Will MCPS adopt the new quarantine guidelines?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual learning is very likely by now, unfortunately. Hopefully it will be brief. The country needs to get serious about requiring vaccination otherwise we will go through these situations over and over... perhaps until a more deadly variant emerges which will then get people to vaccinate.

We need testing not vaccines. Our country is highly vaccinated and that strategy did not work.

The vaccines are working fine. You just didn’t have realistic expectations. The endgame for covid has always been for severity to be reduced through acquired immunity. We were never going to eradicate it.

A strategy built on testing is doomed to fail. The inherent and unavoidable problems are that: 1) many cases are asymptomatic or very mildly symptomatic, and 2) people are contagious before showing symptoms. As a result, we can’t practically test our way out of this. Covid will continue to spread at significant levels forever. But the vast majority of vaccinated individuals will be fine, developing very mild symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Virtual learning is very likely by now, unfortunately. Hopefully it will be brief. The country needs to get serious about requiring vaccination otherwise we will go through these situations over and over... perhaps until a more deadly variant emerges which will then get people to vaccinate.

We need testing not vaccines. Our country is highly vaccinated and that strategy did not work.

The vaccines are working fine. You just didn’t have realistic expectations. The endgame for covid has always been for severity to be reduced through acquired immunity. We were never going to eradicate it.

A strategy built on testing is doomed to fail. The inherent and unavoidable problems are that: 1) many cases are asymptomatic or very mildly symptomatic, and 2) people are contagious before showing symptoms. As a result, we can’t practically test our way out of this. Covid will continue to spread at significant levels forever. But the vast majority of vaccinated individuals will be fine, developing very mild symptoms.

I had very realistic expectations and saw this coming but we cannot pretend wishing away covid isn't working. Yes, we can test and quarantine to help stop the spread of covid in the schools. Your minimizing the impact covid has had is sickening and why we are in this mess. Many will be fine, some will not be fine. But, clearly you only care about yourself and aren't willing to put in the effort to keep kids and their families safe. Reality is we need protection from people like you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The labor unions will follow the CDC

The teacher union blocked mandatory vaccinations for all MCPS staff. Doesn’t sound like they follow CDC recommendations.

Nice dig, but no.

Dr McKnight did the math and decided it would be too disruptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The labor unions will follow the CDC

The teacher union blocked mandatory vaccinations for all MCPS staff. Doesn’t sound like they follow CDC recommendations.

Nice dig, but no.

Dr McKnight did the math and decided it would be too disruptive.

McKnight doing math? LOL. That isn’t happening.

[Anonymous]

The goal was to lessen the burned on hospitals and protect the vulnerable from dying, which has been done through vaccines and boosters. If you are vaccinated your chance of needing hospital is incredibly small, the same as some other viruses. Trying to keep from getting it at all seems like a lost cause at this point. I think schools should be open, those who want to stay at home should be given work and not penalized in any way. Those who want to be in person should be in person. No cloth masks allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The goal was to lessen the burned on hospitals and protect the vulnerable from dying, which has been done through vaccines and boosters. If you are vaccinated your chance of needing hospital is incredibly small, the same as some other viruses. Trying to keep from getting it at all seems like a lost cause at this point. I think schools should be open, those who want to stay at home should be given work and not penalized in any way. Those who want to be in person should be in person. No cloth masks allowed.

They aren't offering the option to just get the work and not attend in person. We tried that over the summer and our school said no. After two weeks they'd unenroll us. Even with medical documentation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about all the test to stay stuff? That was just passed like a month ago. Good god.

How would they administer dozens or hundreds of rapid tests every morning before letting exposed students or teachers into the building or before the kids rode the bus? It was feasible with the number of Delta cases but I think every classroom will have exposures and I don’t think there is manpower to widely stand that up.

No they clearly couldn't handle the Delta caseload either, it hasn't been rolled out at most schools yet. So yeah, if they could not handle Delta they definitely wouldn't be able to handle Omicron

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The goal was to lessen the burned on hospitals and protect the vulnerable from dying, which has been done through vaccines and boosters. If you are vaccinated your chance of needing hospital is incredibly small, the same as some other viruses. Trying to keep from getting it at all seems like a lost cause at this point. I think schools should be open, those who want to stay at home should be given work and not penalized in any way. Those who want to be in person should be in person. No cloth masks allowed.

Ok, so wiil MCPS be providing fit-test services for medical masks then? Because if a mask is poorly fitting it doesn't really matter what it is made of.