MCPS Covid Data Updated Daily (in a single thread)

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

Enough with this. Everyone has their own risk tolerance. You want to mask and stay home? Feel free. Others want to go about their daily lives? They should have at it.

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Anonymous wrote:You posted that there are 245 new student infections and 33 new staff infections reported today (meaning 278 total) and that brings today’s 10-day total to 278 more than yesterday’s. That implies there were 0 cases on April 30, the day that just rolled off the 10-day total. Is that right, or is your spreadsheet in error?

It's in context of the Cumulative Total. MCPS is very deceptive in its reporting, so it's necessary to break down exactly how they're cooking the books.

5/10 reported 245 new student infections and 33 new staff infections (+278 cases); with a total of 2041 infections within a window of the past 10 days.

5/9, reported 316 new student infections and 58 new staff infections (+374 cases); with a total of 1763 infections within a window of the past 10 days.

This means that although +652 new cases were added in just two days, only a delta of 278 was reflected in the 10-day count. Why? 374 cases rolled off of the 10-day window. MCPS appears to have hidden the history of reported infections by day and used a 10-day window to obfuscate analysis of the true % of the school that was infected within a given month.


This is consistent with what happened in January, when 9% of the student body and over 2100 staff members were infected. One can only speculate why the Central Office and Board of Education are doing this (ex. this time they wish to hide the information from the public?).

Why is a "given month" interval more relevant than a 10-day interval?

To be accurate, case reporting should be as it was prior to March 1. Reporting should be by school, and daily. January just happened to coincide with winter break, so it was possible to follow the curve through January and smaller spike in February.

The Central Office should be able to use that information to predict spikes and switch individual schools to 5d virtual or 10d hybrid modes to protect teachers, bus drivers, and children.

Look at central office numbers. They are out sick. They were clear they would do nothing except if the state shut them down.

The band played on the fantail of the Titanic. Doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.

I’m not saying it is but we were warned by hogan and mcps and that’s why they offered virtual. Plan to get Covid.

I'm sorry you've given up, but you are what you are and I can't change that. I do feel bad for your family though. All the best.

DP but huh? The point is that you were warned there would be no system wide switch to hybrid or virtual unless directed by the state. If you weren't comfortable with that approach, you should have applied to the VA. I do feel sorry that you misunderstood- all the best to you!

This. They were clear from the start. That’s why there was a huge panic come august to get into va.

Yeah. Stupid panic. You literally ruined a year of your kids life for nothing. None of my three kids in three different schools have gotten covid. Who knows when we will. Also totally possible for a VA kid to get it at an extracurricular unless of course you are locking them up for YEARS which would be insane.

Let me guess. You do not test and pretend it’s allergies.

She said her three kids got Covid. Presumably she tested them. I don’t see your point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

I personally don't care. It's wall-to-wall people everywhere you go now. No one individual decision moves the needle in the slightest. We've already arrived at the new normal.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

I personally don't care. It's wall-to-wall people everywhere you go now. No one individual decision moves the needle in the slightest. We've already arrived at the new normal.

This exactly. It’s a very small percentage of “you don’t care if you kill others - you’re a monster!” screamers that we can’t seem to get away from. Hopefully they’ll go away soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

I personally don't care. It's wall-to-wall people everywhere you go now. No one individual decision moves the needle in the slightest. We've already arrived at the new normal.

This exactly. It’s a very small percentage of “you don’t care if you kill others - you’re a monster!” screamers that we can’t seem to get away from. Hopefully they’ll go away soon.

Out odds are much better of not going away than yours ) how many covid infections now? Tick tock.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

I personally don't care. It's wall-to-wall people everywhere you go now. No one individual decision moves the needle in the slightest. We've already arrived at the new normal.

This exactly. It’s a very small percentage of “you don’t care if you kill others - you’re a monster!” screamers that we can’t seem to get away from. Hopefully they’ll go away soon.

Out odds are much better of not going away than yours ) how many covid infections now? Tick tock.

I have it right now. Who cares? The whining and hysteria has got to stop.

[Anonymous]

It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

As someone very cautious, posting daily counts is silly on multiple threads as its easy to look at the MCPS dashboard and while its surging, no one cares or is going to change their behavior so what is the point. Anyone really cautious is in Virtual or homeschooling.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

As someone very cautious, posting daily counts is silly on multiple threads as its easy to look at the MCPS dashboard and while its surging, no one cares or is going to change their behavior so what is the point. Anyone really cautious is in Virtual or homeschooling.

I appreciate the analysis offered and you're wrong about what defines someone as "really cautious." Skip the thread if you don't like it. What is your motive for posting here and trying to derail it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

I personally don't care. It's wall-to-wall people everywhere you go now. No one individual decision moves the needle in the slightest. We've already arrived at the new normal.

This exactly. It’s a very small percentage of “you don’t care if you kill others - you’re a monster!” screamers that we can’t seem to get away from. Hopefully they’ll go away soon.

Out odds are much better of not going away than yours ) how many covid infections now? Tick tock.

Oh look Hannibal Lecter has arrived

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

As someone very cautious, posting daily counts is silly on multiple threads as its easy to look at the MCPS dashboard and while its surging, no one cares or is going to change their behavior so what is the point. Anyone really cautious is in Virtual or homeschooling.

I appreciate the analysis offered and you're wrong about what defines someone as "really cautious." Skip the thread if you don't like it. What is your motive for posting here and trying to derail it?

Really cautious are folks staying at home for the most part, not traveling, non large events or gatherings, no indoor activities outside absolutely necessary shopping, etc. I watch the thread and numbers as we are trying to decide if we want to send our kids in person and watching the numbers and how MCPS handles things. I don't know who is worse, the other families or MCPS. It really sucks for families like us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

As someone very cautious, posting daily counts is silly on multiple threads as its easy to look at the MCPS dashboard and while its surging, no one cares or is going to change their behavior so what is the point. Anyone really cautious is in Virtual or homeschooling.

I appreciate the analysis offered and you're wrong about what defines someone as "really cautious." Skip the thread if you don't like it. What is your motive for posting here and trying to derail it?

Really cautious are folks staying at home for the most part, not traveling, non large events or gatherings, no indoor activities outside absolutely necessary shopping, etc. I watch the thread and numbers as we are trying to decide if we want to send our kids in person and watching the numbers and how MCPS handles things. I don't know who is worse, the other families or MCPS. It really sucks for families like us.

I would say at this point if you are considering not sending your kids to school. you fall into the really cautious camp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

Maybe the OP should try posting just the data instead of the editorialized interpretation that includes commentary on indoor lunch and undefined criteria of improving, holding stead, and getting worse that is meant to scare people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

As someone very cautious, posting daily counts is silly on multiple threads as its easy to look at the MCPS dashboard and while its surging, no one cares or is going to change their behavior so what is the point. Anyone really cautious is in Virtual or homeschooling.

I appreciate the analysis offered and you're wrong about what defines someone as "really cautious." Skip the thread if you don't like it. What is your motive for posting here and trying to derail it?

Really cautious are folks staying at home for the most part, not traveling, non large events or gatherings, no indoor activities outside absolutely necessary shopping, etc. I watch the thread and numbers as we are trying to decide if we want to send our kids in person and watching the numbers and how MCPS handles things. I don't know who is worse, the other families or MCPS. It really sucks for families like us.

I would say at this point if you are considering not sending your kids to school. you fall into the really cautious camp.

We are right under really cautious as we do allow for some activities, but mainly as one is still requiring masking and basic precautions. Other than that we are really cautious but we'd like to send our kids back in person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if everyone could just let this OP post the helpful data on the overall daily rise in cases and daily rise/situation at each school and stop the endless commentary. As someone said earlier, we all have our personal/family risk tolerance. We do not need to shame anyone about that.

Maybe the OP should try posting just the data instead of the editorialized interpretation that includes commentary on indoor lunch and undefined criteria of improving, holding stead, and getting worse that is meant to scare people.

That's the problem. It's always a version of "this data over here looks good, but let me tell you why it's wrong and the Apocalypse is at our doorsteps..."