This is going to be bad…

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Anonymous wrote:Any nurses or doctors here? Can you comment on how the ER situation is in Fairfax county?

Covid ActNow says 79%.
https://covidactnow.org/us/virginia-va/county/fairfax_county/?s=21941120

I believe honestly it normally runs in the yellow. In 2018 DH was at the ICU and it was quite crowded. Sitting in the hallway at an ICU is nothing new. Mid-July we were down to 9 hospitalizations for COVID and the ICU was still 78% full.

I think it was on 1A today on NPR where they had a Dr. on and he said that normally you want the ICU at around 75%, which surprised me, but I suppose it makes sense. You don't want to staff a critical care unit and have no patients in it.

That’s not surprising since we have privatized health care in the US. ICUs are very expensive to staff and run. And the cost of ICU care is astronomical. The ICU cost model doesn’t work unless most Ned a filled most of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Basically, your kid goes to school unless you get contacted by health department and told otherwise. It's not complicated at all. It's as if you all are complaining that, thankfully, we have a health department that might call you.

And really, even if someone in your class had COVID, the chance of your kid being considered a close contact is very low. They have to be in close proximity for extended period I think.

If your kid does get delta, it will likely present like a normal cold. That's what the news is saying, and that's what a pedi told me he has seen. Delta is different.

Just relax everybody. It's going to be ok.

1) Then FCPS should explicitly state, “Your kid goes to school unless contacted by the health department.”
2) a “close contact” is defined as within 3 feet for at least 15 minutes per CDC and FCHD. So the chances are high that my kid would be a close contact if someone in his class or on his team tested positive.

I don't think so if they were masked.

Less than 3 feet is a close contact even if masked.

No. Look at 00:32. There is an exception for children in k-12 schools.

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I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

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That doesn't sound right. Why does a vaccinated person with a negative test have to quarantine?
How ridiculous!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

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I wish people would atop posting Missouri, Louisiana, Florida and Texas news bits. We have different community conditions with high numbers of vaccinated and school mask mandates.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

I'm sorry I forgot we like to call them 'stay-at-home' orders here. Same BS, different stick.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

We aren’t Mississippi. Your language is so dramatic. It really is. But at least teachers, the ones who actually will be doing this, are calm.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

I'm sorry I forgot we like to call them 'stay-at-home' orders here. Same BS, different stick.

We weren’t on stay at home this January when numbers were 4x higher. We haven’t been on stay at home since April 2020. You are not living in reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

I agree with the PP. We are a two teacher household and we both think we’ll do ok. As long as people don’t freak out about every Covid positive case and if they do I don’t think it will be the teaching staff freaking. The staff members seem very positive and upbeat.

We had about 80% of our ES students back last spring. Based on open house and initial conversations and emails, the very few that seem concerned were virtual through all of last year either in FCPS or their previous district.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

I'm sorry I forgot we like to call them 'stay-at-home' orders here. Same BS, different stick.

There is no stay-at-home order coming. We actually haven't seen anything out of Delta that would change that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

Alright.