When will quarantine / mandatory absence from school stop for Covid?

[Anonymous]

I’m also somewhat surprised they’d be testing patients that are vaccinated/boosted. I certainly know practices that are requiring tests for patients that aren’t vaccinated, but nearly all of them don’t test for vaccinated patients. Basically, they don’t want to know. They lost enough business at other points of the pandemic that they really don’t want to cancel procedures now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks). I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about.

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall. One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m also somewhat surprised they’d be testing patients that are vaccinated/boosted. I certainly know practices that are requiring tests for patients that aren’t vaccinated, but nearly all of them don’t test for vaccinated patients. Basically, they don’t want to know. They lost enough business at other points of the pandemic that they really don’t want to cancel procedures now.

Hospitals are testing. I am required to be tested 48-72 hours before my scheduled surgery. I also must go to the hospital to be tested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m also somewhat surprised they’d be testing patients that are vaccinated/boosted. I certainly know practices that are requiring tests for patients that aren’t vaccinated, but nearly all of them don’t test for vaccinated patients. Basically, they don’t want to know. They lost enough business at other points of the pandemic that they really don’t want to cancel procedures now.

Vaccines do not prevent you from catching or transmitting Covid. You can be vaccinated and still spread Covid.

[Anonymous]

OP, this might be encouraging to you. Massachusetts recently announced adjustments! Hopefully MCPS will take a more reasonable approach next school year.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/mass-announces-major-changes-to-covid-testing-quarantine-protocols-in-schools/2733548/?amp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m also somewhat surprised they’d be testing patients that are vaccinated/boosted. I certainly know practices that are requiring tests for patients that aren’t vaccinated, but nearly all of them don’t test for vaccinated patients. Basically, they don’t want to know. They lost enough business at other points of the pandemic that they really don’t want to cancel procedures now.

Hospitals are testing. I am required to be tested 48-72 hours before my scheduled surgery. I also must go to the hospital to be tested.

Then the most reasonable solution is for you to take a leave of absence now to ensure you can fully isolate and be 100% assured you don’t get Covid. You’re not at 0 risk otherwise, even if kids are testing. And again, you’re an outlier. It makes much more sense to make accommodations to allow you to isolate vs keeping symptom free kids out of school for a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks). I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about.

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall. One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

Understood, but while I obviously have no idea what sort of surgery you’re having done, it really seems like having the surgery at the of June or the beginning of July would either allow you to go back before classes resume, or at least minimize time away. If you’re really that concerned about the impact of getting covid, it seems like waiting a couple weeks would have been a good tradeoff.

Interesting that it’s being done at a hospital. Almost everything non-emergent is done at outpatient surgical centers these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It might change when schools require Covid vaccinations and boosters. Basically, schools don't want to be sued for spread of Covid when not everyone is required to be vaccinated.

Requiring Covid vaccines for kids is an incredibly dumb and useless idea. Borderline unethical.

How would that even help? Vaccinated kids are still spreading Covid.

So many kids have already had Covid anyway. Please explain how requiring a 10 year old to get a booster would help keep kids in school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m also somewhat surprised they’d be testing patients that are vaccinated/boosted. I certainly know practices that are requiring tests for patients that aren’t vaccinated, but nearly all of them don’t test for vaccinated patients. Basically, they don’t want to know. They lost enough business at other points of the pandemic that they really don’t want to cancel procedures now.

Vaccines do not prevent you from catching or transmitting Covid. You can be vaccinated and still spread Covid.

Right, although it does reduce the risk of infection and transmission somewhat. But you’re mostly right- it’s pretty clear they simply don’t care if patients are coming in with covid at this point.

Hospitals are a different situation, but outpatient centers have more lax policies since the doctors themselves are typically in control of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might change when schools require Covid vaccinations and boosters. Basically, schools don't want to be sued for spread of Covid when not everyone is required to be vaccinated.

Requiring Covid vaccines for kids is an incredibly dumb and useless idea. Borderline unethical.

How would that even help? Vaccinated kids are still spreading Covid.

So many kids have already had Covid anyway. Please explain how requiring a 10 year old to get a booster would help keep kids in school?

DP. It wouldn’t help. At all. But it would make the PP *feel* better. And as we all know, when it comes to covid, feelings are more important than science and data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might change when schools require Covid vaccinations and boosters. Basically, schools don't want to be sued for spread of Covid when not everyone is required to be vaccinated.

Requiring Covid vaccines for kids is an incredibly dumb and useless idea. Borderline unethical.

How would that even help? Vaccinated kids are still spreading Covid.

So many kids have already had Covid anyway. Please explain how requiring a 10 year old to get a booster would help keep kids in school?

DP. It wouldn’t help. At all. But it would make the PP *feel* better. And as we all know, when it comes to covid, feelings are more important than science and data.

True. That has been made clear during this pandemic, especially here in Montgomery County. Unfortunately our public health response has been a disaster when it comes to our kids and Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks). I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about.

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall. One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

Understood, but while I obviously have no idea what sort of surgery you’re having done, it really seems like having the surgery at the of June or the beginning of July would either allow you to go back before classes resume, or at least minimize time away. If you’re really that concerned about the impact of getting covid, it seems like waiting a couple weeks would have been a good tradeoff.

Interesting that it’s being done at a hospital. Almost everything non-emergent is done at outpatient surgical centers these days.

Unbelievable. Someone posts about their surgery and dcurbsnmom types blame them, interrogate them, and pretty much accuse them of lying.

I ask myself time and again... What is wrong with you people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks). I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about.

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall. One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

Understood, but while I obviously have no idea what sort of surgery you’re having done, it really seems like having the surgery at the of June or the beginning of July would either allow you to go back before classes resume, or at least minimize time away. If you’re really that concerned about the impact of getting covid, it seems like waiting a couple weeks would have been a good tradeoff.

Interesting that it’s being done at a hospital. Almost everything non-emergent is done at outpatient surgical centers these days.

Unbelievable. Someone posts about their surgery and dcurbsnmom types blame them, interrogate them, and pretty much accuse them of lying.

I ask myself time and again... What is wrong with you people?

No accusations intended. I’m really curious about what she’s having done. It sounds like it must be an unusual procedure.

[Anonymous]

It’s probably a gastric sleeve. That recovery sounds about right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks). I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about.

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall. One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

Understood, but while I obviously have no idea what sort of surgery you’re having done, it really seems like having the surgery at the of June or the beginning of July would either allow you to go back before classes resume, or at least minimize time away. If you’re really that concerned about the impact of getting covid, it seems like waiting a couple weeks would have been a good tradeoff.

Interesting that it’s being done at a hospital. Almost everything non-emergent is done at outpatient surgical centers these days.

Unbelievable. Someone posts about their surgery and dcurbsnmom types blame them, interrogate them, and pretty much accuse them of lying.

I ask myself time and again... What is wrong with you people?

No accusations intended. I’m really curious about what she’s having done. It sounds like it must be an unusual procedure.

Why? Is your life that hollow and empty? Do you watch a lot of surgery shows? Does health confidentiality only apply to *your* family?