Aps testing

[Anonymous]

For those of you who have opted in and who have kids who were already tested this week, did you receive results via email as promised? How long did it take to receive them?

Not interested in people telling me not to participate - thanks.

[Anonymous]

Don’t participate

[Anonymous]

Reports from multiple schools say it’s a hot mess.

[Anonymous]

I was tested yesterday at 9am....still no results

[Anonymous]

It is worse than a HOT MESS!
Add to the list of failures

[Anonymous]

Hot mess as in results not coming in, too many positives in a pool, or something else?

[Anonymous]

Not sure if any of you read the superintendents message this week, but he indicated there’s been issues with the vendor and they’re working with VDH to resolve

[Anonymous]

Asymptomatic testing is great way to keep healthy kids out of school. Shutdowns by stealth.

[Anonymous]

Reposting from December - still valid:

Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

Look at the story of Georgetown Prep: 100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 asymptomatic, vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down. Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible. Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime. Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
• Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
• Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
• Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted? We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing!

[Anonymous]

With the last vendor, it was less than 20%. I'm hoping for less than 10% this time.

This asymptomatic testing is ridiculous. Extreme measures are only being applied to the lowest risk demographic, kids.

[Anonymous]

DC reports that he didn't get tested because there was some confusion. Although now that I see your message, I think DC is the one who is confused. DC expected to receive an email summoning him for the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reposting from December - still valid:

Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

Look at the story of Georgetown Prep: 100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 asymptomatic, vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down. Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible. Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime. Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
• Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
• Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
• Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted? We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing!

Good summary. Question for you, what do you think about contact tracing? Necessary? Useful? Genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reposting from December - still valid:

Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

Look at the story of Georgetown Prep: 100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 asymptomatic, vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down. Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible. Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime. Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
• Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
• Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
• Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted? We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing!

Good summary. Question for you, what do you think about contact tracing? Necessary? Useful? Genuinely curious.

Contact tracing is completely worthless at this point, especially with how contagious Omicron is. We need to focus resources on treatment of the very few people who actually have problems beyond a cold.

New York completely stopped contacted tracing today for this very reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reposting from December - still valid:

Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

Look at the story of Georgetown Prep: 100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 asymptomatic, vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down. Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible. Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime. Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
• Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
• Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
• Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted? We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing!

Good summary. Question for you, what do you think about contact tracing? Necessary? Useful? Genuinely curious.

I am not the PP, but I don't understand what Arlington Public Health is doing with all their contract tracing data. In two years, I have never seen them post any summary of where they think people in Arlington are catching or spreading COVID, other than at a zip code level. Collecting data that you have no plan to use is not very helpful. If spread in other places (e.g., indoor dining) is much higher than the spread in schools, then it would be nice if Arlington would redirect its attention to where COVID is truly spreading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who have opted in and who have kids who were already tested this week, did you receive results via email as promised? How long did it take to receive them?

Not interested in people telling me not to participate - thanks.

My kids were tested on Monday - haven't heard anything and there have been no positives reported on qualtrics, so I wonder if something is wrong and results haven't been received. I would be shocked given the community spread that not a single person tested positive during the testing on Monday. We have a pretty high opt in rate at our school.