MCPS covid cases

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

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True! By June you should have a handle on any long term effects, learned how to give your kid the insulin, etc. Then in June, when the virus that's been happily mutating all along reinfects your family, we will get to see what exciting new cell damage y'all get. Thanks for signing up for this medical experiment, PP. You really are doing your part to advance science.

My one kid is vaccinated. My other kid is vaccinated and boostered. I am vaccinated and boostered. And you are a troll.

No. I'm a parent with a vaccinated and boostered kid who is at the end of my rope that all the other nice white parents like you are too selfish to care about potentially spreading covid to others. Since your own family is protected you don't give a damn about the two year old next door, or the cancer patient in your daughter's class. You have a blm matters sign on your lawn, I'd expect, but you remain blissfully ignorant about what this virus is doing in low-income communities, to the low-income families at your school, and what it will continue to do to families without access to health care. A million American tragedies are happening all around you, but as long as you have your gym, your date night at Founding Fathers, your kid's swim meet... etc. You tell yourself you deserve all of this and you've done your part--meanwhile ignoring all the people forced to work for low wages with no protection just to keep your bubble going.

(Not jealous. We could be living like you do--but my conscience won't allow it. And so we try to live a life that doesn't spread covid to anyone and doesn't expose anyone to covid.)

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

Normal people don't wear N-95s or equivalent for extended periods of time. Even the doctors and nurses I know don't put on N95s unless they're going into a COVID room.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

Normal people don't wear N-95s or equivalent for extended periods of time. Even the doctors and nurses I know don't put on N95s unless they're going into a COVID room.

My kids and spouse prefer N95.

There are different levels of surgical masks - you want level 3 for the most protection.

We wear cloth masks but they have a non-woven interfacing in them that you cannot see and a really good fit.

I see a mix of masks out.

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True! By June you should have a handle on any long term effects, learned how to give your kid the insulin, etc. Then in June, when the virus that's been happily mutating all along reinfects your family, we will get to see what exciting new cell damage y'all get. Thanks for signing up for this medical experiment, PP. You really are doing your part to advance science.

My one kid is vaccinated. My other kid is vaccinated and boostered. I am vaccinated and boostered. And you are a troll.

No. I'm a parent with a vaccinated and boostered kid who is at the end of my rope that all the other nice white parents like you are too selfish to care about potentially spreading covid to others. Since your own family is protected you don't give a damn about the two year old next door, or the cancer patient in your daughter's class. You have a blm matters sign on your lawn, I'd expect, but you remain blissfully ignorant about what this virus is doing in low-income communities, to the low-income families at your school, and what it will continue to do to families without access to health care. A million American tragedies are happening all around you, but as long as you have your gym, your date night at Founding Fathers, your kid's swim meet... etc. You tell yourself you deserve all of this and you've done your part--meanwhile ignoring all the people forced to work for low wages with no protection just to keep your bubble going.

(Not jealous. We could be living like you do--but my conscience won't allow it. And so we try to live a life that doesn't spread covid to anyone and doesn't expose anyone to covid.)

They will have a rude awakening as they will get covid at some point even boosted.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

I don't see the issue either. But we are not they.

Yeah, I didn't know my kid WAS eating in a classroom until this came up and they told me. I thought they were eating outside. I think it's a combination of -- it's been cold; the outside patio area is super crowded, whereas there's only a few of them that eat in the classroom; and also all the HS clubs meet during lunch (which was a surprise to me, as they all met after school when I was a teen) so in order for the clubs to meet, they have to eat with each other. I'm not sure parents always know what their teens are doing (newsflash...).

My ES kid, on the other hand, has been eating inside in a crowded lunch room pretty much every other week. The ES doesn't have enough outdoor square footage to put all the kids outside, so they rotate between indoor lunch and outdoor lunch. It doesn't seem like they are doing the contract tracing there either, but that's more hearsay at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

Normal people don't wear N-95s or equivalent for extended periods of time. Even the doctors and nurses I know don't put on N95s unless they're going into a COVID room.

I don't wear n95s unless going to doctor appointments. Mostly use KF 94, or is it KN 94s? The Korean ones. Are you going to argue now and say those aren't five layers? Whatever, lady.

The points are really simple.

Social distancing and ventilation at lunch.

Good masks at school. On everyone.

Some education about why those things are so important.
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And a realization that none of that will be enough, long-term, for a virus that's more infectious than measles. Short-term, it's what we have to work with.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

I don't see the issue either. But we are not they.

Yeah, I didn't know my kid WAS eating in a classroom until this came up and they told me. I thought they were eating outside. I think it's a combination of -- it's been cold; the outside patio area is super crowded, whereas there's only a few of them that eat in the classroom; and also all the HS clubs meet during lunch (which was a surprise to me, as they all met after school when I was a teen) so in order for the clubs to meet, they have to eat with each other. I'm not sure parents always know what their teens are doing (newsflash...).

My ES kid, on the other hand, has been eating inside in a crowded lunch room pretty much every other week. The ES doesn't have enough outdoor square footage to put all the kids outside, so they rotate between indoor lunch and outdoor lunch. It doesn't seem like they are doing the contract tracing there either, but that's more hearsay at this point.

The thing with clubs is a little depressing. My hs-er didn't join any because of this. There's also a lot of study groups that all eat lunch together in a classroom, then mask up in the same classroom and work. On one hand, I want to commend these teachers for taking their time to work with our kids. I am so impressed by their dedication.

On the other hand, I want to shake them, because wtf. Can't the kids eat in corners like mine and THEN come masked into the room?

Anyway, it seems like pre-omicron, this all was working relatively well. But the game has changed now. We all have to adapt again.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

Normal people don't wear N-95s or equivalent for extended periods of time. Even the doctors and nurses I know don't put on N95s unless they're going into a COVID room.

I don't wear n95s unless going to doctor appointments. Mostly use KF 94, or is it KN 94s? The Korean ones. Are you going to argue now and say those aren't five layers? Whatever, lady.

The points are really simple.

Social distancing and ventilation at lunch.

Good masks at school. On everyone.

Some education about why those things are so important.
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And a realization that none of that will be enough, long-term, for a virus that's more infectious than measles. Short-term, it's what we have to work with.

So then why bother in a group that isn't going to be ending up in hospitals in significant numbers? The elderly should be isolating and wearing good masks when they need to be around others, but we don't need kids to do that.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

No school in MCPS has 6 feet distancing. If you get 1 foot, you are lucky.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

Normal people don't wear N-95s or equivalent for extended periods of time. Even the doctors and nurses I know don't put on N95s unless they're going into a COVID room.

I don't wear n95s unless going to doctor appointments. Mostly use KF 94, or is it KN 94s? The Korean ones. Are you going to argue now and say those aren't five layers? Whatever, lady.

The points are really simple.

Social distancing and ventilation at lunch.

Good masks at school. On everyone.

Some education about why those things are so important.
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And a realization that none of that will be enough, long-term, for a virus that's more infectious than measles. Short-term, it's what we have to work with.

So then why bother in a group that isn't going to be ending up in hospitals in significant numbers? The elderly should be isolating and wearing good masks when they need to be around others, but we don't need kids to do that.

Last time i checked, kids live within a community. Their parents and other relatives can get covid from them. Neighbors, friends, strangers. This is not just about the elderly but stopping spread for everyone.

Look, we get it. You cannot have your kids at home and have a difficult homelife. Your kids NEED to be in person school. But, since they need to be, you need to step up and keep them safe by understanding you are living in a community of others and its very easy for them to get it. They will be far more miserable at home sick with covid and then you'll catch it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

Your faith in 6 feet of physical distance and a layer or three of fabric is really quite amazing. And entirely without merit. These measures help a small amount, which is somewhat helpful population-wide, but doesn't meaningfully change risk at an individual level.

Who the hell uses fabric? I'm talking five-layer melt-blown serious masks.

I have faith that risk is mitigated if everyone follows basic precautions. It worked so far for our family, knock wood. That's pretty much what risk mitigation IS: taking individual precautions is cumulative. The more who do, the less risk there is. It's pretty criminal mcps didn't look more seriously at what to do about lunch, but here we are.

The lack of a social conscience on this board is mindboggling.

Who uses fabric masks? You really don't get out much, do you.

In fact, I do not. Mainly because there are a bunch of morons running around with fabric masks around their chins.

Normal people don't wear N-95s or equivalent for extended periods of time. Even the doctors and nurses I know don't put on N95s unless they're going into a COVID room.

I don't wear n95s unless going to doctor appointments. Mostly use KF 94, or is it KN 94s? The Korean ones. Are you going to argue now and say those aren't five layers? Whatever, lady.

The points are really simple.

Social distancing and ventilation at lunch.

Good masks at school. On everyone.

Some education about why those things are so important.
.
And a realization that none of that will be enough, long-term, for a virus that's more infectious than measles. Short-term, it's what we have to work with.

Most schools dont have good ventilation, there is no space for distancing. You are living in a lovely world all in your own head.

If you aren't taking precautions outside of your home you of all people need an N95!