Why are you demanding 5 day in-person school now that the pandemic is getting more dangerous?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look, these arguments are pointless. They simply don't care about COVID or the impact on others. They need their needs met. Move on.

Says the person holding children's education hostage. We are done catering to your "needs". Get back into society and work.

" Hostage." You're absurd. Stop whining and go help your kids with their distance learning.

Oh, and many of us will continue to work from home. I adore how much that bothers you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not getting "more dangerous." You're wrong.

OP here....maybe it wasn't clear what I meant by "more dangerous." What I mean by "more dangerous" is that the particular virus variant that you will be more likely to catch (more transmissible) in the future has a greater chance of killing you.

Brazil has 3% of the world's population, and last week reported 25% of the world's deaths. (https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-brazil-covid-deaths-20210327-jhrenbxsnzayriwkhz2j7drchu-story.html)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the big picture isn’t what matters for schools. What matters for schools is the risk to teachers and other school staff plus students. Teachers and staff are now vaccinated. Children are low risk for serious issues from covid.

What about their unvaccinated parents and family members?

Their high risk family members should be getting their vaccines at this point. Hasn’t most of the state opened up for 1B?

I’ve been in the super cautious, I’ll keep my kid online thanks contingent for a long time but it’s absurd to believe that schools are more unsafe now than they were in November. Bringing kids back into buildings right now is exactly what should be happening.

This. The risk to kids is pretty low, and schools are taking mitigation measures -- masking, cohorts, ventilation, etc. Teachers are vaccinated. The highest-risk people are mostly vaccinated, so it's actually safer in that respect than it was in November. More and more people are being vaccinated every day. It's not zero risk, but lots of people subject their children to some risk by sending them to school -- driving them there, sending them during flu season (flu being more dangerous to children than COVID), etc. I just don't see how you say it's demonstrably more dangerous for kids to go to school now than it was in November.

[Anonymous]

Use an incognito browser to read this article from the NYT published today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/world/pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccines-infection.html?fbclid=IwAR0IB0bg1i3-MBW2nFJEaSsyZF4E5n_uWLF3vky9h0RPDwgHYlAx10PsrzY

Then stop being ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Cases are way down in NoVa. Hospitalizations are way down in NoVa. Deaths have dropped to near zero in NoVa. It’s time for 5 days/week in NoVa.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is not getting "more dangerous." You're wrong.

OP here....maybe it wasn't clear what I meant by "more dangerous." What I mean by "more dangerous" is that the particular virus variant that you will be more likely to catch (more transmissible) in the future has a greater chance of killing you.

Brazil has 3% of the world's population, and last week reported 25% of the world's deaths. (https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-brazil-covid-deaths-20210327-jhrenbxsnzayriwkhz2j7drchu-story.html)

Both parts of your statement are incorrect. The various new variants are not more transmissible or more likely to kill you. And the vaccines are effective against all the variants.

You're looking at data and drawing conclusions. That's fine, but you need to look at more data before you're ready to reach any conclusions. You need lots more data before you can make any conclusions about the variants. And at this point, we have lots of data. Look at all of it.

[Anonymous]

I don’t demand anything but I think in person school is something that is very high priority. If not 5, then at least some days a week.
I think nothing in this world is 0 risk. Should we all stay home because we can be killed in a car crash?

[Anonymous]

Because many kids have been going to school and not adding to the numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t demand anything but I think in person school is something that is very high priority. If not 5, then at least some days a week.
I think nothing in this world is 0 risk. Should we all stay home because we can be killed in a car crash?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/24/your-analogy-comparing-coronavirus-car-accident-deaths-is-bad/

@realDonaldTrump is that you? Did you choose to bring your triumphant return to social media right here on DCUM and dazzle us with your critical thinking skills?

[Anonymous]

Masks work. People are getting sick when they don't wear masks. Eating in restaurants, flying in airplanes, getting facials are all things that are more dangerous than learning in person and no one is suggesting that we stop doing that.

In fact, studies show that when children and teachers are in school fulltime, transmission levels actually decrease because people are in school and not at the gym, bars, travelling or in restaurants.

[Anonymous]

The head of the cdc spoke of her feeling of impending doom relating to the pandemic today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The head of the cdc spoke of her feeling of impending doom relating to the pandemic today.

Because idiots in TX, FL and elsewhere don't wear masks. Spring breakers being careless. We are still in a pandemic, people need to act like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The head of the cdc spoke of her feeling of impending doom relating to the pandemic today.

Of course she did 🙄. Just buckle down for two more weeks . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The head of the cdc spoke of her feeling of impending doom relating to the pandemic today.

The head of the CDC, and I say this as someone who thinks Biden's appointees are brilliant, is a horse's ass and couldn't manage her way out of a paper bag. She has shown repeatedly in the two months of her appointment that she is not the person for the job.

[Anonymous]

I’m concerned but people in FCCPS want to go back 5 days and be the first public school to do so in the area. We are not a private school. You can’t compare us to that. We will be a good experiment for every else to see how bringing back everyone full time after spring break works out.