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.

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.

This person has an option to tip her over Venmo in her instagram. But she’s just offering good advice.

I mean okay, your guy was getting disavowed by his university, getting criticized for spreading misinformation, does not seem to have much experience with covid research as an oncologist for pete's sake, but okay this practicing pediatrician who sees kids with covid all the time posts a bunch of links on her instagram including a tip jar, OH NOES THE HORROR.

I'm trying to follow along. Who is "your guy"? I don't listen to any of these people. My main source of what to think and believe is not Twitter.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember covid deniers aren’t testing their kids basically on principle, so who really knows what the numbers are? Ha ha that’s fine.

I see this accusation a lot and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me as some major issue. If your kid is symptomatic at school, they send you home with a test and won't let you back until you've tested. Previous, you had to go get your own test. So most families will get caught doing this if it's prevalent.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember covid deniers aren’t testing their kids basically on principle, so who really knows what the numbers are? Ha ha that’s fine.

I see this accusation a lot and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me as some major issue. If your kid is symptomatic at school, they send you home with a test and won't let you back until you've tested. Previous, you had to go get your own test. So most families will get caught doing this if it's prevalent.

I know people who have lied about why their kids are out

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember covid deniers aren’t testing their kids basically on principle, so who really knows what the numbers are? Ha ha that’s fine.

I see this accusation a lot and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me as some major issue. If your kid is symptomatic at school, they send you home with a test and won't let you back until you've tested. Previous, you had to go get your own test. So most families will get caught doing this if it's prevalent.

I know people who have lied about why their kids are out

Have we moved on to freaking out about phantom cases since there aren't enough real cases? That's progress, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember covid deniers aren’t testing their kids basically on principle, so who really knows what the numbers are? Ha ha that’s fine.

I see this accusation a lot and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me as some major issue. If your kid is symptomatic at school, they send you home with a test and won't let you back until you've tested. Previous, you had to go get your own test. So most families will get caught doing this if it's prevalent.

I know people who have lied about why their kids are out

Probably because the incentives to quarantine are terrible for anyone who works hourly or has to work on site, so of course they lie or cheat on these tests as much as they can get away with.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember covid deniers aren’t testing their kids basically on principle, so who really knows what the numbers are? Ha ha that’s fine.

I see this accusation a lot and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me as some major issue. If your kid is symptomatic at school, they send you home with a test and won't let you back until you've tested. Previous, you had to go get your own test. So most families will get caught doing this if it's prevalent.

I know people who have lied about why their kids are out

Probably because the incentives to quarantine are terrible for anyone who works hourly or has to work on site, so of course they lie or cheat on these tests as much as they can get away with.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember covid deniers aren’t testing their kids basically on principle, so who really knows what the numbers are? Ha ha that’s fine.

Why would you waste your time testing asymptomatic kids?

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22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

My daughter was out today in a different school with a cold. Been tested 3x.

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

Who cares. It’s still low level transmission. The whole point is the individuals in question and the community can handle these cases. We’re not in total covid panic avoidance anymore. And if you are, mask up with a good mask and call yourself the smartest one in the room and feel smug when others get covid.

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

Who cares. It’s still low level transmission. The whole point is the individuals in question and the community can handle these cases. We’re not in total covid panic avoidance anymore. And if you are, mask up with a good mask and call yourself the smartest one in the room and feel smug when others get covid.

Ten days of missed instruction even if you are asymptomatic is not nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

Who cares. It’s still low level transmission. The whole point is the individuals in question and the community can handle these cases. We’re not in total covid panic avoidance anymore. And if you are, mask up with a good mask and call yourself the smartest one in the room and feel smug when others get covid.

Ten days of missed instruction even if you are asymptomatic is not nothing.

It's ten calendar days so less days of missed instruction but agreed that sucks and is THE thing that hangs over my head as a parent at this point in time.

The dashboard actually has so much good news but leave it to people to focus on bad news. 1 case at Wakefield in past 7 days is amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

Who cares. It’s still low level transmission. The whole point is the individuals in question and the community can handle these cases. We’re not in total covid panic avoidance anymore. And if you are, mask up with a good mask and call yourself the smartest one in the room and feel smug when others get covid.

Ten days of missed instruction even if you are asymptomatic is not nothing.

It's ten calendar days so less days of missed instruction but agreed that sucks and is THE thing that hangs over my head as a parent at this point in time.

The dashboard actually has so much good news but leave it to people to focus on bad news. 1 case at Wakefield in past 7 days is amazing.

Sorry, 8 missed instructional days is not nothing. Is that better? For parents in schools starting to see spikes, the dashboard is concerning. That other schools are seeing lower case numbers is pretty cold comfort.

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

Who cares. It’s still low level transmission. The whole point is the individuals in question and the community can handle these cases. We’re not in total covid panic avoidance anymore. And if you are, mask up with a good mask and call yourself the smartest one in the room and feel smug when others get covid.

Ten days of missed instruction even if you are asymptomatic is not nothing.

It's ten calendar days so less days of missed instruction but agreed that sucks and is THE thing that hangs over my head as a parent at this point in time.

The dashboard actually has so much good news but leave it to people to focus on bad news. 1 case at Wakefield in past 7 days is amazing.

Probably a bad time for me to be posting this new paper out explaining covid's effects on T cells, then. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-00919-x

I'm no expert, but I think this is showing that the covid virus acts even more destructively against the body's existing immunity system than was was previously understood. We knew that the virus had an aging effect on the body's T cells. This paper shows that in total, covid attacks stem cells, invades and infects CD4+ T-cells, and exhausts CD8 + T-cells. With severe infections, "infected T lymphocytes not only lost the ability to control viral infection but may also carry viruses to other parts of the body through blood circulation." I think that previously the only other diseases we knew about that acted in this way were, like, HIV and MERS?

I think the cases studied were severe infections, so I'm not saying that every Omicron infection has this devastating effect. But if covid does a lot of this in severe cases, wouldn't it do some of this in mild cases? Any doctors on here have a better understanding of this?

Anyhow, nothing to worry about, carry on with the great unmasking.

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Anonymous wrote:22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases. Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week. Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two. Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly!

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This is predictable given that 22207 is the home of the privileged antimask Covid deniers who have to get back to "normal."