Data today 7pm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday's numbers look VERY suspicious. Schools that were posting numbers in the 20s on Monday are suddenly reporting a single case? Impossible.

you think mcps is in the business of falsifying numbers, seriously?

I'm the PP, and at a school reporting only 1 case yesterday despite double digits all week. No, I don't think MCPS is falsifying numbers. I do think MCPS is disorganized enough that bad data isn't being followed up on.

[Anonymous]

So are they only aggregating numbers every two weeks?

Or when they feel like it?

Just the one time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So are they only aggregating numbers every two weeks?

Or when they feel like it?

Just the one time?

Every day MCPS will make new reporting data in a different format. That way you don't get a consistent picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So are they only aggregating numbers every two weeks?

Or when they feel like it?

Just the one time?

Every day MCPS will make new reporting data in a different format. That way you don't get a consistent picture.

One of the administrator's cheerleaders or probably MCPS admin will post that the central office is following data and science, lol. I am not sure if they can even read and interpret the data.

[Anonymous]

Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

[Anonymous]

NP. People in that locked/redirected thread are way off the mark.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1029053.page

"The fact that an entirely arbitrary percentage of a highly-vaxxed, low-risk population is "infected" is irrelevant to reasoned decision-making."

Yeah, so the percentage of people infected (that's a fact, scare quotes are insulting) actually does have bearing on making reasoned decisions. It kind of tells you how fast and how widely the disease is spreading. Weird, right?

Now, it's only one factor, I guess? It is *less* closely correlated to very high rates of death, thanks to vaccinations. But, yeah, monitoring infections tells you how many people are infected-- and infectious! With a disease that still kills people. And at the very bare minimum, renders many of them temporarily unable to work or go to school. A small percentage of an extremely high number is still a lot of deaths. A significant percentage of a extremely high number is a significant disruption to the workforce, etc.

But no, of course infection rates have no place in "reasoned decision-making" about an... infectious disease.

(And, sure, school kids may be at relatively low risk, and MoCo may be highly-vaccinated. But MoCo school kids are not highly-vaccinated.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. People in that locked/redirected thread are way off the mark.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1029053.page

"The fact that an entirely arbitrary percentage of a highly-vaxxed, low-risk population is "infected" is irrelevant to reasoned decision-making."

Yeah, so the percentage of people infected (that's a fact, scare quotes are insulting) actually does have bearing on making reasoned decisions. It kind of tells you how fast and how widely the disease is spreading. Weird, right?

Now, it's only one factor, I guess? It is *less* closely correlated to very high rates of death, thanks to vaccinations. But, yeah, monitoring infections tells you how many people are infected-- and infectious! With a disease that still kills people. And at the very bare minimum, renders many of them temporarily unable to work or go to school. A small percentage of an extremely high number is still a lot of deaths. A significant percentage of a extremely high number is a significant disruption to the workforce, etc.

But no, of course infection rates have no place in "reasoned decision-making" about an... infectious disease.

(And, sure, school kids may be at relatively low risk, and MoCo may be highly-vaccinated. But MoCo school kids are not highly-vaccinated.)

We are kidding ourselves if we pretend we know for certain how the next few weeks are going to go. David Wallace-Wells has a useful piece on this: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/two-paths-for-omicron.html
Deaths are not decoupling from infection quite as expected.

We are also kidding ourselves if we plan for omicron giving everyone immunity and harkening some kind of second coming, and becoming endemic. These are theories right now, but there are also theories it could go the other way, so that omicron might not offer much lasting immunity, and that this coronavirus won't become endemic but just be pandemic after pandemic as new variants arise. The point is, we don't know yet, but there's an awful lot of people out there acting like we do.

It seems everyone has their data, "look at the data," but if you looked at the overall landscape, the data is mixed, science is messy in an evolving situation. We can't be so totally arrogant as a society that we place all our eggs in one basket in how this is going to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

100%

There's no excuse for the lack of transparency

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

100%

There's no excuse for the lack of transparency

There’s the rationale - MCPS doesn’t want transparency. The numbers will show a school system falling apart.

Why is the Board of Education so silent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

100%

There's no excuse for the lack of transparency

What difference does it make. Mcps has been clear they will not do anything till the state forces it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

100%

There's no excuse for the lack of transparency

What difference does it make. Mcps has been clear they will not do anything till the state forces it.

It could make a difference to families who are making their own decisions about how to proceed right now.

[Anonymous]

Why is Chevy Chase Elementary School missing from last night's data release? Were any other schools left off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Latest -- Around 35-40 schools have a 10% plus infection rate.

Shameful for MCPS to not provide this data to families. That way all of us make our own decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

But what does the infection rate matter?

Everyone has been saying, this virus is going to spread in schools, but it is no big deal. It's a cold. You will get it, stay home if sick, come back when you are well.

I don't know why anyone thought it (omicron) wasn't going to spread in schools now (we all know delta was different). So isn't the thinking just to let it spread, everyone get it, and everyone get better?

I mean, if you don't want your kid to get omicron right now, just keep them home for the next week or two. Otherwise, you have to know there's a good chance they will get it (if they didn't already have it over Christmas break).