MCPS covid dashboard data?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.

Wow, you simply don't care about the impact you giving someone else covid might have. If your housekeeper or nanny cannot work for a week, it is much more serious for them than you. If they then get their child sick, it could be 2-3 weeks out of work. You can find someone to fill their position, but they cannot replace that income. Or, the minimum wage store clerk who doesn't get sick leave... see how that works.

Basic mitigation when numbers are increasing in schools is common sense. Clearly, you are struggling with that. Maybe we can recommend a good therapist for you for that and to develop some empathy.

Kids getting covid multiple times cannot be healthy nor them or their teachers missing weeks of school due to covid. Or, the impact it has on families.

We could get this under control if people worked together but as long as we have people like you who don't think twice about getting it or spreading it, it is a lost cause. It would be nice if MCPS had specific schools where there was masking and mitigation for families who wanted it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.

Wow, you simply don't care about the impact you giving someone else covid might have. If your housekeeper or nanny cannot work for a week, it is much more serious for them than you. If they then get their child sick, it could be 2-3 weeks out of work. You can find someone to fill their position, but they cannot replace that income. Or, the minimum wage store clerk who doesn't get sick leave... see how that works.

Basic mitigation when numbers are increasing in schools is common sense. Clearly, you are struggling with that. Maybe we can recommend a good therapist for you for that and to develop some empathy.

Kids getting covid multiple times cannot be healthy nor them or their teachers missing weeks of school due to covid. Or, the impact it has on families.

We could get this under control if people worked together but as long as we have people like you who don't think twice about getting it or spreading it, it is a lost cause. It would be nice if MCPS had specific schools where there was masking and mitigation for families who wanted it.

Getting covid “under control” means measures that keep severe illness low. The most effective and least disruptive way to do that is through vaccination and boosters.

The flu historically circulates at higher levels in the winter than current covid levels. Being significantly more contagious, we can expect endemic covid levels to remain much higher than the flu. For perspective, we had 35 million flu cases during the last flu season before covid. So we can expect higher numbers than that for covid cases.

We can temporarily slow cases with increasingly disruptive mitigation measures, like masking, social distancing, and quarantines, but the effects of those mitigations do not last when the mitigations are lifted. And we're not going to keep up those mitigations forever.

I understand you're scared of the prospects of living with covid in the community, but this is the world we live in now, and nothing is going to change that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.

Wow, you simply don't care about the impact you giving someone else covid might have. If your housekeeper or nanny cannot work for a week, it is much more serious for them than you. If they then get their child sick, it could be 2-3 weeks out of work. You can find someone to fill their position, but they cannot replace that income. Or, the minimum wage store clerk who doesn't get sick leave... see how that works.

Basic mitigation when numbers are increasing in schools is common sense. Clearly, you are struggling with that. Maybe we can recommend a good therapist for you for that and to develop some empathy.

Kids getting covid multiple times cannot be healthy nor them or their teachers missing weeks of school due to covid. Or, the impact it has on families.

We could get this under control if people worked together but as long as we have people like you who don't think twice about getting it or spreading it, it is a lost cause. It would be nice if MCPS had specific schools where there was masking and mitigation for families who wanted it.

Getting covid “under control” means measures that keep severe illness low. The most effective and least disruptive way to do that is through vaccination and boosters.

The flu historically circulates at higher levels in the winter than current covid levels. Being significantly more contagious, we can expect endemic covid levels to remain much higher than the flu. For perspective, we had 35 million flu cases during the last flu season before covid. So we can expect higher numbers than that for covid cases.

We can temporarily slow cases with increasingly disruptive mitigation measures, like masking, social distancing, and quarantines, but the effects of those mitigations do not last when the mitigations are lifted. And we're not going to keep up those mitigations forever.

I understand you're scared of the prospects of living with covid in the community, but this is the world we live in now, and nothing is going to change that.

You simply don't get it. You keep boosting yourself and good luck with that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.

Wow, you simply don't care about the impact you giving someone else covid might have. If your housekeeper or nanny cannot work for a week, it is much more serious for them than you. If they then get their child sick, it could be 2-3 weeks out of work. You can find someone to fill their position, but they cannot replace that income. Or, the minimum wage store clerk who doesn't get sick leave... see how that works.

Basic mitigation when numbers are increasing in schools is common sense. Clearly, you are struggling with that. Maybe we can recommend a good therapist for you for that and to develop some empathy.

Kids getting covid multiple times cannot be healthy nor them or their teachers missing weeks of school due to covid. Or, the impact it has on families.

We could get this under control if people worked together but as long as we have people like you who don't think twice about getting it or spreading it, it is a lost cause. It would be nice if MCPS had specific schools where there was masking and mitigation for families who wanted it.

Getting covid “under control” means measures that keep severe illness low. The most effective and least disruptive way to do that is through vaccination and boosters.

The flu historically circulates at higher levels in the winter than current covid levels. Being significantly more contagious, we can expect endemic covid levels to remain much higher than the flu. For perspective, we had 35 million flu cases during the last flu season before covid. So we can expect higher numbers than that for covid cases.

We can temporarily slow cases with increasingly disruptive mitigation measures, like masking, social distancing, and quarantines, but the effects of those mitigations do not last when the mitigations are lifted. And we're not going to keep up those mitigations forever.

I understand you're scared of the prospects of living with covid in the community, but this is the world we live in now, and nothing is going to change that.

You simply don't get it. You keep boosting yourself and good luck with that.

What’s your plan? Staying in your basement until covid is eradicated?

Covid is here to stay. Expect to be exposed regularly, and act accordingly.

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The dashboard is definitely wrong at my school - at least two staff members are out with Covid and the dashboard shows 0 staff cases.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.

Wow, you simply don't care about the impact you giving someone else covid might have. If your housekeeper or nanny cannot work for a week, it is much more serious for them than you. If they then get their child sick, it could be 2-3 weeks out of work. You can find someone to fill their position, but they cannot replace that income. Or, the minimum wage store clerk who doesn't get sick leave... see how that works.

Basic mitigation when numbers are increasing in schools is common sense. Clearly, you are struggling with that. Maybe we can recommend a good therapist for you for that and to develop some empathy.

Kids getting covid multiple times cannot be healthy nor them or their teachers missing weeks of school due to covid. Or, the impact it has on families.

We could get this under control if people worked together but as long as we have people like you who don't think twice about getting it or spreading it, it is a lost cause. It would be nice if MCPS had specific schools where there was masking and mitigation for families who wanted it.

Getting covid “under control” means measures that keep severe illness low. The most effective and least disruptive way to do that is through vaccination and boosters.

The flu historically circulates at higher levels in the winter than current covid levels. Being significantly more contagious, we can expect endemic covid levels to remain much higher than the flu. For perspective, we had 35 million flu cases during the last flu season before covid. So we can expect higher numbers than that for covid cases.

We can temporarily slow cases with increasingly disruptive mitigation measures, like masking, social distancing, and quarantines, but the effects of those mitigations do not last when the mitigations are lifted. And we're not going to keep up those mitigations forever.

I understand you're scared of the prospects of living with covid in the community, but this is the world we live in now, and nothing is going to change that.

You simply don't get it. You keep boosting yourself and good luck with that.

What’s your plan? Staying in your basement until covid is eradicated?

Covid is here to stay. Expect to be exposed regularly, and act accordingly.

I would caution against repeated covid exposures. Lung scarring is a concern. Aveoli don't grow back.

If a school has a severe outbreak, changing to hybrid for 10 days won't hurt. However, MCPS is completely irrational in this regard and has zero dynamic response - just tunnel vision. This is why the leadership is stubborn or incompetent and the decision-makers need to be replaced.

MCPS Central Office will try to defend in-person-only just because it's their Waterloo, but once they're replaced I think the truth will be clear as to how selective their narratives are.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

I can understand your perspective, but I am personally more aligned with the OP. A family might have something important coming up this weekend where getting covid this week would be supremely inconvenient. Knowing there is an outbreak in their child’s school or class they might ask the child to wear a more protective mask or even pull their child out of school in very specific cases. They might ask kids to rapid test before a sleepover if cases are higher. Some of us are still adjusting our behavior in response to level of community spread. I personally fully expect to get covid but I really wouldn’t want to test positive the day before my sister’s wedding for instance.

You’re kidding yourself if you think we’re actually catching enough cases to be able significantly reduce the chance of exposure.

This- if you're that worried about your kid missing a weekend event, have them mask or pull them out ahead of time regardless of whether you know there was a positive in their class. Particularly with allergy season right now, I imagine there are some undetected cases.

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Guys, I know of multiple teens who tested positive, are asymptomatic or just had a day of symptoms, and aren’t reporting it to anyone official (except other teens). Cases are everywhere in high school right now at least according to teen gossip. None other f them can afford to miss class right now (APs, games, events…)

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

Social distancing? China can't even control Covid any more with their strategy of imprisoning people in their homes, interminably re-homing both the sick and healthy, stealing babies and children, beating pets to death, and so on. Social distancing as a meaningful mitigation measure is absurd. I suppose it gives you the theatre you're looking for, though. Dead pets next...

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

Social distancing? China can't even control Covid any more with their strategy of imprisoning people in their homes, interminably re-homing both the sick and healthy, stealing babies and children, beating pets to death, and so on. Social distancing as a meaningful mitigation measure is absurd. I suppose it gives you the theatre you're looking for, though. Dead pets next...

Wow, just wow. You really live in your own privileged world.