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Originally Posted by blankall
Based on my own experience with putting my daughter into daycare, there's no way that anyone could ever convince me that schools did not spread Covid, or any other communicable virus. My daughter brought a new virus home every few weeks for her first 6 months or so in daycare. Non-stop runny nose.
The bit about kids not being carriers for Covid was garbage too. She had covid twice, both times with easily observable symptoms. She spread it to my wife.
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Yeah, that was always a weird narrative that they were pushing. I get the thought behind it, because other than healthcare and essential services, in-person schooling is probably the most important thing to keep going because of its societal benefit. But no one was trying to argue that COVID wouldn't spread in any of those other places, just that the risk with mitigation measures in place was significantly outweighed by the benefit. So I'm not sure why they felt the need to try to act like schools didn't meaningfully contribute to the spread.
I mean, my wife is a teacher and basically her entire school's infection patterns were dictated by what class the kids were in, and even within the classes by where they sat. It was abundantly clear that other than through siblings, school was the vector for basically everyone's infections there.