Data today 7pm

[Anonymous]

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Isn't that why the COVID positive kids are isolating? I mean, I really just don't understand the fear of COVID in kids at this point.

Those kids won't get any teacher instruction starting next week. My ES kids in isolation have been asked to watch some TV.

First Step: Make sure all kids get COVID

2nd Step: make sure they don't get instruction after catching COVID.

What a shitshow.

[Anonymous]

Is there a threshold that triggers school closure on the staff end? Was talking to a friend in Denver yesterday; his school district is 25% of teachers have to absent to trigger virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a threshold that triggers school closure on the staff end? Was talking to a friend in Denver yesterday; his school district is 25% of teachers have to absent to trigger virtual.

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Isn't that why the COVID positive kids are isolating? I mean, I really just don't understand the fear of COVID in kids at this point. I'm not keeping my kid out of school and foregoing working to prevent a COVID infection. What is the endgame?

This has been explained in 1000 different threads. I’m not going to bother explaining again why people are concerned about covid even children rarely die from it, though I will reiterate that I’m not demanding virtual; I just want MCPS to share all of the data with me so I can make my own decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Isn't that why the COVID positive kids are isolating? I mean, I really just don't understand the fear of COVID in kids at this point. I'm not keeping my kid out of school and foregoing working to prevent a COVID infection. What is the endgame?

This has been explained in 1000 different threads. I’m not going to bother explaining again why people are concerned about covid even children rarely die from it, though I will reiterate that I’m not demanding virtual; I just want MCPS to share all of the data with me so I can make my own decisions.

^^^ what she said.

We understand that you've exposed your family to covid multiple times. We get that you don't care if anyone else catches it from your family. We know you don't have any concept of the greater good or civic duty... Which is quite odd, considering you make your living in DC... But sadly not unusual here.

We just want the real numbers so we can make our own calls for our kids.

We don't care that you don't understand why. You have made it expressly clear to us that you are not our problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.

Every kid isn’t testing every day. Some kids tested negative on Monday and didn’t test again. Those kids were in school on Monday with kids who did test positive and were contagious. Did you think testing every kid once magically stopped transmission, even retroactively?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.

Every kid isn’t testing every day. Some kids tested negative on Monday and didn’t test again. Those kids were in school on Monday with kids who did test positive and were contagious. Did you think testing every kid once magically stopped transmission, even retroactively?

This is what has me concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.

Every kid isn’t testing every day. Some kids tested negative on Monday and didn’t test again. Those kids were in school on Monday with kids who did test positive and were contagious. Did you think testing every kid once magically stopped transmission, even retroactively?

This is what has me concerned.

I am concerned too, but my kid got covid over winter break before going back to school. It is mostly omicron because there's no symptom. We family got covid at the same time,, and recover/finished quarantine at the same time. I assume that my kid that go to school has some extra immunity now and unlikely to get covid within 90 days. After 90 days, the omicron peak should have been gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.

Every kid isn’t testing every day. Some kids tested negative on Monday and didn’t test again. Those kids were in school on Monday with kids who did test positive and were contagious. Did you think testing every kid once magically stopped transmission, even retroactively?

This is what has me concerned.

I am concerned too, but my kid got covid over winter break before going back to school. It is mostly omicron because there's no symptom. We family got covid at the same time,, and recover/finished quarantine at the same time. I assume that my kid that go to school has some extra immunity now and unlikely to get covid within 90 days. After 90 days, the omicron peak should have been gone.

How nice for your family, assuming they don't have any long-term effects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.

You do know that some kids test positive AT school right. Sent to healthroom and tested there or the weekly testing. So in school

[Anonymous]

Are they no longer releasing data on case counts at 7 pm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I am concerned too, but my kid got covid over winter break before going back to school. It is mostly omicron because there's no symptom. We family got covid at the same time,, and recover/finished quarantine at the same time. I assume that my kid that go to school has some extra immunity now and unlikely to get covid within 90 days. After 90 days, the omicron peak should have been gone.

How nice for your family, assuming they don't have any long-term effects.

DP.. more than likely, they won't have long term effects. Statistics.

Everyone will be exposed to covid at some point, and covid is here to stay. Even if you go virtual now, at some point, your kid will get exposed.

You also have a chance of getting into a bad car accident, but I assume you and your kids stil get into a car, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they no longer releasing data on case counts at 7 pm?

They haven’t said that they are not, and since they are not sending out community case letters anymore, they stated that families are informed about the number of cases in schools through this format. So they really should still be posting it (along with data from the weekend). This is really not a hard thing to deliver properly.

[Anonymous]

What's the deal? Where are the numbers?