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Now it's ok to have the number of infections for each school but there are also many other infections out there that we don't count.  
So what is the results of these Covid infections on the student? If it is just like a bad cold for several days what is the concern? I would like to hear from parents giving their experience as a result of the infections in children.  
Don't see any data on that. Please share your experience

What delpmb said.  
This has been the major issue from the start. Some folks seem to have challenges getting over the hump from “how does this effect me” to “how does this effect us?” If we want the pandemic to eventually no longer be a pandemic we need to reduce the amount of hosts that can get and then spread it.  This is why public health officials continue to ask us to do our part. 
 
Red herring crowd would like to misdirect the debate by pointing out that breakthrough “can” happen, but it's a lonnnnnng way from "can" to "is more likely to." Fact is vaccines make one significantly less likely to get the virus. A population full of folks significantly less likely to get the virus is a population with significantly less virus than would be in circulation. A good link that explains:  
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/vaccinated-spread-the-coronavirus/620650/  
 
That’s without getting into the fact that the data is crystal clear that then likelihood of hospitalization is significantly higher in those who are unvaccinated and do get the virus. Have been similar comparisons and results in AB, SK and ON but I ran the numbers based on Manitoba data last week and if based on hospitalization rates and vaccine data everyone was vaccinated, hospitalizations would be reduced by about a full 2/3 and ICU numbers reduced to almost none. As telling as it gets when you consider that those extra unnecessary case numbers are coming from a relatively smaller portion of the population. You can see that post and the data behind it on the second page of this thread:  
https://ebrandon.ca/messagethread.aspx?message_id=1076827&cat_id=14&startnum=31  
 
If you have doubts about the impact of vaccines or about your personal health situation, please talk to your doctor. The internet and especially social media have become full of shady half rationalizations based on cases that take one small fact within a slew of untruths and try to present the whole case as “factual.” If after what public health has been constantly re-iterating as far as the vaccine goes still leaves you with questions, your doc will be able to cut through the noise and advise what’s best for you and your family.

Basically puts into a more global context where we're at in navigating way through the pandemic and available vaccine doses.

Takeaways:  
 
-get vaccinated when it’s your turn  
 
-vaccinations reduce hospitalization rates, the risk of severe disease and death  
 
-though vaccination is an important part of the picture, management shouldn’t be simplified to it being the only part of the picture. Effective management is vaccination plus some level of measures including testing, masks, physical distancing, preventing crowding, ventilation. Any given country must work a balance on measures that keeps transmission down and keeps societies and economies open.  
 
-stressed importance of available doses first being used to vaccinate the most vulnerable. Concerns around ability of less well-off countries being able to vaccinate their most immediately vulnerable as more well-off countries secure/use doses as boosters and in children which would be lower on the overall priority hierarchy than the vulnerable and immunocompromised in those low income countries  

-vaccinations reduce hospitalization rates, the risk of severe disease and death

-get vaccinated when it’s your turn