Maryland is in last place in the entire country for opening schools

[Anonymous]

Maybe we did something right in Maryland by being very conservative about reopening, especially in our densely populated areas?

According to the governor, Maryland now has the lowest spread of COVID while other states are dealing with surges of new variants.

https://www.wboc.com/story/43743868/maryland-reports-biggest-drop-in-covid19-cases-nationwide?fbclid=IwAR233uyQ7NgPkfI2F0W0tHZ4MXQqH3MCtYyqzJG5POPWLWLjbjqyPy-vUkg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed that MCPS has a very low infection rate?

Why would we differ from DC or NOVA since all the folk here mingle all the time, we do not live in a bubble.

495 yesterday...

Completely irrelevant but that picture is called "2017/02/Traffic-congestion-iStock" so it's not from yesterday and I doubt it's even from 495. Those cars look old.

[Anonymous]

Maryland also has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation right now.

Hmm, could keeping lots of things closed until more people care vaccinated be key?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland also has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation right now.

Hmm, could keeping lots of things closed until more people care vaccinated be key?

When they had a 10% rate and schools were closed then, was it because we had kids out then?

I think the low infection rate has more to do with the 40% of the population who now have at least one shot rather than schools being closed.

Kids have been proven over and over again to NOT be a significant source of spread for Covid19.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland also has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation right now.

Hmm, could keeping lots of things closed until more people care vaccinated be key?

When they had a 10% rate and schools were closed then, was it because we had kids out then?

I think the low infection rate has more to do with the 40% of the population who now have at least one shot rather than schools being closed.

Kids have been proven over and over again to NOT be a significant source of spread for Covid19.

Except it seems now that kids ARE spreading the new variants, though.

So maybe Maryland's rates are lower because in our most densely populated counties, we didn't have a lot of kids mixing and mingling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland also has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation right now.

Hmm, could keeping lots of things closed until more people care vaccinated be key?

When they had a 10% rate and schools were closed then, was it because we had kids out then?

I think the low infection rate has more to do with the 40% of the population who now have at least one shot rather than schools being closed.

Kids have been proven over and over again to NOT be a significant source of spread for Covid19.

Except it seems now that kids ARE spreading the new variants, though.

So maybe Maryland's rates are lower because in our most densely populated counties, we didn't have a lot of kids mixing and mingling.

Well, AA County just took all restrictions off of social gatherings. Variants must not be that much of an issue or gatherings.

What will we do when covid19 is reduced to an illness that outbreaks here and there like the measles and we have nothing to dwell on anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We also have also have some of the best advice in the country. (NIH, Johns Hopkins, Federal govt, etc.)

Many kids of Hopkins infectious disease specialists, the ones you see on the news, have had their kids at in person school since September.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't we also one of the most educated counties in the country? That might tell you something.

This is code for: "we think we are better than others. As such we can judge."

PS - All that MoCo has done is hurt children and businesses. But, hell yeah! We are woke!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't we also one of the most educated counties in the country? That might tell you something.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland also has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation right now.

Hmm, could keeping lots of things closed until more people care vaccinated be key?

When they had a 10% rate and schools were closed then, was it because we had kids out then?

I think the low infection rate has more to do with the 40% of the population who now have at least one shot rather than schools being closed.

Kids have been proven over and over again to NOT be a significant source of spread for Covid19.

That is complete nonsense. You need to stop watching Newsmax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need to do a side by side with a map of dead/sick teachers for this to be instructive/convincing

Links?

No one is keeping track, but here are a few links:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/cobb-county-school-board-under-fire-after-3-teacher-deaths/85-8a585a86-90e1-4228-985e-ae0834866c5d
January:
Protests, backlash from teachers after deaths of 3 Cobb County educators in a month
In the last 30 days, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of three educators. Teachers say the situation has become cause for concern for their health and safety.

Teacher in an open academy in dc:
https://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/education/ballou-stay-opportunity-academy-teacher-death-covid-19-washington-teacher-union-policy-changes/65-c697e78a-d7c7-4593-a586-3c731b20e1ab

As of October, 8 teachers in North Carolina had already died of Covid: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-north-carolina-school-teacher-dies-covid-stanly-county-norwood-elementary-1536438

If you Google teacher death name of state you will see them. Like, teacher death Georgia, teacher death Florida, etc..

The country is approaching 500,000 deaths, so of course some of those people will be teachers. But the number is small and even smaller when you consider cases where there is some reason to believe the transmission resulted from school.

Double the teacher deaths in MCPS, but who cares right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need to do a side by side with a map of dead/sick teachers for this to be instructive/convincing

Links?

No one is keeping track, but here are a few links:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/cobb-county-school-board-under-fire-after-3-teacher-deaths/85-8a585a86-90e1-4228-985e-ae0834866c5d
January:
Protests, backlash from teachers after deaths of 3 Cobb County educators in a month
In the last 30 days, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of three educators. Teachers say the situation has become cause for concern for their health and safety.

Teacher in an open academy in dc:
https://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/education/ballou-stay-opportunity-academy-teacher-death-covid-19-washington-teacher-union-policy-changes/65-c697e78a-d7c7-4593-a586-3c731b20e1ab

As of October, 8 teachers in North Carolina had already died of Covid: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-north-carolina-school-teacher-dies-covid-stanly-county-norwood-elementary-1536438

If you Google teacher death name of state you will see them. Like, teacher death Georgia, teacher death Florida, etc..

The country is approaching 500,000 deaths, so of course some of those people will be teachers. But the number is small and even smaller when you consider cases where there is some reason to believe the transmission resulted from school.

Double the teacher deaths in MCPS, but who cares right?

What? Source?

[Anonymous]

Maryland may have been late to reopen, but it was open from March onward. Our very low number was because of parents voluntarily keeping their kids online. Yes, for the safety of the family. But also because online worked just fine for some kids.

In my family, one of my three went back in March. The other two stayed home and I don't think were worse for the experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland may have been late to reopen, but it was open from March onward. Our very low number was because of parents voluntarily keeping their kids online. Yes, for the safety of the family. But also because online worked just fine for some kids.

In my family, one of my three went back in March. The other two stayed home and I don't think were worse for the experience.

the low rate of spread is due to the vaccine. period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland may have been late to reopen, but it was open from March onward. Our very low number was because of parents voluntarily keeping their kids online. Yes, for the safety of the family. But also because online worked just fine for some kids.

In my family, one of my three went back in March. The other two stayed home and I don't think were worse for the experience.

the low rate of spread is due to the vaccine. period.

The same kids who were in virtual school but playing sports? Or having playdates?
Very few families stayed home 100% with their kids through the spring semester. It isn't why covid19 spread slowed. The rising vaccination rate was why covid infections slowed.