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All I have to say is this, when the vaccine rolled out did you ever anticipate we would still be in this position nearly 6 months later? Of course not, and neither did the CDC or any other organization which is why they relaxed all the COVID rules.

I did not at first but I do remember helping our community with a vaccine site and seeing the turn out...late April and realizing we were going to have another round of this...at the same exact time I was watching India and did believe it would be delta related.

I'm pretty consistent. I believe we have to keep trying to do life as normal as possible. Based on the info available I never understood concern of mask in the short term or the vaccine in the long term. I do not want to live in a world where wearing a mask is necessary to help schools stay open and hospitals stay "relatively" safe. The vaccine had a small window to prevent the latter and we missed it this time. IMO schools were always going to be problematic once the virus mutated and began infecting children at a higher rate. Unfortunately long term vaccination will be the only answer for schools and I am ok they are taking their time in making that decision even if it is causing chaos in some areas now.

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The point is these measures aren't necessary. It's the ridiculous contact tracing and testing rules that are causing these issues. We have an entire class at my school virtual and zero kids in the class ever had symptoms of COVID.

I feel you on this and the inconsistency is part of the problem. A local school here is crashing but they chose not to mandate mask (that's reversed now) and after a few days they had a boat load of cases and 10 times that number quarantined for 14 days. I am a firm believer in the guidance of 5 days after exposure test on the 7th day go back to normal if negative and without symptoms. It would certainly help the large numbers being quarantined that turn out to not have the virus to miss less school in person.

As I stated asking us to vaccinate really isn't asking much based on what is known at this point. Mandating is a different story. If private entities want to...fine. This is America. If localities want to mandate it then use the proper public channels. This is America. I don't want it coming from the top down though. It should be the reverse.

This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 2:38 pm