Does DCPS care? New model shows even with masks, 40% of students will still be infected with Delta

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Anonymous wrote:I personally don't care that they don't seem to be doing asymptomatic surveillance testing. I don't think it's a good use of scarce resources and it hasn't shown to catch that many cases, plus it has the potential to do more harm than good. I'd rather have that money spent on tutoring.

What harm does it cause?

NP but if DCPS decides that an entire class has to quarantine because one student asymptomatically tests positive for covid, then that is harm to those other students.

But how do you distinguish asymptomatic from presymptomatic? It takes time to contact trace.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally don't care that they don't seem to be doing asymptomatic surveillance testing. I don't think it's a good use of scarce resources and it hasn't shown to catch that many cases, plus it has the potential to do more harm than good. I'd rather have that money spent on tutoring.

What harm does it cause?

NP but if DCPS decides that an entire class has to quarantine because one student asymptomatically tests positive for covid, then that is harm to those other students.

But how do you distinguish asymptomatic from presymptomatic? It takes time to contact trace.

PP but this is true. The other issue is you have all sorts of different quarantining suggestions coming from all angles. In the past week I’ve had a friend who’s toddler tested positive and only missed a week of school and another friend who’s toddler had a classmate test positive and their pediatrician said they have to quarantine for 14 days. Regardless of a negative covid test. So this makes me very weary for next year. And worried I might lose my job.

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The problem is not quarantining kids to slow the spread (so long as instruction is being provided virtually during that time which we have not been told that it will). The problem is employers who do not allow their employees to quarantine when a family member has been exposed. Especially when that employee successfully teleworked during the earlier months of the pandemic.

Also- Please don’t send your sick kids to school and expose the rest of us to risk because you won’t show your boss you have a backbone.

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Anonymous wrote:Swann’s research shows that even with universal masks, 40% of elementary students will be infected with Delta IN THREE MONTHS.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

What I am seeing in this forum is parents refusing to test with their kid has “just a cold,” refusing asymptomatic testing, lying about travel so they don’t have to quarantine, etc. There is no distancing, no plan to upgrade ventilation, no mandatory teacher vaccinations, etc.

Has DCPS just given up?

Are you mad at parents or are you mad at DCPS? Or both? It seems like you are casting stones at both.

It looks to me like OP is lamenting the silence from DCPS on some necessary mitigation measures, and the statements of parents on this board opposing or even promising to obstruct some necessary mitigation measures.

I'm not sure why everyone keeps repeating that there is "silence" from DCPS about mitigation measures. DCPS has a whole range of mitigation it did last year and will continue to do this year.

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/chancellor/school-health-safety-update/

Those are not mitigation efforts, what about randoms testing and temperature checks?

Enhanced cleaning will not happen, it didn’t even happen last school year with only 10 of us (teacher wise) in the building….
That social distancing is a lie because that can’t happen. So the only protocol they really have is the mask!

Why don't HVAC updates count as a mitigation effort, to you?

Sorry let me be more clear, when we had 10 teachers there were days they SKIPPED cleaning all together or their version of cleaning was simply vacuuming.
They also were supposed to ‘update or fix HVACs’ last year and did not.

If they are held accountable that’s helpful but even if they aren’t I cannot say, ‘I refuse to come in until they are.’

There was literally a court case about HVAC. It was all done except for two schools which are now done. You’re being disingenuous. You have literally already been proven wrong in a court.

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Anonymous wrote:Swann’s research shows that even with universal masks, 40% of elementary students will be infected with Delta IN THREE MONTHS.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

What I am seeing in this forum is parents refusing to test with their kid has “just a cold,” refusing asymptomatic testing, lying about travel so they don’t have to quarantine, etc. There is no distancing, no plan to upgrade ventilation, no mandatory teacher vaccinations, etc.

Has DCPS just given up?

Are you mad at parents or are you mad at DCPS? Or both? It seems like you are casting stones at both.

It looks to me like OP is lamenting the silence from DCPS on some necessary mitigation measures, and the statements of parents on this board opposing or even promising to obstruct some necessary mitigation measures.

I'm not sure why everyone keeps repeating that there is "silence" from DCPS about mitigation measures. DCPS has a whole range of mitigation it did last year and will continue to do this year.

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/chancellor/school-health-safety-update/

Those are not mitigation efforts, what about randoms testing and temperature checks?

Enhanced cleaning will not happen, it didn’t even happen last school year with only 10 of us (teacher wise) in the building….
That social distancing is a lie because that can’t happen. So the only protocol they really have is the mask!

Why don't HVAC updates count as a mitigation effort, to you?

Sorry let me be more clear, when we had 10 teachers there were days they SKIPPED cleaning all together or their version of cleaning was simply vacuuming.
They also were supposed to ‘update or fix HVACs’ last year and did not.

If they are held accountable that’s helpful but even if they aren’t I cannot say, ‘I refuse to come in until they are.’

Also, just wash your hands. Fomite transmission isn’t a thing with COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is not quarantining kids to slow the spread (so long as instruction is being provided virtually during that time which we have not been told that it will). The problem is employers who do not allow their employees to quarantine when a family member has been exposed. Especially when that employee successfully teleworked during the earlier months of the pandemic.

Also- Please don’t send your sick kids to school and expose the rest of us to risk because you won’t show your boss you have a backbone.

A backbone? What kind of privileged out of touch parent hating nonsense is this? You think everyone has that kind of flexibility?