Has Duran gone mad? (APS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Do these “covid deniers” of whom you speak deny the existence of covid? Or do they believe that the weight of the evidence indicates that schools may reopen for in person instruction with proper safety instruction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t believe it.

Don’t believe what? COVID? The numbers? That APS isn’t going back this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Do these “covid deniers” of whom you speak deny the existence of covid? Or do they believe that the weight of the evidence indicates that schools may reopen for in person instruction with proper safety instruction?

Hyperbole and straw men are pp’s signature style.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Seriously, I am scared.

[Anonymous]

Don’t believe that APS isn’t going back this year. They will follow lockstep with Fairfax. I’m sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t believe that APS isn’t going back this year. They will follow lockstep with Fairfax. I’m sure.

And Fairfax is doing what? So far, not much.

[Anonymous]

Well. It appears from other threads that FCPS plans to announce they are on track to go hybrid this month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Seriously, I am scared.

Why the extremism? You can actually want kids to be in school and not be a COVID denier--or is it easier to just blindly paint everyone of a different opinion than you with one broad and incorrect brush stroke?

We are diligent about masks and safety, but, we are still participating in a variety of activities where possible. We traveled over the holidays and spent time with one family--the dad of the other family is a medical provider in another state. He had COVID in March. His kids have been in school throughout the fall, and went back yesterday. It was so painful and comical to discuss the different approaches of his state and county vs. ours.

As I've said before, Americans are OBSESSED with safety. We cannot tolerate anything that threatens our perceived safety bubble. And COVID is testing and pushing this fallacy to the extreme. We think we can manufacture safety--but we cannot.

If everything is so dangerous and dire, then everything should effectively do an extreme shutdown. No stores, no gas stations, no medical care, etc. One group of people does not get to make themselves specially exempted while all other essential workers show up day in and day out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Seriously, I am scared.

Why the extremism? You can actually want kids to be in school and not be a COVID denier--or is it easier to just blindly paint everyone of a different opinion than you with one broad and incorrect brush stroke?

We are diligent about masks and safety, but, we are still participating in a variety of activities where possible. We traveled over the holidays and spent time with one family--the dad of the other family is a medical provider in another state. He had COVID in March. His kids have been in school throughout the fall, and went back yesterday. It was so painful and comical to discuss the different approaches of his state and county vs. ours.

As I've said before, Americans are OBSESSED with safety. We cannot tolerate anything that threatens our perceived safety bubble. And COVID is testing and pushing this fallacy to the extreme. We think we can manufacture safety--but we cannot.

If everything is so dangerous and dire, then everything should effectively do an extreme shutdown. No stores, no gas stations, no medical care, etc. One group of people does not get to make themselves specially exempted while all other essential workers show up day in and day out.

Recall, too, that this is Arlington where many folks live in bubbles within bubbles.

[Anonymous]

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Yes, it’d be dumb to open in a surge. Wait a month or two and open safely this semester. Take this time to get the air filters and contract with a local lab. I would have sent my kids in the fall if they had implemented sufficient safety measures then as other schools have done.

Oh please - that's what people say every single week! There has been a surge like every other day according to them '
summer vacation surge!
labor day surge!
halloween surge!
Thanksgiving surge!
variant surge!

Next week it will be cold weather surge!

The surges are visible on the city's case graph.

https://www.alexandriava.gov/performance/info/dashboard.aspx?id=114883

This is for Alexandria, this is a post about Arlington.

It must be hard to be this stupid. It defaults to Accomack where it says SELECT LOCALITY, you choose....Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Seriously, I am scared.

Why the extremism? You can actually want kids to be in school and not be a COVID denier--or is it easier to just blindly paint everyone of a different opinion than you with one broad and incorrect brush stroke?

We are diligent about masks and safety, but, we are still participating in a variety of activities where possible. We traveled over the holidays and spent time with one family--the dad of the other family is a medical provider in another state. He had COVID in March. His kids have been in school throughout the fall, and went back yesterday. It was so painful and comical to discuss the different approaches of his state and county vs. ours.

As I've said before, Americans are OBSESSED with safety. We cannot tolerate anything that threatens our perceived safety bubble. And COVID is testing and pushing this fallacy to the extreme. We think we can manufacture safety--but we cannot.

If everything is so dangerous and dire, then everything should effectively do an extreme shutdown. No stores, no gas stations, no medical care, etc. One group of people does not get to make themselves specially exempted while all other essential workers show up day in and day out.

This is the Arlington version of Covid denial. Ignoring public health guidance by traveling, indoor socializing. These people are doing these unsafe activities and want schools to open too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Seriously, I am scared.

Why the extremism? You can actually want kids to be in school and not be a COVID denier--or is it easier to just blindly paint everyone of a different opinion than you with one broad and incorrect brush stroke?

We are diligent about masks and safety, but, we are still participating in a variety of activities where possible. We traveled over the holidays and spent time with one family--the dad of the other family is a medical provider in another state. He had COVID in March. His kids have been in school throughout the fall, and went back yesterday. It was so painful and comical to discuss the different approaches of his state and county vs. ours.

As I've said before, Americans are OBSESSED with safety. We cannot tolerate anything that threatens our perceived safety bubble. And COVID is testing and pushing this fallacy to the extreme. We think we can manufacture safety--but we cannot.

If everything is so dangerous and dire, then everything should effectively do an extreme shutdown. No stores, no gas stations, no medical care, etc. One group of people does not get to make themselves specially exempted while all other essential workers show up day in and day out.

This is the Arlington version of Covid denial. Ignoring public health guidance by traveling, indoor socializing. These people are doing these unsafe activities and want schools to open too.

The guidance from the state says what it says. If folks adhere to that and engage in allowable activities they are not deserving of shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, it’d be dumb to open in a surge. Wait a month or two and open safely this semester. Take this time to get the air filters and contract with a local lab. I would have sent my kids in the fall if they had implemented sufficient safety measures then as other schools have done.

Oh please - that's what people say every single week! There has been a surge like every other day according to them '
summer vacation surge!
labor day surge!
halloween surge!
Thanksgiving surge!
variant surge!

Next week it will be cold weather surge!

The surges are visible on the city's case graph.

https://www.alexandriava.gov/performance/info/dashboard.aspx?id=114883

This is for Alexandria, this is a post about Arlington.

It must be hard to be this stupid. It defaults to Accomack where it says SELECT LOCALITY, you choose....Arlington.

DP. Actually, the link goes to Alexandria. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Seriously, I am scared.

Why the extremism? You can actually want kids to be in school and not be a COVID denier--or is it easier to just blindly paint everyone of a different opinion than you with one broad and incorrect brush stroke?

We are diligent about masks and safety, but, we are still participating in a variety of activities where possible. We traveled over the holidays and spent time with one family--the dad of the other family is a medical provider in another state. He had COVID in March. His kids have been in school throughout the fall, and went back yesterday. It was so painful and comical to discuss the different approaches of his state and county vs. ours.

As I've said before, Americans are OBSESSED with safety. We cannot tolerate anything that threatens our perceived safety bubble. And COVID is testing and pushing this fallacy to the extreme. We think we can manufacture safety--but we cannot.

If everything is so dangerous and dire, then everything should effectively do an extreme shutdown. No stores, no gas stations, no medical care, etc. One group of people does not get to make themselves specially exempted while all other essential workers show up day in and day out.

This is the Arlington version of Covid denial. Ignoring public health guidance by traveling, indoor socializing. These people are doing these unsafe activities and want schools to open too.

Traveled. To a rented house. Did not go to restaurants or any other indoor activities or places. Any outdoor activity was done with masks and social distancing from any other people. My children (almost sadly) will actively advise children who are too close to them at playgrounds to maintain a distance of six feet.

We gathered with one other family who also follows safety protocols and measures. And for pete's sake--the dad is a healthcare provider who has been pushed to the max in urgent care since March and had COVID himself. He is not going to flagrantly make poor decisions that would likely heighten the spread of COVID.

Do you see me criticizing people who are making more restrictive choices than me? No. I don't agree with the no-maskers, indoor dining, etc etc. But, if people want to be more restrictive, that's their right. Just like it's my right to be less restrictive within reason, and while still maintaining health and safety protocols.

[Anonymous]

Yup there are always ways to justify poor choice. CDC said don't travel. Not supposed to gather indoors.

doesn't give you a lot of cred when you say schools are safe, kids are safer at school. Maybe yours are safer at school as opposed to your own poor choices. Me, I'm following public health guidance so mine are not safer at school, especially bc they will be exposed to yours.