FCPS Masking Update

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Surgeon General's family caught covid. If masks work, I would guess that he could have avoided it.

So you have inside knowledge that the surgeon general’s family was masking 24/ 7? What a dumb argument against masks. Look, no one likes wearing the damn things, but they do provide some mitigation. I think it’s silly to argue that they do absolutely nothing.

The CDC said cloth masks are merely facial decorations. What something do they do besides decorate the face?

It helps when a small child sneezes or cough and doesn't cover the mouth. I'm sure you've never worked in a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Braband is a piece of work. Cancels school for rain before even seeing how weather turns out. But has time to carefully craft message after message on this useless mask mandate.

I think you're a piece of work-maybe Brabrand cares about the safety of children. You'd be the first to sue if your child was hurt due to FCPS not calling a snow day correctly. Put a sock in it.

[Anonymous]

Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So strange that people didn’t complain about seat belts becoming law or all the smoking changes but now the thought of a mask makes them meltdown. Such a sad society we are.

Seat belts make driving dramatically safer. Masks are some kind of woke shibboleth. Your analogy is asinine.

This tells me all I need to know about you.

Oh well, guess I don't get to be in the cool kids group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Surgeon General's family caught covid. If masks work, I would guess that he could have avoided it.

So you have inside knowledge that the surgeon general’s family was masking 24/ 7? What a dumb argument against masks. Look, no one likes wearing the damn things, but they do provide some mitigation. I think it’s silly to argue that they do absolutely nothing.

The CDC said cloth masks are merely facial decorations. What something do they do besides decorate the face?

It helps when a small child sneezes or cough and doesn't cover the mouth. I'm sure you've never worked in a school.

. They sneeze in the cloth mask?

And continue wearing it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Surgeon General's family caught covid. If masks work, I would guess that he could have avoided it.

So you have inside knowledge that the surgeon general’s family was masking 24/ 7? What a dumb argument against masks. Look, no one likes wearing the damn things, but they do provide some mitigation. I think it’s silly to argue that they do absolutely nothing.

The CDC said cloth masks are merely facial decorations. What something do they do besides decorate the face?

It helps when a small child sneezes or cough and doesn't cover the mouth. I'm sure you've never worked in a school.

My kid reported that kids in her class hated coughing into masks and so would pull the mask down to cough and still not cover the mouth. Realistically who wants a gross phlegmatic mask? The poor teacher was so frustrated.

And that was the moment, as a nasty non-Covid cold spread via those uncovered coughs, I lost my last shred of faith in mask mandates. Masks theoretically work. Mandates lead to the behavior above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

Less than 87 some other poster has said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

In order to meet the arbitrary standard of CDC, we'd have to be at a seven day average of 7 cases per day per 100k people.

I think we can get to that if we have about 80 actual cases per day in the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

Less than 87 some other poster has said.

I think we can have about 80 total per day. 49 per 100k per 7 days. So that is 7 per day per 100k. There are 1.15 million people in fairfax. 7x11.5= 80.5 per day. We would need to meet this averaged over 7 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So strange that people didn’t complain about seat belts becoming law or all the smoking changes but now the thought of a mask makes them meltdown. Such a sad society we are.

Seat belts make driving dramatically safer. Masks are some kind of woke shibboleth. Your analogy is asinine.

This tells me all I need to know about you.

Oh well, guess I don't get to be in the cool kids group.

I suppose there's this. But masking is definitely not a cult!

“I see these people just not wearing a mask, or wearing one pulled down, like, under their chin,” said Swan, “and my brain just immediately goes, ‘That person does not share the same ideals as me. We won’t get along.’ ” She added: “They may not be a bad person. They may just be thinking the same things as their parents.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/18/virginia-masking-student-voices/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

Less than 87 some other poster has said.

I think we can have about 80 total per day. 49 per 100k per 7 days. So that is 7 per day per 100k. There are 1.15 million people in fairfax. 7x11.5= 80.5 per day. We would need to meet this averaged over 7 days.

This is helpful, thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So strange that people didn’t complain about seat belts becoming law or all the smoking changes but now the thought of a mask makes them meltdown. Such a sad society we are.

Seat belts make driving dramatically safer. Masks are some kind of woke shibboleth. Your analogy is asinine.

This tells me all I need to know about you.

Oh well, guess I don't get to be in the cool kids group.

I suppose there's this. But masking is definitely not a cult!

“I see these people just not wearing a mask, or wearing one pulled down, like, under their chin,” said Swan, “and my brain just immediately goes, ‘That person does not share the same ideals as me. We won’t get along.’ ” She added: “They may not be a bad person. They may just be thinking the same things as their parents.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/18/virginia-masking-student-voices/

Says the girl that is thinking the same thing as her parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

Yes, transmission level is based on cumulative case counts not average. So add the daily case county and then convert to /100000. Basically, the county has to have less than 70 cases/ per day for 7 days straight.

It's still weeks or months away before we are in moderate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax today:

New case rate 7-day ave: 11 per 100k people

Percent positivity: 5.7%

Thanks for sharing. Am I then correct in my understanding that we need to get to less than 50 positives/day in all of FFX county's population to meet FCPS's mask removal guidelines?And we're at about 110?

Yes, transmission level is based on cumulative case counts not average. So add the daily case county and then convert to /100000. Basically, the county has to have less than 70 cases/ per day for 7 days straight.

It's still weeks or months away before we are in moderate.

This seems overly restrictive in a heavily vaccinated region like ours. Will the CDC be adjusting the definitions of low, moderate, high, etc. in this week's anticipated announcement? I know no one knows for sure, just curious what people think.