APS - Just closed the rest of the week?

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Anonymous wrote:I think given the forecast for the rest of the week they should do some virtual days to ease into next week instead of adding more snow days.

Virtual days don't count towards the minimum required instructional days under SB 1303 unless the governor declares a Covid 19 state of emergency.

Is this true? Then why on earth is neighboring ACPS doing them?

It’s not true.

https://legiscan.com/VA/text/SB1303/2021/X1

"Each school board shall offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours"

Read the bill, friends.

The rest of the bill outlines exceptions to the part you posted.

Which exception would make virtual days on Thursday and Friday count?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

This seems to have run its course.

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Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

It isn't just that. My primary care won't see my for sick visits. They wouldn't even see me when I had a cough for 3 months and multiple negative tests. They just kept sending me to the ER. VA Dept of health needs to demand PCP see patients with covid symptoms to help alleviate ER burden.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

It isn't just that. My primary care won't see my for sick visits. They wouldn't even see me when I had a cough for 3 months and multiple negative tests. They just kept sending me to the ER. VA Dept of health needs to demand PCP see patients with covid symptoms to help alleviate ER burden.

YOU DON'T NEED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR IF YOU HAVE ASYMPTOMATIC OR MILD COVID SYMPTOMS!!!

Plus, you can easily do a tele-visit, as I did when I had COVID (it was a huge waste of $ - the advice was to rest). I just did a televisit for a sinus infection. Very very easy.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and NOT for closing schools and going virtual because of Covid. I do believe there is a high chance we will return, there will be community spread and some/many schools will close for a short time. However, I think this wave will be over by the end of January.

With the opportunity for snow on Friday, I don't see the point of bringing students in for one day. The first day after break is always difficult getting students back into the groove. I also think that if we have the opportunity for community spread, one day together is not really beneficial.

Arlington should just call virtual for Thursday and Friday. We return on Monday and hope (while using precautions) that we don't have community spread that would cause individual schools to close.

You're vaccinated and boosted. You must be an anti-vaxxer though since it appears that you don't think vaccines work.

If you're worried about being exposed to COVID, school often has the lowest amount of spread in the community. But then again, everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID for the rest of their life. It won't be eradicated (in case you haven't seen the news for the last 9 months). And we're moving away from case counts, etc. and getting back to normal life soon.

Time to get to work.

Exactly! People think we can recuperate this lost time but we don’t. Each day that passes is detrimental to kids, especially those who are already behind or who don’t have parental support at home. I am an educator and I wholeheartedly believe the kids need to be in school as soon as possible and get back to normal. Virtual is not normal. It doesn’t work for the vast majority of kids. I am prepared to do my job, I am vaccinated and not afraid. Bring the kids back to school!

Stop with the drama. Virtual school is not happening. It’s just a snowstorm.

Seriously!! We’ve had snowstorms before without going virtual. People cannot separate Covid from anything anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

It isn't just that. My primary care won't see my for sick visits. They wouldn't even see me when I had a cough for 3 months and multiple negative tests. They just kept sending me to the ER. VA Dept of health needs to demand PCP see patients with covid symptoms to help alleviate ER burden.

YOU DON'T NEED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR IF YOU HAVE ASYMPTOMATIC OR MILD COVID SYMPTOMS!!!

Plus, you can easily do a tele-visit, as I did when I had COVID (it was a huge waste of $ - the advice was to rest). I just did a televisit for a sinus infection. Very very easy.

I work at doctor's office. I don't know of any doctor who would send a non-emergency patient to the ER. That is absurd and sounds like a nice made up story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

It isn't just that. My primary care won't see my for sick visits. They wouldn't even see me when I had a cough for 3 months and multiple negative tests. They just kept sending me to the ER. VA Dept of health needs to demand PCP see patients with covid symptoms to help alleviate ER burden.

Not unless you are having trouble breathing or some other complications. There is no pill for Covid. No need to infect your doctor’s office or the ER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

It isn't just that. My primary care won't see my for sick visits. They wouldn't even see me when I had a cough for 3 months and multiple negative tests. They just kept sending me to the ER. VA Dept of health needs to demand PCP see patients with covid symptoms to help alleviate ER burden.

Not unless you are having trouble breathing or some other complications. There is no pill for Covid. No need to infect your doctor’s office or the ER.

But it isn't just people who had covid. Many PCPs aren't seeing anyone with covid symptoms whether or not it is covid. I didn't have covid. I would have liked my doctor to actually listen to my lungs. Instead of listening to my lungs my doctor used a virtual appt to send me to the ER for a lung xray. When I got to ER. they listened to my lungs and sent me home with an inhaler. My Dr could have done this. Except they refuse to see anyone with covid symptoms even with a negative test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Especially when it is as mild as this one is.

If it's so mild, why are the hospitals jammed?

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if hospitals are jammed with admitted patients due to covid those patients are virtually all unvaccinated and/or immune compromised. It’s mild for the vaccinated.

Reposting for the misinformation that hospitals are "jammed". They're not.

Hospitals aren't jammed at all. Take a look at the HHS portal. VA hospitals are doing great at non-flu season capacity right now (70-80% is regular during that time period and hospitals typically "fill up" during flu seasons; VA is at 73% for hospitalization and 78% for ICUs right now).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

The ERs are flooded, but with COVID paranoid people testing positive with no or little symptoms. What a failure of public health to scare people so much they're flooding the ER for the sniffles.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-health-and-h...ospital-emergency-departments/

It isn't just that. My primary care won't see my for sick visits. They wouldn't even see me when I had a cough for 3 months and multiple negative tests. They just kept sending me to the ER. VA Dept of health needs to demand PCP see patients with covid symptoms to help alleviate ER burden.

Not unless you are having trouble breathing or some other complications. There is no pill for Covid. No need to infect your doctor’s office or the ER.

But it isn't just people who had covid. Many PCPs aren't seeing anyone with covid symptoms whether or not it is covid. I didn't have covid. I would have liked my doctor to actually listen to my lungs. Instead of listening to my lungs my doctor used a virtual appt to send me to the ER for a lung xray. When I got to ER. they listened to my lungs and sent me home with an inhaler. My Dr could have done this. Except they refuse to see anyone with covid symptoms even with a negative test.

ETA: I wanted to add that pediatricians are seeing sick patients. Covid is not massively spreading through pediatrician offices.

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Anonymous wrote:Omicron is going to spread whether you like it or not. The only way to avoid is to do a total isolation. So, if you are still scared of it, go ahead and isolate. Otherwise, just plan to get it at some point most likely in the next month and get it over with.

I'm nearly ready to do a chickenpox style party to at least control when we get it and get it over with.

Cannot outrun shutdown isolate every single time a wave hits. Especially when it is as mild as this one is. And if you can remember the before times, we did not respond this way for flu, etc.

Given the way Omicron presents, people are basically proposing to go virtual for a cold on steroids. Which is crazy.

There is a concern for long covid even with omicron and “mild” cases. Really understand your frustration, but exposing your children or self intentionally is pretty foolish. And reactive.

Long COVID in mild cases?!? Get away from the fear porn. Long COVID is as common as it is for long-term symptoms of the flu (i.e., not at all).

And the best was the Long COVID study of kids out of the UK that showed the control group (who never had COVID) had more Long COVID than the group that had COVID.

A very good friend of mine in late 30s, healthy, fit got a very mild case of COVID last Dec. She's still having long COVID symptoms that are worse than her initial COVID symptoms. She's being seen by multiple doctors who have ruled out autoimmune, thyroid, etc. and all attribute to long COVID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Omicron is going to spread whether you like it or not. The only way to avoid is to do a total isolation. So, if you are still scared of it, go ahead and isolate. Otherwise, just plan to get it at some point most likely in the next month and get it over with.

I'm nearly ready to do a chickenpox style party to at least control when we get it and get it over with.

Cannot outrun shutdown isolate every single time a wave hits. Especially when it is as mild as this one is. And if you can remember the before times, we did not respond this way for flu, etc.

Given the way Omicron presents, people are basically proposing to go virtual for a cold on steroids. Which is crazy.

There is a concern for long covid even with omicron and “mild” cases. Really understand your frustration, but exposing your children or self intentionally is pretty foolish. And reactive.

Long COVID in mild cases?!? Get away from the fear porn. Long COVID is as common as it is for long-term symptoms of the flu (i.e., not at all).

And the best was the Long COVID study of kids out of the UK that showed the control group (who never had COVID) had more Long COVID than the group that had COVID.

A very good friend of mine in late 30s, healthy, fit got a very mild case of COVID last Dec. She's still having long COVID symptoms that are worse than her initial COVID symptoms. She's being seen by multiple doctors who have ruled out autoimmune, thyroid, etc. and all attribute to long COVID.

Nice anecdote.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omicron is going to spread whether you like it or not. The only way to avoid is to do a total isolation. So, if you are still scared of it, go ahead and isolate. Otherwise, just plan to get it at some point most likely in the next month and get it over with.

I'm nearly ready to do a chickenpox style party to at least control when we get it and get it over with.

Cannot outrun shutdown isolate every single time a wave hits. Especially when it is as mild as this one is. And if you can remember the before times, we did not respond this way for flu, etc.

Given the way Omicron presents, people are basically proposing to go virtual for a cold on steroids. Which is crazy.

There is a concern for long covid even with omicron and “mild” cases. Really understand your frustration, but exposing your children or self intentionally is pretty foolish. And reactive.

Long COVID in mild cases?!? Get away from the fear porn. Long COVID is as common as it is for long-term symptoms of the flu (i.e., not at all).

And the best was the Long COVID study of kids out of the UK that showed the control group (who never had COVID) had more Long COVID than the group that had COVID.

A very good friend of mine in late 30s, healthy, fit got a very mild case of COVID last Dec. She's still having long COVID symptoms that are worse than her initial COVID symptoms. She's being seen by multiple doctors who have ruled out autoimmune, thyroid, etc. and all attribute to long COVID.

Nice anecdote.

Well stop talking in sounds bites. You obviously aren't a doctor or research scientist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omicron is going to spread whether you like it or not. The only way to avoid is to do a total isolation. So, if you are still scared of it, go ahead and isolate. Otherwise, just plan to get it at some point most likely in the next month and get it over with.

I'm nearly ready to do a chickenpox style party to at least control when we get it and get it over with.

Cannot outrun shutdown isolate every single time a wave hits. Especially when it is as mild as this one is. And if you can remember the before times, we did not respond this way for flu, etc.

Given the way Omicron presents, people are basically proposing to go virtual for a cold on steroids. Which is crazy.

There is a concern for long covid even with omicron and “mild” cases. Really understand your frustration, but exposing your children or self intentionally is pretty foolish. And reactive.

Long COVID in mild cases?!? Get away from the fear porn. Long COVID is as common as it is for long-term symptoms of the flu (i.e., not at all).

Last December COVID is not January 2022 COVID. The virus has mutated. You cannot suggest them as an exact equivalent.

And the best was the Long COVID study of kids out of the UK that showed the control group (who never had COVID) had more Long COVID than the group that had COVID.

A very good friend of mine in late 30s, healthy, fit got a very mild case of COVID last Dec. She's still having long COVID symptoms that are worse than her initial COVID symptoms. She's being seen by multiple doctors who have ruled out autoimmune, thyroid, etc. and all attribute to long COVID.