With all the positive cases at MCPS, can you simply elect to do zoom?

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days.

They don't care. Its only about them.

It's also about a functioning society and economy that's not singularly focused on Covid. On a list of things I'm worried about this upcoming week, it doesn't even rank.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days.

They don't care. Its only about them.

It's also about a functioning society and economy that's not singularly focused on Covid. On a list of things I'm worried about this upcoming week, it doesn't even rank.

Thats great your family is invincible but for the rest of us, we still need precautions because we aren't.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days.

They don't care. Its only about them.

It's also about a functioning society and economy that's not singularly focused on Covid. On a list of things I'm worried about this upcoming week, it doesn't even rank.

Thats great your family is invincible but for the rest of us, we still need precautions because we aren't.

Then get vaccinated/boosted. Wear a mask. There's your precautions.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all.

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year. I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all.

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year. I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.

If the MCEA did that, thank goodness!

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Anonymous wrote:Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all.

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year. I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.

If the MCEA did that, thank goodness!

The kids who are out because of illness/covid may disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days.

They don't care. Its only about them.

It's also about a functioning society and economy that's not singularly focused on Covid. On a list of things I'm worried about this upcoming week, it doesn't even rank.

Thats great your family is invincible but for the rest of us, we still need precautions because we aren't.

Then get vaccinated/boosted. Wear a mask. There's your precautions.

If it was only that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all.

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year. I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.

If the MCEA did that, thank goodness!

They did. That's why quarantine/isolation is such a mess. No instruction or help for 2 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all.

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year. I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.

If the MCEA did that, thank goodness!

They did. That's why quarantine/isolation is such a mess. No instruction or help for 2 weeks.

My kid was out two weeks after surgery. Cry me a river.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all.

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year. I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.

No, concurrent is horrible for everyone, the teacher, the in-person students, and the virtual ones. It takes a highly trained teacher with the right technology, and MCPS has not trained their teachers and has not offered them the right technology.

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What positive cases? At our school, there have been very few—maybe 5 since school started and most of them weren’t kids…

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days.

They don't care. Its only about them.

It's also about a functioning society and economy that's not singularly focused on Covid. On a list of things I'm worried about this upcoming week, it doesn't even rank.

Thats great your family is invincible but for the rest of us, we still need precautions because we aren't.

Then get vaccinated/boosted. Wear a mask. There's your precautions.

I'm the PP who wrote the Omicron paragraphs. I agree! But nearly everyone needs to get vaccinated and boostered for this to work, and as you know, there are so many places in the US where this advice seems to fall on deaf ears.
Even here, there currently aren't enough boostered people in the DC area to ward off the "worst Omicron option".

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Anonymous wrote:What positive cases? At our school, there have been very few—maybe 5 since school started and most of them weren’t kids…

Most high schools have seen a sharp increase in cases - probably because they're the kids that got their vaccines first, and until last week could not get a booster. So many of them are 7, 8 months out and practically unprotected against catching Delta. It doesn't mean they're getting very sick themselves, but it means that they're spreading it to the community at large, and then the vulnerable go to hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:What positive cases? At our school, there have been very few—maybe 5 since school started and most of them weren’t kids…

Well, my kid goes to Magruder and this is the email (in part) that we got Friday:

A student who was last present at Magruder High School on December 7, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 9, 2021. We were notified on December 9, 2021, of the positive test.

A student who was last present at Magruder High School on December 6, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 9, 2021. We were notified on December 9, 2021, of the positive test.

A student who was last present at Magruder High School on December 6, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 9, 2021. We were notified on December 9, 2021, of the positive test.

A student who was last present at Magruder High School on December 8, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 9, 2021. We were notified on December 9, 2021, of the positive test.

A student who was last present at Magruder High School on December 9, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 9, 2021. We were notified on December 9, 2021, of the positive test.

A student who was last present at Magruder High School on December 8, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 10, 2021. We were notified on December 10, 2021, of the positive test.

One staff member who was last present at Magruder High School on December 9, 2021, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 10, 2021. We were notified on December 10, 2021, of the positive test.

My son was exposed to two of these kids and I got two email notifications about it. I mentioned upthread that my son is vaccinated. He is also signed up for that random testing at the schools. I wonder if Magruder will do this random testing tomorrow to follow up on whether this is an in-school transmission or more random?

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Anonymous wrote:What positive cases? At our school, there have been very few—maybe 5 since school started and most of them weren’t kids…

Pay attention, multiple outbreaks.