Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?

[Anonymous]

Do LAMBs rules mean masks or no masks to start?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do LAMBs rules mean masks or no masks to start?

Not mandated when DC is in "low" so presumably as long as DC is still in low transmission on Monday, masks will be optional both indoors and outdoors.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/key-metrics

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I'm actually most worried/frustrated about with the vaccine requirement is the situation in which (1) DCPS does not enforce the requirement (despite saying that vaccines are required and the requirement being on the books) and (2) a bunch of small charter schools, fearing the consequences of being out of compliance, do.

I don't have time to dig back into the history of how this requirement came to pass (probably thanks to those COVID crank parents and the council?), but someone in DC health or DC government needs to issue an emergency order suspending the requirement ASAP.

WHY? Please expound on why this vaccine shouldn't be required, like others.

DP. Because it doesn't prevent transmission. So it has no impact on others.

e.g., https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298

"Most papers to date (notably, many are preprints and have yet to be peer reviewed) indicate vaccines are holding up against admission to hospital and mortality, says Linda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, “but not so much against transmission.”"

I don’t think many people would take other vaccines if they didn’t prevent transmission. Why do you think the flu vaccine rate is so low? It’s doesn’t prevent transmission. And what are the rates of mortality and hospitalization for kids under 18? Absurdly low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do LAMBs rules mean masks or no masks to start?

Not mandated when DC is in "low" so presumably as long as DC is still in low transmission on Monday, masks will be optional both indoors and outdoors.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/key-metrics

Got it. Honestly, I have heard DC is medium and low about equally. I haven't tried to figure out which is "real" because our school has still made no announcements. I guess we'll find out before Monday if they need masks, will test, how they get dropped off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do LAMBs rules mean masks or no masks to start?

Not mandated when DC is in "low" so presumably as long as DC is still in low transmission on Monday, masks will be optional both indoors and outdoors.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/key-metrics

Got it. Honestly, I have heard DC is medium and low about equally. I haven't tried to figure out which is "real" because our school has still made no announcements. I guess we'll find out before Monday if they need masks, will test, how they get dropped off?

You might want to contact your school. Presumably this is a new school to you?

If not....yikes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing I'm actually most worried/frustrated about with the vaccine requirement is the situation in which (1) DCPS does not enforce the requirement (despite saying that vaccines are required and the requirement being on the books) and (2) a bunch of small charter schools, fearing the consequences of being out of compliance, do.

I don't have time to dig back into the history of how this requirement came to pass (probably thanks to those COVID crank parents and the council?), but someone in DC health or DC government needs to issue an emergency order suspending the requirement ASAP.

WHY? Please expound on why this vaccine shouldn't be required, like others.

DP. Because it doesn't prevent transmission. So it has no impact on others.

e.g., https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298

"Most papers to date (notably, many are preprints and have yet to be peer reviewed) indicate vaccines are holding up against admission to hospital and mortality, says Linda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, “but not so much against transmission.”"

I don’t think many people would take other vaccines if they didn’t prevent transmission. Why do you think the flu vaccine rate is so low? It’s doesn’t prevent transmission. And what are the rates of mortality and hospitalization for kids under 18? Absurdly low.

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Not a single good reason to mandate a Covid shot in kids under the age of 18. Not one.