MCPS Officially announces schools opening as planned

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Anonymous wrote:I like the idea of three weeks of hybrid with morning and afternoon cohorts. Kids could be given big at-home chunks of work to do in the other part of the day.

Same advantages of the other type of hybrid except that you wouldn't really have to do to the virtual part-- you could send home a lot of homework, but actually do the live teaching to a 50% full classroom. (But unlike the online/in-person hybrid it doesn't help the students who are home either out of fear or out of illness)

C'mon, think. MCPS doesn't have a bus fleet that can run 2 cohorts to and from school every day.

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Anonymous wrote:Well Erlich just got sick. Dominos are falling. Make plans folks.

Classic case of do as I say not as I do.

He told us all to never catch covid?

He said people needed to “think hard” about attending family gatherings. And then proceeded to host a family gathering. I guess that’s not entirely contradictory, but it comes pretty close.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

And you think that long covid is similar to that?

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

And you think that long covid is similar to that?

I think we don’t know. So I am not prepared to be casual about it.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

Ok, but you reference Long COVID, which is an observed and documented phenomenon (albeit one that has been grossly misrepresented in the media), not some hypothetical syndrome that doesn't have any evidence to support its existence in significant numbers, despite coronaviruses being common.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

Ok, but you reference Long COVID, which is an observed and documented phenomenon (albeit one that has been grossly misrepresented in the media), not some hypothetical syndrome that doesn't have any evidence to support its existence in significant numbers, despite coronaviruses being common.

I suspect that “Long COVID” will turn out to be multiple clinical entities that become better-defined with time. I don’t see what coronaviruses generally being common has to do with this. With a couple of exceptions, they weren’t severe enough to kill ppl before now either.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

Ok, but you reference Long COVID, which is an observed and documented phenomenon (albeit one that has been grossly misrepresented in the media), not some hypothetical syndrome that doesn't have any evidence to support its existence in significant numbers, despite coronaviruses being common.

I suspect that “Long COVID” will turn out to be multiple clinical entities that become better-defined with time. I don’t see what coronaviruses generally being common has to do with this. With a couple of exceptions, they weren’t severe enough to kill ppl before now either.

Covid denier.

[Anonymous]

You all wanted in person, stop complaining.

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Anonymous wrote:So much hysteria. Schools need to stay open for students. At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that. Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu." Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated. I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information

Long covid is not anything to worry about. Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening.

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them.

Ok, but you reference Long COVID, which is an observed and documented phenomenon (albeit one that has been grossly misrepresented in the media), not some hypothetical syndrome that doesn't have any evidence to support its existence in significant numbers, despite coronaviruses being common.

I suspect that “Long COVID” will turn out to be multiple clinical entities that become better-defined with time. I don’t see what coronaviruses generally being common has to do with this. With a couple of exceptions, they weren’t severe enough to kill ppl before now either.

Related viruses speak to the likelihood that this new virus will have a fairly rare property. SARS patients continued to get better over time, including those who had long-COVID-like symptoms. They didn't get better, and then later get worse. There's no reason to think your hypothetical syndrome will exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all wanted in person, stop complaining.

Then MCPS should stop threatening to close schools. Keep them open unless the state orders a statewide lockdown (which it obviously won't).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well Erlich just got sick. Dominos are falling. Make plans folks.

Classic case of do as I say not as I do.

He told us all to never catch covid?

He said people needed to “think hard” about attending family gatherings. And then proceeded to host a family gathering. I guess that’s not entirely contradictory, but it comes pretty close.

Our elected officials have acted very poorly. If you are listening to them, plan to get covid. These are the same folks not masking, not distancing, traveling and being in big groups without masks.

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Anonymous wrote:You all wanted in person, stop complaining.

Then MCPS should stop threatening to close schools. Keep them open unless the state orders a statewide lockdown (which it obviously won't).

They aren't threatening to shut down schools. They are quarantining students for two weeks with schools with large outbreaks. If you want your school to stay open, consider your behavior and don't send in a sick child. Simple enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm ready to let this play out. Yes, it's going to be a messy month or two, but we have to figure out what the new normal is going to look like. I, for one, am not interested in schools being remote at any point. Kids who are sick should be in bed. Kids who are well enough to attend school should come to school Everyone who is at any kind of risk has had plenty of time to be vaccinated. Now, if hospitals really are close to breaking, then we have to pull back, but unless someone can post reliable information about hospitals being overwhelmed in MoCo, I'm not in favor of closing schools. Given the state has not released county-specific hospitalization metrics since early December, that data is not available. I'd think the hospitals would be screaming if we were in trouble. Are they?

Well enough means sending sick kids to school. Kids don't live alone. If they bring it back to younger unvaccinated siblings or other family members, it could have serious consequences.

If you want kids in person, what sacrifices are you willing to make to keep them there? Sounds like none.

I’m not sure what your point is- unvaccinated younger siblings would likely be fine. Anyone who has extremely vulnerable family members at home yet didn’t apply for the VA may need to make some hard choices during this wave. The solution should not be to demand all kids go virtual for a small number of families in this situation.

Look, great covid denier, you cannot tell someone they will be fine getting covid when you don't know.

VA is 100% at capacity. It is run like a regular school and just cannot take every family who now wants in due to their lack of planning as they don't have the staff to do it. They'd have to get more funding/staff or pull teachers from other schools.

Schools aren't going virtual except if there is an outbreak. So, the issue is how do you stop outbreaks? And, if you don't know, then google is your friend.