Keep Healthy Kids in School - Don't Opt-In to APS' Surveillance Testing

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

COVID is not the flu. We are still in the middle of a global pandemic with a highly communicable novel disease that causes long-lasting health issues in people who get infected. Ask your pediatrician if you should send a “healthy” positive child into school and see what they say.

You're right - COVID is not the flu, but actually much milder in kids than the flu. It's not so novel anymore either, considering it's been around for 2 years now. Plus, COVID will be here forever.

Please don't start with Long COVID. Love it when there's a control group in those studies, and the control group has more "Long COVID" than the actual group that had COVID.

If you're scared to death about a less than flu level risk and now vaccines are widely available, keep your own kids locked up until they're 18 when they can disown you for ruining their childhood.

Wow, you’ve got done real issues. My kids are by no means locked up, they are in school and extracurricular activities but we take COVID seriously because of an immunocompromised family member and to protect our community as much as possible. If my kids tested positive, you can bet we’d quarantine them as required under public health guidelines. Again, ask your ped if a positive child should go to school or not and report back.

The adults in your community have had almost 1 year to get vaccinated.

If I knew my kid was positive, I wouldn't send them to school. But there's 0 reason to test kids who will be around healthy adults all day (not senior citizens with 5 comorbidities). We didn't do it for H1N1.

All of you coronaphobes and hypochondriacs, breaking news -> COVID is going to be here for the rest of your lives. You will all get it. Continuing your cult-like following to mitigation methods for 2+ years, even when you're vaccinated, is such a waste of your life. But that's fine if you want to do it - just stop forcing your religion down our throats.

Bring on Youngkin. Hopefully he'll end quarantines for close contacts on day 1

There aren't quarantines for close contacts, at least not if the close contact is fully vaxxed. My son was identified as a close contact the other day, but because he's fully vaxxed, he didn't miss any school.

No use in having this dialogue. The person voted for Youngkin. That's all you need to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

Look at these elite universities, like 100% vaccinated Cornell going virtual over cases. You can't make this up. For a virus that will be here forever.

Don't sign up. You're just closing schools for healthy kids.

https://www.wpri.com/news/cornell-cancels-december-graduation-finals-moved-to-online-due-to-omicron-variant-detection/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

Look at these elite universities, like 100% vaccinated Cornell going virtual over cases. You can't make this up. For a virus that will be here forever.

Don't sign up. You're just closing schools for healthy kids.

https://www.wpri.com/news/cornell-cancels-december-graduation-finals-moved-to-online-due-to-omicron-variant-detection/

Here was the rationale:
https://statements.cornell.edu/2021/20211214-LTBmB1-ithaca-alert.cfm

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

COVID is not the flu. We are still in the middle of a global pandemic with a highly communicable novel disease that causes long-lasting health issues in people who get infected. Ask your pediatrician if you should send a “healthy” positive child into school and see what they say.

You're right - COVID is not the flu, but actually much milder in kids than the flu. It's not so novel anymore either, considering it's been around for 2 years now. Plus, COVID will be here forever.

Please don't start with Long COVID. Love it when there's a control group in those studies, and the control group has more "Long COVID" than the actual group that had COVID.

If you're scared to death about a less than flu level risk and now vaccines are widely available, keep your own kids locked up until they're 18 when they can disown you for ruining their childhood.

Wow, you’ve got done real issues. My kids are by no means locked up, they are in school and extracurricular activities but we take COVID seriously because of an immunocompromised family member and to protect our community as much as possible. If my kids tested positive, you can bet we’d quarantine them as required under public health guidelines. Again, ask your ped if a positive child should go to school or not and report back.

The adults in your community have had almost 1 year to get vaccinated.

If I knew my kid was positive, I wouldn't send them to school. But there's 0 reason to test kids who will be around healthy adults all day (not senior citizens with 5 comorbidities). We didn't do it for H1N1.

All of you coronaphobes and hypochondriacs, breaking news -> COVID is going to be here for the rest of your lives. You will all get it. Continuing your cult-like following to mitigation methods for 2+ years, even when you're vaccinated, is such a waste of your life. But that's fine if you want to do it - just stop forcing your religion down our throats.

Bring on Youngkin. Hopefully he'll end quarantines for close contacts on day 1

There aren't quarantines for close contacts, at least not if the close contact is fully vaxxed. My son was identified as a close contact the other day, but because he's fully vaxxed, he didn't miss any school.

No use in having this dialogue. The person voted for Youngkin. That's all you need to know.

Yup. They aren’t driven by facts or reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

So, just have the 30 cases spread, let it run rampant, infect family members, and then what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

So, just have the 30 cases spread, let it run rampant, infect family members, and then what?

Yes, 30 ASYMPTOMATIC cases, absolutely that is MUCH better than locking healthy kids out of school.

Expecting Zero COVID in school is like expecting Zero COVID in society - absolutely impossible. Do we have 0 flu in schools? 0 colds?

As for adult family members, they've had the chance to get vaccinated for a year now. And kids less than 5 are at less risk with COVID than the flu. Are you afraid of your child riding in a car, even in a car seat with air bags (more risk than COVID)?

COVID will be here forever. Everyone will be exposed repeatedly to COVID the rest of their lives. Locking healthy kids out of schools is absurd, whereas adults in society aren't subject to such surveillance testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

Look at these elite universities, like 100% vaccinated Cornell going virtual over cases. You can't make this up. For a virus that will be here forever.

Don't sign up. You're just closing schools for healthy kids.

https://www.wpri.com/news/cornell-cancels-december-graduation-finals-moved-to-online-due-to-omicron-variant-detection/

Okay, I just signed up. When do the schools close? Does it start tomorrow? Or will it be Thursday? January 3? Sometime after that? You seem so certain, surely you can let me when to expect the closure. Oh, by the way, I was signed up already. Yet APS somehow didn't close over the last 3+ months unless I missed it. Please explain that mystery while you're at it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, just to be clear, these people don’t have any kind of plan besides to let the virus spread and let people get infected and die lest they be further inconvenienced. It’s very Republican — everyone for themselves until you personally need care and then WHY ISN’T THE STATE HELPING ME WITH THE TAXES I PAID etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

So, just have the 30 cases spread, let it run rampant, infect family members, and then what?

Yes, 30 ASYMPTOMATIC cases, absolutely that is MUCH better than locking healthy kids out of school.

Expecting Zero COVID in school is like expecting Zero COVID in society - absolutely impossible. Do we have 0 flu in schools? 0 colds?

As for adult family members, they've had the chance to get vaccinated for a year now. And kids less than 5 are at less risk with COVID than the flu. Are you afraid of your child riding in a car, even in a car seat with air bags (more risk than COVID)?

COVID will be here forever. Everyone will be exposed repeatedly to COVID the rest of their lives. Locking healthy kids out of schools is absurd, whereas adults in society aren't subject to such surveillance testing.

LOL - these surveillance testing nuts are Zero COVID fanatics. No mainstream scientist thinks it's possible but these fanatics (Smart Restart followers) worship at the altar of grifter Eric Feigl-Ding, who's telling his flock that eradication is possible.

Hilarious they think we should be surveillance testing a bunch of healthy young kids who were at statistically 0 risk of death from COVID pre-vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Reminder - if you're signing up for surveillance testing, you're signing up to lock healthy kids out of school for a virus that will be here the rest of their lives.

The only thing that you're hurting is your kids' education. Don't do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminder - if you're signing up for surveillance testing, you're signing up to lock healthy kids out of school for a virus that will be here the rest of their lives.

The only thing that you're hurting is your kids' education. Don't do it.

Reminder: I just signed up. When do the schools close? Does it start tomorrow? Or will it be Thursday? January 3? Sometime after that? You seem so certain, surely you can let me when to expect the closure. Oh, by the way, I was signed up already. Yet APS somehow didn't close over the last 3+ months unless I missed it. Please explain that mystery while you're at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.

Yep, private schools doing surveillance testing, and going virtual over 30 asymptomatic cases. Don't let that be APS! Don't sign up for surveillance testing.

So, just have the 30 cases spread, let it run rampant, infect family members, and then what?

Yes, 30 ASYMPTOMATIC cases, absolutely that is MUCH better than locking healthy kids out of school.

Expecting Zero COVID in school is like expecting Zero COVID in society - absolutely impossible. Do we have 0 flu in schools? 0 colds?

As for adult family members, they've had the chance to get vaccinated for a year now. And kids less than 5 are at less risk with COVID than the flu. Are you afraid of your child riding in a car, even in a car seat with air bags (more risk than COVID)?

COVID will be here forever. Everyone will be exposed repeatedly to COVID the rest of their lives. Locking healthy kids out of schools is absurd, whereas adults in society aren't subject to such surveillance testing.

LOL - these surveillance testing nuts are Zero COVID fanatics. No mainstream scientist thinks it's possible but these fanatics (Smart Restart followers) worship at the altar of grifter Eric Feigl-Ding, who's telling his flock that eradication is possible.

Hilarious they think we should be surveillance testing a bunch of healthy young kids who were at statistically 0 risk of death from COVID pre-vaccine.

Hilarious you think there's something wrong with a free, voluntary, opt-in testing program that has 0 statistical risk of affecting anyone else, much less your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, what you really mean is keep child COVID spreaders in school, right? People who are positive but don’t necessarily feel sick still need to stay home and quarantine. What are you people not understanding?

COVID is here to stay. We've never locked healthy kids out of school that just happened to pop a positive on a test - never done that for the flu. Is this the new normal you want?

That's why we're not signing up and none of our friends are. What was the last opt-in rate? 18%. I'm hoping for less than 5% this time.

COVID is not the flu. We are still in the middle of a global pandemic with a highly communicable novel disease that causes long-lasting health issues in people who get infected. Ask your pediatrician if you should send a “healthy” positive child into school and see what they say.

You're right - COVID is not the flu, but actually much milder in kids than the flu. It's not so novel anymore either, considering it's been around for 2 years now. Plus, COVID will be here forever.

Please don't start with Long COVID. Love it when there's a control group in those studies, and the control group has more "Long COVID" than the actual group that had COVID.

If you're scared to death about a less than flu level risk and now vaccines are widely available, keep your own kids locked up until they're 18 when they can disown you for ruining their childhood.

You need to seek therapy immediately. You have lost the ability to think rationally about COVID. And you are an assh*t. Maybe talk to the therapist about caring about people other than yourself and not being an a-hat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminder - if you're signing up for surveillance testing, you're signing up to lock healthy kids out of school for a virus that will be here the rest of their lives.

The only thing that you're hurting is your kids' education. Don't do it.

As mentioned upthread, this has also happened for flu and norovirus outbreaks.

So many of you have lost your frickin minds. You idiots are why things keep being so bad.