once again, why aren't we more concerned about variants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why would anyone be taking the time right now to post on so many threads about how we should just accept that we're all going to get it and do nothing to prevent that? Who are you working for, Iran's psy-ops division? Or do you not realize how much your advice will lead to chaos at schools when everyone gets sick at once?

I'm not that poster, but I loved their post. It's called a fact! Do you not like facts? Welcome to reality.

Repasting the quote I love:

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

But we don’t have to expedite the creation of new variants and we can chill until there is better treatment.

Yes, the 30K kids in Arlington public schools are going to make such a difference while the vast majority of the country does not do anything. LOL

Trying to sacrifice our kids' childhood experience to fight your warped version of the Vietnam War.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

No, what happened was that vaccines that were effective became available to much of the adult population starting about a month after this post. That's what allowed "nothing" to happen, putting aside how many unvaccinated people died from Delta all summer long. But the vaccine effectiveness is now waning, so I don't think "nothing" is going to happen now to people who aren't boosted.

Maybe you folks can only keep track of two variables at a time.

+1. And with the string of idiotic laugh emojis, I hope that person is 12 years old.

[Anonymous]

This Omicron variant has so many symptoms, you have to test healthy people to actually find it. And when the few are symptomatic, this is what they have

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why would anyone be taking the time right now to post on so many threads about how we should just accept that we're all going to get it and do nothing to prevent that? Who are you working for, Iran's psy-ops division? Or do you not realize how much your advice will lead to chaos at schools when everyone gets sick at once?

I'm not that poster, but I loved their post. It's called a fact! Do you not like facts? Welcome to reality.

Repasting the quote I love:

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

But we don’t have to expedite the creation of new variants and we can chill until there is better treatment.

Fight your battle by yourself. That's fine. The majority of the country has moved on. Stop trying to influence public policy and let parents decide for themselves.

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Why would anyone be taking the time right now to post on so many threads about how we should just accept that we're all going to get it and do nothing to prevent that? Who are you working for, Iran's psy-ops division? Or do you not realize how much your advice will lead to chaos at schools when everyone gets sick at once?

The insane part is thinking people can do anything to prevent the spread of an incredibly transmissible respiratory virus. It's actually completely mind-blowing people still believe this after 2 years.

People are not complying throughout the country and the world. Don't you get that? You seem to have 0 understanding of humans.

But you are so closed minded that you don't even know what the alternative is that I'm suggesting. There is literally a highly effective treatment pill -- Paxlovid -- that is going through emergency use approval and will be available within a month or two for the most vulnerable. There's only 200,000 doses already made, so that means 200,000 lives potentially saved, and they are planning to manufacture like 80 million doses in 2022 to expand availability to all. And what it does is actually reduce viral load which means even omicron will stop being so transmissible.

DID YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT THIS? COVID WILL NOT BE AS TRANSMISSIBLE OR DEADLY VERY SOON. BUT THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WILL BE BRUTAL IF WE STICK OUR HEADS IN THE SAND.

I'm not arguing with you one way or another about whether we will all get covid. Fine! Let's all get covid! But let's not all get it at the exact same time right before an effective treatment is finally available!

I will try to explain this in simpler terms.

YOU: "The insane part is thinking people can do anything to prevent people from farting. You have to accept that people are going to fart."
ME: "No one is arguing that a fart-free world is realistic, but can we at least aim for a world where not everyone is farting all at once in the elevator? Because our collective misery is going to be much higher if no one cares enough to take temporary steps to prevent that from happening."
YOU: "You seem to have 0 understanding of humans. Clearly it is too much to expect that people can keep from farting in an elevator for a whole minute and a half."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Amazing, the only teachers I heard about dying were those that were teaching through distance-learning. They got it from other places, not school.

[Anonymous]

What are suggesting should happen, OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Would love to see stats on teachers dying more of COVID than other occupations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Amazing, the only teachers I heard about dying were those that were teaching through distance-learning. They got it from other places, not school.

Well the fake Covid news you get from your right wing news outlets isn't the most reliable source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Why would anyone be taking the time right now to post on so many threads about how we should just accept that we're all going to get it and do nothing to prevent that? Who are you working for, Iran's psy-ops division? Or do you not realize how much your advice will lead to chaos at schools when everyone gets sick at once?

The insane part is thinking people can do anything to prevent the spread of an incredibly transmissible respiratory virus. It's actually completely mind-blowing people still believe this after 2 years.

People are not complying throughout the country and the world. Don't you get that? You seem to have 0 understanding of humans.

But you are so closed minded that you don't even know what the alternative is that I'm suggesting. There is literally a highly effective treatment pill -- Paxlovid -- that is going through emergency use approval and will be available within a month or two for the most vulnerable. There's only 200,000 doses already made, so that means 200,000 lives potentially saved, and they are planning to manufacture like 80 million doses in 2022 to expand availability to all. And what it does is actually reduce viral load which means even omicron will stop being so transmissible.

DID YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT THIS? COVID WILL NOT BE AS TRANSMISSIBLE OR DEADLY VERY SOON. BUT THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WILL BE BRUTAL IF WE STICK OUR HEADS IN THE SAND.

I'm not arguing with you one way or another about whether we will all get covid. Fine! Let's all get covid! But let's not all get it at the exact same time right before an effective treatment is finally available!

I will try to explain this in simpler terms.

YOU: "The insane part is thinking people can do anything to prevent people from farting. You have to accept that people are going to fart."
ME: "No one is arguing that a fart-free world is realistic, but can we at least aim for a world where not everyone is farting all at once in the elevator? Because our collective misery is going to be much higher if no one cares enough to take temporary steps to prevent that from happening."
YOU: "You seem to have 0 understanding of humans. Clearly it is too much to expect that people can keep from farting in an elevator for a whole minute and a half."

We don’t have this treatment and the surge is now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Amazing, the only teachers I heard about dying were those that were teaching through distance-learning. They got it from other places, not school.

Well the fake Covid news you get from your right wing news outlets isn't the most reliable source.

Yeah, if you didn't hear about in person teachers dying of COVID, it's because you actively avoided actual news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Amazing, the only teachers I heard about dying were those that were teaching through distance-learning. They got it from other places, not school.

Well the fake Covid news you get from your right wing news outlets isn't the most reliable source.

Yeah, if you didn't hear about in person teachers dying of COVID, it's because you actively avoided actual news.

NP. Easy enough for someone to compare occupations and COVID risk. Did anyone compare in-person teachers to virtual teachers and COVID. Did teachers experience COVID worse than other in-person professions? Lots of data showing transmission within school significantly lower than surrounding community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Amazing, the only teachers I heard about dying were those that were teaching through distance-learning. They got it from other places, not school.

There were some tragic teacher deaths in NYC in March and April 2020. But that was in the very very early days and pre-vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:😂😂😂😂😂

You were the one who was wrong OP. School should have opened. APS was wrong. You were wrong. Btw did you learn nothing from delta? You know when nothing happened and the schools were fine.

Teachers in other states died of COVID at alarming rates.

Amazing, the only teachers I heard about dying were those that were teaching through distance-learning. They got it from other places, not school.

There were some tragic teacher deaths in NYC in March and April 2020. But that was in the very very early days and pre-vaccine.

Yes and NYC got terribly hit. Did teachers fare worse than any other occupations in NYC? No

[Anonymous]

Is OP an anti-vaxxer?

She seems to be implying vaccines don't work. They work very well. And I agree with one of the responders that everyone will get COVID. Adults in bars and restaurants aren't doing these things so no reason to put the burden on our children.