Any chance DCPS reopens in person for Term 2 or Term 3?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

Do you all realize how low that prevalence is already? That's even before taking into account false positives and how many of these positives are asymptomatic and therefore not spreading it. Stop the hysteria. We are not in a pandemic.

DC has some of the lowest coronavirus numbers in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

Do you all realize how low that prevalence is already? That's even before taking into account false positives and how many of these positives are asymptomatic and therefore not spreading it. Stop the hysteria. We are not in a pandemic.

DC has some of the lowest coronavirus numbers in the country.

You forgot to post your favorite John Hopkins link.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

What if -- bear with me -- we took some steps to try and get it to that value. Like closing gyms and indoor dining, neither of which is an essential activity? What if people who were found to violate the travel quarantine rules were fined?

I feel like a broken record, but I am so frustrated with this attitude that there is no way we could possibly get Covid rates down low enough for school to be possible, when we are allowing so many activities that are clearly contributing to higher Covid rates. It's like the man from the joke who walks into the doctor's office and hits himself over the head with a hammer and says, "Doc, it hurts when I do this -- what can I do?"

What if we stopped hitting ourselves in the head with a hammer?

I agree with you. The problem is that once schools open, the entire city is “open for business” - offices will reopen, more people taking metro, etc. Bowser would need to mandate that people continue working from home in order to reopen schools, and she never will.