MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sense from reading the (typically flaming) comments here is that people don’t understand the policy or aren’t reading it closely. I can tell you first hand about it because my daughter’s entire class (plus a math section) was quarantined today because of one child with one symptom under this new guidance BEFORE they even told anyone about it. The student did test negative and they’ll go out back next week.

Most people agree that if a kid is sick with one of those symptoms they should stay home and take a test. No one is debating that. Let’s talk specifics - the specifics are that the entire class was quarantined for a day because of one kid with one symptom that my daughter didn’t even talk to or sit close to. And she was wearing a mask all day as was the child. They ate outside.

It is total insanity. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but it’s certainly suspicious that they dumped this on a holiday Friday evening (oldest trick in the book) at least 24 hours after they decided it - since our class was told to quarantine under this policy last night. Our kids will be out all the time.

MCPS doesn't want to be open. But they're being forced to, so they're gonna make us all suffer for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my kid in on day 2 with diarrhea. Deal with it.

Yeah, you’re a lazy parent. We get it.

Meh. It actually takes alot of work to get a kid with diarrhea fed, cleaned, practiced in the art of making it to the potty on time and hopped up on antidiarrhea pills so they could make it through a day.of precious learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should spend some of that federal money to purchase and distribute home tests for kids so they can test fast and get back to school the next day.

Home tests will never be, and should never be, accepted. If we’ve learned anything in the past 18 months, it’s that nothing related to a pandemic can ever be left to the “honor system.”

Got it. So do you want us to just take the PDF from an old test and update the dates and order ID? I guess that's cheaper and faster than paying for a test.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand this policy at all. Why can’t the exposed kids get tested and demonstrate they’re negative? Why do we have to rely on the individual who has the symptoms? None of this makes any sense at all!! If my kid is exposed to a symptomatic kid and I get a test showing my kid is negative, then why does my Covid-free kid have to miss out on 10 days of education?!? Unbelievable this county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should spend some of that federal money to purchase and distribute home tests for kids so they can test fast and get back to school the next day.

Home tests will never be, and should never be, accepted. If we’ve learned anything in the past 18 months, it’s that nothing related to a pandemic can ever be left to the “honor system.”

Got it. So do you want us to just take the PDF from an old test and update the dates and order ID? I guess that's cheaper and faster than paying for a test.

You can haul your happy, lazy ass to a medical provider and get a new test which they will report as positive or negative and until then, your precious little darling can stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this policy at all. Why can’t the exposed kids get tested and demonstrate they’re negative? Why do we have to rely on the individual who has the symptoms? None of this makes any sense at all!! If my kid is exposed to a symptomatic kid and I get a test showing my kid is negative, then why does my Covid-free kid have to miss out on 10 days of education?!? Unbelievable this county.

Because average incubation for Delta is four days and if they’ve just come into contact with the positive person, they will test falsely negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This is for MD as a whole not for MoCo with 90% of eligible population already vaccinated. MoCo cases are at 10.7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this policy at all. Why can’t the exposed kids get tested and demonstrate they’re negative? Why do we have to rely on the individual who has the symptoms? None of this makes any sense at all!! If my kid is exposed to a symptomatic kid and I get a test showing my kid is negative, then why does my Covid-free kid have to miss out on 10 days of education?!? Unbelievable this county.

They can!!! I don't understand you at all! Why can't you read!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should spend some of that federal money to purchase and distribute home tests for kids so they can test fast and get back to school the next day.

Home tests will never be, and should never be, accepted. If we’ve learned anything in the past 18 months, it’s that nothing related to a pandemic can ever be left to the “honor system.”

Got it. So do you want us to just take the PDF from an old test and update the dates and order ID? I guess that's cheaper and faster than paying for a test.

You can haul your happy, lazy ass to a medical provider and get a new test which they will report as positive or negative and until then, your precious little darling can stay home.

The thing about processes that involve voluntary compliance is that you need to come with a plausible argument why they’re better off complying rather than cheating. Or, at least, don’t heavily punish people that comply. This whole plan tremendously incentives cheating, far more than if they actually followed CDC guidance.

Mcps is really, really bad at incentives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this policy at all. Why can’t the exposed kids get tested and demonstrate they’re negative? Why do we have to rely on the individual who has the symptoms? None of this makes any sense at all!! If my kid is exposed to a symptomatic kid and I get a test showing my kid is negative, then why does my Covid-free kid have to miss out on 10 days of education?!? Unbelievable this county.

They can!!! I don't understand you at all! Why can't you read!!!

Where in the guidance does it say that the exposed individuals can return with proof of negative test? The burden of proof is on the symptomatic individual.

[Anonymous]

You wanted open schools, you have open schools.
You boasted you'd send your kid to school with a gauze mask because masks weren't needed.
You ridiculed attempts to move lunch outdoors.
You complained at the idea that your kid might be assigned seating at lunch.

Well, LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE NOW. This is what you get. Slammed with a mostly reasonable (could be better) plan for stricter surveillance of Covid cases, just because cases are rising fast in MoCo and certain people at the top understand that if they don't put brakes RIGHT NOW -

- you are all going to end up in virtual. Where you did not want to be.

So NOW are you going to comply? Or did you really secretly want to go virtual? I mean, the way you're yelling and screaming and plotting to lie about your kids' symptoms, it sure looks like it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is for MD as a whole not for MoCo with 90% of eligible population already vaccinated. MoCo cases are at 10.7.

Exactly 10.7 cases per 100,000, half of what the state of MD is seeing, and our hospitalizations are a 1/3 of what they were same time last year. https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/coronavirus/as-covid-19-cases-increase-hospitalizations-remain-lower-than-in-previous-waves/. here MoCo’s sweetheart Dr. Gayles acknowledges that MoCo is doing just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this policy at all. Why can’t the exposed kids get tested and demonstrate they’re negative? Why do we have to rely on the individual who has the symptoms? None of this makes any sense at all!! If my kid is exposed to a symptomatic kid and I get a test showing my kid is negative, then why does my Covid-free kid have to miss out on 10 days of education?!? Unbelievable this county.

They can!!! I don't understand you at all! Why can't you read!!!

Where in the guidance does it say that the exposed individuals can return with proof of negative test? The burden of proof is on the symptomatic individual.

They might move on that. Mostly the reasoning is that it takes about 4 days to develop Delta symptoms. The old guidance with previous strains, which took longer to replicate, was 10 to 14 days. So they went with 10 days, which is a bit long for Delta.

I'd tweak the rules to add that the original symptomatic student must get tested by MCPS immediately onsite.

This is really the only part that's missing from these otherwise reasonable rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this policy at all. Why can’t the exposed kids get tested and demonstrate they’re negative? Why do we have to rely on the individual who has the symptoms? None of this makes any sense at all!! If my kid is exposed to a symptomatic kid and I get a test showing my kid is negative, then why does my Covid-free kid have to miss out on 10 days of education?!? Unbelievable this county.

They can!!! I don't understand you at all! Why can't you read!!!

Where in the guidance does it say that the exposed individuals can return with proof of negative test? The burden of proof is on the symptomatic individual.

The pp is the one lacking reading comprehension skills. It a kid tests positive, the school will keep the other kids home for a minimum of 10 days. There’s no shortcut.

This is why it’s critical to never tell mcps if your child tests positive. Or help contact tracers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is for MD as a whole not for MoCo with 90% of eligible population already vaccinated. MoCo cases are at 10.7.

Exactly 10.7 cases per 100,000, half of what the state of MD is seeing, and our hospitalizations are a 1/3 of what they were same time last year. https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/coronavirus/as-covid-19-cases-increase-hospitalizations-remain-lower-than-in-previous-waves/. here MoCo’s sweetheart Dr. Gayles acknowledges that MoCo is doing just fine.

Uhh..you divide the number in the graph by 7 to get the daily number per 100000. Which gives you 15.