Can someone explain AEM to me?

[Anonymous]

Omg. Can you SR people stay on AEM, please? You are insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the all time NOVA cases graph, we are in the plateau on the right. We are nowhere near last winter's level's even with the dreaded delta variant



Here's the all time NOVA hospitalizations graph. The current trend is more of a blip.



I just don't understand what everyone is so hysterical about. We have vaccines now. They are working.

Except that kids under 12 cannot get the vaccine and even the vaccinated can still get it (although usually a milder case) and spread it. I think that's why people are "hysterical" (using your language).

That's been true since the very beginning of this thing. My kids have been in daycare and 100 person camps with significant indoor time all summer and the graphs are still showing that delta has not caused cases to burn out of control. I think the assumption that kids have been sitting at home doing nothing and are suddenly going to mix together for the first time is erroneous.

[Anonymous]

"Last week, the number of Covid-19 cases in children in the US reached levels not seen since the winter surge. And with the return to schools, the Delta variant on the rise and this winter approaching, health officials are concerned it could get worse.

After a decline in early summer, child cases have increased exponentially -- with more than a four-fold increase in the past month, according to the latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.

From about 38,000 cases a week near the end of July, the week ending August 19 saw more than 180,000 cases in children, the report said.

"The virus is raging in all these children who are unvaccinated, which is why in schools mask mandates are so important," CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner told Jake Tapper, pointing out that people younger than 12 are not eligible to be vaccinated and inoculation rates are low among adolescents who are eligible. "They have no other protection. They're literally sitting ducks."

https://www.wthitv.com/content/national/575168242.html

[Anonymous]

Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

And APE won't be happy until everyone gets Covid and they run APS into the ground, drive out even more teachers and get their vouchers for private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Last week, the number of Covid-19 cases in children in the US reached levels not seen since the winter surge. And with the return to schools, the Delta variant on the rise and this winter approaching, health officials are concerned it could get worse.

After a decline in early summer, child cases have increased exponentially -- with more than a four-fold increase in the past month, according to the latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.

From about 38,000 cases a week near the end of July, the week ending August 19 saw more than 180,000 cases in children, the report said.

"The virus is raging in all these children who are unvaccinated, which is why in schools mask mandates are so important," CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner told Jake Tapper, pointing out that people younger than 12 are not eligible to be vaccinated and inoculation rates are low among adolescents who are eligible. "They have no other protection. They're literally sitting ducks."

https://www.wthitv.com/content/national/575168242.html

What’s happening here? I’m not interested in places that have low vaccine rates and anti-mask mandates. Let’s talk Nova numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

And APE won't be happy until everyone gets Covid and they run APS into the ground, drive out even more teachers and get their vouchers for private school.

This is the definition of an ad hominem attack. This right here is why I can’t take you seriously.

SR, you need better spokespeople. You’ve become an echo chamber and the only people listening to you now are your supporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

And APE won't be happy until everyone gets Covid and they run APS into the ground, drive out even more teachers and get their vouchers for private school.

This is the definition of an ad hominem attack. This right here is why I can’t take you seriously.

SR, you need better spokespeople. You’ve become an echo chamber and the only people listening to you now are your supporters.

I’m sure you made that same comment to the poster above calling people “stupid”.

Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the all time NOVA cases graph, we are in the plateau on the right. We are nowhere near last winter's level's even with the dreaded delta variant



Here's the all time NOVA hospitalizations graph. The current trend is more of a blip.



I just don't understand what everyone is so hysterical about. We have vaccines now. They are working.

Except that kids under 12 cannot get the vaccine and even the vaccinated can still get it (although usually a milder case) and spread it. I think that's why people are "hysterical" (using your language).

That's been true since the very beginning of this thing. My kids have been in daycare and 100 person camps with significant indoor time all summer and the graphs are still showing that delta has not caused cases to burn out of control. I think the assumption that kids have been sitting at home doing nothing and are suddenly going to mix together for the first time is erroneous.

Not sure why you're posting that map to say nbd. The NOVA area of the map is the darkest (e.g., has the highest numbers) of all the surrounding areas. And all of Virginia currently has an either orange (substantial) or red (high) transmission level. Arlington was low back in June but bounced back up to high in mid August and 9 more positive cases would bounce it back up to high again -- right back where it was last April 2020 and then from November through March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

Are ALL kids eating lunch outdoor at ALL schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the all time NOVA cases graph, we are in the plateau on the right. We are nowhere near last winter's level's even with the dreaded delta variant



Here's the all time NOVA hospitalizations graph. The current trend is more of a blip.



I just don't understand what everyone is so hysterical about. We have vaccines now. They are working.

Except that kids under 12 cannot get the vaccine and even the vaccinated can still get it (although usually a milder case) and spread it. I think that's why people are "hysterical" (using your language).

That's been true since the very beginning of this thing. My kids have been in daycare and 100 person camps with significant indoor time all summer and the graphs are still showing that delta has not caused cases to burn out of control. I think the assumption that kids have been sitting at home doing nothing and are suddenly going to mix together for the first time is erroneous.

Not sure why you're posting that map to say nbd. The NOVA area of the map is the darkest (e.g., has the highest numbers) of all the surrounding areas. And all of Virginia currently has an either orange (substantial) or red (high) transmission level. Arlington was low back in June but bounced back up to high in mid August and 9 more positive cases would bounce it back up to high again -- right back where it was last April 2020 and then from November through March.

The map is cumulative case counts since we started tracking. Nova has more people and therefore has had more cases total. I posted that image because that’s how it downloads as a pdf and I didn’t feel like cropping. Look at the graphs showing cases and hospitalization over time. Our current numbers are nowhere near as bad as they have been previously, particularly for hospitalizations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

And APE won't be happy until everyone gets Covid and they run APS into the ground, drive out even more teachers and get their vouchers for private school.

This is the definition of an ad hominem attack. This right here is why I can’t take you seriously.

SR, you need better spokespeople. You’ve become an echo chamber and the only people listening to you now are your supporters.

Thank you. Someone needed to say it. I don't subscribe to either APE nor SR, and I'm a better person for it. There is a middle ground. And I believe that APS is doing the best they can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

Are ALL kids eating lunch outdoor at ALL schools?

Oh no, of course not. Not every day at least. APE lives in fantasyland. In their minds, this whole Covid thing has been solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does SR think that they run APS? The fact that outdoor lunch and testing is here is amazing! But you won’t be happy until your entire agenda is fulfilled. Real life doesn’t work that way.

And APE won't be happy until everyone gets Covid and they run APS into the ground, drive out even more teachers and get their vouchers for private school.

This is the definition of an ad hominem attack. This right here is why I can’t take you seriously.

SR, you need better spokespeople. You’ve become an echo chamber and the only people listening to you now are your supporters.

I’m sure you made that same comment to the poster above calling people “stupid”.

Right?

DP. You do realize though that calling someone stupid is totally different than telling someone who is content with the mitigation plan that they're going to get COVID and destroy APS. WTH?

Mitigation is a thing in Arlington County. Vaccine mandates for staff/volunteers, COVID testing, now outdoor lunch at all schools. We might not have the right air cleaners, I don't know, but they are better than nothing. I'd understand the outrage better if we lived in Florida or Texas.

I don't like the quarantine async plan, but it's all our damn faults. If we didn't complain so much about concurrent education last Spring, maybe they wouldn't have eliminated it. But I really do think we will be okay. The fear mongering needs to stop.

[Anonymous]

As someone paying attn in the sidelines, SR peeps are the ones losing their collective minds. I can’t believe the crazy on AEM this week. Where are the APE folks when you need them?