Chances APS goes virtual after break?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the APE trolls are out again. Clamoring for less mitigation but also SCHOOLS CAN NEVER CLOSE. Don't seem to see the flawed logic there.

And so much anger and revisionist history.

SCHOOLS CAN NEVER CLOSE. Absolutely. Listen to the Democratic head of the Prince William School Board (who's also an MD):

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

People keep posting this stupid argument. It still sucks to get covid. On top of having to quarantine, many adults have really yucky flu like symptoms for a solid two weeks. "Mild" covid in clinical trial terms is covid that doesn't result in a trip to the hospital, it doesn't mean just mild cold symptoms. You may very well feel like death warmed over.

And while everyone may eventually get covid, everyone is not going to get every variant. It's worth trying to stay healthy to catch it fewer times. Getting it once doesn't mean you won't catch the next variant 6-12 months later and be sick all over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

People keep posting this stupid argument. It still sucks to get covid. On top of having to quarantine, many adults have really yucky flu like symptoms for a solid two weeks. "Mild" covid in clinical trial terms is covid that doesn't result in a trip to the hospital, it doesn't mean just mild cold symptoms. You may very well feel like death warmed over.

And while everyone may eventually get covid, everyone is not going to get every variant. It's worth trying to stay healthy to catch it fewer times. Getting it once doesn't mean you won't catch the next variant 6-12 months later and be sick all over again.

I don't know one previously infected person (I at least know 100, including myself) who had symptomatic COVID a second time, except an elderly person who was in really poor health to begin with.

I don't like getting a cold at all either, but it's a fact of life right now. We never shut down society to stop us from getting a cold, and we never shut down school for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

People keep posting this stupid argument. It still sucks to get covid. On top of having to quarantine, many adults have really yucky flu like symptoms for a solid two weeks. "Mild" covid in clinical trial terms is covid that doesn't result in a trip to the hospital, it doesn't mean just mild cold symptoms. You may very well feel like death warmed over.

And while everyone may eventually get covid, everyone is not going to get every variant. It's worth trying to stay healthy to catch it fewer times. Getting it once doesn't mean you won't catch the next variant 6-12 months later and be sick all over again.

I don't know one previously infected person (I at least know 100, including myself) who had symptomatic COVID a second time, except an elderly person who was in really poor health to begin with.

I don't like getting a cold at all either, but it's a fact of life right now. We never shut down society to stop us from getting a cold, and we never shut down school for that.

Virgina law says public schools can only shut down for large outbreaks and only at the affected school for a limited time. This is similar to how schools handle norovirus or flu outbreaks. That seems reasonable to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can tell you it’s definitely been discussed. PG county did not take this lightly when they made their decision. Watch Fairfax go first then we will follow.

Discussed by who? DCUM?

Under state law we won’t see entire districts like these close.

Doing virtual for the two weeks after break is not closing.

I think we might see virtual for a week or two in January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can tell you it’s definitely been discussed. PG county did not take this lightly when they made their decision. Watch Fairfax go first then we will follow.

Discussed by who? DCUM?

Under state law we won’t see entire districts like these close.

Doing virtual for the two weeks after break is not closing.

I think we might see virtual for a week or two in January.

It's fortunately impossible under VA state law, SB1303. Thank you APE for lobbying so hard for that law.

[Anonymous]

We’ve had classes go virtual here and there for a week or max 10 days. Otherwise I say no on a school or district level.

[Anonymous]

OMG you COVID-isnt-Real idiots make me crazy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG you COVID-isnt-Real idiots make me crazy!

I just skimmed through, but where did you see this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

People keep posting this stupid argument. It still sucks to get covid. On top of having to quarantine, many adults have really yucky flu like symptoms for a solid two weeks. "Mild" covid in clinical trial terms is covid that doesn't result in a trip to the hospital, it doesn't mean just mild cold symptoms. You may very well feel like death warmed over.

And while everyone may eventually get covid, everyone is not going to get every variant. It's worth trying to stay healthy to catch it fewer times. Getting it once doesn't mean you won't catch the next variant 6-12 months later and be sick all over again.

So now you are saying it is like the flu. People can get really sick for a week maybe even two and that can happen even if they get a flu shot. And the. every year there are variants. And some people get more sick from the flu because it turns into pneumonia. ( which btw is what can happen with covid, the person has covid and just feels crappy the. it turns into pneumonia)

Interesting argument you are making.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

People keep posting this stupid argument. It still sucks to get covid. On top of having to quarantine, many adults have really yucky flu like symptoms for a solid two weeks. "Mild" covid in clinical trial terms is covid that doesn't result in a trip to the hospital, it doesn't mean just mild cold symptoms. You may very well feel like death warmed over.

And while everyone may eventually get covid, everyone is not going to get every variant. It's worth trying to stay healthy to catch it fewer times. Getting it once doesn't mean you won't catch the next variant 6-12 months later and be sick all over again.

So now you are saying it is like the flu. People can get really sick for a week maybe even two and that can happen even if they get a flu shot. And the. every year there are variants. And some people get more sick from the flu because it turns into pneumonia. ( which btw is what can happen with covid, the person has covid and just feels crappy the. it turns into pneumonia)

Interesting argument you are making.

Okay - let's do flu protocols, which includes no closing schools or other bs restrictions. That's the future anyway so we might as well skip to it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/

People keep posting this stupid argument. It still sucks to get covid. On top of having to quarantine, many adults have really yucky flu like symptoms for a solid two weeks. "Mild" covid in clinical trial terms is covid that doesn't result in a trip to the hospital, it doesn't mean just mild cold symptoms. You may very well feel like death warmed over.

And while everyone may eventually get covid, everyone is not going to get every variant. It's worth trying to stay healthy to catch it fewer times. Getting it once doesn't mean you won't catch the next variant 6-12 months later and be sick all over again.

So now you are saying it is like the flu. People can get really sick for a week maybe even two and that can happen even if they get a flu shot. And the. every year there are variants. And some people get more sick from the flu because it turns into pneumonia. ( which btw is what can happen with covid, the person has covid and just feels crappy the. it turns into pneumonia)

Interesting argument you are making.

Okay - let's do flu protocols, which includes no closing schools or other bs restrictions. That's the future anyway so we might as well skip to it now.

Schools do close for flu outbreaks.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-02-07/schools-close-hospitals-restrict-visitors-amid-flu-outbreaks

[Anonymous]

This thread, the PG closure, and the crazy discussion on AEM right now, is why VA had a Republican sweep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread, the PG closure, and the crazy discussion on AEM right now, is why VA had a Republican sweep.

The AEM early release discussion is complete logistical insanity. That people are willing to put their names to this idiocy blow my mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread, the PG closure, and the crazy discussion on AEM right now, is why VA had a Republican sweep.

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