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by ALittleLight 1629 days ago
Covid is contagious enough that most people are either going to get it or have had it. Why we should sacrifice children's well being to marginally delay the time at which their parents or families will be infected is beyond me.

If individual families want to choose to take their kids out of school that should be their choice. It should not be the default.
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lghh 1629 days ago
> Covid is contagious enough that most people are either going to get it or have had it

Based on what? Also, you can get it more than once. This is a pretty bleak outlook.

> Why we should sacrifice children's well being

Why should we sacrifice the teacher's well being?

> delay the time at which their parents or families will be infected is beyond me.

Because getting sick isn't guaranteed and getting sick can land people in the hospitals and clog our healthcare system.

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ALittleLight 1629 days ago
We are now nearly in the situation where most people have had it and the virus shows no signs of abating. This is not a bleak outlook simply a realistic one. You've either had it or are going to get it. The bleak outlook is the one that says you should cower alone and apart from friends and family until you do get it. Go get vaccinated and live as before.

Again, you aren't sacrificing the teacher's well being. The teacher is, anyway, most likely going to get covid. If a teacher doesn't like being exposed to children they should resign or be fired. Schools are not for the benefit of teachers but for the benefit of children.

Once vaccinated you are unlikely to require hospitalization. Actually, you're unlikely to require hospitalization regardless of vaccination but especially unlikely once vaccinated. Maybe it's sensible for people to make some minor changes to "flatten the curve" but going to remote school is no minor change and it is far worse than the negligible benefits.

While it's true you can catch the disease multiple times subsequent infections are less likely and less severe.

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lghh 1629 days ago
What does the teacher do who has an immunocompromised 2 year old at home?
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ALittleLight 1629 days ago
Get a different job. If teaching would put your children at risk, you should not teach.

Whatever a small number of teachers or students need we should not rearrange the education system for the benefit of edge cases. We should optimize for the typical case - average health people, and make adjustments to support the edge cases, not the other way around.

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nradov 1629 days ago
This article provides a good explanation of why no one will be able to avoid the virus.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

The CDC estimated that 44% of the US population had been infected as of September 2021. Obviously that number will be higher now.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

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cabalamat 1629 days ago
> Based on what?

There was a study in the UK from the summer of last year that said the majority of unvaxxed people had antibodies to it. (Sorry, don't have the URL)

Omicron is more transmissible, so if most had been infected then, an ever higher proportion will have been infected now.

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