13 COVID cases in one day at Janney??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a DCPS teacher and would estimate that 50-70% of my students have gotten Covid this year. My school has reported maybe 30% of these cases. I didn’t asymptomatically test once since December. I will never voluntarily test for Covid again. I am not quarantining in my house if I don’t have symptoms. It really is time to move on.

And PS HS kids who knowingly have asymptomatic Covid are using friends’ negative tests to return to school. No one is missing out on life events for this anymore.

Why would they even need to use friends' negative tests? Not necessary to swab anybody to produce a picture of a negative rapid test...

I think they just use a picture from when their friend needed a test and tested negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, you want more detail, and a couple of you are suggesting it makes a difference that they were "not all on the same day," so let's do details.

13 cases were reported on the 10th, for 9 last present on June 8th, 2 last present on June 9th, 1 last present on June 7th and 1 last present on June 3rd.

While we're into the details, more cases were reported on June 8th for 1 last present on June 7th,

June 7th for 2 last present on June 3rd,

June 5th for 2 last present on June 7th,

June 3rd for 3 last present on June 1st.

That is a problem. Some of those infections will have medical consequences, if not on those students/staff, on someone in their immediate family.

Those of you who think that this is 'just the world we live in" and there's just nothing we can do about it, you are wrong. Of course we can avoid such massive levels of transmission and the large amounts of chronic illness months and years from now suggested by emerging data and recently published science. I am resisting the temptation to throw out there psychiatric diagnosis jokes and prescription suggestions, so I'll just say you're wrong, and it doesn't have to be that way.

Is this post from 2020? It’s too late, sweetie. We’ve already had massive levels of transmission. Most adults and nearly all kids have already had coronavirus.

Clearly it is true that there already has been massive levels of transmission, which needs to be interrupted. Unless schools choose to take mitigation measures, they will continue to see it, and their community will continue to get sicker from it. It is not a one and done.

How about mitigation measures like closing schools for the summer? Do you think Covid will disappear by August?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, you want more detail, and a couple of you are suggesting it makes a difference that they were "not all on the same day," so let's do details.

13 cases were reported on the 10th, for 9 last present on June 8th, 2 last present on June 9th, 1 last present on June 7th and 1 last present on June 3rd.

While we're into the details, more cases were reported on June 8th for 1 last present on June 7th,

June 7th for 2 last present on June 3rd,

June 5th for 2 last present on June 7th,

June 3rd for 3 last present on June 1st.

That is a problem. Some of those infections will have medical consequences, if not on those students/staff, on someone in their immediate family.

Those of you who think that this is 'just the world we live in" and there's just nothing we can do about it, you are wrong. Of course we can avoid such massive levels of transmission and the large amounts of chronic illness months and years from now suggested by emerging data and recently published science. I am resisting the temptation to throw out there psychiatric diagnosis jokes and prescription suggestions, so I'll just say you're wrong, and it doesn't have to be that way.

Is this post from 2020? It’s too late, sweetie. We’ve already had massive levels of transmission. Most adults and nearly all kids have already had coronavirus.

Clearly it is true that there already has been massive levels of transmission, which needs to be interrupted. Unless schools choose to take mitigation measures, they will continue to see it, and their community will continue to get sicker from it. It is not a one and done.

How about mitigation measures like closing schools for the summer? Do you think Covid will disappear by August?

..... you do know that DCPS has summer school right?

[Anonymous]

One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

Yes, I am sure it is a matter of you being smarter than the vast majority of people even in this highly educated area. That’s got to be the reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

My kids are at a Charter still mandating masks. We currently have COVID cases at a similar rate as Janney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

What do you perceive as a "mild inconvenience"? School closures? Hybrid? All of the social distancing rules that have generated anxiety in my rule-following 8-year-old? Because that's what I'm talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

You really have zero evidence that they "had not failed" or that they "had done a good job." You have nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

You really have zero evidence that they "had not failed" or that they "had done a good job." You have nothing.

+1

I really wish they would do a study and compare Covid rates in DC between mask-mandate charters and mask optional DCPS. I'm quite confident it would show the effect of the mask mandate to be non-significant, just like the best mask studies have done. Rates are high in the community. Schools mirror that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Do you even know how many of these cases were transmitted in the classroom, vs. acquired outside of school (let alone that masks would have prevented it)? I have two kids at Janney, and we have had a few cases in their classrooms over the past months, but never in quick enough succession to suggest in-class transmission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

You really have zero evidence that they "had not failed" or that they "had done a good job." You have nothing.

+1

I really wish they would do a study and compare Covid rates in DC between mask-mandate charters and mask optional DCPS. I'm quite confident it would show the effect of the mask mandate to be non-significant, just like the best mask studies have done. Rates are high in the community. Schools mirror that.

I agree, I wish they would do that as well. But the charters also all seem to have various approaches for quarantines, testing, etc. I'm not sure how you'd control for all of the idiosyncrasies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

85 percent of DC kids had Covid antibodies in their blood back in February. Clearly, all the mitigation measures we did didn’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Our charter hasn’t dropped any mitigation measures. Kids still have to mask. Very strict quarantines. Still lots of Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Our charter hasn’t dropped any mitigation measures. Kids still have to mask. Very strict quarantines. Still lots of Covid.

Post your school and we’ll compare.