MCPS covid cases

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Enough with the Covid is no big deal. If you need to tell yourself that, great but it is a huge deal and has killed many. Many more have long term health issues. You cannot tell some it is no big deal. We don’t know.

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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.

Anxiety over a deadly virus is warranted. Most people aren't cavalier about putting themselves in harm's way, and others can't really imagine themselves in another's shoes.

You couldn't tell by the amount of people out this weekend. Malls, stores, restaurants are wall-to-wall.

It was the opposite here. It was like a ghosttown.

495 is currently rush hour-level traffic in both directions so people are going somewhere.

Holiday travel. The great Covid surge.

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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?

Considering the side effects of repeated covid infection I really feel for your kids. "Well, Tommy, you have diabetes now because Mommy had to keep going to her pilates classes and didn't bother wearing a mask when she went to the mall."

Most sane people are capable of minimizing risk to themselves and their families, by using PPE and making choices like not going to the indoor Christmas party in the middle of an infection spike.

But that's too complicated for you. Probably because you've had covid so many times

I hope you’re able to get the help you need before it is too late your for your kids, who seem to be trapped in VA for the foreseeable future. If you spend even a fraction of the time reading about covid as you spend agonizing over it, you would know there’s a scientific consensus that covid will become endemic, and that we will all be repeatedly exposed to it. Your anxiety is neither productive nor healthy. Your posts scream homebody, so I suspect isolation isn’t new to you. But I hope you think about what is best for your children instead of your own mental illness.

wow reading this I think you are in even greater need of professional help. seems like the pp nailed u

Also, I don't think she knows what "endemic" means.

The virus becoming cyclical like the flu, with different strains and variations, and a population that has some immunity to the worst of its effects can come--and will--with vaccinations. Boosters. A concern for public health and an awareness that we all have a social contract to each others.

Or, as you'd have it, it can come with the millions of disabled people because you didn't want to an miss Orange theory. Sorry, some of us aren't thrilled with the idea that we're playing "the Great Winnowing."

My family doesn't take stupid risks. We wear seatbelts. We don't drive drunk. We don't go to an indoor trampoline park, a restaurant, a Christmas party, or indoor caroling in the middle of an infection spike. That doesn't mean we will never do those things again, it means we won't do them now. Those things are fun, but they're not dealbreakers.

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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?

Considering the side effects of repeated covid infection I really feel for your kids. "Well, Tommy, you have diabetes now because Mommy had to keep going to her pilates classes and didn't bother wearing a mask when she went to the mall."

Most sane people are capable of minimizing risk to themselves and their families, by using PPE and making choices like not going to the indoor Christmas party in the middle of an infection spike.

But that's too complicated for you. Probably because you've had covid so many times

I hope you’re able to get the help you need before it is too late your for your kids, who seem to be trapped in VA for the foreseeable future. If you spend even a fraction of the time reading about covid as you spend agonizing over it, you would know there’s a scientific consensus that covid will become endemic, and that we will all be repeatedly exposed to it. Your anxiety is neither productive nor healthy. Your posts scream homebody, so I suspect isolation isn’t new to you. But I hope you think about what is best for your children instead of your own mental illness.

wow reading this I think you are in even greater need of professional help. seems like the pp nailed u

Also, I don't think she knows what "endemic" means.

The virus becoming cyclical like the flu, with different strains and variations, and a population that has some immunity to the worst of its effects can come--and will--with vaccinations. Boosters. A concern for public health and an awareness that we all have a social contract to each others.

Or, as you'd have it, it can come with the millions of disabled people because you didn't want to an miss Orange theory. Sorry, some of us aren't thrilled with the idea that we're playing "the Great Winnowing."

My family doesn't take stupid risks. We wear seatbelts. We don't drive drunk. We don't go to an indoor trampoline park, a restaurant, a Christmas party, or indoor caroling in the middle of an infection spike. That doesn't mean we will never do those things again, it means we won't do them now. Those things are fun, but they're not dealbreakers.

You seem to think that if you can just wait it out a bit longer that you'll somehow magically be more resistant to COVID. It doesn't work that way. Populations will develop more resistance to covid as more people are vaccinated and more people are infected. But individuals don't gain those benefits by proximity- if you want protection, then you need to be vaccinated or develop natural immunity.

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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?

Considering the side effects of repeated covid infection I really feel for your kids. "Well, Tommy, you have diabetes now because Mommy had to keep going to her pilates classes and didn't bother wearing a mask when she went to the mall."

Most sane people are capable of minimizing risk to themselves and their families, by using PPE and making choices like not going to the indoor Christmas party in the middle of an infection spike.

But that's too complicated for you. Probably because you've had covid so many times

I hope you’re able to get the help you need before it is too late your for your kids, who seem to be trapped in VA for the foreseeable future. If you spend even a fraction of the time reading about covid as you spend agonizing over it, you would know there’s a scientific consensus that covid will become endemic, and that we will all be repeatedly exposed to it. Your anxiety is neither productive nor healthy. Your posts scream homebody, so I suspect isolation isn’t new to you. But I hope you think about what is best for your children instead of your own mental illness.

wow reading this I think you are in even greater need of professional help. seems like the pp nailed u

Also, I don't think she knows what "endemic" means.

The virus becoming cyclical like the flu, with different strains and variations, and a population that has some immunity to the worst of its effects can come--and will--with vaccinations. Boosters. A concern for public health and an awareness that we all have a social contract to each others.

Or, as you'd have it, it can come with the millions of disabled people because you didn't want to an miss Orange theory. Sorry, some of us aren't thrilled with the idea that we're playing "the Great Winnowing."

My family doesn't take stupid risks. We wear seatbelts. We don't drive drunk. We don't go to an indoor trampoline park, a restaurant, a Christmas party, or indoor caroling in the middle of an infection spike. That doesn't mean we will never do those things again, it means we won't do them now. Those things are fun, but they're not dealbreakers.

You seem to think that if you can just wait it out a bit longer that you'll somehow magically be more resistant to COVID. It doesn't work that way. Populations will develop more resistance to covid as more people are vaccinated and more people are infected. But individuals don't gain those benefits by proximity- if you want protection, then you need to be vaccinated or develop natural immunity.

Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

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You couldn't tell by the amount of people out this weekend. Malls, stores, restaurants are wall-to-wall.

The parking lot at Target was full - but we're going to close schools? Nope nope nope nope nope.

(However, it was definitely odd seeing that one guy with no mask, in the store I stopped into in the middle of my five-pharmacy trip to find some rapid home tests for my college kid who has a sore throat and is about to be kicked out of their dorm for winter break.)

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Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

A person might almost think you were trying to discourage people from getting vaccinated/boostered.

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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?

Considering the side effects of repeated covid infection I really feel for your kids. "Well, Tommy, you have diabetes now because Mommy had to keep going to her pilates classes and didn't bother wearing a mask when she went to the mall."

Most sane people are capable of minimizing risk to themselves and their families, by using PPE and making choices like not going to the indoor Christmas party in the middle of an infection spike.

But that's too complicated for you. Probably because you've had covid so many times

I hope you’re able to get the help you need before it is too late your for your kids, who seem to be trapped in VA for the foreseeable future. If you spend even a fraction of the time reading about covid as you spend agonizing over it, you would know there’s a scientific consensus that covid will become endemic, and that we will all be repeatedly exposed to it. Your anxiety is neither productive nor healthy. Your posts scream homebody, so I suspect isolation isn’t new to you. But I hope you think about what is best for your children instead of your own mental illness.

wow reading this I think you are in even greater need of professional help. seems like the pp nailed u

Also, I don't think she knows what "endemic" means.

The virus becoming cyclical like the flu, with different strains and variations, and a population that has some immunity to the worst of its effects can come--and will--with vaccinations. Boosters. A concern for public health and an awareness that we all have a social contract to each others.

Or, as you'd have it, it can come with the millions of disabled people because you didn't want to an miss Orange theory. Sorry, some of us aren't thrilled with the idea that we're playing "the Great Winnowing."

My family doesn't take stupid risks. We wear seatbelts. We don't drive drunk. We don't go to an indoor trampoline park, a restaurant, a Christmas party, or indoor caroling in the middle of an infection spike. That doesn't mean we will never do those things again, it means we won't do them now. Those things are fun, but they're not dealbreakers.

You seem to think that if you can just wait it out a bit longer that you'll somehow magically be more resistant to COVID. It doesn't work that way. Populations will develop more resistance to covid as more people are vaccinated and more people are infected. But individuals don't gain those benefits by proximity- if you want protection, then you need to be vaccinated or develop natural immunity.

Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

Are you a troll? Or just honestly dense? The vaccines strongly protect against serious illness— the main thing we need them to do. Did you really not know that?

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Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

A person might almost think you were trying to discourage people from getting vaccinated/boostered.

Right?

I am really curious what IP traces on some of these deniers would show.

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You couldn't tell by the amount of people out this weekend. Malls, stores, restaurants are wall-to-wall.

The parking lot at Target was full - but we're going to close schools? Nope nope nope nope nope.

(However, it was definitely odd seeing that one guy with no mask, in the store I stopped into in the middle of my five-pharmacy trip to find some rapid home tests for my college kid who has a sore throat and is about to be kicked out of their dorm for winter break.)

You can order them from CVS and they will deliver in a day. Btdt. Maybe I am naive but I don't see the point in going to five pharmacies in the middle of a pandemic.

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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?

Considering the side effects of repeated covid infection I really feel for your kids. "Well, Tommy, you have diabetes now because Mommy had to keep going to her pilates classes and didn't bother wearing a mask when she went to the mall."

Most sane people are capable of minimizing risk to themselves and their families, by using PPE and making choices like not going to the indoor Christmas party in the middle of an infection spike.

But that's too complicated for you. Probably because you've had covid so many times

I hope you’re able to get the help you need before it is too late your for your kids, who seem to be trapped in VA for the foreseeable future. If you spend even a fraction of the time reading about covid as you spend agonizing over it, you would know there’s a scientific consensus that covid will become endemic, and that we will all be repeatedly exposed to it. Your anxiety is neither productive nor healthy. Your posts scream homebody, so I suspect isolation isn’t new to you. But I hope you think about what is best for your children instead of your own mental illness.

wow reading this I think you are in even greater need of professional help. seems like the pp nailed u

Also, I don't think she knows what "endemic" means.

The virus becoming cyclical like the flu, with different strains and variations, and a population that has some immunity to the worst of its effects can come--and will--with vaccinations. Boosters. A concern for public health and an awareness that we all have a social contract to each others.

Or, as you'd have it, it can come with the millions of disabled people because you didn't want to an miss Orange theory. Sorry, some of us aren't thrilled with the idea that we're playing "the Great Winnowing."

My family doesn't take stupid risks. We wear seatbelts. We don't drive drunk. We don't go to an indoor trampoline park, a restaurant, a Christmas party, or indoor caroling in the middle of an infection spike. That doesn't mean we will never do those things again, it means we won't do them now. Those things are fun, but they're not dealbreakers.

You seem to think that if you can just wait it out a bit longer that you'll somehow magically be more resistant to COVID. It doesn't work that way. Populations will develop more resistance to covid as more people are vaccinated and more people are infected. But individuals don't gain those benefits by proximity- if you want protection, then you need to be vaccinated or develop natural immunity.

Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

Are you a troll? Or just honestly dense? The vaccines strongly protect against serious illness— the main thing we need them to do. Did you really not know that?

Are you a troll? Telling people they can't spread the coronavurus just because they had a vaccine 8 months ago is irresponsible AF.

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Are you a troll? Telling people they can't spread the coronavurus just because they had a vaccine 8 months ago is irresponsible AF.

Fortunately, nobody is doing that.

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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?

Considering the side effects of repeated covid infection I really feel for your kids. "Well, Tommy, you have diabetes now because Mommy had to keep going to her pilates classes and didn't bother wearing a mask when she went to the mall."

Most sane people are capable of minimizing risk to themselves and their families, by using PPE and making choices like not going to the indoor Christmas party in the middle of an infection spike.

But that's too complicated for you. Probably because you've had covid so many times

I hope you’re able to get the help you need before it is too late your for your kids, who seem to be trapped in VA for the foreseeable future. If you spend even a fraction of the time reading about covid as you spend agonizing over it, you would know there’s a scientific consensus that covid will become endemic, and that we will all be repeatedly exposed to it. Your anxiety is neither productive nor healthy. Your posts scream homebody, so I suspect isolation isn’t new to you. But I hope you think about what is best for your children instead of your own mental illness.

wow reading this I think you are in even greater need of professional help. seems like the pp nailed u

Also, I don't think she knows what "endemic" means.

The virus becoming cyclical like the flu, with different strains and variations, and a population that has some immunity to the worst of its effects can come--and will--with vaccinations. Boosters. A concern for public health and an awareness that we all have a social contract to each others.

Or, as you'd have it, it can come with the millions of disabled people because you didn't want to an miss Orange theory. Sorry, some of us aren't thrilled with the idea that we're playing "the Great Winnowing."

My family doesn't take stupid risks. We wear seatbelts. We don't drive drunk. We don't go to an indoor trampoline park, a restaurant, a Christmas party, or indoor caroling in the middle of an infection spike. That doesn't mean we will never do those things again, it means we won't do them now. Those things are fun, but they're not dealbreakers.

You seem to think that if you can just wait it out a bit longer that you'll somehow magically be more resistant to COVID. It doesn't work that way. Populations will develop more resistance to covid as more people are vaccinated and more people are infected. But individuals don't gain those benefits by proximity- if you want protection, then you need to be vaccinated or develop natural immunity.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

Vaxxed can get infected with the coronavirus. They mostly don't get covid without some other preexisting condition.

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccinated ARE getting covid. So just saying if you want protection, get vaccinated does not work anymore.

Vaxxed can get infected with the coronavirus. They mostly don't get covid without some other preexisting condition.

Yes, they do. Stop giving bad information to justify your lack of concern for others.