Do we still need all these classroom monitors if teachers are vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classroom monitors will cost almost $300,000 a week.

Then they should charge high income families to pay for it who want in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classroom monitors will cost almost $300,000 a week.

LOL, financially it makes sense to stay virtual.

It makes more sense to open schools. With vaccinations, monitors are not necessary/

Are you willing to teach when a teacher goes out sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, we don’t. But, the teachers worked the system, so here we are.

I'm not sure it is working the system when you qualified for a benefit and then the "system" gave the benefit to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check out this recent thread.


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/945576.page

Sorry PP. We need at least 2 threads, if not 3, daily for the same reason. It makes frail DCUMers feel better and comforts them and their notions like a lullaby comforts a baby.

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Anonymous wrote:You can still contract Covid after receiving two vaccinations. Read about the Congressman who did.

Was he symptomatic?

If this is a real risk, then there’s no point in vaccinating anyone.

It doesn't matter. He was just diagnosed, so we don't know yet if he's asymptomatic or presymptomatic, but in either case, COVID is transmissible asymptomatically and presymptomatically. I know you really, really want to believe that vaccinated people can't transmit COVID even when positive, but the absolute FACT of the matter is that while it is currently being studied, the only true answer is WE DO NOT KNOW.

Of course there is a point in vaccinating. The best vaccine has a 95% protection rate. He's in the 5%. Vaccine coverage in the population will greatly reduce cases and thus spread.

DP. I actually think it does matter. The vaccines seem to have varying levels of protection against mild, moderate, and severe symptoms. J&J vaccine, for example, is 66% effective against moderate symptoms but much higher effectiveness against hospitalization and apparently 100% effective against death. Teachers are getting an even more effective vaccine than J&J.

So I'd very much like to know if the Congressman is asymptomatic or having only mild symptoms. Because that tells me that the vaccine actually worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can still contract Covid after receiving two vaccinations. Read about the Congressman who did.

Was he symptomatic?

If this is a real risk, then there’s no point in vaccinating anyone.

It doesn't matter. He was just diagnosed, so we don't know yet if he's asymptomatic or presymptomatic, but in either case, COVID is transmissible asymptomatically and presymptomatically. I know you really, really want to believe that vaccinated people can't transmit COVID even when positive, but the absolute FACT of the matter is that while it is currently being studied, the only true answer is WE DO NOT KNOW.

Of course there is a point in vaccinating. The best vaccine has a 95% protection rate. He's in the 5%. Vaccine coverage in the population will greatly reduce cases and thus spread.

DP. I actually think it does matter. The vaccines seem to have varying levels of protection against mild, moderate, and severe symptoms. J&J vaccine, for example, is 66% effective against moderate symptoms but much higher effectiveness against hospitalization and apparently 100% effective against death. Teachers are getting an even more effective vaccine than J&J.

So I'd very much like to know if the Congressman is asymptomatic or having only mild symptoms. Because that tells me that the vaccine actually worked.

Onnnnnce again for the slow among you, that is only known to benefit the congressman, not the people he could infect. THAT is what is relevant when trying to use his case to score points in an argument regarding opening schools.

But carry on with your willful ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can still contract Covid after receiving two vaccinations. Read about the Congressman who did.

Was he symptomatic?

If this is a real risk, then there’s no point in vaccinating anyone.

It doesn't matter. He was just diagnosed, so we don't know yet if he's asymptomatic or presymptomatic, but in either case, COVID is transmissible asymptomatically and presymptomatically. I know you really, really want to believe that vaccinated people can't transmit COVID even when positive, but the absolute FACT of the matter is that while it is currently being studied, the only true answer is WE DO NOT KNOW.

Of course there is a point in vaccinating. The best vaccine has a 95% protection rate. He's in the 5%. Vaccine coverage in the population will greatly reduce cases and thus spread.

DP. I actually think it does matter. The vaccines seem to have varying levels of protection against mild, moderate, and severe symptoms. J&J vaccine, for example, is 66% effective against moderate symptoms but much higher effectiveness against hospitalization and apparently 100% effective against death. Teachers are getting an even more effective vaccine than J&J.

So I'd very much like to know if the Congressman is asymptomatic or having only mild symptoms. Because that tells me that the vaccine actually worked.

Article says asymptomatic. He caught it on surveillance testing. Last negative was the Inauguration. That’s all they know.

[Anonymous]

Once again for those educated in FCPS it does matter if the Congressman was vaccinated and didn’t get sick or had mild symptoms it should hold true that a teacher who was vaccinated would be the same, hence like flu and the common cold we deal with every year.
Follow the science, young children have less ACE, which is how the virus binds in the body, so they don’t get as sick. Those who have DC with a higher risk can still be at home. Those with families members in the home with high risk should also have a DL option.

[Anonymous]

No open er up 5 days

[Anonymous]

Let's postpone this discussion until all teachers have had at least a first shot, shall we?
Many of us are slated to go back in very shortly and don't even have an appointment yet.