anyone know what covid news is coming home today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

Ok so to summarize:
MCPS got rid of the mask mandate
As of literally this week, they said based on cdc guidance and dept of health guidance, they no longer needed to contact trace
Cdc guidance still says unvaxxed individuals need to quarantine after close contact
But since mcps isn’t contact tracing, unvaxxed individuals in a class or activity or grade level now need to quarantine for 5 days if 3 or more students test positive

So even if a not-sick child, who can’t control whether his parents vaccinated him, showed up to school religiously wearing a kn95 mask, and tested negative (!!) he must miss up to a week of school because other children decided to go maskless in his class and infect each other? And the school dropped all the mitigations?

Just so everyone knows, our school got a letter too. It said students who are eligible for the booster but not boosted would have to quarantine too unless they had covid in the last 90 days. My kids are too young for the booster, but this is getting ridiculous considering there is no vaccine (or booster) mandate and no one was notified of this policy change in advance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your kids have all had covid like six times at this point. Don't come crying to to me when their toes turn purple. I could show you study after study about how bad that is, but you won't listen.

Weird post? If you are worried about purple toes, you should probably just keep your kids at home for the next several years. You sound somewhat strangely gleeful that some kids might have purple toes?

You sound extremely guilty about repeatedly exposing your family to a virus with debilitating long-term effects. Perhaps the penny has dropped? That's not glee in my voice, btw. It's exhaustion. I'm tired tired of careless people who break things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your kids have all had covid like six times at this point. Don't come crying to to me when their toes turn purple. I could show you study after study about how bad that is, but you won't listen.

Weird post? If you are worried about purple toes, you should probably just keep your kids at home for the next several years. You sound somewhat strangely gleeful that some kids might have purple toes?

You sound extremely guilty about repeatedly exposing your family to a virus with debilitating long-term effects. Perhaps the penny has dropped? That's not glee in my voice, btw. It's exhaustion. I'm tired tired of careless people who break things.

I'm sure you are exhausted- it takes a LOT of work to never be exposed to this extremely contagious virus. Let me guess- virtual academy, bot parents WAH or SAH, grocery delivery, KN95s when you must go out somewhere, even for walks in the neighborhood? That is no doubt exhausting to keep up that level of effort for over 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again. The letter we received was class specific. Because more than three kids in my child’s class have tested positive, they are:
1. Asking that everyone test
2. All wearing masks for the next ten days
3. Non-vaccinated kids must stay home and quarantine for five days. Vaccinated, asymptomatic kids can stay in school, masked. But again - see #1 - they asked everyone to test.

Sent home tests and N95 masks.

Cases surging at Woodlin ES…with info about an outbreak in first grade only coming out from PTA. Administration has not been proactive about communicating We’ve heard nothing about update protocols.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school stopped contact tracing a week or two ago- had yours done that yet?

That's strange because it seems like the virus is spreading like wildfire these days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your kids have all had covid like six times at this point. Don't come crying to to me when their toes turn purple. I could show you study after study about how bad that is, but you won't listen.

Weird post? If you are worried about purple toes, you should probably just keep your kids at home for the next several years. You sound somewhat strangely gleeful that some kids might have purple toes?

You sound extremely guilty about repeatedly exposing your family to a virus with debilitating long-term effects. Perhaps the penny has dropped? That's not glee in my voice, btw. It's exhaustion. I'm tired tired of careless people who break things.

Ignore them. They sound like an outside agitator here to spread misinformation and create grievances for right-wing political groups.

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Anonymous wrote:OP again. The letter we received was class specific. Because more than three kids in my child’s class have tested positive, they are:
1. Asking that everyone test
2. All wearing masks for the next ten days
3. Non-vaccinated kids must stay home and quarantine for five days. Vaccinated, asymptomatic kids can stay in school, masked. But again - see #1 - they asked everyone to test.

Sent home tests and N95 masks.

So a vaccinated kid that tests positive can keep coming to school as long they wear a mask? How are they enforcing what kind of mask and proper fit?

No 🙄

Than what does #3 mean? Vaccinated, asymptomatic kids can stay in school, masked“

I already answered this. First #1 everyone tests. If you are NEGATIVE and VACCINATED and show no symptoms (asymptomatic) you can go back to school. “Asymptomatic” in this context means no symptoms. NOT that they have COVID with no symptoms. People, this isn’t that complicated!

Except that you are wrong. It does NOT say that in the email. That is simply your interpretation.

They cannot force everyone to test because it is opt in. They only test at school once a week anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

Ok so to summarize:
MCPS got rid of the mask mandate
As of literally this week, they said based on cdc guidance and dept of health guidance, they no longer needed to contact trace
Cdc guidance still says unvaxxed individuals need to quarantine after close contact
But since mcps isn’t contact tracing, unvaxxed individuals in a class or activity or grade level now need to quarantine for 5 days if 3 or more students test positive

So even if a not-sick child, who can’t control whether his parents vaccinated him, showed up to school religiously wearing a kn95 mask, and tested negative (!!) he must miss up to a week of school because other children decided to go maskless in his class and infect each other? And the school dropped all the mitigations?

Just so everyone knows, our school got a letter too. It said students who are eligible for the booster but not boosted would have to quarantine too unless they had covid in the last 90 days. My kids are too young for the booster, but this is getting ridiculous considering there is no vaccine (or booster) mandate and no one was notified of this policy change in advance.

There better not be a vaccine or a booster mandate FOR KIDS or I will truly lose my shit. There is ZERO chance I want to get my 6 year old vaccinated at this point, when she already caught Covid at school in January. Not a chance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

Ok so to summarize:
MCPS got rid of the mask mandate
As of literally this week, they said based on cdc guidance and dept of health guidance, they no longer needed to contact trace
Cdc guidance still says unvaxxed individuals need to quarantine after close contact
But since mcps isn’t contact tracing, unvaxxed individuals in a class or activity or grade level now need to quarantine for 5 days if 3 or more students test positive

So even if a not-sick child, who can’t control whether his parents vaccinated him, showed up to school religiously wearing a kn95 mask, and tested negative (!!) he must miss up to a week of school because other children decided to go maskless in his class and infect each other? And the school dropped all the mitigations?

Just so everyone knows, our school got a letter too. It said students who are eligible for the booster but not boosted would have to quarantine too unless they had covid in the last 90 days. My kids are too young for the booster, but this is getting ridiculous considering there is no vaccine (or booster) mandate and no one was notified of this policy change in advance.

There better not be a vaccine or a booster mandate FOR KIDS or I will truly lose my shit. There is ZERO chance I want to get my 6 year old vaccinated at this point, when she already caught Covid at school in January. Not a chance.

I imagine once the vaccine is fully approved for kids that it will be mandated just like other vaccines are. So prepare to lose your sh-t or make other school arrangements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

Ok so to summarize:
MCPS got rid of the mask mandate
As of literally this week, they said based on cdc guidance and dept of health guidance, they no longer needed to contact trace
Cdc guidance still says unvaxxed individuals need to quarantine after close contact
But since mcps isn’t contact tracing, unvaxxed individuals in a class or activity or grade level now need to quarantine for 5 days if 3 or more students test positive

So even if a not-sick child, who can’t control whether his parents vaccinated him, showed up to school religiously wearing a kn95 mask, and tested negative (!!) he must miss up to a week of school because other children decided to go maskless in his class and infect each other? And the school dropped all the mitigations?

Just so everyone knows, our school got a letter too. It said students who are eligible for the booster but not boosted would have to quarantine too unless they had covid in the last 90 days. My kids are too young for the booster, but this is getting ridiculous considering there is no vaccine (or booster) mandate and no one was notified of this policy change in advance.

Really? That is the dumbest thing I have heard.

So now they want to force outdated boosters on our teens? Seriously? Who is coming up with this policy? And it sounds like each school can just implement what it wants.

Boy, do we need a change in public health in this County. And probably at the federal level, since I am assuming this guidance comes from the top down. Is Fauci too busy partying to do his job? I know he was out at the outdoor ‘pre-party’ for the WH correspondents dinner. Guess he didn’t have time to come up with solid guidelines for our schools.

Ugh. Who cares about our kids, I guess. They’ve suffered so much. Just keep piling on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

Ok so to summarize:
MCPS got rid of the mask mandate
As of literally this week, they said based on cdc guidance and dept of health guidance, they no longer needed to contact trace
Cdc guidance still says unvaxxed individuals need to quarantine after close contact
But since mcps isn’t contact tracing, unvaxxed individuals in a class or activity or grade level now need to quarantine for 5 days if 3 or more students test positive

So even if a not-sick child, who can’t control whether his parents vaccinated him, showed up to school religiously wearing a kn95 mask, and tested negative (!!) he must miss up to a week of school because other children decided to go maskless in his class and infect each other? And the school dropped all the mitigations?

Just so everyone knows, our school got a letter too. It said students who are eligible for the booster but not boosted would have to quarantine too unless they had covid in the last 90 days. My kids are too young for the booster, but this is getting ridiculous considering there is no vaccine (or booster) mandate and no one was notified of this policy change in advance.

There better not be a vaccine or a booster mandate FOR KIDS or I will truly lose my shit. There is ZERO chance I want to get my 6 year old vaccinated at this point, when she already caught Covid at school in January. Not a chance.

I imagine once the vaccine is fully approved for kids that it will be mandated just like other vaccines are. So prepare to lose your sh-t or make other school arrangements.

Why would you think that? The vaccine is marginally effective. And it could be over a year before it gets fully FDA approved for kids age 5-12. By that time, the variants will be SO different that the current shot will provide even less protection.

It would be stupid for MCPS to mandate an outdated Covid vaccine for 6 year olds. Hopefully they are not dumb enough to do that, but I guess you never know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

THIS. Thank you.

This is absolutely ridiculous and not based on any ‘science’ at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again. The letter we received was class specific. Because more than three kids in my child’s class have tested positive, they are:
1. Asking that everyone test
2. All wearing masks for the next ten days
3. Non-vaccinated kids must stay home and quarantine for five days. Vaccinated, asymptomatic kids can stay in school, masked. But again - see #1 - they asked everyone to test.

Sent home tests and N95 masks.

So a vaccinated kid that tests positive can keep coming to school as long they wear a mask? How are they enforcing what kind of mask and proper fit?

No 🙄

Than what does #3 mean? Vaccinated, asymptomatic kids can stay in school, masked“

I already answered this. First #1 everyone tests. If you are NEGATIVE and VACCINATED and show no symptoms (asymptomatic) you can go back to school. “Asymptomatic” in this context means no symptoms. NOT that they have COVID with no symptoms. People, this isn’t that complicated!

It's not written the way you just described. So somebody made it complicated!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. Given the vaccine was 12% effective this seems insane. Asymptomatic negative kids have to stay home for a full week of school??

Ok so to summarize:
MCPS got rid of the mask mandate
As of literally this week, they said based on cdc guidance and dept of health guidance, they no longer needed to contact trace
Cdc guidance still says unvaxxed individuals need to quarantine after close contact
But since mcps isn’t contact tracing, unvaxxed individuals in a class or activity or grade level now need to quarantine for 5 days if 3 or more students test positive

So even if a not-sick child, who can’t control whether his parents vaccinated him, showed up to school religiously wearing a kn95 mask, and tested negative (!!) he must miss up to a week of school because other children decided to go maskless in his class and infect each other? And the school dropped all the mitigations?

Just so everyone knows, our school got a letter too. It said students who are eligible for the booster but not boosted would have to quarantine too unless they had covid in the last 90 days. My kids are too young for the booster, but this is getting ridiculous considering there is no vaccine (or booster) mandate and no one was notified of this policy change in advance.

There better not be a vaccine or a booster mandate FOR KIDS or I will truly lose my shit. There is ZERO chance I want to get my 6 year old vaccinated at this point, when she already caught Covid at school in January. Not a chance.

I imagine once the vaccine is fully approved for kids that it will be mandated just like other vaccines are. So prepare to lose your sh-t or make other school arrangements.

Why would you think that? The vaccine is marginally effective. And it could be over a year before it gets fully FDA approved for kids age 5-12. By that time, the variants will be SO different that the current shot will provide even less protection.

It would be stupid for MCPS to mandate an outdated Covid vaccine for 6 year olds. Hopefully they are not dumb enough to do that, but I guess you never know.

Oh I absolutely think MCPS is dumb enough to do that, and will be encouraged by DHHS to do so. I think they are smart enough to limit the mandates while under EUA.

There’s a chance, of course, that FDA never fully approves it for the reasons you mention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your kids have all had covid like six times at this point. Don't come crying to to me when their toes turn purple. I could show you study after study about how bad that is, but you won't listen.

Weird post? If you are worried about purple toes, you should probably just keep your kids at home for the next several years. You sound somewhat strangely gleeful that some kids might have purple toes?

You sound extremely guilty about repeatedly exposing your family to a virus with debilitating long-term effects. Perhaps the penny has dropped? That's not glee in my voice, btw. It's exhaustion. I'm tired tired of careless people who break things.

I'm sure you are exhausted- it takes a LOT of work to never be exposed to this extremely contagious virus. Let me guess- virtual academy, bot parents WAH or SAH, grocery delivery, KN95s when you must go out somewhere, even for walks in the neighborhood? That is no doubt exhausting to keep up that level of effort for over 2 years.

Nope. We mask everywhere inside. Not outside.

I'm sorry your family couldn't be arsed and your kids will have long-term health problems and cognitive deficits because of that.