Covid Status

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Anonymous wrote:What makes you think other viruses aren’t also risk factors for pulmonary fibrosis?
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.640763
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-021-03159-9
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.177453

Please don’t try to science with OP. Your efforts are futile.

She’s probably the poster that loves to share links that she doesn’t bother to read. Like when she claimed covid was the most contagious virus and posted a link that said measles was more contagious.

That was me.

I think it was a month later we got a variant of covid that was as contagious as measeks, actually? But by then you were just stalking me, Kensington Dad. It's cute you're back.

Nope.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-omicron-reproduction-number/fact-check-no-evidence-omicron-ba-5-is-more-infectious-than-measles-or-is-the-most-infectious-virus-known-idUSL1N2YW1T0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

Most people aren't reporting infections. I didn't report it. Why? We were staying home, and there was no risk to anyone else at that point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

bad sniffles I take it? Rough when you have to take some cold medicine for a few days

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

No, that’s just called being sick. It happens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

bad sniffles I take it? Rough when you have to take some cold medicine for a few days

It was not a few days of bad sniffles for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

Most people aren't reporting infections. I didn't report it. Why? We were staying home, and there was no risk to anyone else at that point.

I really don’t understand why anyone is reporting cases at this point. It’s a complete waste of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

bad sniffles I take it? Rough when you have to take some cold medicine for a few days

It was not a few days of bad sniffles for me.

Me neither. 3 out of the 4 people in my house were asymptomatic. The 4th had a cold for 24 hours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

Most people aren't reporting infections. I didn't report it. Why? We were staying home, and there was no risk to anyone else at that point.

I really don’t understand why anyone is reporting cases at this point. It’s a complete waste of time.

+1 million

Waste of time, energy and resources.

Even Johns Hopkins came out today saying they were going to cut back on their reporting of cases.

[Anonymous]

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No one is trapped. We now know how to keep our families safe. COVID is airborne and a simple mask does the trick.
We care about humanity and the world is still in a pandemic. Sadly our children have learned that there are soulless people who don’t care about others. They see this as those people spread covid and ignore the disabled and dying. They see it as the planet is in peril from global warming and pollution. They see it as the privileged of Montgomery County trample on the people in service professions. Let them eat cake is the motto of those that step over the suck and dying.

Ah, so the mask as an outward signifier of moral superiority? Sort of like a yellow ribbon on your car back in the 2000s or a cross necklace?

Wow you hated yellow ribbons too. So you just hate humans.

I thought pretty much everyone agreed nearly two decades later that yellow ribbons were more or less performative nonsense that had little to do with actually improving either national security or stability in the Middle East. Or do you still think invading Iraq was a good idea?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote://Anti-Masking trolls: already know your POV. Before you say anything - the flu does not cause pulmonary fibrosis or brain damage. Move onto another thread please.//

We're off to a rocky start to the new school year.

On Monday, 157 students and 22 staff new infections were reported, with 1,143 infections from of about 174K (160K students plus 14K staff). If you recall from last year, it took a few weeks to reach this type of new infection rate per school (see data below) during the January spike. It is likely that lax school sanitization / distancing / masking, etc. (if occurring at all) is a significant contributing factor.

Students Staff
20220907 98 7
20220908 71 9
20220909 59 22
20220910 43 5
20220911 35 6
20220912 157 22

9/12 had 534 cases within a 7-day window. There were 11 schools reporting >= 10 cases. 1 schools reported >= 20 cases.

The top number of cases by school were:
Earle B. Wood Middle, 1191 20
Walter Johnson High, 3221 15
Winston Churchill High 15
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 13
James Hubert Blake High, 1946 13
Snowden Farm Elementary, 751 13
Quince Orchard High, 2390 12
Northwest High, 2735 11
Poolesville High, 1435 11
Bethesda Elementary 10
Richard Montgomery High, 2593 10
New Hampshire Estates Elementary, 509 9
Watkins Mill Elementary, 825 9
Westland Middle 9
Wheaton High 9
Central Office 8
Kensington Parkwood Elementary 8
Rachel Carson Elementary, 759 8
Rockville High 8
Clarksburg High 7
Diamond Elementary 7
Gaithersburg High 7
North Bethesda Middle, 1229 7
Springbrook High, 1991 7
Tilden Middle 7
College Gardens Elementary 6
Farmland Elementary, 883 6
Paint Branch High, 2374 6
Sligo Middle, 783 6
Thomas S. Wootton High 6
Brookhaven Elementary, 474 5
Herbert Hoover Middle, 1035 5
Parkland Middle, 1198 5
Redland Middle, 650 5
Rosemont Elementary 5
Seneca Valley High 5

The Top infected schools by percentage were:
Early Childhood Center at MacDonald Knolls, 61 3 4.9
New Hampshire Estates Elementary, 509 9 1.8
New Hampshire Estates Elementary, 509 9 1.8
New Hampshire Estates Elementary 9 1.8
Earle B. Wood Middle, 1191 20 1.7
Snowden Farm Elementary, 751 13 1.7
Bethesda Elementary 10 1.5
Kensington Parkwood Elementary 8 1.2
Kensington Parkwood Elementary 8 1.2
Westover Elementary 4 1.2
Brookhaven Elementary, 474 5 1.1
College Gardens Elementary 6 1.1
Rachel Carson Elementary, 759 8 1.1
Watkins Mill Elementary, 825 9 1.1
Woodfield Elementary 4 1.1
Cold Spring Elementary 4 1
Westland Middle 9 1

This list isn’t even accurate. I’m out with COVID and I don’t see the MS I work at on the list. My youngest child is also out with COVID right now and I don’t see her school on the list either. I notified both schools and completed the Google self reporting form. When the state of Maryland called to discuss my isolation I blasted MCPS for their poor reporting and lack of protocols.

FWIW I checked attendance while creating another day of sub plans to see the kid I was exposed to was back in school but another student (who is in the front row of my 6th period) is now out sick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

bad sniffles I take it? Rough when you have to take some cold medicine for a few days

Dp. I got covid from DS this week. Cold medicine doesn't do anything, at least in either of our cases. If you do end up with a painfully blocked nose as we both did, you need warm humid air Ala shower, wash cloth, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

bad sniffles I take it? Rough when you have to take some cold medicine for a few days

Dp. I got covid from DS this week. Cold medicine doesn't do anything, at least in either of our cases. If you do end up with a painfully blocked nose as we both did, you need warm humid air Ala shower, wash cloth, etc.

It didn't do anything for me either. I liked the personal nose steamer to help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the numbers are higher. I work for MCPS and me and several coworkers have had it recently/currently and I don't see it reflected in the numbers. I doubt people are testing their kids and/or reporting so I'm sure the numbers are higher. Montgomery County is listed as "low" for rate of infection but I have known so many people recently with it that I don't totally believe that. I am lucky that my case is pretty mild but my coworker had a really rough go of it.

A really rough go? Have they gotten out of the hospital yet? Which tertiary center were they sent to?

You can be really sick and not be hospitalized. Grow up.

bad sniffles I take it? Rough when you have to take some cold medicine for a few days

Dp. I got covid from DS this week. Cold medicine doesn't do anything, at least in either of our cases. If you do end up with a painfully blocked nose as we both did, you need warm humid air Ala shower, wash cloth, etc.

It didn't do anything for me either. I liked the personal nose steamer to help.

What helps most of all is simply deciding to not act like a big baby over a minor illness. If covid is "rough" for you then you obviously haven't had to deal with much in your life.