Anyone else think schools will be virtual after Winter Break?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s outbreak before the break likely started with the boys and girls basketball games. The Friday boys game at maret was packed, mostly massless affair and the weekend girls basketball tournament had kids and fans from all over the country. Many players tested positive afterwards

If Sidwell is even considering going virtual they should first cancel all indoor winter sports. Academics must be the priority, even though at Sidwell they are increasingly not

Sidwell has the best girls basketball team in the country. That's an important thing. The kids shouldn't have to keep paying the price. Their academics, their extracurriculars, their friendships--all of that matters. The grownups need to do their part. Wear masks. Get vaccinated. Stop having*their* parties.

And to the sub-Saharan Africa pp: be quiet with your what-about-know-it-all-ism. We're all well aware that vaccination has to be a global effort. That fact changes absolutely nothing about the reality that Americans who have easy access to vaccines need to get them, and that their failure to do so, here in America, threatens American hospitals and by extension American school openings.

More important than in-person school for all the students? How many kids on that team? Ten? 15? And now the entire school goes virtual because of a game? Seems that extracurriculars matter more than academics.

Is Sidwell a school or a ball club?

After the break, let the teams practice and play. No fans.

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Anonymous wrote:My MS student came home today with her laptop and all her materials from all her classes. I am guessing an email from school will be coming if not tonight, by early next week.

I know Covid isn't done with us, but I am so over it and even more over those who won't do the right thing and get vaccinated. The roller coaster is exhausting and our kids are the ones who are paying the price.

Are schools allowing students that choose not to get vaccinated due to pnon essential reasons that are more ideological to come back to school with the increase in cases?

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Anonymous wrote:My MS student came home today with her laptop and all her materials from all her classes. I am guessing an email from school will be coming if not tonight, by early next week.

I know Covid isn't done with us, but I am so over it and even more over those who won't do the right thing and get vaccinated. The roller coaster is exhausting and our kids are the ones who are paying the price.

Are schools allowing students that choose not to get vaccinated due to pnon essential reasons that are more ideological to come back to school with the increase in cases?

*non essential

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s outbreak before the break likely started with the boys and girls basketball games. The Friday boys game at maret was packed, mostly massless affair and the weekend girls basketball tournament had kids and fans from all over the country. Many players tested positive afterwards

If Sidwell is even considering going virtual they should first cancel all indoor winter sports. Academics must be the priority, even though at Sidwell they are increasingly not

Sidwell has the best girls basketball team in the country. That's an important thing. The kids shouldn't have to keep paying the price. Their academics, their extracurriculars, their friendships--all of that matters. The grownups need to do their part. Wear masks. Get vaccinated. Stop having*their* parties.

And to the sub-Saharan Africa pp: be quiet with your what-about-know-it-all-ism. We're all well aware that vaccination has to be a global effort. That fact changes absolutely nothing about the reality that Americans who have easy access to vaccines need to get them, and that their failure to do so, here in America, threatens American hospitals and by extension American school openings.

More important than in-person school for all the students? How many kids on that team? Ten? 15? And now the entire school goes virtual because of a game? Seems that extracurriculars matter more than academics.

Is Sidwell a school or a ball club?

After the break, let the teams practice and play. No fans.

the outbreak before the break was more likely due to specific larger gatherings in basements, one in the sophomore class and one in the junior class.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s outbreak before the break likely started with the boys and girls basketball games. The Friday boys game at maret was packed, mostly massless affair and the weekend girls basketball tournament had kids and fans from all over the country. Many players tested positive afterwards

If Sidwell is even considering going virtual they should first cancel all indoor winter sports. Academics must be the priority, even though at Sidwell they are increasingly not

Sidwell has the best girls basketball team in the country. That's an important thing. The kids shouldn't have to keep paying the price. Their academics, their extracurriculars, their friendships--all of that matters. The grownups need to do their part. Wear masks. Get vaccinated. Stop having*their* parties.

And to the sub-Saharan Africa pp: be quiet with your what-about-know-it-all-ism. We're all well aware that vaccination has to be a global effort. That fact changes absolutely nothing about the reality that Americans who have easy access to vaccines need to get them, and that their failure to do so, here in America, threatens American hospitals and by extension American school openings.

More important than in-person school for all the students? How many kids on that team? Ten? 15? And now the entire school goes virtual because of a game? Seems that extracurriculars matter more than academics.

Is Sidwell a school or a ball club?

After the break, let the teams practice and play. No fans.

Or make fans take rapid tests.

But you don't have to cancel the games.

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Our school is still notifying parents of cases that popped up last week, even though we are officially on winter break. I hope this does not lead families to hide information from the school if their child tests positive over the break. I think we need to enter understand how aggressive this new strain is and it certainly won't help if there is not honest disclosure.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school is still notifying parents of cases that popped up last week, even though we are officially on winter break. I hope this does not lead families to hide information from the school if their child tests positive over the break. I think we need to enter understand how aggressive this new strain is and it certainly won't help if there is not honest disclosure.

The schools are testing before return, so this seems like a nothing burger concern.

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Relax poster! The comment had nothing to do with testing schedules and COVID. I just think it would be helpful for schools to understand if/how this is spreading with our young students. If parents do not share cases that took place over the break, how will schools know?

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s just ignore the fact we are in a pandemic ….

Oh really! Didn’t realize. Get over it.

How do you just get over it? School will most likely be virtual for a few weeks in Jan. Maybe not if we are lucky but the writing is on the wall

It shouldn’t be if the hospitals aren’t overfull. And the hospitals shouldn’t be overfull if they stop letting in masses of selfish unvaccinated morons. Sadly, they’re likely to admit masses of selfish unvaccinated morons, overfilling hospitals, and preventing those with illnesses not caused by willful stupidity and selfishness in the face of a highly contagious disease from getting care, therefore messing up schools. Again.

How much will our kids continue to pay for selfishness and stupidity? I don’t know, but I do know that my kids and I have absolutely had it with the self-centered idiocy that’s been running things for nearly a year now.

This kind of thinking is pure evil. And talk about selfish. Some people have real reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated. But if we all don’t think like you, we should rot and go to hell? My family is vaccinated but I don’t wish evil and harm on those that aren’t. What is wrong with you?

No, PP, the poster you are attacking is 100% right. It’s time to let people receive their just desserts and stop the rest of us from suffering for their willful selfish, tantrums. Those who cannot get the vaccine for legitimate, medical reasons are the ONLY ones excepted from this. No vaccine = no hospital services, period!!

You are brainwashed and can’t see that it’s you who is selfish. This is NOT a communist country. At least not yet. There are plenty of good reasons to delay or reject the vaccine.

So should we deny medical assistance to anyone with illness or injury based on a decision you don’t agree with? You are sickly cruel. And self righteous.

No this is not a Communist country, if it were we would all be vaccinated and our lives would start getting back to normal. Here, our "liberties" make us free; free to kill each other with guns, lack of vaccines and mental health oblivion.

Way to go Land of the Free...

No, their lives are not “going back to normal” either. Because the vaccines aren’t preventing infections. They are merely therapeutic at this point.

If you don’t like freedom, go have fun in China. I cannot believe you are suggesting Communism is somehow ideal and preferable to freedom over a vaccine. This pandemic is a moment in time. Generations have fought for this “land of the free” and died, yet you would gladly hand over your freedom and everyone else’s based on a vaccine that doesn’t work the way you think it does. Amazing Wtf is wrong with you? THE VACCINES AREN’T PREVENTING OUTBREAKSpeople! It’s time to learn to live with this, and each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s just ignore the fact we are in a pandemic ….

Oh really! Didn’t realize. Get over it.

How do you just get over it? School will most likely be virtual for a few weeks in Jan. Maybe not if we are lucky but the writing is on the wall

It shouldn’t be if the hospitals aren’t overfull. And the hospitals shouldn’t be overfull if they stop letting in masses of selfish unvaccinated morons. Sadly, they’re likely to admit masses of selfish unvaccinated morons, overfilling hospitals, and preventing those with illnesses not caused by willful stupidity and selfishness in the face of a highly contagious disease from getting care, therefore messing up schools. Again.

How much will our kids continue to pay for selfishness and stupidity? I don’t know, but I do know that my kids and I have absolutely had it with the self-centered idiocy that’s been running things for nearly a year now.

The vaccines prevent severe cases and deaths. I couldn’t care less if I as a fully vaccinated person with a booster test positive and have a runny nose for a day. That’s what will happen to the vast majority of vaccinated adults and even more for vaccinated children. We have to all be vaccinated and move on.

This kind of thinking is pure evil. And talk about selfish. Some people have real reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated. But if we all don’t think like you, we should rot and go to hell? My family is vaccinated but I don’t wish evil and harm on those that aren’t. What is wrong with you?

No, PP, the poster you are attacking is 100% right. It’s time to let people receive their just desserts and stop the rest of us from suffering for their willful selfish, tantrums. Those who cannot get the vaccine for legitimate, medical reasons are the ONLY ones excepted from this. No vaccine = no hospital services, period!!

You are brainwashed and can’t see that it’s you who is selfish. This is NOT a communist country. At least not yet. There are plenty of good reasons to delay or reject the vaccine.

So should we deny medical assistance to anyone with illness or injury based on a decision you don’t agree with? You are sickly cruel. And self righteous.

No this is not a Communist country, if it were we would all be vaccinated and our lives would start getting back to normal. Here, our "liberties" make us free; free to kill each other with guns, lack of vaccines and mental health oblivion.

Way to go Land of the Free...

No, their lives are not “going back to normal” either. Because the vaccines aren’t preventing infections. They are merely therapeutic at this point.

If you don’t like freedom, go have fun in China. I cannot believe you are suggesting Communism is somehow ideal and preferable to freedom over a vaccine. This pandemic is a moment in time. Generations have fought for this “land of the free” and died, yet you would gladly hand over your freedom and everyone else’s based on a vaccine that doesn’t work the way you think it does. Amazing Wtf is wrong with you? THE VACCINES AREN’T PREVENTING OUTBREAKSpeople! It’s time to learn to live with this, and each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s just ignore the fact we are in a pandemic ….

Oh really! Didn’t realize. Get over it.

How do you just get over it? School will most likely be virtual for a few weeks in Jan. Maybe not if we are lucky but the writing is on the wall

It shouldn’t be if the hospitals aren’t overfull. And the hospitals shouldn’t be overfull if they stop letting in masses of selfish unvaccinated morons. Sadly, they’re likely to admit masses of selfish unvaccinated morons, overfilling hospitals, and preventing those with illnesses not caused by willful stupidity and selfishness in the face of a highly contagious disease from getting care, therefore messing up schools. Again.

How much will our kids continue to pay for selfishness and stupidity? I don’t know, but I do know that my kids and I have absolutely had it with the self-centered idiocy that’s been running things for nearly a year now.

This kind of thinking is pure evil. And talk about selfish. Some people have real reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated. But if we all don’t think like you, we should rot and go to hell? My family is vaccinated but I don’t wish evil and harm on those that aren’t. What is wrong with you?

No, PP, the poster you are attacking is 100% right. It’s time to let people receive their just desserts and stop the rest of us from suffering for their willful selfish, tantrums. Those who cannot get the vaccine for legitimate, medical reasons are the ONLY ones excepted from this. No vaccine = no hospital services, period!!

Doctor here. How would you suggest emergency rooms receiving Covid patients in need of urgent, life saving care, evaluate expectations for "legitimate, medical reasons" when they come in? Minutes matter in life and death scenarios. There's no "universal system" that would give every hospital access to this information, so I'd love to know your thoughts on the process. What about religious exemptions (which are also legitimate). Who gets to evaluate those and judge the legitimacy? There's a very slippery slope here that you and others +1ing this must know nothing about.

Do I want everyone vaccinated? Of course. But the assertion that doctors or nurses should start denying care is not only abhorrent, but also an insult to the profession and the oaths we all took when we chose this profession.

Thank you. I have so much respect for you for coming out and saying this. I don't know what is happening to people but it is really concerning. My spouse is a medical professional and shares your views.

What’s happening to people?

What’s happening to people is they are watching millions in the developing world die because they do not have access to vaccines that many here turn their noses at.

What’s happening to people is they are seeing their kids struggle with depression and suicidal ideations and withdrawal and who now face another threat that schools will close YET AGAIN because hospitals will fill up again—this time not because no one’s protectable, not because there was no alternative, but because people are so selfish that they won’t do the bare minimum to help keep the hospitals from filling up.

What’s happening to people is that their service or performance art or other front-facing jobs are being eliminated YET AGAIN because covid spread still means tons of hospitalizations—not because it had to mean that, but because we still have a high percentage of people who are unvaccinated running around.

What’s happening to people is that they are hearing about countries like Germany and Austria decide that the unvaccinated may not participate in society, but waking up in America where everyone—including *our kids*—apparently must continue to pay an untold price to preserve the unfettered “freedom” of the willingly unvaccinated, who must of course be allowed to do whatever they damned well please.

What’s happening to people is that they are watching folks who will not spend even five minutes at a CVS to get vaccinated literally SUE hospitals in order to get them to provide horse dewormer to their unvaccinated loved ones, while at the same time learning that people with other medical emergencies LITERALLY DIED because there were no beds for them thanks to the hordes of unvaccinated.

What’s happening to people is that they are losing what little was left of their last shred of faith in humanity, as they watch countless Americans continue to refuse to do a simple, small, free thing that would help everyone get back on their feet.

That. That’s what’s happening to people.


P.S. Since you’re at it, how about you ask your question of people who won’t get vaccinated. What’s happening to them? What’s happening to them that they are STILL willing to cripple our healthcare system? Willing to risk pushing kids farther behind academically, socially, and psychologically? Willing to increase the risk of mutations? Willing to place the medically vulnerable at continued, but now long preventable, risk of severe disease and death? God forbid we ever ask what’s happening to THEM that would make them be so cruel. God forbid.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s just ignore the fact we are in a pandemic ….

Oh really! Didn’t realize. Get over it.

How do you just get over it? School will most likely be virtual for a few weeks in Jan. Maybe not if we are lucky but the writing is on the wall

It shouldn’t be if the hospitals aren’t overfull. And the hospitals shouldn’t be overfull if they stop letting in masses of selfish unvaccinated morons. Sadly, they’re likely to admit masses of selfish unvaccinated morons, overfilling hospitals, and preventing those with illnesses not caused by willful stupidity and selfishness in the face of a highly contagious disease from getting care, therefore messing up schools. Again.

How much will our kids continue to pay for selfishness and stupidity? I don’t know, but I do know that my kids and I have absolutely had it with the self-centered idiocy that’s been running things for nearly a year now.

This kind of thinking is pure evil. And talk about selfish. Some people have real reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated. But if we all don’t think like you, we should rot and go to hell? My family is vaccinated but I don’t wish evil and harm on those that aren’t. What is wrong with you?

No, PP, the poster you are attacking is 100% right. It’s time to let people receive their just desserts and stop the rest of us from suffering for their willful selfish, tantrums. Those who cannot get the vaccine for legitimate, medical reasons are the ONLY ones excepted from this. No vaccine = no hospital services, period!!

You are brainwashed and can’t see that it’s you who is selfish. This is NOT a communist country. At least not yet. There are plenty of good reasons to delay or reject the vaccine.

So should we deny medical assistance to anyone with illness or injury based on a decision you don’t agree with? You are sickly cruel. And self righteous.

No this is not a Communist country, if it were we would all be vaccinated and our lives would start getting back to normal. Here, our "liberties" make us free; free to kill each other with guns, lack of vaccines and mental health oblivion.

Way to go Land of the Free...

No, their lives are not “going back to normal” either. Because the vaccines aren’t preventing infections. They are merely therapeutic at this point.

If you don’t like freedom, go have fun in China. I cannot believe you are suggesting Communism is somehow ideal and preferable to freedom over a vaccine. This pandemic is a moment in time. Generations have fought for this “land of the free” and died, yet you would gladly hand over your freedom and everyone else’s based on a vaccine that doesn’t work the way you think it does. Amazing Wtf is wrong with you? THE VACCINES AREN’T PREVENTING OUTBREAKSpeople! It’s time to learn to live with this, and each other.

Learn to live with each other...like you? Somehow by your post you don't give out that vibe.
China here I come!

[Anonymous]

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More important than in-person school for all the students? How many kids on that team? Ten? 15? And now the entire school goes virtual because of a game? Seems that extracurriculars matter more than academics.

Is Sidwell a school or a ball club?

After the break, let the teams practice and play. No fans.

Let's get something clear - there is no particular evidence that suggests the "outbreak" at SFS started with basketball, one of two games pointed to was hosted by Maret. It could just as easily have been exposure at home to parents/relatives who were not being cautious.

As for an "outbreak" - the whole HS was tested last week, and a total of 12 positive tests came back out of over 500 students. Yeah, higher than it had been, but hardly a huge outbreak.

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No this is not a Communist country, if it were we would all be vaccinated and our lives would start getting back to normal. Here, our "liberties" make us free; free to kill each other with guns, lack of vaccines and mental health oblivion.

Way to go Land of the Free...

What does communism have to do with it?

Whichever poster this came from needs to understand the difference between communism and authoritarianism. The two are not the same, and the overlap is far from complete. China happens to be both, but there are a number of other countries that are one or the other, and many that are neither.

As for the US, it has become more authoritarian over the years . . . and during times of national crisis that is usually not questioned. WWII? Post 9-11? But muh freedums seems uniquely claimed here . . . often by the same people who support wars and the reduction of civil liberties the rest of the time.

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No this is not a Communist country, if it were we would all be vaccinated and our lives would start getting back to normal. Here, our "liberties" make us free; free to kill each other with guns, lack of vaccines and mental health oblivion.

Way to go Land of the Free...

What does communism have to do with it?

Whichever poster this came from needs to understand the difference between communism and authoritarianism. The two are not the same, and the overlap is far from complete. China happens to be both, but there are a number of other countries that are one or the other, and many that are neither.

As for the US, it has become more authoritarian over the years . . . and during times of national crisis that is usually not questioned. WWII? Post 9-11? But muh freedums seems uniquely claimed here . . . often by the same people who support wars and the reduction of civil liberties the rest of the time.

You are right, it has noting to do with Communism. I got carried away with the PP mention of it and instead of letting it go I got hooked to a senseless discussion.