MCPS covid cases

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Anonymous wrote:How many months past the second dose are you no longer considered fully vaccinated? The 12-18 crowd (middle and high schoolers) are no hitting the threshold of not being vaccinated.

I wasn’t starting to worry until this week when we’ve received daily emails indicating 5-10 new cases have been reported. It’s spreading like wildfire right now with our teenage crowd.

Fully vaccinated is two doses.

When vaccine is not very effective, “fully vaccinated” becomes a misnomer. People need to keep getting boosters.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is that the part that's tilting some people? Nearly everybody will get infected over the next couple of years, which will begin conveying added resistance. It's just the progression of things.

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Will keep DC at home next week. It is not worth risking it just for a few extra days.

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Anonymous wrote:Will keep DC at home next week. It is not worth risking it just for a few extra days.

ditto

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

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Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

You, too, can choose to stay home, and I assume that you are doing so. To avoid risk.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

I’m not putting anyone at risk. They can choose to stay home or take other measures to protect themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

I don't have to justify anything. My family has been out and about since the beginning. That's just how it is.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

This argument (which isn't one) had been repeated ad nauseum on these boards since at least this summer. It is anti science and nonsensical. It is probably not written by a genuinely dimwitted housewife, but is being pushed for a more nefarious purpose.

You don't want to get covid once.

And if you do, no, you don't want to get it twice.

Do you like your husband having ED that much, imaginary dimwitted housewife?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

I don't have to justify anything. My family has been out and about since the beginning. That's just how it is.

Then stop complaining about schools closing and quarantines as you are incapable of being part of the solution and we need to protect those in school from people like you.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

This argument (which isn't one) had been repeated ad nauseum on these boards since at least this summer. It is anti science and nonsensical. It is probably not written by a genuinely dimwitted housewife, but is being pushed for a more nefarious purpose.

You don't want to get covid once.

And if you do, no, you don't want to get it twice.

Do you like your husband having ED that much, imaginary dimwitted housewife?

Perhaps not, but we’re all going to be exposed to covid multiple times in our lives. Are you really still in denial about that? Or is this you in your Anger phase?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

This argument (which isn't one) had been repeated ad nauseum on these boards since at least this summer. It is anti science and nonsensical. It is probably not written by a genuinely dimwitted housewife, but is being pushed for a more nefarious purpose.

You don't want to get covid once.

And if you do, no, you don't want to get it twice.

Do you like your husband having ED that much, imaginary dimwitted housewife?

It doesn't matter what you want. Nearly everybody will be infected over the next couple of years unless they're truly living off the grid.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

I don't have to justify anything. My family has been out and about since the beginning. That's just how it is.

Then stop complaining about schools closing and quarantines as you are incapable of being part of the solution and we need to protect those in school from people like you.

Most people in the school are like me. People that have accepted the endemic nature of this virus. People continuing to essentially shelter-in-place are waiting for something that's never coming back.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS was wrong to make substantial statements like never shutting down schools. There are no black and white decisions when it comes to a pandemic. This isn’t saying they should move to virtual or not. They’ve now backed themselves into a corner by trying to pass the buck off to Hogan.

How so? MCPS's policy should absolutely be to stay open. Schools should be the last thing to close, not the first.

Mcps does not make the decision for anything other than schools. Why do we need the government to shut things down to behave responsibly?

OK, then don't close anything. That's fine. But the schools need to stay open.

In person school doesn't NEED to stay open. You WANT it to stay open. If you want schools to stay open, what sacrifices are you willing to make to have that happen?

Why should kids have to sacrifice even more to protect the elderly and unvaccinated? Why don't they sacrifice? How many senior citizens are isolating? Closing schools shouldn't be under any sort of consideration while the elderly are out socializing with family and friends.

How many are unvaccinated in this county? It’s not the unvaccinated or seniors to blame anymore. We are having outbreaks in high schools where almost everyone is vaccinated. This is not as simple as playing the blame game or wishing it away.

High schoolers aren't ended up in hospitals. The vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are either elderly or unvaccinated. Surely you know that.

I don’t care about hospitalizations vs spread. I don’t want Covid. Why can’t you acknowledge the spread in MCPS includes many vaccinated.

Most of us wouldn't want a cold or the flu either, but it would be ridiculous to shut down schools every winter. It isn't a rational response to the risk. Get vaccinated and your risk is very low. The elderly and medically frail can isolate, and kids can go to school. Sure, there would be cases. But very, very few serious cases.

It’s not as simple as vaccinations anymore. Many of those getting Covid in mcps are vaccinated. Must be nice to minimize Covid and pretend it’s no big deal. Unfortunately it’s not that simple for some of us.

Are you willing to volunteer when we don’t have enough staff to teach and keep the schools running?

This is not equal to the cold and flu but if schools are more vigilant about sick staying home and do more cleanings perhaps we could have that under control. The flu vaccine is also not that effective this year.

When are you going to realize that case counts don't matter- case severity matters. Yes, vaccinated people can get COVID, but they don't get seriously ill unless they're very old or very sick with something else.

MCPS got $390M in COVID funds. We should be doubling or tripling sub pay. That's a drop in the bucket given MCPS's total budget.

Who wants to work as a sub and get Covid? You aren’t willing to. Even at $30 and hour there is no sick leave or health insurance.

Covid may not be a big deal to you but it is to others of us who don’t want to get sick. Yes, people are getting serious I’ll and it’s highly contagious.

Most people don't have your level of anxiety over mild illness and small risks. Others have had to face their fears because they didn't have the luxury of staying home.

COVID isn't going anywhere. You're going to have to face your fears at some point, too. With Omicron, it shoild be more obvious than ever that you're not going to be able to avoid infection for the rest of your life.

Is this how you justify all your choices that put the rest of us at risk? Outside the necessities, yes you can choose to stay home.

I don't have to justify anything. My family has been out and about since the beginning. That's just how it is.

Then stop complaining about schools closing and quarantines as you are incapable of being part of the solution and we need to protect those in school from people like you.

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