APS mask policy

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

This is a lot of dangerous assumptions and also totally inappropriate. My kid did this in her classroom with a bunch of her buddies. Susie is out so she must have covid. The teacher pulled them all aside and told them to stop. Susie wasn't out from covid. And also stop. I reinforced this message with my child at home when told what happened.

There is a cold going around. You have ZERO IDEA why kids might be out and you are gossiping.

I know why the kids are out because my friends, their parents, told me.

Okay, so you know for a fact that 5 kids in the same classroom all got covid this week and the Nottingham principal is covering this up. I would sincerely call Arlington Public Health immediately. Call the County's covid line right now. 703-228-7999.

I did not say that at all.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

This is a lot of dangerous assumptions and also totally inappropriate. My kid did this in her classroom with a bunch of her buddies. Susie is out so she must have covid. The teacher pulled them all aside and told them to stop. Susie wasn't out from covid. And also stop. I reinforced this message with my child at home when told what happened.

There is a cold going around. You have ZERO IDEA why kids might be out and you are gossiping.

I know why the kids are out because my friends, their parents, told me.

Okay, so you know for a fact that 5 kids in the same classroom all got covid this week and the Nottingham principal is covering this up. I would sincerely call Arlington Public Health immediately. Call the County's covid line right now. 703-228-7999.

I did not say that at all.

Assuming you are the same person, you said you knew of more than 5 cases at Nottingham that you consider an outbreak. An outbreak means the kids are all in direct exposure to each other and gave each other covid while at school. You doubled down that this was an outbreak (if you are the same poster) after people explained to you what an outbreak is.

So what are you saying exactly then? You know 5 kids or more at Nottingham who have covid and you're not sure of their exposure to each other. And also the Nottingham principal is not transparent.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

Wow. A lot going on in this post.

1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted.

4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal.
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening.
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant?

It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem.

Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak.

As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay.

It doesn't sound like you are in APS so I'm not sure why you keep posting. You said your school admins do the contact tracing but in APS admins don't do the contact tracing. They did a while ago but APS since contracted it out.

Yes 5 kids at Nottingham have COVID. It's right on the APS dashboard. But you probably didn't look at the APS dashboard since you're not in APS and just want to Covid deny. Stop making accusations of hearsay when these cases are right there publicly reported.

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Friend's son in FCPS tested positive during the second week of school without required masks. She is NOT happy.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

Wow. A lot going on in this post.

1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted.

4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal.
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening.
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant?

It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem.

Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak.

As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay.

It doesn't sound like you are in APS so I'm not sure why you keep posting. You said your school admins do the contact tracing but in APS admins don't do the contact tracing. They did a while ago but APS since contracted it out.

Yes 5 kids at Nottingham have COVID. It's right on the APS dashboard. But you probably didn't look at the APS dashboard since you're not in APS and just want to Covid deny. Stop making accusations of hearsay when these cases are right there publicly reported.

I am in APS. My school admins continue to contact trace because the official process takes so long. Which I'm grateful for.

What's hearsay is that it's some kind of outbreak. So point stands.

How am I covid denying? Because I'm not willing to say there's an outbreak at Nottingham? I'm pointing out this person has minimal knowledge of CDC definitions and contact tracing and is making rather large statements (an outbreak is a big deal) and they're not based in fact at all. If those are accusations, oh well.

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This person also said "more than 5" cases at Nottingham.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

Wow. A lot going on in this post.

1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted.

4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal.
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening.
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant?

It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem.

Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak.

As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay.

It doesn't sound like you are in APS so I'm not sure why you keep posting. You said your school admins do the contact tracing but in APS admins don't do the contact tracing. They did a while ago but APS since contracted it out.

Yes 5 kids at Nottingham have COVID. It's right on the APS dashboard. But you probably didn't look at the APS dashboard since you're not in APS and just want to Covid deny. Stop making accusations of hearsay when these cases are right there publicly reported.

I am in APS. My school admins continue to contact trace because the official process takes so long. Which I'm grateful for.

What's hearsay is that it's some kind of outbreak. So point stands.

How am I covid denying? Because I'm not willing to say there's an outbreak at Nottingham? I'm pointing out this person has minimal knowledge of CDC definitions and contact tracing and is making rather large statements (an outbreak is a big deal) and they're not based in fact at all. If those are accusations, oh well.

that's great that your admin is personally doing contract tracing but why are you denying that it's a joke at other schools, when it is?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

Wow. A lot going on in this post.

1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted.

4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal.
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening.
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant?

It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem.

Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak.

As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay.

It doesn't sound like you are in APS so I'm not sure why you keep posting. You said your school admins do the contact tracing but in APS admins don't do the contact tracing. They did a while ago but APS since contracted it out.

Yes 5 kids at Nottingham have COVID. It's right on the APS dashboard. But you probably didn't look at the APS dashboard since you're not in APS and just want to Covid deny. Stop making accusations of hearsay when these cases are right there publicly reported.

I am in APS. My school admins continue to contact trace because the official process takes so long. Which I'm grateful for.

What's hearsay is that it's some kind of outbreak. So point stands.

How am I covid denying? Because I'm not willing to say there's an outbreak at Nottingham? I'm pointing out this person has minimal knowledge of CDC definitions and contact tracing and is making rather large statements (an outbreak is a big deal) and they're not based in fact at all. If those are accusations, oh well.

Your words:
"Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school?"

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

Wow. A lot going on in this post.

1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted.

4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal.
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening.
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant?

It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem.

Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak.

As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay.

It doesn't sound like you are in APS so I'm not sure why you keep posting. You said your school admins do the contact tracing but in APS admins don't do the contact tracing. They did a while ago but APS since contracted it out.

Yes 5 kids at Nottingham have COVID. It's right on the APS dashboard. But you probably didn't look at the APS dashboard since you're not in APS and just want to Covid deny. Stop making accusations of hearsay when these cases are right there publicly reported.

I am in APS. My school admins continue to contact trace because the official process takes so long. Which I'm grateful for.

What's hearsay is that it's some kind of outbreak. So point stands.

How am I covid denying? Because I'm not willing to say there's an outbreak at Nottingham? I'm pointing out this person has minimal knowledge of CDC definitions and contact tracing and is making rather large statements (an outbreak is a big deal) and they're not based in fact at all. If those are accusations, oh well.

that's great that your admin is personally doing contract tracing but why are you denying that it's a joke at other schools, when it is?

I know at least two other schools where admins do contact tracing from friends. I agree any admins that allow official APS contact tracing to be the only contact tracing are a joke. And that the official contact tracing is a joke.

So neither a covid denier nor a denier that covid contact tracing is a often a joke.

None of this changes that calling this an outbreak is irresponsible and misinformation. Unless you want to get back to the idea that admin is hiding cases or hiding known outbreaks, which if that's going on is terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

So in your circle, parents don’t report Covid to the school? Way to go.

If you don’t test you’re never positive 😁

This is an interesting pro-mask thread from a US doctor talking about the effects she is seeing in children and the potential lifelong effects of the disease.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar.

Me too.
Where are all the cases????

Tons at our APS.

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days.
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives.

I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases?

No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives.

Wow. A lot going on in this post.

1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted.

4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal.
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening.
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant?

It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem.

Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak.

As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay.

It doesn't sound like you are in APS so I'm not sure why you keep posting. You said your school admins do the contact tracing but in APS admins don't do the contact tracing. They did a while ago but APS since contracted it out.

Yes 5 kids at Nottingham have COVID. It's right on the APS dashboard. But you probably didn't look at the APS dashboard since you're not in APS and just want to Covid deny. Stop making accusations of hearsay when these cases are right there publicly reported.

I am in APS. My school admins continue to contact trace because the official process takes so long. Which I'm grateful for.

What's hearsay is that it's some kind of outbreak. So point stands.

How am I covid denying? Because I'm not willing to say there's an outbreak at Nottingham? I'm pointing out this person has minimal knowledge of CDC definitions and contact tracing and is making rather large statements (an outbreak is a big deal) and they're not based in fact at all. If those are accusations, oh well.

Your words:
"Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school?"

That's not what I called hearsay.

"As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay."

The answer to the above question should have been and could have been yes, I looked at the covid dashboard! Instead this person responded that they knew the kids' parents.

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Since the dashboard is being referenced, two other elementary schools had 5 cases in the last 7 days. So why is everyone obsessing over Nottingham? 5 cases doesn't seem like that big of an outlier right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Since the dashboard is being referenced, two other elementary schools had 5 cases in the last 7 days. So why is everyone obsessing over Nottingham? 5 cases doesn't seem like that big of an outlier right now.

No one is obsessing over Nottingham, some crazy poster decided to start a rumor that there’s an outbreak at Nottingham - “unreported cases”.

This all started by another anonymous poster saying there were tons of cases in APS, to which I posted the source of record which shows there’s no more than five cases at any school right now.

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According to the dashboard, there have been 60 cases reported at APS in the last 7 days leading to only 1 close contact (at Ashlawn), which rather strains the bounds of credulity in terms of the close contact system actually working effectively but YMMV.

https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

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The principal at Nottingham has been excellent for dealing with Covid. She is not hiding info. People do at home tests. No county involvement.

Not her fault masks optional. She is following the guidelines.

That said, all the schools should have covered outdoor spaces to eat.