Here is why we should close schools now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of people teaching and working in other capacities at schools who are 60+, are you okay with younger subs taking over those classes and jobs for weeks or months?

Yes. As mentioned there would be financial subsidy for older workers who have to stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:60 and up. Obvs.

You are OK with 1 out of every 100 50 year olds dying?

That's an acceptable risk to you?

Do you have to ask?

This virus should be renamed "Revenge of the Millenials"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:60 and up. Obvs.

And so we drift into the land of the parents of Scholl kids who will continue being exposed via kids.

Your English has really deteriorated over the course of this thread. Maybe it’s time to take a break from the crazy and get some sleep.

[Anonymous]

1. Urge individuals from our school community who visited the Village at Rockville days after Feb. 28 to closely monitor themselves for any symptoms and self-quarantine for 14 days.

2. Grant MCPS students the flexibility to stay at home due to coronavirus concerns. Based on the experience of many countries badly affected by COVID-19, one of the best ways to prevent COVID-19 from spreading is home isolation to minimize the contact (through touching or breathing in space without enough ventilation) with other people.

3. Make learning materials accessible and create remote teaching/learning opportunities in case a school close down is warranted.

4. Cancel any non-urgent students meetings or gatherings to minimize the risk of infection. So far we still see many meetings, competitions, and gatherings are scheduled to take place. With the potential risk of COVID-19 spreading, these gatherings may pose high risk to the larger community when students from different schools meet together in spaces without enough ventilation.

5. Thoroughly clean and sanitize frequently touched surfaces in school facilities; re-emphasize to students the importance of practicing good hygiene such as cleaning hands using soap and water or hand sanitizer and avoiding touching mouth/eyes/nose.

If you agree, please sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/mcps-leadership-urge-mcps-leadership-to-take-actions-to-prevent-the-spread-of-deadly-covid-19



6. Move up or reschedule Spring Break to reduce ahead of time the chance of the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Or, move some off days from summer break to spring.

If you are in agreement with these proposed actions, please sign this petition to show your support.

We really hope with the combined efforts from MCPS and the community, we can prevent COVID-19 from spreading, and keep its impact to the minimum.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1. Urge individuals from our school community who visited the Village at Rockville days after Feb. 28 to closely monitor themselves for any symptoms and self-quarantine for 14 days.

2. Grant MCPS students the flexibility to stay at home due to coronavirus concerns. Based on the experience of many countries badly affected by COVID-19, one of the best ways to prevent COVID-19 from spreading is home isolation to minimize the contact (through touching or breathing in space without enough ventilation) with other people.

3. Make learning materials accessible and create remote teaching/learning opportunities in case a school close down is warranted.

4. Cancel any non-urgent students meetings or gatherings to minimize the risk of infection. So far we still see many meetings, competitions, and gatherings are scheduled to take place. With the potential risk of COVID-19 spreading, these gatherings may pose high risk to the larger community when students from different schools meet together in spaces without enough ventilation.

5. Thoroughly clean and sanitize frequently touched surfaces in school facilities; re-emphasize to students the importance of practicing good hygiene such as cleaning hands using soap and water or hand sanitizer and avoiding touching mouth/eyes/nose.

If you agree, please sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/mcps-leadership-urge-mcps-leadership-to-take-actions-to-prevent-the-spread-of-deadly-covid-19



6. Move up or reschedule Spring Break to reduce ahead of time the chance of the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Or, move some off days from summer break to spring.

If you are in agreement with these proposed actions, please sign this petition to show your support.

We really hope with the combined efforts from MCPS and the community, we can prevent COVID-19 from spreading, and keep its impact to the minimum.

Thank you!

The building in which I teach is short one building service worker and didn’t even get the cleaning customary during Winter Break. I’ll forget how bad it is until I go into my kid’s school or go to a meeting elsewhere. Yesterday, we were at an event at another school and my students were startled that there was hot water, liquid soap, and paper towels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1. Urge individuals from our school community who visited the Village at Rockville days after Feb. 28 to closely monitor themselves for any symptoms and self-quarantine for 14 days.

2. Grant MCPS students the flexibility to stay at home due to coronavirus concerns. Based on the experience of many countries badly affected by COVID-19, one of the best ways to prevent COVID-19 from spreading is home isolation to minimize the contact (through touching or breathing in space without enough ventilation) with other people.

3. Make learning materials accessible and create remote teaching/learning opportunities in case a school close down is warranted.

4. Cancel any non-urgent students meetings or gatherings to minimize the risk of infection. So far we still see many meetings, competitions, and gatherings are scheduled to take place. With the potential risk of COVID-19 spreading, these gatherings may pose high risk to the larger community when students from different schools meet together in spaces without enough ventilation.

5. Thoroughly clean and sanitize frequently touched surfaces in school facilities; re-emphasize to students the importance of practicing good hygiene such as cleaning hands using soap and water or hand sanitizer and avoiding touching mouth/eyes/nose.

If you agree, please sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/mcps-leadership-urge-mcps-leadership-to-take-actions-to-prevent-the-spread-of-deadly-covid-19



6. Move up or reschedule Spring Break to reduce ahead of time the chance of the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Or, move some off days from summer break to spring.

If you are in agreement with these proposed actions, please sign this petition to show your support.

We really hope with the combined efforts from MCPS and the community, we can prevent COVID-19 from spreading, and keep its impact to the minimum.

Thank you!

This petition gives the county a great excuse to implement an emergency virus tax to pay for these proposals...and other “priorities”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:60 and up. Obvs.

And so we drift into the land of the parents of Scholl kids who will continue being exposed via kids.

Who are the Scholl kids?

[Anonymous]

One of the things you see on this thread is an unwillingness to realize we are in uncharted territory. We may have to consider disruptions that seem unthinkable to us.

I recommend following Scott Gottlieb on Twitter (Former FDA chief under Trump), Jeremy Konyndyk (ebola response Obama), Juliette Kayyem (deputy Homeland Security Obama), science journalist Helen Branswell,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How about instead of schools and childcare centers shutting down (wreaking financial havoc on working parents/disrupting kids’ education due to a virus children are unlikely to get extremely sick from), we ask older people to take one for the team and quarantine themselves. People will still get sick, but this way it won’t cause our hospitals to overflow with the more severely sick older people. This seems like a better way to keep society going. If you are an older person who is still working, then we will provide some sort of financial stipend to help you miss work.

OK. I like your plan.

Which older people should we say should just stay home? Starting at what age?

Well my first inclination is that everyone chips in and does their part with quarantine including that employers and/or the government should ensure no income disruption for those the most adversely impacted by school and work closures (i.e. working parents and hourly workers). But then I was basically told “too bad, so sad” on another thread that I dared to use up my leave (thanks to my NICU baby and my own personal health issues) so I should just be forced to take unpaid leave since apparently I should have foreseen a potential pandemic outbreak and I guess?? therefore have forgone having a family and just squirreled away all my leave

So if we are going to take the “every man for himself” approach to this that so many on this forum are suggesting, my vote is we make the old people who are most likely to be affected by this take the hit. Doesn’t make sense for kids and parents of young kids to sacrifice when they’re not even the ones getting super sick.

Based on your chart, I’d say age 60 or anyone immunocomprised.

I hope it doesn’t get to this though and that we come to our senses and take care or everyone during this time. If the government can bail out banks, why not take care of our own citizens during this unprecedented time.

Where do you think a small business owner with less than 50 employees is going to get income to pay them while shut down? They don’t just hoard money for an impending pandemic. I don’t think you have a concept of how the average service business functions. You will lose the majority of small businesses if they shut down for a few weeks and force them to pay employees. That is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How about instead of schools and childcare centers shutting down (wreaking financial havoc on working parents/disrupting kids’ education due to a virus children are unlikely to get extremely sick from), we ask older people to take one for the team and quarantine themselves. People will still get sick, but this way it won’t cause our hospitals to overflow with the more severely sick older people. This seems like a better way to keep society going. If you are an older person who is still working, then we will provide some sort of financial stipend to help you miss work.

OK. I like your plan.

Which older people should we say should just stay home? Starting at what age?

Well my first inclination is that everyone chips in and does their part with quarantine including that employers and/or the government should ensure no income disruption for those the most adversely impacted by school and work closures (i.e. working parents and hourly workers). But then I was basically told “too bad, so sad” on another thread that I dared to use up my leave (thanks to my NICU baby and my own personal health issues) so I should just be forced to take unpaid leave since apparently I should have foreseen a potential pandemic outbreak and I guess?? therefore have forgone having a family and just squirreled away all my leave

So if we are going to take the “every man for himself” approach to this that so many on this forum are suggesting, my vote is we make the old people who are most likely to be affected by this take the hit. Doesn’t make sense for kids and parents of young kids to sacrifice when they’re not even the ones getting super sick.

Based on your chart, I’d say age 60 or anyone immunocomprised.

I hope it doesn’t get to this though and that we come to our senses and take care or everyone during this time. If the government can bail out banks, why not take care of our own citizens during this unprecedented time.

Where do you think a small business owner with less than 50 employees is going to get income to pay them while shut down? They don’t just hoard money for an impending pandemic. I don’t think you have a concept of how the average service business functions. You will lose the majority of small businesses if they shut down for a few weeks and force them to pay employees. That is insane.

Where’s Yang?

We need a pandemic UBI through Congress yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1. Urge individuals from our school community who visited the Village at Rockville days after Feb. 28 to closely monitor themselves for any symptoms and self-quarantine for 14 days.

2. Grant MCPS students the flexibility to stay at home due to coronavirus concerns. Based on the experience of many countries badly affected by COVID-19, one of the best ways to prevent COVID-19 from spreading is home isolation to minimize the contact (through touching or breathing in space without enough ventilation) with other people.

3. Make learning materials accessible and create remote teaching/learning opportunities in case a school close down is warranted.

4. Cancel any non-urgent students meetings or gatherings to minimize the risk of infection. So far we still see many meetings, competitions, and gatherings are scheduled to take place. With the potential risk of COVID-19 spreading, these gatherings may pose high risk to the larger community when students from different schools meet together in spaces without enough ventilation.

5. Thoroughly clean and sanitize frequently touched surfaces in school facilities; re-emphasize to students the importance of practicing good hygiene such as cleaning hands using soap and water or hand sanitizer and avoiding touching mouth/eyes/nose.

If you agree, please sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/mcps-leadership-urge-mcps-leadership-to-take-actions-to-prevent-the-spread-of-deadly-covid-19



6. Move up or reschedule Spring Break to reduce ahead of time the chance of the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Or, move some off days from summer break to spring.

If you are in agreement with these proposed actions, please sign this petition to show your support.

We really hope with the combined efforts from MCPS and the community, we can prevent COVID-19 from spreading, and keep its impact to the minimum.

Thank you!

This petition gives the county a great excuse to implement an emergency virus tax to pay for these proposals...and other “priorities”

How?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of people teaching and working in other capacities at schools who are 60+, are you okay with younger subs taking over those classes and jobs for weeks or months?

Yes. As mentioned there would be financial subsidy for older workers who have to stay home.

I want a financial subsidy to stay home!

How about old people just retire or use savings? I’m so sick of subsidizing their choices.

[Anonymous]

I wonder what the reaction would be if this virus primarily hit children, teens, and young adults the hardest.

My guess is there would be a lot of "get back to work" going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what the reaction would be if this virus primarily hit children, teens, and young adults the hardest.

My guess is there would be a lot of "get back to work" going on.

What’s the age of the youngest person hit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of people teaching and working in other capacities at schools who are 60+, are you okay with younger subs taking over those classes and jobs for weeks or months?

Yes. As mentioned there would be financial subsidy for older workers who have to stay home.

I want a financial subsidy to stay home!

How about old people just retire or use savings? I’m so sick of subsidizing their choices.

Why is everyone in this thread so entitled?