get covid and our parents didn’t want us to get chickenpox but the contagiousness of it meant it was going to happen so they just has to accept it and deal with it when it came. That’s where I’m at. When Covid felt like something that would go away with vaccines it was easier to be like “yeah we can stay home and do DL.” It’s now a long term thing. I can’t evade it forever so until my kids can vaccinate it’s a healthier mindset for me to be like “we will mask and take precautions but also understand in the course of life they probably will get it and we will manage.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LA County is doing weekly testing of staff and students.

there is zero chance that I'd consent to that and risk weeks of no school while my asymptomatic kid quarantines.

If your kid has covid and is asymptomatic, they should quarantine so they don’t spread it.