Tested positive notices from MCPS every day

[Anonymous]

Also, name the schools. Seriously. It's not a dog against them, it isn't the school's fault, but people in peripheral contact probably do want to know.

[Anonymous]

Ans: North besthesda

Ans: Only your kid’s class, not the entire grade.

Ans: not peaked!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ans: North besthesda

Ans: Only your kid’s class, not the entire grade.

Ans: not peaked!

you are not alone. There are many schools in MCPS that are on the same boat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

I don't think you understand what "peak" means, if you think something "peaks" in the first two weeks of exposure. We have a ways to go, and since only distancing or vaccinations stop the spread, you have to realize that every single case is a new vector. Your kids aren't going to quarantine once. They're going to keep on quarantining over and over. If you're lucky they won't also be sick over and over.

Actually, you have no understanding of viral spread. In fact, Delta has peaked. The problem is that distance does not stop spread, only makes it take longer, so MoCo is a bit behind in reaching the Delta peak than the rest of the country, who live their lives normally. Community spread in MoCo remains at "low transmission." There will probably a slight spike in # per 100,000 because of all the testing in schools. But as you can see if you look for yourself, the positivity rate continues to go down.
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have been receiving Someone tested positive notices from MCPS everyday from past 6 days. We also learned that there are several grades classrooms that are in quarantine now. Several parents said they were asked to come pickup the kids from school soon after they off boarded from the bus and got inside the building. This is getting really scary now and these notices looks like canned ones that they change the 2 dates (date when the person was in school and date when the person tested positive) and send it over. These notifications we receive are useless as there are no details.

Of course, you are. This is a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

I don't think you understand what "peak" means, if you think something "peaks" in the first two weeks of exposure. We have a ways to go, and since only distancing or vaccinations stop the spread, you have to realize that every single case is a new vector. Your kids aren't going to quarantine once. They're going to keep on quarantining over and over. If you're lucky they won't also be sick over and over.

Actually, you have no understanding of viral spread. In fact, Delta has peaked. The problem is that distance does not stop spread, only makes it take longer, so MoCo is a bit behind in reaching the Delta peak than the rest of the country, who live their lives normally. Community spread in MoCo remains at "low transmission." There will probably a slight spike in # per 100,000 because of all the testing in schools. But as you can see if you look for yourself, the positivity rate continues to go down.
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

Aside from, for example, being unable to receive treatment in a cardiac ICU when they need it...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

I don't think you understand what "peak" means, if you think something "peaks" in the first two weeks of exposure. We have a ways to go, and since only distancing or vaccinations stop the spread, you have to realize that every single case is a new vector. Your kids aren't going to quarantine once. They're going to keep on quarantining over and over. If you're lucky they won't also be sick over and over.

Actually, you have no understanding of viral spread. In fact, Delta has peaked. The problem is that distance does not stop spread, only makes it take longer, so MoCo is a bit behind in reaching the Delta peak than the rest of the country, who live their lives normally. Community spread in MoCo remains at "low transmission." There will probably a slight spike in # per 100,000 because of all the testing in schools. But as you can see if you look for yourself, the positivity rate continues to go down.
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

No, community spread is currently at "substantial transmission" and was at "high transmission" a week or two ago. At the lowest point, on June 24, 2021, the number of cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days in Montgomery County was 3.81. Yesterday, it was 82.33.

[Anonymous]

Delta hasn't "peaked" for the rest of the country where people are "just living their lives" either. In some places, schools have closed. In other places, it's very hard to actually get tested, which does lower tested positivity.

In rural Ohio, where my dear friend's kid is in school, there are anti-mask protestors outside the elementary school, heckling parents who bring their kids in masked.

This isn't the peak, and at least 1k Americans dying from choking on their own pus every day isn't normal. Or acceptable.

[Anonymous]

I think we are just going to get these forever but there is no real plan to keep kids safe - just for MCPS to cover their buts.

I'm disgusted at the lack of planning and precautions MCPS is taking. Yes, there are some good policies on paper but schools don't follow them and where is the education for kids who do everything right but who are still exposed over and over?

Why aren't vaccines mandatory for 12 and over already??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

I don't think you understand what "peak" means, if you think something "peaks" in the first two weeks of exposure. We have a ways to go, and since only distancing or vaccinations stop the spread, you have to realize that every single case is a new vector. Your kids aren't going to quarantine once. They're going to keep on quarantining over and over. If you're lucky they won't also be sick over and over.

Actually, you have no understanding of viral spread. In fact, Delta has peaked. The problem is that distance does not stop spread, only makes it take longer, so MoCo is a bit behind in reaching the Delta peak than the rest of the country, who live their lives normally. Community spread in MoCo remains at "low transmission." There will probably a slight spike in # per 100,000 because of all the testing in schools. But as you can see if you look for yourself, the positivity rate continues to go down.
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

No, community spread is currently at "substantial transmission" and was at "high transmission" a week or two ago. At the lowest point, on June 24, 2021, the number of cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days in Montgomery County was 3.81. Yesterday, it was 82.33.

And it was over 100/100K when MCPS schools opened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

Probably because the kids are unvaccinated and under 12?

Again, just be honest. Don’t say something is a policy and then do something else. Do they think we are stupid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, name the schools. Seriously. It's not a dog against them, it isn't the school's fault, but people in peripheral contact probably do want to know.

Peripheral contact? So contact of a contact of a contact?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delta hasn't "peaked" for the rest of the country where people are "just living their lives" either. In some places, schools have closed. In other places, it's very hard to actually get tested, which does lower tested positivity.

In rural Ohio, where my dear friend's kid is in school, there are anti-mask protestors outside the elementary school, heckling parents who bring their kids in masked.

This isn't the peak, and at least 1k Americans dying from choking on their own pus every day isn't normal. Or acceptable.

Yes, it has. I know it's disappointing for you that Deltageddon didn't happen when MCPS opened its doors a month ago. Perhaps a new variant will come along in the future to help support your lockdown crusade. There's always that hope, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What school?

All of them. Where have you been?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Delta hasn't "peaked" for the rest of the country where people are "just living their lives" either. In some places, schools have closed. In other places, it's very hard to actually get tested, which does lower tested positivity.

In rural Ohio, where my dear friend's kid is in school, there are anti-mask protestors outside the elementary school, heckling parents who bring their kids in masked.

This isn't the peak, and at least 1k Americans dying from choking on their own pus every day isn't normal. Or acceptable.

Yes, it has. I know it's disappointing for you that Deltageddon didn't happen when MCPS opened its doors a month ago. Perhaps a new variant will come along in the future to help support your lockdown crusade. There's always that hope, right?

Newsflash is the most deadly virus in US history. One in every 500 Americans has died from it. You might want to be less cavalier when considering the enormity of this tragedy.