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Just wait…hospitalizations are up here and most are vaccinated. You need a new talking point. |
Vaccinated are not the hospitalizations. |
| So help me if they close schools or cut extra curricula before they cut bars and restaurants I'm voting republican. |
This is just patently false. |
How will that help? |
You need to keep up: https://montgomerycomd.blogspot.com/2021/12/message-from-county-executive_16.html Hospitalizations Are Up and Outbreaks Are Increasing "Across the state hospitalizations have increased 44 percent since Dec. 3, and Montgomery County hospitalization rates are its highest rate since mid-April. There has also been a 29 percent increase in outbreaks statewide and 41 percent increase in school and childcare outbreaks. Outbreaks are also increasing in Montgomery County public schools. Between Saturday, Dec. 4, and Sunday, Dec. 12, there were 518 new COVID-19 cases reported in the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system. For comparison purposes, there were 1,036 total cases in MCPS schools between the beginning of the school year and Nov. 19 - for the entire first two and half months of school." We don't have current data: "While we are doing better in Montgomery County compared to the rest of the nation, we see that another winter surge in cases is upon us. The State’s database has been unavailable for 10 days and, because of this, I cannot provide an update on our test positivity and case rates; but we do have data about our hospitalization rates and outbreaks, and those numbers are headed in the wrong direction." |
This is exactly why schools won’t close. Kids are not getting seriously ill or ending up in the hospital, and all school age kids are eligible to be vaccinated. Parents would raise holy hell if schools were to close, see VA and new Governor Youngkin. |
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A glimpse today:
Ashburton Elementary School Montgomery 2 12/15/2021 Cashell Elementary School Montgomery 2 12/15/2021 Clarksburg Elementary Montgomery 6 12/15/2021 Georgetown Preparatory School Montgomery 31 12/15/2021 Goshen Elementary School Montgomery 6 12/15/2021 Magruder High School Montgomery 32 12/15/2021 Paint Branch High School Montgomery 32 12/15/2021 Poolesville High School Montgomery 19 12/15/2021 Quince Orchard High School Montgomery 4 12/15/2021 Saint Raphael School Montgomery 3 12/15/2021 School County Positive Cases Last Update Spencerville Adventist Academy Montgomery 17 12/15/2021 St. Martin of Tours School Montgomery 2 12/15/2021 Stedwick Elementary School Montgomery 2 12/15/2021 Takoma Academy Preparatory School Montgomery 2 12/15/2021 https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/school-resources |
Schools will not close because of elections/politics. It doesn't matter what is in the kids best interests. Those kids will bring home covid to their parents and community. Its not as simple as saying its just about kids. |
Where does this say that most of those hospitalized are vaccinated? |
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In MD, 90% of those over 18 have had their first dose.
85% over the age of 5. This isn't as simple as blaming the unvaccinated anymore: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/#Vaccine |
Keep up with what? No where does it say hospitalizations are happening to Vaccinated. You are drawing a conclusion that doesn't exist. |
Yep. Vaccinated people get covid pretty easily. And they are sick for a few days and go back to normal. Unvaccinated people (of which there are plenty) clog up hospitals. |
If you have a kid attending school you are well aware of the risk they could bring it home to you. Most of us are more than ok with the cost/benefit analysis of this, particularly given the protection of being fully vaxxed and boostered. The idea that kids are just spreading Covid through the community is not supported by any evidence. Like kids are roaming malls unmasked or something? Where in MoCo are kids roaming the community spreading Covid? If they are spreading it, they are spreading it to each other becuase they are hanging with friends/playing sports unmasked. |
Sure. That means voting for more deaths: more deaths from Covid, more deaths from firearms, and more deaths from women desperately getting back-alley abortions. So, go ahead, murderer. |