Caitlyn Peetz on Twitter: 8am MCPS press conference for a “COVID-19 update”

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with 17:25PP. And I strongly suspect many of the parents shrieking on our MCPS PTA listserv are the same ones who travelled over the holidays and went to restaurants, sports arenas, and engaged in other high risk behavior. Now someone's tested positive in their family and they want 2k HS students to sit at home because they just had to go to the Wizards game with 15k of their closest friends.

A wizards game had 15k show up?

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with 17:25PP. And I strongly suspect many of the parents shrieking on our MCPS PTA listserv are the same ones who travelled over the holidays and went to restaurants, sports arenas, and engaged in other high risk behavior. Now someone's tested positive in their family and they want 2k HS students to sit at home because they just had to go to the Wizards game with 15k of their closest friends.

A wizards game had 15k show up?

15k on 12/30; 20k on 1/1; 9k on 1/3. Per ESPN.

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Follow up thread here. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1026103.page

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Anonymous wrote:We need to stop the transmission to unvaccinated adults.
How can that happen?

Why? There are not that many unvaccinated adults in this county anyway. And vaccinated people can catch and transmit Covid. And also get sick.

We can’t stop transmission. You can’t stop a virus.

If omicron is mild like the claim, and most people are vaccinated in the county then let people get the virus, recover and get on with their lives.

It is mild. The problem is that the case rate is so high, we are still filling hospitals.

Right before Thanksgiving, the case rate was 49 per 100,000.

It's now 1600 per 100,000.

But kids aren't filling up hospitals. It's not even parents filling up hospitals. People 60 and older in Maryland make up 22.6% of the population, but are responsible for more than 50% of the hospitalizations.

About 210 people over 70, and another 120 people 60-69, are admitted to hospitals each day with COVID in Maryland. Kids under 18? About 27. I can't find an ICU breakdown, but I bet that's even more extreme.

If you want to relieve hospitals, we don't need to close schools. We just need to lockdown seniors.

Are you really that clueless? Its not just about hospitals but about spread. Time to grow up and take responsibility for your kids and behavior.