MCPS covid cases

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

Kids have a right to a free appropriate public education, and we know from last year that virtual school is not an appropriate education. You, on the other hand, have no right to demand that others should cater to your insecurities. It’s time for you to take responsibility for your own actions to protect yourself and your family according to your own risk tolerance.

It was free and appropriate. You may not like it, but that's what was offered.

We do take responsibility, far more than you do. We aren't complaining, you are.

Virtual school worked great for us last year.

You’ve been complaining quite a bit that schools are open. Perhaps you’re worried about the disparate impact this is having on your two kids who you've kept locked at home.

You are confusing me with someone else. I think its great your kids will get covid. That way, hopefully they will build up an immunity so when mine go back it will b safer.

Common sense says that in person is a bad idea. I'd rather have mine locked up at home safe and not risk long term health issues, than simply not care. I cannot imagine purposely sending my kids to an environment with families like you who are the ultimate in irresponsible and don't care about anyone but yourself, not even your kids enough to keep them home sick.

Your kids need to be at home because they don't the support or love they need. At least school is hopefully doing a good job as their replacement parents.

I’m not the PP, but when the best you can do is tell posters that if they want in person learning for their children they’re bad, unloving parents, you’ve lost the argument and you know it and are just resorting to being cruel. If you can’t debate on merits of your argument without attacking people, you clearly have no standing. And common sense - plus loads of data - says most kids need in-person learning for a variety of reasons. Loving parents who care about their kids education and social and emotional well being can want in person learning and sensible safety measures that when used effectively, have proven to limit or eradicate covid spread.

The problem is many of these same parents are opting out of testing, sending their kids in sick and not caring about how their behavior/risk taking impacts others in the community. Read all the posts here about how parents are sending their kids to school sick. Yes, there are plenty of ways we could make schools safer, but MCPS is not doing that. Parents are not doing that. So, many kids are going to get covid, unnecessarily.

Most of us want in person, I certainly do, but only if its safe and right now given the lack of transparency and quick rise in cases, it isn't safe. Thankfully we are going into winter break, but with families traveling, socializing, dining indoors, the next month or so is going to get a lot worse before better. Hopefully come March or April when the weather warms, things will get better again.

As a community there are so many things we could do, but we aren't going to do them so there is no point in debating them.

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

There were not massive learning gaps. Kids who did not log in and do the work have issues but mcps is not to blame, the parents.

I will gladly homeschool if I need to. We have always supplemented and will do what is best for our kids.

However, my kids will be just fine through this, so the question is will yours if they cano only get an education in person? My kids know we will make the best out of any situation. No point in complaining when we are in a pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

There were not massive learning gaps. Kids who did not log in and do the work have issues but mcps is not to blame, the parents.

I will gladly homeschool if I need to. We have always supplemented and will do what is best for our kids.

However, my kids will be just fine through this, so the question is will yours if they cano only get an education in person? My kids know we will make the best out of any situation. No point in complaining when we are in a pandemic.

We will be in a pandemic for the next five years. In-person will remain the standard throughout. Leadership decisions, at all levels, will eventually be de-coupled from case counts.

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

There were not massive learning gaps. Kids who did not log in and do the work have issues but mcps is not to blame, the parents.

I will gladly homeschool if I need to. We have always supplemented and will do what is best for our kids.

However, my kids will be just fine through this, so the question is will yours if they cano only get an education in person? My kids know we will make the best out of any situation. No point in complaining when we are in a pandemic.

Of course there were massive learning gaps. MCPS has acknowledged the data themselves, and the negative impact that virtual had on the education for many students.

In particular, think about students with special needs. Some services and supports specified in IEPs were effectively suspended for a year. You don’t think that’s going to have an impact?

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

There were not massive learning gaps. Kids who did not log in and do the work have issues but mcps is not to blame, the parents.

I will gladly homeschool if I need to. We have always supplemented and will do what is best for our kids.

However, my kids will be just fine through this, so the question is will yours if they cano only get an education in person? My kids know we will make the best out of any situation. No point in complaining when we are in a pandemic.

Of course there were massive learning gaps. MCPS has acknowledged the data themselves, and the negative impact that virtual had on the education for many students.

In particular, think about students with special needs. Some services and supports specified in IEPs were effectively suspended for a year. You don’t think that’s going to have an impact?

Actually, it was more than a year. Speech therapy for my son didn’t resume until fall 2021.

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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.

Not really. One reason we stay this careful is so that we don't spread COVID. It's not all about the fear of catching it.

Do I want it? Nope. Pretty sure my family HAD it in December 2019--and I had weird symptoms through February. Right around the time everyone locked down was when I started to feel human again. That was also when I realized that the weird fatigue and aches and shortness of breath I'd been having might be something, as others were having it too.

Do I want it again? Really not. But mostly I don't want spreading it on my conscience.

It takes two to tango. Unvaccinated individuals and the medically frail need to take care of themselves.

NP. It takes a really crappy person to repeatedly say medically frail should take care of themselves as if most don't already. Many are literally terrified right now and still have to make doctor's appointments and go in person to get treatment. What is a parent of a two year old leukemia patient supposed to do? It is beyond callous to act this cavalier right now. You know you are wrong, you just want to justify your conscience by creating a straw man.

I would expect that they'd already be isolating, with parents being sure to get vaccinated/boosted while also wearing PPE in public.

I get it isn't a great situation to be in, but what else is there? There's always going to be COVID, and there's always going to be two year old leukemia patients.

This isn't a new issue- immunocompromised kids similarly faced risk of influenza and other respiratory diseases during flu season.

What else is there? How about some of you stop a few in person activities for a few weeks? Literally one person not going to their idiotic maskless fitness class right now can potentially stop hundreds of infections. It matters folks. Your fatalism is manufactured.

Then what? COVID will still be around after those few weeks. I honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish. That's not going to stop infections. At most it will delay them a bit. Is that your goal?

"Flattening the curve" has been a goal since the first spike. Overflowing hospitals aren't good for anyone.

Well it might help negate overrunning the hospitals if the president didn’t tell hospitals to fire doctors and nurses who are unvaccinated.

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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.

Not really. One reason we stay this careful is so that we don't spread COVID. It's not all about the fear of catching it.

Do I want it? Nope. Pretty sure my family HAD it in December 2019--and I had weird symptoms through February. Right around the time everyone locked down was when I started to feel human again. That was also when I realized that the weird fatigue and aches and shortness of breath I'd been having might be something, as others were having it too.

Do I want it again? Really not. But mostly I don't want spreading it on my conscience.

It takes two to tango. Unvaccinated individuals and the medically frail need to take care of themselves.

NP. It takes a really crappy person to repeatedly say medically frail should take care of themselves as if most don't already. Many are literally terrified right now and still have to make doctor's appointments and go in person to get treatment. What is a parent of a two year old leukemia patient supposed to do? It is beyond callous to act this cavalier right now. You know you are wrong, you just want to justify your conscience by creating a straw man.

I would expect that they'd already be isolating, with parents being sure to get vaccinated/boosted while also wearing PPE in public.

I get it isn't a great situation to be in, but what else is there? There's always going to be COVID, and there's always going to be two year old leukemia patients.

This isn't a new issue- immunocompromised kids similarly faced risk of influenza and other respiratory diseases during flu season.

What else is there? How about some of you stop a few in person activities for a few weeks? Literally one person not going to their idiotic maskless fitness class right now can potentially stop hundreds of infections. It matters folks. Your fatalism is manufactured.

Then what? COVID will still be around after those few weeks. I honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish. That's not going to stop infections. At most it will delay them a bit. Is that your goal?

"Flattening the curve" has been a goal since the first spike. Overflowing hospitals aren't good for anyone.

Why is it so hard for people to do something as trivial as wearing a mask?

Beats me.

Maryland has hardly ever been off of the mask mandate, especially Montgomery County. If that’s the case (and it’s the same in DC) why are Maryland and DC’s numbers higher than states that have not been wearing masks-honestly?

Because we have functioning public health infrastructures that are testing people.

A lot of places don't. They don't mask, they don't test, and if you want a picture of how that's working out for them there are a few metrics to look at.

1.) Excess deaths over previous years.
2.) Disability claims over previous years.

There’s now a testing shortage. Because people are telling people who are showing no symptoms to test and wasting test that can actually be used to diagnose people who are showing symptoms that are actually sick.

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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.

Not really. One reason we stay this careful is so that we don't spread COVID. It's not all about the fear of catching it.

Do I want it? Nope. Pretty sure my family HAD it in December 2019--and I had weird symptoms through February. Right around the time everyone locked down was when I started to feel human again. That was also when I realized that the weird fatigue and aches and shortness of breath I'd been having might be something, as others were having it too.

Do I want it again? Really not. But mostly I don't want spreading it on my conscience.

It takes two to tango. Unvaccinated individuals and the medically frail need to take care of themselves.

NP. It takes a really crappy person to repeatedly say medically frail should take care of themselves as if most don't already. Many are literally terrified right now and still have to make doctor's appointments and go in person to get treatment. What is a parent of a two year old leukemia patient supposed to do? It is beyond callous to act this cavalier right now. You know you are wrong, you just want to justify your conscience by creating a straw man.

I would expect that they'd already be isolating, with parents being sure to get vaccinated/boosted while also wearing PPE in public.

I get it isn't a great situation to be in, but what else is there? There's always going to be COVID, and there's always going to be two year old leukemia patients.

This isn't a new issue- immunocompromised kids similarly faced risk of influenza and other respiratory diseases during flu season.

What else is there? How about some of you stop a few in person activities for a few weeks? Literally one person not going to their idiotic maskless fitness class right now can potentially stop hundreds of infections. It matters folks. Your fatalism is manufactured.

Then what? COVID will still be around after those few weeks. I honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish. That's not going to stop infections. At most it will delay them a bit. Is that your goal?

"Flattening the curve" has been a goal since the first spike. Overflowing hospitals aren't good for anyone.

Well it might help negate overrunning the hospitals if the president didn’t tell hospitals to fire doctors and nurses who are unvaccinated.

That was his idea of helping the situation.

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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.

Not really. One reason we stay this careful is so that we don't spread COVID. It's not all about the fear of catching it.

Do I want it? Nope. Pretty sure my family HAD it in December 2019--and I had weird symptoms through February. Right around the time everyone locked down was when I started to feel human again. That was also when I realized that the weird fatigue and aches and shortness of breath I'd been having might be something, as others were having it too.

Do I want it again? Really not. But mostly I don't want spreading it on my conscience.

It takes two to tango. Unvaccinated individuals and the medically frail need to take care of themselves.

NP. It takes a really crappy person to repeatedly say medically frail should take care of themselves as if most don't already. Many are literally terrified right now and still have to make doctor's appointments and go in person to get treatment. What is a parent of a two year old leukemia patient supposed to do? It is beyond callous to act this cavalier right now. You know you are wrong, you just want to justify your conscience by creating a straw man.

I would expect that they'd already be isolating, with parents being sure to get vaccinated/boosted while also wearing PPE in public.

I get it isn't a great situation to be in, but what else is there? There's always going to be COVID, and there's always going to be two year old leukemia patients.

This isn't a new issue- immunocompromised kids similarly faced risk of influenza and other respiratory diseases during flu season.

What else is there? How about some of you stop a few in person activities for a few weeks? Literally one person not going to their idiotic maskless fitness class right now can potentially stop hundreds of infections. It matters folks. Your fatalism is manufactured.

Then what? COVID will still be around after those few weeks. I honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish. That's not going to stop infections. At most it will delay them a bit. Is that your goal?

"Flattening the curve" has been a goal since the first spike. Overflowing hospitals aren't good for anyone.

Why is it so hard for people to do something as trivial as wearing a mask?

Beats me.

Maryland has hardly ever been off of the mask mandate, especially Montgomery County. If that’s the case (and it’s the same in DC) why are Maryland and DC’s numbers higher than states that have not been wearing masks-honestly?

Because we have functioning public health infrastructures that are testing people.

A lot of places don't. They don't mask, they don't test, and if you want a picture of how that's working out for them there are a few metrics to look at.

1.) Excess deaths over previous years.
2.) Disability claims over previous years.

There’s now a testing shortage. Because people are telling people who are showing no symptoms to test and wasting test that can actually be used to diagnose people who are showing symptoms that are actually sick.

People testing randomly for seeing family is bizarre but there is no issue getting tests.

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

There were not massive learning gaps. Kids who did not log in and do the work have issues but mcps is not to blame, the parents.

I will gladly homeschool if I need to. We have always supplemented and will do what is best for our kids.

However, my kids will be just fine through this, so the question is will yours if they cano only get an education in person? My kids know we will make the best out of any situation. No point in complaining when we are in a pandemic.

Of course there were massive learning gaps. MCPS has acknowledged the data themselves, and the negative impact that virtual had on the education for many students.

In particular, think about students with special needs. Some services and supports specified in IEPs were effectively suspended for a year. You don’t think that’s going to have an impact?

Actually, it was more than a year. Speech therapy for my son didn’t resume until fall 2021.

You should be thankful you get it at all. Pre-covid ST was a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:To everyone still engaging the troll that says we all must be horrible parents who simply want our kids away from us simply for wanting them in school....stop....she is a troll....what a loser.

If you want your kids to stay in school, then what are you going to do to make that happen?

That's what it really comes down to. You are pretty horrible if you don't recognize how serious of a situation we are in again and if you aren't willing to be part of the solution, stop complaining. Name calling as a grown adult is silly.

Keeping our kids, families and community safe is very important to many of us. The problem is we cannot do it alone and your behavior and actions impact our families, our children and our ability to keep our kids safely in school.

Email my elected representatives on the County Council to tell them that MCPS needs to stay open.

MCPS doesn't NEED to stay open. You want them to stay open. Its shameful that you don't care about others or our community given the spread.

I do care about my community and it’s precisely for that reason that schools need to stay open. Kids need to learn in person, particularly at the younger grades. Period. Schools are also not super spreaders, especially not at the lower grades. People aren’t being careful outside of schools and being infections to schools, not the other way around. The data bears this out over and over. Schools need to stay open.

They don't "need" to learn in person. You want them to learn in person. Schools are are superspreaders now.

No, actually, they do need in person learning. Look at the massive learning gaps the last year of all virtual resulted in. It will take years for students and try school system to overcome these. Too bad the truth is inconvenient for you. You want to stay at home, homeschool.

There were not massive learning gaps. Kids who did not log in and do the work have issues but mcps is not to blame, the parents.

I will gladly homeschool if I need to. We have always supplemented and will do what is best for our kids.

However, my kids will be just fine through this, so the question is will yours if they cano only get an education in person? My kids know we will make the best out of any situation. No point in complaining when we are in a pandemic.

Of course there were massive learning gaps. MCPS has acknowledged the data themselves, and the negative impact that virtual had on the education for many students.

In particular, think about students with special needs. Some services and supports specified in IEPs were effectively suspended for a year. You don’t think that’s going to have an impact?

Many of us didn't get the services our kids needed prior to Covid. None of this is new. Many kids struggled in school prior to covid. Again, none of this is new.

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People testing to see family is responsible. Not as effective as they like to think it is in many cases, but at least they're trying.

People who went to Christmas parties last week are bizarre, and my sympathies for their difficulty in finding tests is limited.

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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.

Not really. One reason we stay this careful is so that we don't spread COVID. It's not all about the fear of catching it.

Do I want it? Nope. Pretty sure my family HAD it in December 2019--and I had weird symptoms through February. Right around the time everyone locked down was when I started to feel human again. That was also when I realized that the weird fatigue and aches and shortness of breath I'd been having might be something, as others were having it too.

Do I want it again? Really not. But mostly I don't want spreading it on my conscience.

It takes two to tango. Unvaccinated individuals and the medically frail need to take care of themselves.

NP. It takes a really crappy person to repeatedly say medically frail should take care of themselves as if most don't already. Many are literally terrified right now and still have to make doctor's appointments and go in person to get treatment. What is a parent of a two year old leukemia patient supposed to do? It is beyond callous to act this cavalier right now. You know you are wrong, you just want to justify your conscience by creating a straw man.

I would expect that they'd already be isolating, with parents being sure to get vaccinated/boosted while also wearing PPE in public.

I get it isn't a great situation to be in, but what else is there? There's always going to be COVID, and there's always going to be two year old leukemia patients.

This isn't a new issue- immunocompromised kids similarly faced risk of influenza and other respiratory diseases during flu season.

What else is there? How about some of you stop a few in person activities for a few weeks? Literally one person not going to their idiotic maskless fitness class right now can potentially stop hundreds of infections. It matters folks. Your fatalism is manufactured.

Then what? COVID will still be around after those few weeks. I honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish. That's not going to stop infections. At most it will delay them a bit. Is that your goal?

"Flattening the curve" has been a goal since the first spike. Overflowing hospitals aren't good for anyone.

Why is it so hard for people to do something as trivial as wearing a mask?

Beats me.

Maryland has hardly ever been off of the mask mandate, especially Montgomery County. If that’s the case (and it’s the same in DC) why are Maryland and DC’s numbers higher than states that have not been wearing masks-honestly?

Because we have functioning public health infrastructures that are testing people.

A lot of places don't. They don't mask, they don't test, and if you want a picture of how that's working out for them there are a few metrics to look at.

1.) Excess deaths over previous years.
2.) Disability claims over previous years.

There’s now a testing shortage. Because people are telling people who are showing no symptoms to test and wasting test that can actually be used to diagnose people who are showing symptoms that are actually sick.

People testing randomly for seeing family is bizarre but there is no issue getting tests.

Yes, there is.

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A much milder variant is taking over. Omicron is the best Xmas gift. Hooray!