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[Anonymous]

Spread is not occurring in schools. It’s occurring in the community as a whole, especially in non-school activities without masks. The numbers went up exponentially during a time school was not in session.

Do your children see other children outside of school? Do they wear masks when at a friends house? Have your family gone to a restaurant or traveled during winter break?

Unless we all are going to hunker down in every facet of our lives like we did at the beginning of the pandemic, then COVID will spread. Protect yourself and your loved ones and get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spread is not occurring in schools. It’s occurring in the community as a whole, especially in non-school activities without masks. The numbers went up exponentially during a time school was not in session.

Do your children see other children outside of school? Do they wear masks when at a friends house? Have your family gone to a restaurant or traveled during winter break?

Unless we all are going to hunker down in every facet of our lives like we did at the beginning of the pandemic, then COVID will spread. Protect yourself and your loved ones and get vaccinated.

Wow, another who says covid doesn’t spread in schools. How does covid know that it must not and will not spread in schools? Only allowed to do so in other places. That is fascinating. Then students and school staff don’t need to wear mask! Great! I suppose my school was lying about the cases that I was alerted about the week before break.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So is this how it’s going to go? Every night we sit on pins and needles to see if there is school the next day? Who thought this would be a good idea?

Yes. It's a fluid situation. It changes day by day, so they have to adapt. When the surge passes, it will no longer be an issue. What's the problem?

I want it my way and I want it now!

Or something else like that Violet Beauregarde would say.

The news announced tonight a 10-year-old died of covid and MCPS leadership is playing games with whether or not they'll keep kids in-person. All-or-nothing. In-person-only.

Keep making jokes. Feel free to laugh. Those of us who feel differently hope you are never responsible for the safety of our children.

A child died. Let’s destroy the lives of 160,000 more plus their families plus their mom’s careers, lifetime earning potential, their parents mental and physical health, their marriage, their childhood everything. It’s sad that a child died. Maybe they should have been vaccinated. Or maybe they were a primo candidate for virtual academy. Or maybe they got it over break. Or maybe it was just bad luck. It was bad luck to be a first grader in Newtown years ago. We didn’t cancel first grade.

Your Newton example is disgusting and you should be banned. How horrible must you be to say such a thing.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spread is not occurring in schools. It’s occurring in the community as a whole, especially in non-school activities without masks. The numbers went up exponentially during a time school was not in session.

Do your children see other children outside of school? Do they wear masks when at a friends house? Have your family gone to a restaurant or traveled during winter break?

Unless we all are going to hunker down in every facet of our lives like we did at the beginning of the pandemic, then COVID will spread. Protect yourself and your loved ones and get vaccinated.

So we actually don't know whether spread is or will occur in schools. Kids have not been in school long enough and we haven't been testing enough. But it is clear it's happening without schools so it's unclear what shutting down schools will do to help the spread anyway on a public health level.

MCPS does need to think on the individual level though. There are families that are hunkering down and not going out and forcing their kids to be in in-person school is only creating anxiety and worry for those who have vulnerable conditions themselves or loved ones at home who are not vaccinated or immunocompromised. MCPS should offer options to these families. It's inexcusable not to do so because it's not hard to make teachers attempt to livestream or at least be understanding about grading and excuse assignments if the livestream does not work, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spread is not occurring in schools. It’s occurring in the community as a whole, especially in non-school activities without masks. The numbers went up exponentially during a time school was not in session.

Do your children see other children outside of school? Do they wear masks when at a friends house? Have your family gone to a restaurant or traveled during winter break?

Unless we all are going to hunker down in every facet of our lives like we did at the beginning of the pandemic, then COVID will spread. Protect yourself and your loved ones and get vaccinated.

So we actually don't know whether spread is or will occur in schools. Kids have not been in school long enough and we haven't been testing enough. But it is clear it's happening without schools so it's unclear what shutting down schools will do to help the spread anyway on a public health level.

MCPS does need to think on the individual level though. There are families that are hunkering down and not going out and forcing their kids to be in in-person school is only creating anxiety and worry for those who have vulnerable conditions themselves or loved ones at home who are not vaccinated or immunocompromised. MCPS should offer options to these families. It's inexcusable not to do so because it's not hard to make teachers attempt to livestream or at least be understanding about grading and excuse assignments if the livestream does not work, etc.

We all actually know that it spreads in schools. It spreads in all public spaces.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Spread is not occurring in schools. It’s occurring in the community as a whole, especially in non-school activities without masks. The numbers went up exponentially during a time school was not in session.

Do your children see other children outside of school? Do they wear masks when at a friends house? Have your family gone to a restaurant or traveled during winter break?

Unless we all are going to hunker down in every facet of our lives like we did at the beginning of the pandemic, then COVID will spread. Protect yourself and your loved ones and get vaccinated.

So we actually don't know whether spread is or will occur in schools. Kids have not been in school long enough and we haven't been testing enough. But it is clear it's happening without schools so it's unclear what shutting down schools will do to help the spread anyway on a public health level.

MCPS does need to think on the individual level though. There are families that are hunkering down and not going out and forcing their kids to be in in-person school is only creating anxiety and worry for those who have vulnerable conditions themselves or loved ones at home who are not vaccinated or immunocompromised. MCPS should offer options to these families. It's inexcusable not to do so because it's not hard to make teachers attempt to livestream or at least be understanding about grading and excuse assignments if the livestream does not work, etc.

The great Covid denier.

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

Stop with the hysteria. Take a look at the breakdown between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

Stop with the hysteria. Take a look at the breakdown between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

Go bake some bread with your snowflake, why doncha? And keep them locked up for the rest of them pitiful childhoods.
Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

Well, it's predictable given that all our elected leaders opted out of reasonable precautions and stupidly decided to power through. They are bowing to pressure from the large part of the population that has lost all sense of civic duty, morality and conscience about their fellow human.

God forbid any of you Omicron-deniers have an urgent need for hospital care right about now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well we don’t know which schools are red yellow or green anymore because MCPS isn’t being transparent. There is no leadership. The truth is that metric isn’t useful. Schools aren’t magical places with low transmissions. We know our community transmission is high. So first we need to identify the issues and then solve them.

Issues-

Some parents want their kids remote now. Since state is under emergency it’s not an unexcused absence. We need a plan though to keep these kids engaged.

Community has high transmission. The school benchmark of 5 percent is not really meaningful particularly with self reporting got it. However throwing our heads under a pillow is not either. We need to plan for the contingency of closing schools temporarily. At some point for either public health reasons or staffing shortages we may have to close schools. I’m not a public health expert so I’m not going to say what that threshold should be (or if we’ve hit it) but we should be having the discussion. MCPS can’t just say we are waiting on guideline from state. They need to take leadership. If the event of remote for individual schools or the system how will virtual work?

I imagine if the whole school goes virtual, it will mirror their regular day. Our DC is in one of the "lucky 11" and that's how it works. 7 zoom links, each class 45 mins long, with 2 30 min screentime breaks. All instruction is live by their regular teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

Well, it's predictable given that all our elected leaders opted out of reasonable precautions and stupidly decided to power through. They are bowing to pressure from the large part of the population that has lost all sense of civic duty, morality and conscience about their fellow human.

God forbid any of you Omicron-deniers have an urgent need for hospital care right about now.

Stop prioritizing care for the unvaccinated and then we wouldn't have any problem accessing hospital care right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/10/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines
From NYT Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

This is just unbelievable.

Well, it's predictable given that all our elected leaders opted out of reasonable precautions and stupidly decided to power through. They are bowing to pressure from the large part of the population that has lost all sense of civic duty, morality and conscience about their fellow human.

God forbid any of you Omicron-deniers have an urgent need for hospital care right about now.

Stop prioritizing care for the unvaccinated and then we wouldn't have any problem accessing hospital care right now.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spread is not occurring in schools. It’s occurring in the community as a whole, especially in non-school activities without masks. The numbers went up exponentially during a time school was not in session.

Do your children see other children outside of school? Do they wear masks when at a friends house? Have your family gone to a restaurant or traveled during winter break?

Unless we all are going to hunker down in every facet of our lives like we did at the beginning of the pandemic, then COVID will spread. Protect yourself and your loved ones and get vaccinated.

So we actually don't know whether spread is or will occur in schools. Kids have not been in school long enough and we haven't been testing enough. But it is clear it's happening without schools so it's unclear what shutting down schools will do to help the spread anyway on a public health level.

MCPS does need to think on the individual level though. There are families that are hunkering down and not going out and forcing their kids to be in in-person school is only creating anxiety and worry for those who have vulnerable conditions themselves or loved ones at home who are not vaccinated or immunocompromised. MCPS should offer options to these families. It's inexcusable not to do so because it's not hard to make teachers attempt to livestream or at least be understanding about grading and excuse assignments if the livestream does not work, etc.

We all actually know that it spreads in schools. It spreads in all public spaces.

Honestly, what do you think goes on in school cafeterias?