APS - getting nervous

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

I’d take that bet. Most people I know affiliated at all with Smart Restart are sending their kids in person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

Are you kidding? APE’s Twitter Feed is awful! Photos of “miserable” kids whose parents are too busy taking photos and posting pics to help them, gloom and doom artwork, etc. I could not believe the way those people exploited their children. Absolutely disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

Are you kidding? APE’s Twitter Feed is awful! Photos of “miserable” kids whose parents are too busy taking photos and posting pics to help them, gloom and doom artwork, etc. I could not believe the way those people exploited their children. Absolutely disgusting.

In fairness, I haven’t looked at the Smart Restart one, but the APE one turned me off completely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

laughing really hard at the notion that any form of aps education is "superior."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, the U.S. just set a single-day record for the number of children admitted to the hospital with COVID19. This is from the HHS.

Go bury your head in the sand if you'd like and call it fear mongering. The rest of us call it reality.

+1 Someone keeps posting and is obviously showing their inability to adapt. The rest of us are flexible and can bend to keep up with the times. Their steadfast refusal to accept the changes in reality is mindboggling.

Adapt how? By having kids wear masks? Ok. By doing DL for all? Hell no.

Face it: we may have to. Until kids under 12 can get vaccinated it is a possibility. Being hysterical and burying your head in the sand won't do you any good. Set up a back-up plan now so that you aren't scurrying around like an idiot if it does happen. I am not saying is is gonna happen, just that it may happen so you should plan ahead. People like you are the people for whom DL didn't work last time; do a better job adapting and it will be better for you this time IF it becomes necessary.

If it happens, it’ll be school based and temporary. It’s not going to be an entire year again.

Sigh. No one knows that. So PLAN AHEAD DUMBA$$.

Stop wasting your time arguing and get 2 or 3 back-up plans in place. You need 2 or 3 because of the different scenarios that could occur. Stop being caught by the short hairs and then screeching because you weren't warned and no one told you. You have had a year and a half to see how things have worked. Use that experience to plan for the future. DO SOMETHING PROACTIVE FOR A CHANGE.

Jeez. This isn't that hard.

Have you read SB 1303?

1. If a local school board determines, in collaboration with the local health department and in strict adherence to "Step 2: Determine the Level of School Impact" in the Department of Health's Interim Guidance to K-12 School Reopening or any similar provision in any successor guidance document published by the Department of Health, that the transmission of COVID-19 within a school building is at a high level, the local school board may provide fully remote virtual instruction or a combination of in-person instruction and remote virtual instruction to the at-risk groups of students indicated as the result of such collaboration or, if needed, the whole student population in the school building, but in each instance only for as long as it is necessary to address and ameliorate the level of transmission of COVID-19 in the school building

Thank you - but we are dealing with the inept Duran and SB here.. switching between DL and in-person for individual schools would be a "monumental logistical challenge". Such PATHETIC leaders we have..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

Are you kidding? APE’s Twitter Feed is awful! Photos of “miserable” kids whose parents are too busy taking photos and posting pics to help them, gloom and doom artwork, etc. I could not believe the way those people exploited their children. Absolutely disgusting.

The great thing is that people can look for themselves. I'd also invite people to take a look at ventilation woman's Twitter page and compare it to SmartRestart's Twitter page, then compare both of them to the COVID fear comments on this board. There's a coincidental, significant overlap.

These people want to shut down school again. If their kids are going in-person, they don't want them to but can't have other kids getting ahead of their kids by going in person while their kid attends the APS version of University of Phoenix. I'm so glad the State of Virginia took away authority from school boards this year to close schools. These people are like spoiled kids who didn't get their way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

I’d take that bet. Most people I know affiliated at all with Smart Restart are sending their kids in person.

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You have an odd view of what SR is about…either reading too many right wing conspiracy theories or pushing them yourself.

I’m in SR and I’m sending my kids to school. A lot of SR parents sent their kids in person last year too. No one in SR is trying to shut down. We want in person school. We do care about doing it safely. I’m worried about my elementary unvacced kids at lunch and I’m worried about the nut job APE crowd hiding their kids symptoms or contacts.

And I’m also worried that the ant mitigation denial APE agenda will lead to shutdowns and sickness and maybe even virtual which my kids don’t want.

We should all be working together to make sure schools can open safely. Sad some don’t see that.

[Anonymous]

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You have an odd view of what SR is about…either reading too many right wing conspiracy theories or pushing them yourself.

I’m in SR and I’m sending my kids to school. A lot of SR parents sent their kids in person last year too. No one in SR is trying to shut down. We want in person school. We do care about doing it safely. I’m worried about my elementary unvacced kids at lunch and I’m worried about the nut job APE crowd hiding their kids symptoms or contacts.

And I’m also worried that the ant mitigation denial APE agenda will lead to shutdowns and sickness and maybe even virtual which my kids don’t want.

We should all be working together to make sure schools can open safely. Sad some don’t see that.

Open safely. Last year, that meant SR promoting metrics that were impossible to meet. I'm so glad the governor finally forced APS to reopen. Schools were open safely throughout the US and world last year with limited mitigation.

If you're worried about your unvaccinated healthy kids at lunch, then I'd recommend they walk to school as the risk on that ride is more of a risk to them than COVID. Flu and RSV are more of a risk to them (and no one ever proposed these types of measures for them). And I'm sure you saw the peer-reviewed study in Lancet that came out last week that said Long COVID in kids is extremely rare.

I did see also now that your favorite "COVID is going to kill us all" pundits are saying the truth about cloth masks. We're now at Ding, Osterholm and Celine Gounder in the past week alone, talking about how cloth masks provide extremely limited protection, especially in a school setting.

[Anonymous]

This thread and this DCUM forum generally has become so driven by the SR and APE clairvoyants. Sincerely hope they can find peace and something better to do than argue with each other. Maybe it serves as therapy. But no one is ever going to win.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the opposite of APS SmartRestart and how can I join?

Smart Restart isn't affiliates with APS. (Thank God.) There are crazies in APE too. My advice? Neither group is worth joining.

Smart Restart isn't crazy. Unless you think wanting outdoor lunch is crazy.

APE (the open up at all costs, anti-mitigation crowd) just paints anyone who isn't in their group as crazy.

You want to quickly see crazy, compare SmartRestart's fear-mongering Twitter page (which you can tell is done by the self-proclaimed ventilation expert/actual stationery saleswoman) vs. APE's Twitter page citing things like actual science and contextualizing risk. In fact, most of the fear-mongering comments on DCUM sound like things on SmartRestart's Twitter page -> what a coincidence! FWIW - most people in APE are Democrats whereas most people in SmartRestart are so far left they would have voted for Nader in 2000.

SmartRestart really is like a cult, I'm just wondering when the ventilation queen will start monetizing it like Scientology. One former member, COVID doomsayer in chief, Eric Feigl-Ding (a nutritionist), has already monetized it while moving to Austria to have his kid attend in-person school.

Thankfully, the State of VA yanked away the authority from local jurisdictions to close this school year. You can see from this board that many of the same nuts from Arlington would close schools this year if they could. I'd bet they're keeping their own kids home again too so this is all (once again) really about FOMO (can't have other kids getting the superior form of education, in-person school, when their kids won't be getting it).

Are you kidding? APE’s Twitter Feed is awful! Photos of “miserable” kids whose parents are too busy taking photos and posting pics to help them, gloom and doom artwork, etc. I could not believe the way those people exploited their children. Absolutely disgusting.

The great thing is that people can look for themselves. I'd also invite people to take a look at ventilation woman's Twitter page and compare it to SmartRestart's Twitter page, then compare both of them to the COVID fear comments on this board. There's a coincidental, significant overlap.

These people want to shut down school again. If their kids are going in-person, they don't want them to but can't have other kids getting ahead of their kids by going in person while their kid attends the APS version of University of Phoenix. I'm so glad the State of Virginia took away authority from school boards this year to close schools. These people are like spoiled kids who didn't get their way.

So I did go look at the Smart Restart twitter feed myself to see what PP was fussing about. It had retweeted recommendations on masks for kids which I actually found really helpful and I bought some.

[Anonymous]

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You have an odd view of what SR is about…either reading too many right wing conspiracy theories or pushing them yourself.

I’m in SR and I’m sending my kids to school. A lot of SR parents sent their kids in person last year too. No one in SR is trying to shut down. We want in person school. We do care about doing it safely. I’m worried about my elementary unvacced kids at lunch and I’m worried about the nut job APE crowd hiding their kids symptoms or contacts.

And I’m also worried that the ant mitigation denial APE agenda will lead to shutdowns and sickness and maybe even virtual which my kids don’t want.

We should all be working together to make sure schools can open safely. Sad some don’t see that.

Open safely. Last year, that meant SR promoting metrics that were impossible to meet. I'm so glad the governor finally forced APS to reopen. Schools were open safely throughout the US and world last year with limited mitigation.

If you're worried about your unvaccinated healthy kids at lunch, then I'd recommend they walk to school as the risk on that ride is more of a risk to them than COVID. Flu and RSV are more of a risk to them (and no one ever proposed these types of measures for them). And I'm sure you saw the peer-reviewed study in Lancet that came out last week that said Long COVID in kids is extremely rare.

I did see also now that your favorite "COVID is going to kill us all" pundits are saying the truth about cloth masks. We're now at Ding, Osterholm and Celine Gounder in the past week alone, talking about how cloth masks provide extremely limited protection, especially in a school setting.

I don't remember Smart Restart promoting metrics... what on earth are you talking about? Look at their website, it's all about mitigation in open schools, not about metrics on opening or closing.

And for the zillionth time, last year is not this year. Delta is here now, things have changed. You need to adjust PP. We all do.

Watch the schools that are opening this summer... it's not pretty.

[Anonymous]

I am not sure who these Covid denial parents are in real life or how many there really are in Arlington. Maybe there are just a few loud ones on DCUM and in APE?

APS schools did fairly ok last spring with distancing and outdoor lunch. My kids at least ate outside on most days. I was really hopeful back in early summer. But now APS seems to have gotten complacent and I'm not sure what the mitigation will be this fall. So I'm worried about the rise in delta and what will happen when my kids go back to school.