Are more people opting into the APS testing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the APE people were more nuanced. They are e like Trump — stating their wrong position over and over as though they are facts. I guess that approach does work with some Americans, given how so many republicans still think Trump won the election.

Covid is not a cold. Omicron still leads to hospitalizations, even here in Arlington, even for kids. And even in mild cases, even for Omicron, covid goes on to form long covid in 10 to 30+ % of cases, according to Fauci last week. You may be okay with that risk for your kids, and other people’s kids, but not everyone is okay with that level of risk for themselves or their kids. And if a majority of teachers are taken out by the highly transmissible omicron at the same time, there won’t be anyone around to teach, either in person or virtually.

Not sure who the APE people are but agree with your second paragraph.

They think APE is everyone they disagree with online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way I’m signing my kids up. Seeing why they did with data from athletes, no way I’ll give them ammunition to shut school down too. Focus on hospitalizations, not cases.

This is what happens when people don’t trust APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish the APE people were more nuanced. They are e like Trump — stating their wrong position over and over as though they are facts. I guess that approach does work with some Americans, given how so many republicans still think Trump won the election.

Covid is not a cold. Omicron still leads to hospitalizations, even here in Arlington, even for kids. And even in mild cases, even for Omicron, covid goes on to form long covid in 10 to 30+ % of cases, according to Fauci last week. You may be okay with that risk for your kids, and other people’s kids, but not everyone is okay with that level of risk for themselves or their kids. And if a majority of teachers are taken out by the highly transmissible omicron at the same time, there won’t be anyone around to teach, either in person or virtually.

Here come the fear porn people, who think COVID is Ebola. Before vaccines, the infection fatality rate was 00.5%, with a huge skew towards the elderly (1,000x mortality rate of elderly vs. kids).

Long COVID is is 10-30%?!? Haha - there's been over 300M diagnosed cases worldwide. There'd be 30-90M people disabled. I'm sure we would have heard about it.

Studies have shown that hospitalizations of kids are WAY overcounted. Fauci and Walensky reiterated that this week.

Fortunately COVID is a disease that rarely affects children, and almost always the obese and very immunocompromised (the latter of which have problems every flu season). In fact, H1N1 killed more kids on an annual basis than COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the APE people were more nuanced. They are e like Trump — stating their wrong position over and over as though they are facts. I guess that approach does work with some Americans, given how so many republicans still think Trump won the election.

Covid is not a cold. Omicron still leads to hospitalizations, even here in Arlington, even for kids. And even in mild cases, even for Omicron, covid goes on to form long covid in 10 to 30+ % of cases, according to Fauci last week. You may be okay with that risk for your kids, and other people’s kids, but not everyone is okay with that level of risk for themselves or their kids. And if a majority of teachers are taken out by the highly transmissible omicron at the same time, there won’t be anyone around to teach, either in person or virtually.

Here come the fear porn people, who think COVID is Ebola. Before vaccines, the infection fatality rate was 00.5%, with a huge skew towards the elderly (1,000x mortality rate of elderly vs. kids).

Long COVID is is 10-30%?!? Haha - there's been over 300M diagnosed cases worldwide. There'd be 30-90M people disabled. I'm sure we would have heard about it.

Studies have shown that hospitalizations of kids are WAY overcounted. Fauci and Walensky reiterated that this week.

Fortunately COVID is a disease that rarely affects children, and almost always the obese and very immunocompromised (the latter of which have problems every flu season). In fact, H1N1 killed more kids on an annual basis than COVID.

I've had COVID, my husband had COVID, tons of our friends had COVID, our teenagers had COVID, tons of their friends had COVID. None had Long COVID.

Everyone is going to get COVID at this point. At this point, if you haven't gotten COVID already, it's very surprising.

But these great lengths to avoid COVID are something these hypochondriacs need to do on their own dime, and stop messing up our kids' lives (they aren't affecting adults' lives, considering we go to the gym, restaurants and bars just as in 2019). Thank god we have a new governor stating next weekend who believes kids are more important than a bunch of nutty hypochondriacs' needs to avoid a cold.

[Anonymous]

Bickering is fun, but the proof is in the pudding. Let’s reconvene when we have actual #s. My $ is on fewer signed up than in the fall unless they come up with better incentives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the APE people were more nuanced. They are e like Trump — stating their wrong position over and over as though they are facts. I guess that approach does work with some Americans, given how so many republicans still think Trump won the election.

Covid is not a cold. Omicron still leads to hospitalizations, even here in Arlington, even for kids. And even in mild cases, even for Omicron, covid goes on to form long covid in 10 to 30+ % of cases, according to Fauci last week. You may be okay with that risk for your kids, and other people’s kids, but not everyone is okay with that level of risk for themselves or their kids. And if a majority of teachers are taken out by the highly transmissible omicron at the same time, there won’t be anyone around to teach, either in person or virtually.

Here come the fear porn people, who think COVID is Ebola. Before vaccines, the infection fatality rate was 00.5%, with a huge skew towards the elderly (1,000x mortality rate of elderly vs. kids).

Long COVID is is 10-30%?!? Haha - there's been over 300M diagnosed cases worldwide. There'd be 30-90M people disabled. I'm sure we would have heard about it.

Studies have shown that hospitalizations of kids are WAY overcounted. Fauci and Walensky reiterated that this week.

Fortunately COVID is a disease that rarely affects children, and almost always the obese and very immunocompromised (the latter of which have problems every flu season). In fact, H1N1 killed more kids on an annual basis than COVID.

I've had COVID, my husband had COVID, tons of our friends had COVID, our teenagers had COVID, tons of their friends had COVID. None had Long COVID.

Everyone is going to get COVID at this point. At this point, if you haven't gotten COVID already, it's very surprising.

But these great lengths to avoid COVID are something these hypochondriacs need to do on their own dime, and stop messing up our kids' lives (they aren't affecting adults' lives, considering we go to the gym, restaurants and bars just as in 2019). Thank god we have a new governor stating next weekend who believes kids are more important than a bunch of nutty hypochondriacs' needs to avoid a cold.

None in our family have gotten COVID. Kids play multiple sports (indoors and outdoors), we go to stores, the gym, have friends over. But we have good masks and do not eat indoors. We keep masks on inside stores and the gym. Our kids can wear KN95 masks playing sports competitively and we don't scream that they can't breathe.

We DO have friends who have gotten long COVID. It's not a good situation, you should feel very fortunate to be in your position. It's not reality for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I've had COVID, my husband had COVID, tons of our friends had COVID, our teenagers had COVID, tons of their friends had COVID. None had Long COVID.

Everyone is going to get COVID at this point. At this point, if you haven't gotten COVID already, it's very surprising.

But these great lengths to avoid COVID are something these hypochondriacs need to do on their own dime, and stop messing up our kids' lives (they aren't affecting adults' lives, considering we go to the gym, restaurants and bars just as in 2019). Thank god we have a new governor stating next weekend who believes kids are more important than a bunch of nutty hypochondriacs' needs to avoid a cold.

None in our family have gotten COVID. Kids play multiple sports (indoors and outdoors), we go to stores, the gym, have friends over. But we have good masks and do not eat indoors. We keep masks on inside stores and the gym. Our kids can wear KN95 masks playing sports competitively and we don't scream that they can't breathe.

We DO have friends who have gotten long COVID. It's not a good situation, you should feel very fortunate to be in your position. It's not reality for everyone.

What a complete waste of time and effort. You are significantly decreasing your quality of life FOR A VIRUS EVERYONE WILL GET because it's never being eradicated. Please make sure to do one of those "I did all the right things" Facebook posts when you do catch COVID.

BTW, I do know people who have died in car wrecks too. That does not keep me from riding in a car (whose risks are higher than a healthy person getting Long COVID).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I've had COVID, my husband had COVID, tons of our friends had COVID, our teenagers had COVID, tons of their friends had COVID. None had Long COVID.

Everyone is going to get COVID at this point. At this point, if you haven't gotten COVID already, it's very surprising.

But these great lengths to avoid COVID are something these hypochondriacs need to do on their own dime, and stop messing up our kids' lives (they aren't affecting adults' lives, considering we go to the gym, restaurants and bars just as in 2019). Thank god we have a new governor stating next weekend who believes kids are more important than a bunch of nutty hypochondriacs' needs to avoid a cold.

None in our family have gotten COVID. Kids play multiple sports (indoors and outdoors), we go to stores, the gym, have friends over. But we have good masks and do not eat indoors. We keep masks on inside stores and the gym. Our kids can wear KN95 masks playing sports competitively and we don't scream that they can't breathe.

We DO have friends who have gotten long COVID. It's not a good situation, you should feel very fortunate to be in your position. It's not reality for everyone.

What a complete waste of time and effort. You are significantly decreasing your quality of life FOR A VIRUS EVERYONE WILL GET because it's never being eradicated. Please make sure to do one of those "I did all the right things" Facebook posts when you do catch COVID.

BTW, I do know people who have died in car wrecks too. That does not keep me from riding in a car (whose risks are higher than a healthy person getting Long COVID).

At this point, my mind is boggled there are healthy people living in our community that don't eat at restaurants and live this crazy "viral avoidance" lifestyle. It's so crazy and what a waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I've had COVID, my husband had COVID, tons of our friends had COVID, our teenagers had COVID, tons of their friends had COVID. None had Long COVID.

Everyone is going to get COVID at this point. At this point, if you haven't gotten COVID already, it's very surprising.

But these great lengths to avoid COVID are something these hypochondriacs need to do on their own dime, and stop messing up our kids' lives (they aren't affecting adults' lives, considering we go to the gym, restaurants and bars just as in 2019). Thank god we have a new governor stating next weekend who believes kids are more important than a bunch of nutty hypochondriacs' needs to avoid a cold.

None in our family have gotten COVID. Kids play multiple sports (indoors and outdoors), we go to stores, the gym, have friends over. But we have good masks and do not eat indoors. We keep masks on inside stores and the gym. Our kids can wear KN95 masks playing sports competitively and we don't scream that they can't breathe.

We DO have friends who have gotten long COVID. It's not a good situation, you should feel very fortunate to be in your position. It's not reality for everyone.

What a complete waste of time and effort. You are significantly decreasing your quality of life FOR A VIRUS EVERYONE WILL GET because it's never being eradicated. Please make sure to do one of those "I did all the right things" Facebook posts when you do catch COVID.

BTW, I do know people who have died in car wrecks too. That does not keep me from riding in a car (whose risks are higher than a healthy person getting Long COVID).

At this point, my mind is boggled there are healthy people living in our community that don't eat at restaurants and live this crazy "viral avoidance" lifestyle. It's so crazy and what a waste.

They must be some of the other moms who have given me weird looks when they see me out not wearing a mask. It's like a religious cult, shunning the non-believers.

[Anonymous]

A waste of time and effort to mask indoors? 🤣🤣 seems like the payoff has been pretty good.

How are we significantly decreasing the quality of our lives? Hardly anything has changed for the kids except eating inside. Same sports, same friends. If being inside maskless is what you need for a quality life, then I don’t know what to tell you.

You still don’t get it. Totally fine deaf. Your experience doesn’t dictate every else’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A waste of time and effort to mask indoors? 🤣🤣 seems like the payoff has been pretty good.

How are we significantly decreasing the quality of our lives? Hardly anything has changed for the kids except eating inside. Same sports, same friends. If being inside maskless is what you need for a quality life, then I don’t know what to tell you.

You still don’t get it. Totally fine deaf. Your experience doesn’t dictate every else’s.

Yes, humans are not meant to be wearing masks. And eating in a restaurant is something humans have done for centuries.

COVID is never going away. You will get it. A virus is going to virus.

Us getting the virus has had the biggest payoff. We've been living normal since the spring. We definitely aren't getting Omicron. I just feel really sad for people like you. It's like a mental illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A waste of time and effort to mask indoors? 🤣🤣 seems like the payoff has been pretty good.

How are we significantly decreasing the quality of our lives? Hardly anything has changed for the kids except eating inside. Same sports, same friends. If being inside maskless is what you need for a quality life, then I don’t know what to tell you.

You still don’t get it. Totally fine deaf. Your experience doesn’t dictate every else’s.

Yes, humans are not meant to be wearing masks. And eating in a restaurant is something humans have done for centuries.

COVID is never going away. You will get it. A virus is going to virus.

Us getting the virus has had the biggest payoff. We've been living normal since the spring. We definitely aren't getting Omicron. I just feel really sad for people like you. It's like a mental illness.

Hey, the payoff has been pretty good for them for completely altering their life post-vaccination for the past year. They haven't gotten a certain type of cold while neurotically focusing their entire life around viral avoidance

[Anonymous]

And it’s Trumpspeak all over again equating covid with a cold. Whatever. Get covid as many times as you like and play the lottery each time. Good luck to you and your families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And it’s Trumpspeak all over again equating covid with a cold. Whatever. Get covid as many times as you like and play the lottery each time. Good luck to you and your families.

Here come the Trump comparisons for talking about all of the science on Omicron - the "cold" talk comes from the NYTimes. Look at Omicron with vaccinated adults. It's a cold. For unvaccinated healthy kids, it's always been a cold.

Any reinfection is mild as you get much better immunity than vaccination alone. I'm vaxxed with prior immunity. Just got back from a great restaurant with hubs, wine playdate tomorrow with another family at their house. Life is good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And it’s Trumpspeak all over again equating covid with a cold. Whatever. Get covid as many times as you like and play the lottery each time. Good luck to you and your families.

Sir or madam - it’s 2022 now. If you are vaccinated you do not need to be so scared anymore.