just 5 weeks away from the start of the SY and COVID is still here

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Anonymous wrote:Many, many breakthrough infections are beginning to happen with the vaccinated. Yikes. Be careful out there.
In this article, of the 130 in Cape Cod, the majority is with the vaccinated. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/cape-cod-covid-19-cluster-grows-130-infected/story?id=78956381

Denominators matter. I bet most people in Cape Cod are vaccinated, full stop. So of course most infections would be among the vaccinated. Are deaths skyrocketing?

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Nobody in Loudoun County had died from COVID in over a month.

Full time, in-person school must be demanded for LCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody in Loudoun County had died from COVID in over a month.

Full time, in-person school must be demanded for LCPS.

Isn't that the plan …..

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody in Loudoun County had died from COVID in over a month.

Full time, in-person school must be demanded for LCPS.

Isn't that the plan …..

More than the plan, it's the law.

Unless in-school spread reaches the level of multiple outbreaks, that is.

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I think schools will go back full-time. It’s quite obvious this country can’t handle another shutdown. I also think all of the kids are going to have to mask up, and that people should comply, and shut up about it.

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Is APS really not planning to provide outdoor lunch opportunities? They should be doing this at all schools given current vaccine limitations and the deltA!

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Anonymous wrote:Is APS really not planning to provide outdoor lunch opportunities? They should be doing this at all schools given current vaccine limitations and the deltA!

Nope. It's going to be normal school plus masks. Plan accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:What I don’t get, are people who ever thought that covid was ever going to go away. Last year I think most practical people knew that it was here to stay, and we’ll just have to get used to it as well as modify according to our own health predicaments.

Agreed. The DMV totally wasted last year with weird magical thinking about how to best react. Stupid.

Fortunately, people are finally coming around to the understanding that this is close to as good as it gets. Shutdowns are an ineffective solution (and damaging), the virus is here to stay, and everybody simply needs to get on with it.

I agree. I still like wearing masks in crowded stores but otherwise, I have traveled and moved on.

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Anonymous wrote:Duran should walk back his position to end outdoor lunch. Principals should be encouraged to schedule lunch outside, to the extent practicable. In bad weather, kids can eat inside. But on all other days, kid should absolutely eat outside. It's a low cost, low effort way to drastically decrease transmission risk.

When did Duran say outdoor lunch was ending?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so grateful for SB 1303 right now. Otherwise I know we’d be looking at another year of virtual and hybrid in Arlington.

Does this law address how schools should respond if there an outbreak in a classroom or school-wide? It just seems inevitable there are going to be closures given most students are unvaccinated, and I’m wondering if schools are prepared to pivot and whether that would still comply with the law that passed.

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Anonymous wrote:Still here? With Delta and Lambda varients it’s going to get worse before it gets better again. This is inevitable. Also I don’t understand why everyone is guessing about the masks... all children in school will be wearing masks. Virginia has already stated they’re following the AAP recommendation that all children over two regardless of vaccination status will be required to wear a mask.

When did Virginia say this?

https://www.cnn.com/webview/us/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-07-16-21/h_670df5cbdd80f464221210db2d5dd973?utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_term=link&utm_content=2021-07-16T18%3A09%3A26&utm_medium=social

Six states have announced that they will require K-12 students to wear masks in school, regardless of their vaccination status:

Connecticut
Hawaii
New Mexico
New York
Virginia
Washington.

Here's the actual latest guidance - released this afternoon. It does suggest requiring masks for all ES kids, leaves a lot of wiggle room for secondary, and technically requires nothing. VDH has announced there will be no extension of the school mask mandate that expires on 25 July.

https://www.education.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/secretary-of-education/pdf/Interim-Guidance-for-COVID-19-Prevention-in-Virginia-PreK-12-Schools_July--21-2021.pdf

The CNN article is wrong. Virginia is recommending, but not requiring masks. Essentially, they’ve left it up to each locality to make their own decision. There will be unmasked and unvaccinated students in some parts of the state (a few school boards have already voted against requiring masks in school).

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so grateful for SB 1303 right now. Otherwise I know we’d be looking at another year of virtual and hybrid in Arlington.

Does this law address how schools should respond if there an outbreak in a classroom or school-wide? It just seems inevitable there are going to be closures given most students are unvaccinated, and I’m wondering if schools are prepared to pivot and whether that would still comply with the law that passed.

They can close individual classes or even the whole building for a limited amount of time. They cannot return the entire district to virtual.

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0456

1. If a local school board determines, in collaboration with the local health department and in strict adherence to "Step 2: Determine the Level of School Impact" in the Department of Health's Interim Guidance to K-12 School Reopening or any similar provision in any successor guidance document published by the Department of Health, that the transmission of COVID-19 within a school building is at a high level, the local school board may provide fully remote virtual instruction or a combination of in-person instruction and remote virtual instruction to the at-risk groups of students indicated as the result of such collaboration or, if needed, the whole student population in the school building, but in each instance only for as long as it is necessary to address and ameliorate the level of transmission of COVID-19 in the school building.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so grateful for SB 1303 right now. Otherwise I know we’d be looking at another year of virtual and hybrid in Arlington.

Does this law address how schools should respond if there an outbreak in a classroom or school-wide? It just seems inevitable there are going to be closures given most students are unvaccinated, and I’m wondering if schools are prepared to pivot and whether that would still comply with the law that passed.

Yes the law allows switches to virtual if needed but not open ended like before.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody in Loudoun County had died from COVID in over a month.

Full time, in-person school must be demanded for LCPS.

Do you actually have a child in LCPS? I live in Loudoun. No one out here is talking virtual school. Not sure where you are getting your info, since you seem to be implying that’s not the plan.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing. We are averaging 250 COVID deaths per day in the US. And something like 99.5% of those are unvaccinated AND old enough to be vaccinated. A few months ago we had 3-4000 dying of COVID every day. So even if cases skyrocket, if people are not dying in huge numbers, it will not require a lot of restrictions.

It's not IF but WHEN cases skyrocket.
The IFs are long-covid and kid hospitalizations.

Locally?