Indoor chorus/band concerts

[Anonymous]

Are your schools still holding the spring indoor band/orchestra/chorus concerts despite the recent wave of COVID cases? If so, are they taking any extra precautions? Just curious as a gym full of hundreds of people, including a bunch of unmasked kids belting out songs, seems a little dicey right now (though I know the kids are really looking forward to it).

[Anonymous]

Yes! Our ES and MS are both doing concerts and we are thrilled to have them back. Our MS is even participating in Music at the Parks at Hershey.

If you are concerned, you can probably email the teacher and ask if your child can opt out. I bet they allow it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course. MCPS as a whole no longer has capacity restrictions at school events or mandatory masking, so all spring events will be held according to this policy.

[Anonymous]

As far as I can tell, hospitalizations have not gone up.

We need to stop focusing on case numbers. The sole focus should be hospitalizations and deaths.

[Anonymous]

Yes. And everyone is happy and grateful and giving no thought about changing the plans.

[Anonymous]

Yes, even did the big competitions at the amusement park.

[Anonymous]

Our ES is doing an outdoor concert. The HS is doing the usual auditorium gig

[Anonymous]

I got to visit my son's school for the first time this year! Yay! I wore a mask.

[Anonymous]

Our ES is doing the band concert outside this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Our ES and MS are both doing concerts and we are thrilled to have them back. Our MS is even participating in Music at the Parks at Hershey.

If you are concerned, you can probably email the teacher and ask if your child can opt out. I bet they allow it.

Anyone with a brain should be concerned about allowing the virus to spread and create new variants. Sane people wouldn't be happy about encouraging a pandemic to spread. The long term implications of the virus spreading will impact everyone, even the happy to have it spread people.

[Anonymous]

Ours is. Our family will be wearing kn95s.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It's required for chorus to wear masks to sing and band to wear musicians masks to play. Masks optional for audience members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Our ES and MS are both doing concerts and we are thrilled to have them back. Our MS is even participating in Music at the Parks at Hershey.

If you are concerned, you can probably email the teacher and ask if your child can opt out. I bet they allow it.

Anyone with a brain should be concerned about allowing the virus to spread and create new variants. Sane people wouldn't be happy about encouraging a pandemic to spread. The long term implications of the virus spreading will impact everyone, even the happy to have it spread people.

Anyone with a brain should be concerned about the long term implications of closures on our kids’ mental and physical health.

Anyone with a brain should know that you can’t stop a virus from spreading, no matter what Fauci made you believe.

Anyone with a brain should know that ZERO kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County since the beginning of this pandemic.
Source: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. And everyone is happy and grateful and giving no thought about changing the plans.

So, very grateful. Yes, we are most definitely happy and grateful. I will never take another ES concert for granted, no matter how squeaky the clarinets sound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Our ES and MS are both doing concerts and we are thrilled to have them back. Our MS is even participating in Music at the Parks at Hershey.

If you are concerned, you can probably email the teacher and ask if your child can opt out. I bet they allow it.

Anyone with a brain should be concerned about allowing the virus to spread and create new variants. Sane people wouldn't be happy about encouraging a pandemic to spread. The long term implications of the virus spreading will impact everyone, even the happy to have it spread people.

Anyone with a brain should be concerned about the long term implications of closures on our kids’ mental and physical health.

Anyone with a brain should know that you can’t stop a virus from spreading, no matter what Fauci made you believe.

Anyone with a brain should know that ZERO kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County since the beginning of this pandemic.
Source: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

But how many will have long term cognitive effects? Probably a lot.