Will MCPS go virtual the first part of January?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, I went to Floriduh and did not wear any masks and probably have tons of covid all over and in me.oh well. My kids are going back Jan. 3rd and will stay in school. Nobody will get that sick from it. I am not really sure why Maryland shuts down as Florida's never shut down, live with covid or die from it, and are the happiest people ever. We should be like them.

You are very arrogant and selfish.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah at this point positive cases are not an indicator for hospitalizqtoon or death. The hospitals are overwhelmed largely due to low staffing not due to lack of space in beds

This. My spouse works at one hospital in a high-case-rate area of the DMV where 20% of the beds are empty.

Closing schools will just make this worse. Most of the nurses and techs with school-age kids already quit due to what happened last year- the remaining ones will certainly quit if schools close.

They quit as they do the direct care that puts them at high risk for low pay.

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

We had a 105% increase in cases and a 5% decrease in deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

That means people are dying still.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

We had a 105% increase in cases and a 5% decrease in deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

That means people are dying still.

Yes. What's your point?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

We had a 105% increase in cases and a 5% decrease in deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

That means people are dying still.

Yes. What's your point?

The point is the poster said people were not dying. You just proved them wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

We’re you living under a rock for the more than a year schools were virtual and the disaster that was? The hysteria has got to stop. We have done enough harm to children for no good reason.

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They are brainwashed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

We’re you living under a rock for the more than a year schools were virtual and the disaster that was? The hysteria has got to stop. We have done enough harm to children for no good reason.

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They are brainwashed.

How were your kids harmed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

We had a 105% increase in cases and a 5% decrease in deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

That means people are dying still.

And a tiny percentage of people will continue to die from endemic viruses just as they always have... The numbers have never warranted closing schools and most certainly do not at this point. Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

We’re you living under a rock for the more than a year schools were virtual and the disaster that was? The hysteria has got to stop. We have done enough harm to children for no good reason.

+1

They are brainwashed.

How were your kids harmed?

LOL. Seek help.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

We had a 105% increase in cases and a 5% decrease in deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

That means people are dying still.

And a tiny percentage of people will continue to die from endemic viruses just as they always have... The numbers have never warranted closing schools and most certainly do not at this point. Get a grip.

800k is not a small amount and schools were appropriately shifted to virtual. You need to get a grip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

We’re you living under a rock for the more than a year schools were virtual and the disaster that was? The hysteria has got to stop. We have done enough harm to children for no good reason.

+1

They are brainwashed.

How were your kids harmed?

LOL. Seek help.

Seek help for what? Your kids and family are struggling, not mine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should, but their rule states pivot after >5% positivity during 14 days.
If I read that right.

Which means closing in the last two weeks of Jan, after making everything worse.

Today in MD, positivity is at 12%.

I think the 5% positive means 5% of staff and students test positive for the virus.

12% positivity means something different. That means, of those people who took a test, 12% were positive for COVID. It doesn't mean 12% of the population is positive for COVID. Because lots of people didn't take the test.

If there’s 12 or 16% positivity in the community, there’s also a similar number among students and staff, silly.

And of course it’s people taking tests. How else would we know they’re positive?

The positivity rate in MCPS will be the same as the community as s whole.

But no one is testing the ENTIRE Montgomery County community for COVID.
12% test positivity doesn't mean we tested every single person in the county, and 12% of them had COVID.

It means, of the people who showed up for testing (and were able to secure a test) 12% of THOSE people tested positive. Since people with symptoms are much more likely to get tested, and people who are close contact are also more likely, that population skews highly more likely to actually have COVID.

Yes, apples and oranges. Posters trying to equate 12% of a population that went to get tested vs. 5% of an entire population (1) either don't get it and we're fortunate that they're not decisionmakers or (2) are being willfully ignorant.

But it is not 5 percent of an entire population. Only of people who opted into testing. Which is a selected group of the population, much like the people who chose to get PCR tests around Christmas for whatever reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

We’re you living under a rock for the more than a year schools were virtual and the disaster that was? The hysteria has got to stop. We have done enough harm to children for no good reason.

+1

They are brainwashed.

How were your kids harmed?

LOL. Seek help.

This is such a dumb response. Please just stop saying things that are designed to cast aspersions on other posters’ mental health. It is immature and not very productive. It drags down the intelligence of the board as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, I went to Floriduh and did not wear any masks and probably have tons of covid all over and in me.oh well. My kids are going back Jan. 3rd and will stay in school. Nobody will get that sick from it. I am not really sure why Maryland shuts down as Florida's never shut down, live with covid or die from it, and are the happiest people ever. We should be like them.

Yeah, because when I think of the caliber of people who live in Florida, they just scream educated and bright. Move there please. Your ignorant, moronic persona makes you seem like you’d fit right in.

[Anonymous]

Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.