Travis Gayles to resign - MoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Must be exhausted from fighting all the morons.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

LOL

Must be exhausting for him to defend his ridiculous decisions that were completely not supported by science. Closing outdoor playgrounds? Give me a break. We knew from the beginning that should not have been done. Trying to close down private schools that were planning to reopen safely?

He was downright inept.

Given no kids are vaccinated and they get very close on playgrounds, it is reasonable. Buy a swing set.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/travis-gayles-montgomery-county-health-resigns/2021/08/18/9967bc1c-001a-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

Says he’ll resign in September. I wonder why.
Getting death threats from crazy anti-masker people who don’t even live her probably doesn’t help.

What death threats? His e-mails were all made public. Where were the threats? They weren't in the e-mails.

Good point. I know the person who scoured the MPIA and no death threats.

[Anonymous]

This pompous individual who dislikes anything involving privilege, tried to close every private school in the county last year. He was wrong to do that, and he never admitted it was a poor decision. Glad the state stepped in and prevented this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/travis-gayles-montgomery-county-health-resigns/2021/08/18/9967bc1c-001a-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

Says he’ll resign in September. I wonder why.
Getting death threats from crazy anti-masker people who don’t even live her probably doesn’t help.

What death threats? His e-mails were all made public. Where were the threats? They weren't in the e-mails.

Good point. I know the person who scoured the MPIA and no death threats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love him and thank him for keeping our kids and families safe. I appreciate all of his hard work and I think he was on the right side of history.

That’s weird. I think it’s pretty common knowledge that playgrounds shouldn’t have been closed. And neither of my kids’ private schools closed a single day. Yeah. Good thing we didn’t listen to him. We’d have a depressed stunted seven year old that had been chained to a computer for 30 hrs a week. We are back at public and I’m wondering if the kids in my kids’ classes will all be woefully damaged. My friends’ rising first grader can’t even form a sentence poor thing (parents are clueless and just thankful she was “safe”).

There are lots of reasons to close the privates, including community spread. But, entitled parents couldn't put the community needs before their own. One reason privates safely opened is they have the space and publics and other things were closed.

If your friend's child cannot read, lets look at the parents. Either they should work with the child every day, hire a tutor or get an evaluation for learning disabilities.

Your child would be depressed because of the homelife. Many kids did great with virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

I’m sorry. He wanted to keep you and your kids from getting sick. He may think that’s more important than your super important work zoom meeting, Jennifer, but it was his job to keep from overwhelming our health system, not make sure you had childcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This pompous individual who dislikes anything involving privilege, tried to close every private school in the county last year. He was wrong to do that, and he never admitted it was a poor decision. Glad the state stepped in and prevented this.

Said someone privileged while going to a school that claims they have equity and diversity, which is a joke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is terrible he was getting death and other threats. Absolutely unacceptable.
He was also horrible in this role during the pandemic crisis time.
He probably would have been adequate in 'normal times' dealing with whatever the 'normal' set of issues would be that he would need to manage. But during the pandemic, he was terrible and actually not very science driven.

We have the highest vaccination rate around and relatively lowest transmission of large counties (we were last in the region to go from ‘moderate’ to ‘substantial’)

Nothing to do with gayles. We all drove an hour plus for vaccines on our own in April. A lot of people can and are working from home. Moco’s population (liberal, educated, affluent, covid cautious) is why.

No he resigned because of death threats to his family from Maga Morons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Must be exhausted from fighting all the morons.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

LOL

Must be exhausting for him to defend his ridiculous decisions that were completely not supported by science. Closing outdoor playgrounds? Give me a break. We knew from the beginning that should not have been done. Trying to close down private schools that were planning to reopen safely?

He was downright inept.

Given no kids are vaccinated and they get very close on playgrounds, it is reasonable. Buy a swing set.

Given that outdoor transmission was not an issue, it was complexity unreasonable.

And watch your privilege. Not everyone can afford a swing set and not everyone has room for one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

For sure. Happy to seem them both gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is terrible he was getting death and other threats. Absolutely unacceptable.
He was also horrible in this role during the pandemic crisis time.
He probably would have been adequate in 'normal times' dealing with whatever the 'normal' set of issues would be that he would need to manage. But during the pandemic, he was terrible and actually not very science driven.

We have the highest vaccination rate around and relatively lowest transmission of large counties (we were last in the region to go from ‘moderate’ to ‘substantial’)

Nothing to do with gayles. We all drove an hour plus for vaccines on our own in April. A lot of people can and are working from home. Moco’s population (liberal, educated, affluent, covid cautious) is why.

It's both. Rational leadership and rational population (for the most part). You can't just have one, and end up with the vaccination rates and mostly good behavior we've had since March 2020.


Our private school was NOT going to follow CDC guidelines. I reported them ahead of a fall event to the county and the school flat out lied about the protocols they were going to use when they were inspected. My response to the county was for them to show up and see the event in real time but they refused. That’s also when 2 council members took the helm to represent private schools trying to open. I applaud Gayles for following the science and not the money of snobby white people!

Gayles literally outlawed outdoor playgrounds and tried to close private schools that were set to follow the CDC guidelines at the time; he perpetuated restrictions for reopening MCPS-- while other large school districts around the country successfully opened in hybrid fashions. He made the mask mandate in MoCo start at age 2 instead of age 5-- once it was reduced from I think 9 at the initial outset-- and never provided data for that. Much of NOVA with similar demographics/numbers has had an age 5 mandate. I could go on...
I have no idea exactly where the locus of control on this was, but everyone I knew was driving/traveling at least 45 minutes in each direction to get vaccines for a LONG time-- at the least, he did not succeed in any advocacy about getting reasonable amount of vaccines downcounty.
Yes, keeping businesses at very reduced capacity for a while obviously impeded the spread of the virus...but at what cost? A very compliant and risk-averse population is the driver here, IMHO, of a lot of the 'success.'
To his credit, it does appear that he and his team were successful in reaching (from what I've read) harder to reach minority populations who have significant vaccine hesitancy (as illustrated by the inner city of Baltimore and their abysmal vaccine numbers).
But overall? Not rational leadership at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is terrible he was getting death and other threats. Absolutely unacceptable.
He was also horrible in this role during the pandemic crisis time.
He probably would have been adequate in 'normal times' dealing with whatever the 'normal' set of issues would be that he would need to manage. But during the pandemic, he was terrible and actually not very science driven.

We have the highest vaccination rate around and relatively lowest transmission of large counties (we were last in the region to go from ‘moderate’ to ‘substantial’)

Nothing to do with gayles. We all drove an hour plus for vaccines on our own in April. A lot of people can and are working from home. Moco’s population (liberal, educated, affluent, covid cautious) is why.

No he resigned because of death threats to his family from Maga Morons.

Because MoCo is just brimming with MAGA’s? GTFO. And does he even have a family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

I’m sorry. He wanted to keep you and your kids from getting sick. He may think that’s more important than your super important work zoom meeting, Jennifer, but it was his job to keep from overwhelming our health system, not make sure you had childcare.

Wow you are extraordinarily privileged. You’re really still falling back on the “childcare” trope? That was lame a year and half ago and incredibly offensive now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Must be exhausted from fighting all the morons.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

LOL

Must be exhausting for him to defend his ridiculous decisions that were completely not supported by science. Closing outdoor playgrounds? Give me a break. We knew from the beginning that should not have been done. Trying to close down private schools that were planning to reopen safely?

He was downright inept.

Given no kids are vaccinated and they get very close on playgrounds, it is reasonable. Buy a swing set.

Given that outdoor transmission was not an issue, it was complexity unreasonable.

And watch your privilege. Not everyone can afford a swing set and not everyone has room for one.

Actually, the playgrounds were closed in the early part of the pandemic for fear of surface spread. Once that was debunk, it took months for them to open the back up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, dammit. I liked Gayles because he was covid cautious.

He’s probably burned out, poor guy.

Agree - probably all of those nutso science averse racist re-openers probably did him in. His mental health was probably worth more than that. Good luck to him. I hope he lands somewhere where people appreciate him. And mark my words, MCPS is in for it this Fall, within the first two weeks of school, we are going to have MAJOR widespread outbreaks and people will wish we had gone virtual instead.