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There are parents who are picking their kids up from school on rainy days during lunch so that the kids don’t have to eat inside. Everyone has gone just a little bit more insane. We were getting a little better until MoCo brought back the indoor mask mandate.

If masks are such a burden to you, then you might be happier living in Florida or Texas.

You really only need to go an hour or so outside the DMV metro. Masks in school are fine for now but MoCo brining back the indoor mask mandate even for vaccinated individuals means there is no end in sight. Masks aren't going to go a way in schools for a long, long time.

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No, they offered DL for all who applied to VA. Parents screamed they didn't want virtual or hybrid so you got what you asked for. You told parents it had to be in person or deal with it. So, those of us who were uncomfortable with our kids being around yours due to behavior choose VA. Now its time for you to deal with it when your kids get quarantined. Oh well.. It is viable long-term. Many kids are doing virtual long term. It may not be viable for your family as you need free child care but that's a different issue.

How many?

Exactly. And how many are regretting it?

There are about 3200 students in virtual. More applications pending.

We don't regret it.

You don't regret it because you like being a martyr even though it is obvious at this point that school reopening hasnt driven infections in the community and that kids are fine.

No just don't like being around the covid crazies who can't keep their masks on or are in all out denial

Girl, if you think MoCo is full of covid-crazies, you need a reality check. Did you mean crazy-cautious? This is the land of masks on playgrounds.

That's exactly what she means by Covid-crazies.

The covid-forever crowd that things the disease is lurking behind every bush ready to pounce on their child.

Those are the covid-crazies

I am currently at a local park waiting for my son to finish soccer practice. There is a little obscure playground here that no one ever visits. There is a family of 4 at the playground in masks. There is no one around them. Just them and their toddlers. What are they scared of?

Why do you care? For all you know, one of them is recovering from cancer. Butt out!

This- we know a family that wear masks around eachother at home too because dad has to go into the office part-time and one kid is back in school. Just easier to wear masks then worry about transmission at home. The family at the playground could have a similar family policy.

Precisely, my wife is an respiratory therapist and our kid is high risk. What's it to you?

I still don't get why a family playing by themselves would wear masks, especially when they are accepting much bigger risks with a respiratory therapist in the family, but YMMV. Even when masks outside were all the rage, I would only put them on myself and my kids when other people showed up at the playground.

Right. I mean, the only way that makes sense is if they also mask at home too? And eat separately?

Otherwise, it's just silly. or signaling to neighbors how much they "follow the science"

There are parents who are picking their kids up from school on rainy days during lunch so that the kids don’t have to eat inside. Everyone has gone just a little bit more insane. We were getting a little better until MoCo brought back the indoor mask mandate.

We have friends doing that and good for them. We'd do that too if ours were in person. Saying you follow science means nothing as its just a made up term to justify your behavior.

As in, saying you follow science to justify your behavior of keeping your kids out of in-person.

I'm using science to know if I have to get my kids at lunch, there is no social distancing or other basic precautions beyond masking per the CDC its best not to have kids in person. If you read the CDC guidlelines MCPS isn't really following them nor are most parents.

Actually, if you were really following the science you wouldn't let them go at all because most kids are wearing impropoerly fittig cloth masks which are useless to begin with. Only safe space is at home right now.

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No, they offered DL for all who applied to VA. Parents screamed they didn't want virtual or hybrid so you got what you asked for. You told parents it had to be in person or deal with it. So, those of us who were uncomfortable with our kids being around yours due to behavior choose VA. Now its time for you to deal with it when your kids get quarantined. Oh well.. It is viable long-term. Many kids are doing virtual long term. It may not be viable for your family as you need free child care but that's a different issue.

How many?

Exactly. And how many are regretting it?

There are about 3200 students in virtual. More applications pending.

We don't regret it.

You don't regret it because you like being a martyr even though it is obvious at this point that school reopening hasnt driven infections in the community and that kids are fine.

No just don't like being around the covid crazies who can't keep their masks on or are in all out denial

Girl, if you think MoCo is full of covid-crazies, you need a reality check. Did you mean crazy-cautious? This is the land of masks on playgrounds.

That's exactly what she means by Covid-crazies.

The covid-forever crowd that things the disease is lurking behind every bush ready to pounce on their child.

Those are the covid-crazies

I am currently at a local park waiting for my son to finish soccer practice. There is a little obscure playground here that no one ever visits. There is a family of 4 at the playground in masks. There is no one around them. Just them and their toddlers. What are they scared of?

Why do you care? For all you know, one of them is recovering from cancer. Butt out!

This- we know a family that wear masks around eachother at home too because dad has to go into the office part-time and one kid is back in school. Just easier to wear masks then worry about transmission at home. The family at the playground could have a similar family policy.

Precisely, my wife is an respiratory therapist and our kid is high risk. What's it to you?

I still don't get why a family playing by themselves would wear masks, especially when they are accepting much bigger risks with a respiratory therapist in the family, but YMMV. Even when masks outside were all the rage, I would only put them on myself and my kids when other people showed up at the playground.

Right. I mean, the only way that makes sense is if they also mask at home too? And eat separately?

Otherwise, it's just silly. or signaling to neighbors how much they "follow the science"

There are parents who are picking their kids up from school on rainy days during lunch so that the kids don’t have to eat inside. Everyone has gone just a little bit more insane. We were getting a little better until MoCo brought back the indoor mask mandate.

We have friends doing that and good for them. We'd do that too if ours were in person. Saying you follow science means nothing as its just a made up term to justify your behavior.

As in, saying you follow science to justify your behavior of keeping your kids out of in-person.

I'm using science to know if I have to get my kids at lunch, there is no social distancing or other basic precautions beyond masking per the CDC its best not to have kids in person. If you read the CDC guidlelines MCPS isn't really following them nor are most parents.

Well MCPS administered 29,000 tests in 141 schools and only found 18 positives. So I guess MCPS, the parents and the students are doing something right to have a positivity rate of 0.067%. But you do you. CDC guidance is predicated on community transmission and vaccination. We are 89.3% fully vaccinated and 99.2% with at least 1 dose. This is not Alabama.

This was an opt in test where those high risk opt out. Cdc guidance says more especially with large schools.

Doesn't it also include rapid tests administered for symptomatic students? Our ES is giving something like a dozen rapid tests a day- every sniffle, headache, constipation pain warrants a trip to the nurse's office to get tested. No positives at our school from those test yet. Rapid tests are generally reliable with symptoms. I know some of you still think there is the risky group of asymptomatic students who just returned from Disney to inoculate the rest of the students with Covid, but.....

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Exactly. in some elememntary schools with 500 students, only about 20% opted in. They are not reaching families, and other families are launching a "do not opt in" propaganda campaign. Principals are left to figure out who to pick for testing. We don't need to be alabama. We are pretty comical

And we aren't. Hooray!

In Montgomery County, for the delta variant, as of yesterday, the peak seven-day new cases per 100,000 residents was on September 2 (108 new cases per 100,000 residents); the peak test positivity rate was on August 30 (3.6%); the peak percent of hospital inpatient beds occupied was on September 16 (73.8%); the peak percent of ICU beds in use was on September 17 (75.7%); and the peak percent of hospital beds occupied by patients with covid was on September 13 and 18 (9.1%).

The respective numbers yesterday were 66 new cases per 100,000 residents; 1.8% test positivity; 68.6% of hospital inpatient beds occupied; 72.8% of ICU beds in use; 7.2% of hospital beds occupied by patients with covid.

Also, 76.3% of all county residents, 89.9% of county residents aged 12+, 90.3% of county residents aged 18+, and 96.4% of county residents aged 65+ are fully vaccinated.

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Those still complaining about the participation in opt-in testing- you really still don't get it do you? Until MCPS can enact a common sense quarantine policy, i.e., not sending entire classes home for one positive, then people like me who would otherwise participate are not. My kids aren't engaging in any other indoor activities outside of school anyway so I'm not worried about bringing it in from elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Those still complaining about the participation in opt-in testing- you really still don't get it do you? Until MCPS can enact a common sense quarantine policy, i.e., not sending entire classes home for one positive, then people like me who would otherwise participate are not. My kids aren't engaging in any other indoor activities outside of school anyway so I'm not worried about bringing it in from elsewhere.

Right. This.

I would opt my kid in if the quarantine policy was less strict.

But the idea that my kid would be sent home for 2 weeks simply because they are in the same classroom with another kid that tested positive despite having no symptoms.

Yeah, I'm not endorsing that program.

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Anonymous wrote:Those still complaining about the participation in opt-in testing- you really still don't get it do you? Until MCPS can enact a common sense quarantine policy, i.e., not sending entire classes home for one positive, then people like me who would otherwise participate are not. My kids aren't engaging in any other indoor activities outside of school anyway so I'm not worried about bringing it in from elsewhere.

Right. This.

I would opt my kid in if the quarantine policy was less strict.

But the idea that my kid would be sent home for 2 weeks simply because they are in the same classroom with another kid that tested positive despite having no symptoms.

Yeah, I'm not endorsing that program.

also ridiculous that they combined the consent form with testing if child is symptomatic. split up the consent. no way we're opting in for random testing under current quarantine guidelines. we would gladly opt in for testing if there are symptoms. I understand you can consent over the phone as well but still MCPS is shady trying to combine the two

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There are parents who are picking their kids up from school on rainy days during lunch so that the kids don’t have to eat inside. Everyone has gone just a little bit more insane. We were getting a little better until MoCo brought back the indoor mask mandate.

If masks are such a burden to you, then you might be happier living in Florida or Texas.

You really only need to go an hour or so outside the DMV metro. Masks in school are fine for now but MoCo brining back the indoor mask mandate even for vaccinated individuals means there is no end in sight. Masks aren't going to go a way in schools for a long, long time.

I feel like NoVa may ditch masks fairly soon …

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Anonymous wrote:Those still complaining about the participation in opt-in testing- you really still don't get it do you? Until MCPS can enact a common sense quarantine policy, i.e., not sending entire classes home for one positive, then people like me who would otherwise participate are not. My kids aren't engaging in any other indoor activities outside of school anyway so I'm not worried about bringing it in from elsewhere.

Right. This.

I would opt my kid in if the quarantine policy was less strict.

But the idea that my kid would be sent home for 2 weeks simply because they are in the same classroom with another kid that tested positive despite having no symptoms.

Yeah, I'm not endorsing that program.

also ridiculous that they combined the consent form with testing if child is symptomatic. split up the consent. no way we're opting in for random testing under current quarantine guidelines. we would gladly opt in for testing if there are symptoms. I understand you can consent over the phone as well but still MCPS is shady trying to combine the two

Agreed. We will just consent over the phone if needed.

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I feel like NoVa may ditch masks fairly soon …

It's a state requirement. Did you know that?

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No, they offered DL for all who applied to VA. Parents screamed they didn't want virtual or hybrid so you got what you asked for. You told parents it had to be in person or deal with it. So, those of us who were uncomfortable with our kids being around yours due to behavior choose VA. Now its time for you to deal with it when your kids get quarantined. Oh well.. It is viable long-term. Many kids are doing virtual long term. It may not be viable for your family as you need free child care but that's a different issue.

How many?

Exactly. And how many are regretting it?

There are about 3200 students in virtual. More applications pending.

We don't regret it.

You don't regret it because you like being a martyr even though it is obvious at this point that school reopening hasnt driven infections in the community and that kids are fine.

No just don't like being around the covid crazies who can't keep their masks on or are in all out denial

Girl, if you think MoCo is full of covid-crazies, you need a reality check. Did you mean crazy-cautious? This is the land of masks on playgrounds.

That's exactly what she means by Covid-crazies.

The covid-forever crowd that things the disease is lurking behind every bush ready to pounce on their child.

Those are the covid-crazies

I am currently at a local park waiting for my son to finish soccer practice. There is a little obscure playground here that no one ever visits. There is a family of 4 at the playground in masks. There is no one around them. Just them and their toddlers. What are they scared of?

Why do you care? For all you know, one of them is recovering from cancer. Butt out!

This- we know a family that wear masks around eachother at home too because dad has to go into the office part-time and one kid is back in school. Just easier to wear masks then worry about transmission at home. The family at the playground could have a similar family policy.

Precisely, my wife is an respiratory therapist and our kid is high risk. What's it to you?

I still don't get why a family playing by themselves would wear masks, especially when they are accepting much bigger risks with a respiratory therapist in the family, but YMMV. Even when masks outside were all the rage, I would only put them on myself and my kids when other people showed up at the playground.

Right. I mean, the only way that makes sense is if they also mask at home too? And eat separately?

Otherwise, it's just silly. or signaling to neighbors how much they "follow the science"

There are parents who are picking their kids up from school on rainy days during lunch so that the kids don’t have to eat inside. Everyone has gone just a little bit more insane. We were getting a little better until MoCo brought back the indoor mask mandate.

We have friends doing that and good for them. We'd do that too if ours were in person. Saying you follow science means nothing as its just a made up term to justify your behavior.

As in, saying you follow science to justify your behavior of keeping your kids out of in-person.

I'm using science to know if I have to get my kids at lunch, there is no social distancing or other basic precautions beyond masking per the CDC its best not to have kids in person. If you read the CDC guidlelines MCPS isn't really following them nor are most parents.

Thank you.
Less kids means less possibility for COVID-19 to spread. You are doing a great community service and the psychos should be thanking you for helping to keep
schools open and operating.
One needs only to look at other counties in Maryland to see how bad things can get when the psycho parents are in the majority.

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Thank you.
Less kids means less possibility for COVID-19 to spread. You are doing a great community service and the psychos should be thanking you for helping to keep
schools open and operating.
One needs only to look at other counties in Maryland to see how bad things can get when the psycho parents are in the majority.

Which counties, which parents, and which things are you referring to, specifically?

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Anonymous wrote:Those still complaining about the participation in opt-in testing- you really still don't get it do you? Until MCPS can enact a common sense quarantine policy, i.e., not sending entire classes home for one positive, then people like me who would otherwise participate are not. My kids aren't engaging in any other indoor activities outside of school anyway so I'm not worried about bringing it in from elsewhere.

Right. This.

I would opt my kid in if the quarantine policy was less strict.

But the idea that my kid would be sent home for 2 weeks simply because they are in the same classroom with another kid that tested positive despite having no symptoms.

Yeah, I'm not endorsing that program.

also ridiculous that they combined the consent form with testing if child is symptomatic. split up the consent. no way we're opting in for random testing under current quarantine guidelines. we would gladly opt in for testing if there are symptoms. I understand you can consent over the phone as well but still MCPS is shady trying to combine the two

Why not consent for both? You ware really selfish.

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No, they offered DL for all who applied to VA. Parents screamed they didn't want virtual or hybrid so you got what you asked for. You told parents it had to be in person or deal with it. So, those of us who were uncomfortable with our kids being around yours due to behavior choose VA. Now its time for you to deal with it when your kids get quarantined. Oh well.. It is viable long-term. Many kids are doing virtual long term. It may not be viable for your family as you need free child care but that's a different issue.

How many?

Exactly. And how many are regretting it?

There are about 3200 students in virtual. More applications pending.

We don't regret it.

You don't regret it because you like being a martyr even though it is obvious at this point that school reopening hasnt driven infections in the community and that kids are fine.

No just don't like being around the covid crazies who can't keep their masks on or are in all out denial

Girl, if you think MoCo is full of covid-crazies, you need a reality check. Did you mean crazy-cautious? This is the land of masks on playgrounds.

That's exactly what she means by Covid-crazies.

The covid-forever crowd that things the disease is lurking behind every bush ready to pounce on their child.

Those are the covid-crazies

I am currently at a local park waiting for my son to finish soccer practice. There is a little obscure playground here that no one ever visits. There is a family of 4 at the playground in masks. There is no one around them. Just them and their toddlers. What are they scared of?

Why do you care? For all you know, one of them is recovering from cancer. Butt out!

This- we know a family that wear masks around eachother at home too because dad has to go into the office part-time and one kid is back in school. Just easier to wear masks then worry about transmission at home. The family at the playground could have a similar family policy.

Precisely, my wife is an respiratory therapist and our kid is high risk. What's it to you?

I still don't get why a family playing by themselves would wear masks, especially when they are accepting much bigger risks with a respiratory therapist in the family, but YMMV. Even when masks outside were all the rage, I would only put them on myself and my kids when other people showed up at the playground.

Right. I mean, the only way that makes sense is if they also mask at home too? And eat separately?

Otherwise, it's just silly. or signaling to neighbors how much they "follow the science"

There are parents who are picking their kids up from school on rainy days during lunch so that the kids don’t have to eat inside. Everyone has gone just a little bit more insane. We were getting a little better until MoCo brought back the indoor mask mandate.

We have friends doing that and good for them. We'd do that too if ours were in person. Saying you follow science means nothing as its just a made up term to justify your behavior.

As in, saying you follow science to justify your behavior of keeping your kids out of in-person.

I'm using science to know if I have to get my kids at lunch, there is no social distancing or other basic precautions beyond masking per the CDC its best not to have kids in person. If you read the CDC guidlelines MCPS isn't really following them nor are most parents.

Well MCPS administered 29,000 tests in 141 schools and only found 18 positives. So I guess MCPS, the parents and the students are doing something right to have a positivity rate of 0.067%. But you do you. CDC guidance is predicated on community transmission and vaccination. We are 89.3% fully vaccinated and 99.2% with at least 1 dose. This is not Alabama.

This was an opt in test where those high risk opt out. Cdc guidance says more especially with large schools.

Doesn't it also include rapid tests administered for symptomatic students? Our ES is giving something like a dozen rapid tests a day- every sniffle, headache, constipation pain warrants a trip to the nurse's office to get tested. No positives at our school from those test yet. Rapid tests are generally reliable with symptoms. I know some of you still think there is the risky group of asymptomatic students who just returned from Disney to inoculate the rest of the students with Covid, but.....

I want to see the numbers. Everyone screams science. Science is about numbers. Your kids. Are only as safe as the least safe person in the school.

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Exactly. in some elememntary schools with 500 students, only about 20% opted in. They are not reaching families, and other families are launching a "do not opt in" propaganda campaign. Principals are left to figure out who to pick for testing. We don't need to be alabama. We are pretty comical

And we aren't. Hooray!

In Montgomery County, for the delta variant, as of yesterday, the peak seven-day new cases per 100,000 residents was on September 2 (108 new cases per 100,000 residents); the peak test positivity rate was on August 30 (3.6%); the peak percent of hospital inpatient beds occupied was on September 16 (73.8%); the peak percent of ICU beds in use was on September 17 (75.7%); and the peak percent of hospital beds occupied by patients with covid was on September 13 and 18 (9.1%).

The respective numbers yesterday were 66 new cases per 100,000 residents; 1.8% test positivity; 68.6% of hospital inpatient beds occupied; 72.8% of ICU beds in use; 7.2% of hospital beds occupied by patients with covid.

Also, 76.3% of all county residents, 89.9% of county residents aged 12+, 90.3% of county residents aged 18+, and 96.4% of county residents aged 65+ are fully vaccinated.

Zero kids in elementary school are vaccinated. Not all in middles school are. Accinated. You can still get Covid vaccinated.