Anyone else think schools will be virtual after Winter Break?

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Anonymous wrote:The difference is, the breakouts in vaccinated areas are just positive cases. But the hospitalizations are generally f unvaccinated people. Big difference.

If that’s the case why are Maryland’s hospitals crowded? Really high vax rate.

64% is not a "really high vax rate".
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/#Vaccine

Get it to >90% and we can talk.

Data shows solidly that unvaccinated and partially vaccinated people are more likely to get COVID and be hospitalized.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/covid-19-in-virginia/covid-19-cases-by-vaccination-status/

Does that mean no breakthrough cases? Of course not. But I prefer my odds as a fully vaccinated and boosted adult, and I'm glad my kids are vaxxed too.

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Anonymous wrote:The difference is, the breakouts in vaccinated areas are just positive cases. But the hospitalizations are generally f unvaccinated people. Big difference.

If that’s the case why are Maryland’s hospitals crowded? Really high vax rate.

Funny how facts shit down that liberal talking point.

You people are idiots, just the the unvaccinated fools winding up in the hospitals. It isn’t vaccinated people being admitted.

Can you show us the data that no vaccinated people have been hospitalized or died of covid? Its simply not true.

AAMC said 70% of its COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated and that the vaccinated patients have underlying health conditions. Just one of them got the booster shot.

I know you don’t want to hear this, but healthy, vaccinated, boosted people are fine.

That means 30% are vaccinated and that is a high number of vaccine failures.

Can you read? The 30% vaccinated have underlying health conditions and 99% of them did not get a booster.

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Yes I can read and vaccines don’t appear to be as effective against Omicron which will soon be the dominant strain.

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Anonymous wrote:My teacher daughter has four kids traveling out of the county over the break. Two to India, one to Africa. One to Costa Rica. I can’t help but feel annoyed.

Why? At least they have to test to come back home.

I'd be more worried about the families going to Disney or visiting family in Kentucky or some other not highly vaxxed state.

Don’t go to NY or NJ

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Anonymous wrote:time for schools to issue the vaccine mandate if you want to be in person or stay home.
breakthroughs yes but hopefully hospitalizations remain mild among unvaccinated
masks will stay
CDC doesn’t say unvaccinated shouldn’t travel and we are going. testing testing and going
testing when we get back
yes it’s alarming but if the vaccines mitigate severe disease then it’s time to move on and live with COVID bc it is NEVER going away.

All of the schools my kids attend have a vaccine mandate and they are running booster clinics. This was done prior to the school year starting.

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Anonymous wrote:time for schools to issue the vaccine mandate if you want to be in person or stay home.
breakthroughs yes but hopefully hospitalizations remain mild among unvaccinated
masks will stay
CDC doesn’t say unvaccinated shouldn’t travel and we are going. testing testing and going
testing when we get back
yes it’s alarming but if the vaccines mitigate severe disease then it’s time to move on and live with COVID bc it is NEVER going away.

All of the schools my kids attend have a vaccine mandate and they are running booster clinics. This was done prior to the school year starting.

That’s great. Neither of ours has a mandate and it’s time

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Anonymous wrote:My teacher daughter has four kids traveling out of the county over the break. Two to India, one to Africa. One to Costa Rica. I can’t help but feel annoyed.

Agree.

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PG County just announced they are going all virtual until the middle of January.

Watch the dominoes start to fall.

Pathetic.

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Kids under 16 can't get boosted, and two shots doesn't offer much protection from infection against omicron. It is frustrating.

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Anonymous wrote:My teacher daughter has four kids traveling out of the county over the break. Two to India, one to Africa. One to Costa Rica. I can’t help but feel annoyed.

How about you mind your own business.

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My 15yo vaxxed kid has Covid. It’s an annoying head cold and 10 days of isolation. Other than being very heavy had zero extra risk factors. Thankful he’s vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school is testing all students on the first day of school after break.

School will continue, masked, as usual, and 99% students vaccinated. They will have the results same day so they will decide by the end of the day if they need to go virtual or not.

This is a very reasonable and measured approach.

When you're not in the wave we're in. Schools are not opening any time soon. You don't believe me now, but give it a week, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Our school made it very clear that while their may be disruptions they expect to remain open. They emphasized that covid is becoming endemic and that the focus of closing will no longer just be on number of positive cases. It’s about time we shift our mindset and I’m so glad our school agrees!

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Anonymous wrote:My 15yo vaxxed kid has Covid. It’s an annoying head cold and 10 days of isolation. Other than being very heavy had zero extra risk factors. Thankful he’s vaccinated.

At 15 he would have been perfectly fine without the vaccine.

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Anonymous wrote:PG County just announced they are going all virtual until the middle of January.

Watch the dominoes start to fall.

Pathetic.

Why would private schools follow a low performing public school district in continuing a form of education that has been proven to be ineffective and harmful to the well being of children?

In addition to a vaccine mandate, our school is conducting surveillance testing of all students before school starts, as it did in the fall and will continue surveillance testing throughout the remainder of the year.

While virtual is certainly a possibility, it is the last resort and not the first.

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Anonymous wrote:My 15yo vaxxed kid has Covid. It’s an annoying head cold and 10 days of isolation. Other than being very heavy had zero extra risk factors. Thankful he’s vaccinated.

At 15 he would have been perfectly fine without the vaccine.

Still much better to be vaccinated so it reduces the risk for extreme illness