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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Nobody claimed there was zero spread through schools. The question is if the reduction in infection from closing in-person schooling was worth the long-term learning loss.
People shouldn’t look to folk wisdom and personal experience with colds and flus to inform behaviour around covid. Different viruses behave differently. Pre-omicron, children contracted and spread covid at significantly lower rates than adults. This was well-documented by virologists. Remember - trust the experts.
Post-omicron, everyone was spreading covid at dramatically higher rates than earlier variants. That’s when we saw widespread infection through schools, and pretty much everywhere else. At that point there was little point in social distancing (my dad caught covid twice in a nursing home that had extremely stringent social distancing and quarantine measures), only in getting the vaccine to reduce the strain on the health care system by reducing the severity of infections.
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Seems pretty short sighted to think we can social distance ourselves away from an extremely infectious airborne virus, and to think it is sensible to use that as a tactic to control the virus.
But I guess that is why public health in many areas still claimed surface infection was actually a risk, so they could continue mandating their completely braindead restrictions.
Like I said earlier,
No issue with 20k people in an arena.
Big problem with more than 15 people in restaurant.
Didn't give a #### about care homes and people at risk.
Made a big deal about gathering outside.
Lots of examples like that.