This is going to be bad…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

Your advice is horrible! There are people who will spread Delta if they follow it.

Unfortunately this is not the first time I read that on this forum. These people will give Tylenol and send their kids.

Seeing so many tips posted online for concealing symptoms in under 12s.

What do you expect? This is what happens when you open school for unvax kids. MS and HS should be open buy K-6 should be virtual if they don't want folks sending in sick kids.

Did you miss the parents unleashing holy hell all last year and especially the ones of young kids?

The amount of threads saying 'let older kids stay at home, but the little ones need to be in school'.

Okay Sally - the wave of plague and ICU hospitalizations is all on you because you didn't want to watch the 4 and 6-year-old for another day.

Yup. Even though the biggest infection numbers are in people in their 20s and 30s, and sports events and bars are packed, and numbers started rising before school started, this one is definitely on Sally. GMAFB

+1. Sorry my five and seven year old got absolutely nothing out of virtual school, but 20 somethings got to keep going to bars and orange theory fitness last winter.

It's just asinine reasoning. Adults can do whatever they want, but we need to keep kids out of school to save emergency room space for the adults in case something goes wrong or they get infected during one of their activities.

And a little more data, the lowest vaccination rate in FCPS is for those ages 25-34. Also, an age group least likely to have school aged children.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/health/novel-coronavirus/vaccine/data

But I’m glad twenty somethings can go out to bars but people want to be up in arms about in person school. Seriously, GTFO.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

THAT is your takeaway? Jesus we are all doomed.

Yes, we are doomed if every time someone gets the sniffles we have to shut the entire household down for 3+ weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

All disinformation fed to you by far-right groups. It's well-known that Open Schools movements across the country have been infiltrated by extremists.

Oh OK. Studies quoted in CDC MMWRs are totally just right wing disinformation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

First PP is a troll. OpenFCPS is bipartisan and uses data. Not your anecdotal claim about an ER in Mississippi or wherever.

NP. I knew it was just a matter of time before the troll word comes up. People just want to bury their heads and pretend it is spring 2021.

[Anonymous]

Any nurses or doctors here? Can you comment on how the ER situation is in Fairfax county?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

First PP is a troll. OpenFCPS is bipartisan and uses data. Not your anecdotal claim about an ER in Mississippi or wherever.

NP. I knew it was just a matter of time before the troll word comes up. People just want to bury their heads and pretend it is spring 2021.

Well if the data says spread in schools is no different than it was in school year 2020-2021, why can't we?

And so far that is what the data says (see Hopewell, VA, various summer schools, and the UK). If the data changes, then it's up to people and institutions to adjust accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:Any nurses or doctors here? Can you comment on how the ER situation is in Fairfax county?

Covid ActNow says 79%.
https://covidactnow.org/us/virginia-va/county/fairfax_county/?s=21941120

I believe honestly it normally runs in the yellow. In 2018 DH was at the ICU and it was quite crowded. Sitting in the hallway at an ICU is nothing new. Mid-July we were down to 9 hospitalizations for COVID and the ICU was still 78% full.

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Anonymous wrote:Any nurses or doctors here? Can you comment on how the ER situation is in Fairfax county?

Covid ActNow says 79%.
https://covidactnow.org/us/virginia-va/county/fairfax_county/?s=21941120

I believe honestly it normally runs in the yellow. In 2018 DH was at the ICU and it was quite crowded. Sitting in the hallway at an ICU is nothing new. Mid-July we were down to 9 hospitalizations for COVID and the ICU was still 78% full.

This is what people have a hard time understanding. They just get sucked into the terrifying headinlines......"ICUs at 85% FULL!!.....when normally they are in the 75-85% range. That part inconveniently left out of the stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any nurses or doctors here? Can you comment on how the ER situation is in Fairfax county?

According to Inova currently Inova Fairfax has about a 70 min average wait time and the rest are all below 1 hr. https://www.inova.org/emergency-room-wait-times

Considering we're around 200 new cases per day and previously handled sustained levels of closer to 450 new cases per day, I'd be surprised if the hospitals here are already overrun.

Get vaccinated, wear a mask, be cautious where you can, but this isn't close the schools levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

THAT is your takeaway? Jesus we are all doomed.

The takeway is that the quarantine in this situation is stupid and will lead people to not test and hide mild symptoms. This is not what the CDC recommends and on health authority should be requiring this. Excluding non-symptomatic kids who don't have COVID is of no benefit. We have passed the point of erring on the side of caution. That ship sailed when we decided to keep schools closed for a year.

I will only admit this on an anonymous forum. I had a mild cold this week. Rest of family totally fine with no symptoms. I considered testing but I was afraid my kids would have to miss open house and school next week. No one is sick. I am not even sick, like super mild cold symptoms. I have a scratchy throat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

THAT is your takeaway? Jesus we are all doomed.

The takeway is that the quarantine in this situation is stupid and will lead people to not test and hide mild symptoms. This is not what the CDC recommends and on health authority should be requiring this. Excluding non-symptomatic kids who don't have COVID is of no benefit. We have passed the point of erring on the side of caution. That ship sailed when we decided to keep schools closed for a year.

I will only admit this on an anonymous forum. I had a mild cold this week. Rest of family totally fine with no symptoms. I considered testing but I was afraid my kids would have to miss open house and school next week. No one is sick. I am not even sick, like super mild cold symptoms. I have a scratchy throat.

Jesus. Get an OTC test at Walgreens or CVS, especially if your kids are too young to be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

THAT is your takeaway? Jesus we are all doomed.

The takeway is that the quarantine in this situation is stupid and will lead people to not test and hide mild symptoms. This is not what the CDC recommends and on health authority should be requiring this. Excluding non-symptomatic kids who don't have COVID is of no benefit. We have passed the point of erring on the side of caution. That ship sailed when we decided to keep schools closed for a year.

I will only admit this on an anonymous forum. I had a mild cold this week. Rest of family totally fine with no symptoms. I considered testing but I was afraid my kids would have to miss open house and school next week. No one is sick. I am not even sick, like super mild cold symptoms. I have a scratchy throat.

I concur. I wouldn’t test.

[Anonymous]

PLEASE DO TEST if your kid has symptoms. These are the "real" rules for FCPS.... (copied from school website):
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Students who are showing signs of COVID-like illness may not return to school until:

1. Student has tested negative for COVID-19 OR
2. A healthcare provider has seen the student and documented a reason for the symptoms other than COVID-19 OR
3. All of these are true:
at least 10 days since the start of symptoms AND
fever free off anti-fever medicines for 24 hours AND
symptoms are getting better

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So, once you test negative (doesn't matter what kind of test), you are good to go back to school. Period. End of story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PLEASE DO TEST if your kid has symptoms. These are the "real" rules for FCPS.... (copied from school website):
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Students who are showing signs of COVID-like illness may not return to school until:

1. Student has tested negative for COVID-19 OR
2. A healthcare provider has seen the student and documented a reason for the symptoms other than COVID-19 OR
3. All of these are true:
at least 10 days since the start of symptoms AND
fever free off anti-fever medicines for 24 hours AND
symptoms are getting better

___________________________________________

So, once you test negative (doesn't matter what kind of test), you are good to go back to school. Period. End of story.

Thank you. These are reasonable requirements, although to make them work, we need much more convenient and accessible testing.

[Anonymous]

To add on to the rules:

IF You have been exposed to someone in the household who is positive for Covid, THEN YOU MUST Quarantine for 14 days.