MCPS Community COVID update

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Anonymous wrote:If I am ever tempted to underestimate how much trauma COVID inflicted on people, seeing posters here taking a hard line “it’s perfectly reasonable for this extra number of people to die or be disabled by a disease I now refer to as ‘normal’ even though I had never heard of it four years ago” reminds me.

Denial is a powerful defense mechanism against things like the thing we’re in.

It's not a big deal to them until it happens to them. We have always been very careful. I lost a parent to covid. Its amazing to me how people will justify their behavior at the expense of others and yet claim it takes a village.

Excess deaths are way down from the height of the pandemic.

At a certain point you do have to recognize that having so many children miss school is not worth the very small number of deaths that might prevent. There are very real costs. Education matters.

Something is seriously wrong with you. You are selfish and entitled. No wonder schools are having problems with parents like you.

What specific Covid protocol do you want families and staff to follow?

Stay home when sick or positive.

Everyone here says to stay home when actually sick.

I'm not sure how covid testing is even relevant, given that people aren't going to test unless they're sick, in which case they'd stay home anyway.

DP people might test is someone else in the household has COVID. Also people can test positive for several days after they are no longer sick.

I do not agree with staying home until you test negative. That can be a lot of school to miss and it's not at all clear to me you are likely to infect anyone after you feel better.

If you are positive you are contagious.

That’s definitely not true.

At best it means you might be contagious. And the probability drops rapidly after a few days.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2783099

I'm not sure you can rely on a study from early 2020 that measures contagiousness, given that subsequent variants are more transmissible. Nonetheless, the ship has sailed when it comes to staying home as long as you have a positive test. First, tests are no longer free, so it's a big ask to expect people to test daily for a week or more. My healthy 20-year-old had COVID with a rebound on day 8 and tested positive for almost 14 days. When it comes to schooling, we have to balance public health concerns with children's needs and education. In most cases, 5 days of isolation would not mean missing a week of school. Personally, I am grateful for those who test and take any measure to avoid spreading COVID when they know they are positive, but I'm not judging someone up for sending their symptom-free kid to school on Day 4.

I’m sure you can afford to buy a few test and yes, we judge you if you send your kid to school sick and infect the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I am ever tempted to underestimate how much trauma COVID inflicted on people, seeing posters here taking a hard line “it’s perfectly reasonable for this extra number of people to die or be disabled by a disease I now refer to as ‘normal’ even though I had never heard of it four years ago” reminds me.

Denial is a powerful defense mechanism against things like the thing we’re in.

It's not a big deal to them until it happens to them. We have always been very careful. I lost a parent to covid. Its amazing to me how people will justify their behavior at the expense of others and yet claim it takes a village.

Excess deaths are way down from the height of the pandemic.

At a certain point you do have to recognize that having so many children miss school is not worth the very small number of deaths that might prevent. There are very real costs. Education matters.

Something is seriously wrong with you. You are selfish and entitled. No wonder schools are having problems with parents like you.

What specific Covid protocol do you want families and staff to follow?

Stay home when sick or positive.

Everyone here says to stay home when actually sick.

I'm not sure how covid testing is even relevant, given that people aren't going to test unless they're sick, in which case they'd stay home anyway.

DP people might test is someone else in the household has COVID. Also people can test positive for several days after they are no longer sick.

I do not agree with staying home until you test negative. That can be a lot of school to miss and it's not at all clear to me you are likely to infect anyone after you feel better.

If you are positive you are contagious.

This is ignorance that has caused so much anxiety about this disease!! I have been exposed so many times to positive covid people and never got sick. Even most recently I saw my niece at her home. She was feeling under the weather. We had lunch together, gave kisses and hugs, and had a nice time. After I left, she tested positive and alerted me. I'm 65 by the way. Didn't get sick. There have been many other cases where I didn't catch it. It isn't as contagious as you think it is.

The one time I got sick was when I was exposed to my daughter...but we were in the car together for a long time. I attribute it to that. Small space for long period of time. Classrooms are not like that and are safe in my opinion.

You are lucky. Some of us are not and have lost loved ones recently and have gotten sick via school due to kids going in sick. Classrooms are not safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry- I definitely won’t be taking any tests. i’m

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

Yep. And 8 billion of my closest friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine. And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine. And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school

Covid is not a cold but you keep them home for both. You don’t always have a fever with Covid. The vaccine does not stop Transmission.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine. And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school

Covid is not a cold but you keep them home for both. You don’t always have a fever with Covid. The vaccine does not stop Transmission.

you keep them home with a common cold until no symptoms? please

post vaccination + natural immunity, for the vast majority of people and certainly those under 75, it is now a cold and many times not as bad as a common cold

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine. And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school

Covid is not a cold but you keep them home for both. You don’t always have a fever with Covid. The vaccine does not stop Transmission.

you keep them home with a common cold until no symptoms? please

post vaccination + natural immunity, for the vast majority of people and certainly those under 75, it is now a cold and many times not as bad as a common cold

Yes, I do. It’s spreading like wildfire in our school. Mine stay home for cold, flu and covid. They have missed a week of school so far because of people like you.

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine. And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school

Covid is not a cold but you keep them home for both. You don’t always have a fever with Covid. The vaccine does not stop Transmission.

you keep them home with a common cold until no symptoms? please

post vaccination + natural immunity, for the vast majority of people and certainly those under 75, it is now a cold and many times not as bad as a common cold

Yes, I do. It’s spreading like wildfire in our school. Mine stay home for cold, flu and covid. They have missed a week of school so far because of people like you.

The average child gets the common cold 6-12 times a year. The average length of symptoms is 10 days (assuming some at 7 and some with a lingering cough for 2 weeks +). So you keep the kids at home with the common cold 10 * 8 = 80 days a year waiting for all symptoms to be gone? Seems like it's people like YOU who are the reason your kids are missing so much school. Common cold, like COVID, are here to stay and are inevitable. You're doing a massive disservice to your children just with your psychotic stance on the common cold, let alone all the other diseases out there. Seek help

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Anonymous wrote:Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid? Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc. But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone. Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.

No. Just keep them home when they have a fever.

This. I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

I'm not testing and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.

You can still get tests for free at the library.

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023

It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks. Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it. Some schools still have them.

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise.

Truly pathetic. It’s going around our school. Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.

Because people like you are spreading it.

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine. And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school

Covid is not a cold but you keep them home for both. You don’t always have a fever with Covid. The vaccine does not stop Transmission.

you keep them home with a common cold until no symptoms? please

post vaccination + natural immunity, for the vast majority of people and certainly those under 75, it is now a cold and many times not as bad as a common cold

Yes, I do. It’s spreading like wildfire in our school. Mine stay home for cold, flu and covid. They have missed a week of school so far because of people like you.

The average child gets the common cold 6-12 times a year. The average length of symptoms is 10 days (assuming some at 7 and some with a lingering cough for 2 weeks +). So you keep the kids at home with the common cold 10 * 8 = 80 days a year waiting for all symptoms to be gone? Seems like it's people like YOU who are the reason your kids are missing so much school. Common cold, like COVID, are here to stay and are inevitable. You're doing a massive disservice to your children just with your psychotic stance on the common cold, let alone all the other diseases out there. Seek help

You need to seek help to learn to be a responsible parent. I am not sending a sick miserable kid to school. They aren’t learning anything and I don’t need free babysitting. I also want to teach my kids to be respectful people and not spread illness that could do a lot of harm to others. No wonder kids are struggling given their parents cannot be bothered.