DougBH
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What science is that? In my local schools it would travel in waves, just as it was beat down in one school it would show up in another.
And now that my anecdotal info is finished:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html
Smyrna
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There may very well be better therapeutics today but the point is, that early on, there wasn’t. How many have died, that could have been saved, had the many forces guiding the pandemic response, given it the credit it was due, even if minimal, instead of railing against it’s use?
the vaccine does not prevent omicron… which isn’t very dangerous anyway
every study done in schools came to the same conclusion, your anecdotes are trash. schools are likely the safest place your kids can be
Jezcoe
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If you have gotten a booster recently the antibody reaction to Omicron is quite good.
no booster for me. ever. the entire idea behind this thing was memory cells. i’ll stick with that unless the risk increases, which it has not
Rodeo
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And there in lies the difference between someone who has been successful in the private sector as a business person and CEO (I know here comes a bunch of lib crap downplaying Trump’s business skills courtesy of a bunch of leftists who could never have accomplished what Trump did) and someone who spent most of his life as one of 100 senators who’s primary purpose is to vote with the group and give speeches (and very possibly profit from his family selling his influence on the open market).
Biden’s never led anything. He wouldnt and obviously doesn’t know how. Things Trump got done in a year would take Biden forever, as we are now seeing as his administration bumbles its way thru the virus.
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Rodeo
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Like I said…Biden is a lifelong senator surrounded by lifelong bureaucrats…
These people are good at sounding smart and bad at actually doing things in the real world.
There’s a reason we very seldom make senators president.
DougBH
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As opposed to using a hunch, yes.
Both kids were given a PCR test, so a false negative would have had to appear on both in order to go.
Home tests, which are less reliable, may give a false negative on 15 out of a hundred, or so I have read. That’s a lot better than having nothing. And remember, not everyone with Covid is likely to spread it. Covid relies on super spreaders.
DougBH
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It spreads in schools. Whether more or less at a rock concert is irrelevant. No, it’s not the safest place they could be. At home in their room is safer. And some one with Covid at school is likely to spread it just as a kid can carry flu to school. Perhaps you are confusing kids having less intense symptoms with immunity from spreading it. Without seeing a reference to one of those studies you are talking about, it is difficult to say.
By the way, the CDC reference I gave covers spreading in schools and the factors that determine the risks in particular schools.
i am confusing nothing. the science has been in for quite some time. children are unlikely to spread covid. thats just a scientific fact. omicron may be different than other variants, but then omicron isn’t all that big a deal.
DougBH
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You need to get your information to the CDC then. The recent article I referenced shows they are still not up to date on this science.
However, that CDC article does state that student to student contact in schools is not the primary means of spreading Covid among young people
the cdc isn’t pushing science, they’re pushing propaganda. every study done in schools comes to the same conclusions.
children generally don’t catch covid
when the do, its almost always mild
and
they don’t generally spread it
thats why all the studies on masks in schools show the same thing. masking children in schools makes absolutely no difference. masking the staff does (as much as masks make any difference, which ain’t much)
DougBH
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Nothing I or the cdc said indicated anything other than that Covid is milder with children than with adults. Of course that was known from the beginning. And the fact that gatherings of families and friends is a bigger spreader does not mean that this can’t be spread in school.
If there were a simple flu test available, kids wouldn’t spread flu either.
It is just not true to say Covid isn’t spread in schools. Schools do, however take more cautions than family gatherings and it should probably be more the other way around, especially when one family member is at greater risk.
Rodeo
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Great article at townhall.com…
“If We Don’t Want ‘Overrun’ Hospitals, Why Are Asymptomatic People Who Are Vaccinated Clogging Up VT Hospitals?”
The basic premise is are we actually clogging up hospitals or running the risk of clogging up our hospitals with people who don’t need to be there because the symptoms of omicron are so mild.
From the piece… “As we’ve been reporting at Townhall since then, officials on the ground in South Africa have described Omicron symptoms as being “different” but “mild.” Data from the South African Medical Research Council to do with “Tshwane District Omicron Variant Patient Profile - Early Features” mentioned, among other things, that most of the hospital cases were “incidental,” meaning the admissions were for other reasons besides the person having COVID…However, the concern with “overrun” hospitals, at least in one state, isn’t exactly being helped by people getting admitted when they don’t necessarily need to be…Vermont, which is the most vaccinated state in the country, last week found itself in the news. As Olivia Lyons reported for WCAX, a local CBS outlet, “COVID-positive Vermonters with no symptoms clog up ERs.”
This is from the linked story out of Vermont. “ RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) - Some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms…The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks…Dr. Rick Hildebrant is RRMC’s medical director. He says some people who test positive with a rapid test go to the emergency room looking for a PCR test.”
Later in that same story…” Hildebrant says those who are asymptomatic and receive a positive antigen test should stay home and reach out to their primary care provider…He says the only time to go to the ER is if you have a positive test and are very sick…Hildebrant says the flood of asymptomatic people is preventing others in need of immediate care from getting it.”
Omicron symptoms are being described as not much worse than a cold. Yet we seem to be upending holiday travel and interrupting schools and commerce and filling up hospitals over it?
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just not so. in all the time the covids been around there is still not one single confirmed case of a child spreading covid to an adult. has it happened? in all liklihood yes, but not one single confirmed case. the odds of catching covid from a child are slim. for many children the coronavirus is present when they’re testid, but they never develope covid. the science suggests they lack the t cells to absorb enough virus to develop it and they rarely spread it. thats just a fact and no amount of teachers union driven propaganda from the cdc is going to change it. omicron may change that, but omicron is nothing to be concerned about. no-one has died from it
welcome to brandon’s america on covid. this is exactly whats going to happen when all these tests are delivered. stupidest policy evah
DougBH
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It might help if you would reference some of your sources.
gods sakes… covid is NOT other respiratory diseases. propaganda is not going to work. what the hell do i care about some doctors use of an anecdote? that ain’t science, covid ain’t the flu.
and gonna need more than a news report. how did they confirm omicron? what were the comorbidities? from it or with it? and unvaxxed?.. stupid.
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I don’t think you read that link before you posted it.
You should.
