FCPS Masking Update

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Also, I’m pissed that the governor and state legislature is involved here and I’m pissed that CDC is being so slow to update guidance for schools. They have the data to predict when rates will be low, they have the data on kids health, they have the data on mask policies. Time for them to be honest with everyone. Cannot wait for summer. End rant.

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Anonymous wrote:Fun fact - my kids brought home both Delta and then 10 months later omnicron from school where they wear masks all day. It barely affected them (delta got us pretty sick pre vaccine) - what the plan? Mask forever because it’s never going away. Wear a mask if you want to but why should my kids go years not seeing peers faces when they are immune? It’s stupid - now that there are vaccines people have to mitigate and accept risk in line with normal
Social interactions. Or don’t and stay home.

Man brags that his kids were careless enough to get covid because he sent them to school in substandard masks. Because his family now has lingering effects from covid, he wants everyone else to have them too.

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Anonymous wrote:Fun fact - my kids brought home both Delta and then 10 months later omnicron from school where they wear masks all day. It barely affected them (delta got us pretty sick pre vaccine) - what the plan? Mask forever because it’s never going away. Wear a mask if you want to but why should my kids go years not seeing peers faces when they are immune? It’s stupid - now that there are vaccines people have to mitigate and accept risk in line with normal
Social interactions. Or don’t and stay home.

Man brags that his kids were careless enough to get covid because he sent them to school in substandard masks. Because his family now has lingering effects from covid, he wants everyone else to have them too.

DP. You know most people don’t have any lingering effects from Covid right? Especially kids. And that cloth masks are very ineffective right?

Get a grip. Stop the incessant bullying of people that are ready to move on. It won’t make a dent if a handful of kids at every school stop wearing masks at this point. If you are truly that worried, you can require your children to wear a tight well fitting n95–the only mask that is actually doing anything to protect them from Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:PWCS sent out a compassionate, clear, if a bit wordy email dropping their masks Monday AND ended contact tracing and quarantine. Head and shoulders above what FCPS is doing: https://www.pwcs.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=340225&pageId=45787130

Fantastic letter.

McKay should take note on how to responsibly craft a letter.

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Anonymous wrote:PWCS sent out a compassionate, clear, if a bit wordy email dropping their masks Monday AND ended contact tracing and quarantine. Head and shoulders above what FCPS is doing: https://www.pwcs.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=340225&pageId=45787130

Fantastic letter.

McKay should take note on how to responsibly craft a letter.

I've admired McDade from the beginning of this school year. This letter stands in stark contrast from FCPS's confusingly-worded temper tantrum, and McKay's general temper tantrum.

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Anonymous wrote:But he didn’t just remove mask mandate for now. He banned them forever. So stupid and shortsighted and such political pandering.

If he didn’t push FCPS hand they’d be masking forever. They took way too long to come up with an off-ramp and then used outdated metrics from a time before vaccines. They should have it done it way sooner and we wouldn’t be in this position.

There's not a prize for being cautious. Sadly, the lack of death and suffering is not a metric you notice. And the concept that "hey, maybe I can wait another month" means "forever " to you.

Have you been evaluated?

I do have some anxiety but it helps me actually evaluate coronavirus risk realistically by looking statistics rather than my “feelings” because humans are notoriously bad at assessing risk - like that drowning and cars are more dangerous for kids than corona. I recommend this approach to others.

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Anonymous wrote:I told my kids that they could take their masks off on 3/1. This update agrees with that. If something changes next week, cases drop significantly or rise significantly, the CDC announces that hospitalization rates are the new metric, something else, then maybe my kids will be able to take their masks off sooner or maybe they'll have to keep them on longer. But as of right now, that's the plan for our family.

I told mine to keep his on for as long as possible, unless it become weird and he feels like he's standing out. I'm caring for an immune-compromised person right now who needs life-saving treatments that he won't be able to get if he contracts covid. So "your choice" is the kind of thing that puts the life of my loved one at risk. I hope other parents decide to be a bit less careless than you.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PWCS sent out a compassionate, clear, if a bit wordy email dropping their masks Monday AND ended contact tracing and quarantine. Head and shoulders above what FCPS is doing: https://www.pwcs.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=340225&pageId=45787130

Fantastic letter.

McKay should take note on how to responsibly craft a letter.

I've admired McDade from the beginning of this school year. This letter stands in stark contrast from FCPS's confusingly-worded temper tantrum, and McKay's general temper tantrum.

I put her name in as someone GR Recruiting should reach out to for Brabrand’s job. I doubt she’ll leave PWC so soon, but I couldn’t help hoping.

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Anonymous wrote:And CT local mandates are letting kids unmask

Same for my friends in NJ

And do we realize that both CT and NJ are still at high transmissions rates? I see a lot of people on this thread saying that NJ and CT are "doing it right." Well, if they are, then FCPS should now let kids (and teachers) choose to unmask without the pressure to wait for significantly lower transmission rates.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:And CT local mandates are letting kids unmask

Same for my friends in NJ

And do we realize that both CT and NJ are still at high transmissions rates? I see a lot of people on this thread saying that NJ and CT are "doing it right." Well, if they are, then FCPS should now let kids (and teachers) choose to unmask without the pressure to wait for significantly lower transmission rates.

The transmission rates are from before vaccines. That scale should be updated too.

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^^^ Of course. But why are people still complaining about this 1 March opt-out?

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Of course. But why are people still complaining about this 1 March opt-out?

Because mask is a virtue signal for them. They can’t assess risks logically.

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Anonymous wrote:I am relieved that the state has taken control and the power is out of FCPS’ hands. They have shown over the last two years to be utterly incompetent.

+1,000,000

I don’t love the way that this all played out in Richmond, but if Youngkin and the legislature had never intervened, the woke school boards in the DMV would have our kids in masks in perpetuity.

Yup. And the masks aren’t working. Our school is overrun by illness but none of it is Covid.

My kids' ES still has a ton of Covid cases.

Dranesville?

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Of course. But why are people still complaining about this 1 March opt-out?

We're complaining about fcps and McKay resisting the March 1st date...which is very reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PWCS sent out a compassionate, clear, if a bit wordy email dropping their masks Monday AND ended contact tracing and quarantine. Head and shoulders above what FCPS is doing: https://www.pwcs.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=340225&pageId=45787130

Fantastic letter.

McKay should take note on how to responsibly craft a letter.

+1