With all the positive cases at MCPS, can you simply elect to do zoom?

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

And in a couple days, they’re breakthrough recoveries.

Ok, covid denier. You don't seem to get those cases, will spread within all the schools through siblings and our community. Thanks for doing your part to spread it through the schools.

Dude. We're all vaccinated now and 16 and up have been boostered. We aren't shutting the country down again.

We never shut down. Hence the spread.

This again? Go to China

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Burn out of teachers, I can understand. However, MCPS should focus on increasing pay for substitutes and para educators so teachers can have learning periods back.

A 7 day free vacation for 12 month employees is completely appalling. Most of these staff members are school administrators who need to work harder to fill teaching vacancies. They also have more leave than 10 month staff.

The lack of transparency and public discussion shows how broken the BOE is. No oversight of MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

And in a couple days, they’re breakthrough recoveries.

Ok, covid denier. You don't seem to get those cases, will spread within all the schools through siblings and our community. Thanks for doing your part to spread it through the schools.

Dude. We're all vaccinated now and 16 and up have been boostered. We aren't shutting the country down again.

We never shut down. Hence the spread.

This again? Go to China

Posters don't understand what a "shutdown" really is. They just want to shut down things they can live without and/or to helicopter their kids at home.

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The UK is not ahead of us. They just do more sequencing. Omicron will be the dominant strain here by the end of the month. The hospitals will bd overwhelmed by January.

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Anonymous wrote:No Zoom, no virtual.

But it would be awesome! DL was so much better for those who wanted to learn.

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No - unfortunately parents overuse this option if it is available.

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Anonymous wrote:The UK is not ahead of us. They just do more sequencing. Omicron will be the dominant strain here by the end of the month. The hospitals will bd overwhelmed by January.

Just like MCPS shut down 4 weeks after the first day of school, due to delta! No, wait...

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Anonymous wrote:What positive cases? At our school, there have been very few—maybe 5 since school started and most of them weren’t kids…

Pay attention, multiple outbreaks.

Yet we're still talking about a small number of cases given the size of the district and county. And no reason to believe we're seeing a significant number of cases involving severe illness. Given the large number of kids vaccinated in MCPS, particularly older kids, we probably won't see much in the way of severe illness.

The students aren’t going to school in the NBA bubble; they’re traveling through and living in the community. Yes, many MCPS students are vaccinated and will avoid severe infections, but the same cannot be said for the members of the community that the students come in contact with. When the schools report positive cases, they do not include family members infected by the students. Similarly, if a staffer tests positive, they don’t include the staffer’s family members if they have infected by the staffer. So when a school reports that 4 students have tested positive, that just means a greater number of people in the community have been exposed and will likely test positive. Throughout this pandemic people have downplayed the symptoms and likelihood of a bad infection, until they’re the one suffering.

So? The same can be said about a given restaurant or the mall. Somehow schools are seen as the key to stopping the pandemic by a small group of posters. Kids can be vaccinated now. Masks are mandated. Good enough.

Cases are rising so clearly its not good enough.

Cases themselves don't matter. Case severity matters, and that's where the vaccines shine.

Both matter. Who wants to be sick beyond you.

Both matter, but severity matters more. A lot more.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

And in a couple days, they’re breakthrough recoveries.

Ok, covid denier. You don't seem to get those cases, will spread within all the schools through siblings and our community. Thanks for doing your part to spread it through the schools.

If you wanted zero risk of covid, you should have applied for virtual.

I just don’t know how long of you want to live like this, being fully vaccinated yet still wanting to avoid any exposure/illness at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days.

You know what? I’m 100% over the adults that can’t be bothered to get vaccinated. Done. And the LTC facilities and medically vulnerable need to step up the precautions to protect themselves. Given the high vaccination rate in this area, I think the chances of hospitals being overrun is small, so I don’t think we should be taking drastic measures with kids to prevent Covid at all costs.

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Anonymous wrote:The UK is not ahead of us. They just do more sequencing. Omicron will be the dominant strain here by the end of the month. The hospitals will bd overwhelmed by January.

Lol. Just wait 2 weeks, you'll see how bad it's gonna get!

Where have I heard that before?

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Anonymous wrote:Burn out of teachers, I can understand. However, MCPS should focus on increasing pay for substitutes and para educators so teachers can have learning periods back.

A 7 day free vacation for 12 month employees is completely appalling. Most of these staff members are school administrators who need to work harder to fill teaching vacancies. They also have more leave than 10 month staff.

The lack of transparency and public discussion shows how broken the BOE is. No oversight of MCPS.

oh god not this again

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Anonymous wrote:The UK is not ahead of us. They just do more sequencing. Omicron will be the dominant strain here by the end of the month. The hospitals will bd overwhelmed by January.

Lol. Just wait 2 weeks, you'll see how bad it's gonna get!

Where have I heard that before?

The last time there was a global pandemic and something like a million Americans died?

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Anonymous wrote:The UK is not ahead of us. They just do more sequencing. Omicron will be the dominant strain here by the end of the month. The hospitals will bd overwhelmed by January.

Lol. Just wait 2 weeks, you'll see how bad it's gonna get!

Where have I heard that before?

NP - umm, have you seen what's happening in UK, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Finland? It spreads incredibly fast and overwhelms quickly.

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What positive cases? Our school has about 3. My kids ain’t staying home for that!