Caitlyn Peetz on Twitter: 8am MCPS press conference for a “COVID-19 update”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they will somehow let the whiners get a temporary virtual option or something so they’ll leave us alone. I honestly don’t get it. Two vax’d families I know got covid over break and it was like a headache. Can we stop punishing the kids yet?

I can see that you are getting nervous. I can hear your knees knocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

But then, you like many others are avoiding reality. Life is tough and sometimes you just have to make changes to address the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/caitlynnpeetz14/status/1478158575411376131

Ah, nothing like the announcement of an 8am MCPS press conference for a “COVID-19 update” on my first day back on the job in a month. Trial by fire let’s goooo.
(This will be live streamed on the MCPS website’s homepage and its YouTube page.)
See you tomorrow!

I'll make odds.

3:2 Pivot to virtual this week, more likely d/t major staffing shortages than 5% metric being reached per se

4:1 Not pivoting to virtual quite yet, but announcement of new COVID policy with some metric, that, if met, will pivot the entire county to virtual simultaneously instead of school-by-school

9:1 Announcement that they are STAYING OPEN, DANGIT, but here are some mitigation measures they'll somehow try to put in place. Everyone eats on the roof, maybe.

17:1 Some sort of weird hybrid plan so fewer students have to be in the building at once

43:1 Everyone has to switch pants, come on, switch your pants... now!

It is very possible that one component is that vaccines will be required. Hogan seems to be on a warpath agaist the unvaccinated and has flowed his wishes down to the counties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

That’s absolutely my position as well. It wasn’t until the low case rates over the summer were still not enough to get people to chill out. I’ve been very pleased by how contagious omicron is. I think with a lot of work you could from Delta for a long time. But I don’t think there’s any hiding from Omicron. I was skeptical when news about the new variant came out, but the spike we’re seeing is really incredible.

I'd be really curious to see what country these IP addresses are coming from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they will somehow let the whiners get a temporary virtual option or something so they’ll leave us alone. I honestly don’t get it. Two vax’d families I know got covid over break and it was like a headache. Can we stop punishing the kids yet?

I can see that you are getting nervous. I can hear your knees knocking.

You nailed it. So transparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they will somehow let the whiners get a temporary virtual option or something so they’ll leave us alone. I honestly don’t get it. Two vax’d families I know got covid over break and it was like a headache. Can we stop punishing the kids yet?

I can see that you are getting nervous. I can hear your knees knocking.

You nailed it. So transparent.

You're not even a good enough writer to be convincing sock puppet, sweetie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they will somehow let the whiners get a temporary virtual option or something so they’ll leave us alone. I honestly don’t get it. Two vax’d families I know got covid over break and it was like a headache. Can we stop punishing the kids yet?

I can see that you are getting nervous. I can hear your knees knocking.

You nailed it. So transparent.

You're not even a good enough writer to be convincing sock puppet, sweetie.

I am not the same person I responded to. Feel free to ask the moderator if you have that little of a life, “sweetie.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they will somehow let the whiners get a temporary virtual option or something so they’ll leave us alone. I honestly don’t get it. Two vax’d families I know got covid over break and it was like a headache. Can we stop punishing the kids yet?

I can see that you are getting nervous. I can hear your knees knocking.

You nailed it. So transparent.

You're not even a good enough writer to be convincing sock puppet, sweetie.

I am not the same person I responded to. Feel free to ask the moderator if you have that little of a life, “sweetie.”

Yes, I'm sure it's a wild coincidence that you're both posting at 3am, affirming each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

When there is better leadership. Otherwise principals are going to be done as well. The BOE needs to decide what they value more, doubling down on their choice of interim superintendent, or retaining consistent school leadership across the system.

+1 to both PPs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/caitlynnpeetz14/status/1478158575411376131

Ah, nothing like the announcement of an 8am MCPS press conference for a “COVID-19 update” on my first day back on the job in a month. Trial by fire let’s goooo.
(This will be live streamed on the MCPS website’s homepage and its YouTube page.)
See you tomorrow!

I'll make odds.

3:2 Pivot to virtual this week, more likely d/t major staffing shortages than 5% metric being reached per se

4:1 Not pivoting to virtual quite yet, but announcement of new COVID policy with some metric, that, if met, will pivot the entire county to virtual simultaneously instead of school-by-school

9:1 Announcement that they are STAYING OPEN, DANGIT, but here are some mitigation measures they'll somehow try to put in place. Everyone eats on the roof, maybe.

17:1 Some sort of weird hybrid plan so fewer students have to be in the building at once

43:1 Everyone has to switch pants, come on, switch your pants... now!

It is very possible that one component is that vaccines will be required. Hogan seems to be on a warpath agaist the unvaccinated and has flowed his wishes down to the counties.

That would be a great place to start. There should be vaccinations and a negative COVID test for all staff and students to participate in in person learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

Idiot. So glad you’re not in charge.

This was the actual time line from south Africa, idiot.
You're not even in charge of your own anger lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

Idiot. So glad you’re not in charge.

This was the actual time line from south Africa, idiot.
You're not even in charge of your own anger lol

It's also the local, state, and national strategy (i.e., those who are "in charge").

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

I would also like all that, but feel like 87% of what you're describing is due to the existence of a deadly pandemic and/or the poor response of the federal government, not MCPS decisions.

DP. Not really. The pandemic has gone pretty well considering the new Delta and Omicron variants. We've found ourselves in a situation where, at no fault of our own, the only path forward for COVID is to accept that we're all going to get it and take appropriate measures to reduce the likelihood of severe illness (mostly through vaccination/boosters). Nothing the local, state or federal government could have done would have changed that reality-- remember, Delta and Omicron didn't originate in the US.

Besides their obvious primary goal of educating students, MCPS should be trying to minimize the harmful effects of the pandemic on kids. The best way they could do that would be to keep schools open.

The real issue is people like you minimizing Covid. A child just died in a neighboring county. That child never should have died. There is no safe way to keep schools fully in person.

Children die of the flu every year. We don't shut down for the flu. Children die in car accidents. We don't shut down roads until new magical safety devices are invented that prevent all vehicular deaths.

Schools are plenty safe for students. And they're safe for teachers that actually go out and get their vaccinations and boosters.

Further, the logical mistake you're making is that your looking at the overall risk of COVID when what you should be doing is looking at how opening/closing schools changes that risk. It doesn't matter what we do with schools- COVID will remain in widespread circulation in the world, and we'll all be exposed. Probably in the very near future. For that reason, the *marginal* increase in COVID risk by keeping schools open is extremely low. But we know there is real harm to education, and development, as well as students' mental health.

exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

I would also like all that, but feel like 87% of what you're describing is due to the existence of a deadly pandemic and/or the poor response of the federal government, not MCPS decisions.

DP. Not really. The pandemic has gone pretty well considering the new Delta and Omicron variants. We've found ourselves in a situation where, at no fault of our own, the only path forward for COVID is to accept that we're all going to get it and take appropriate measures to reduce the likelihood of severe illness (mostly through vaccination/boosters). Nothing the local, state or federal government could have done would have changed that reality-- remember, Delta and Omicron didn't originate in the US.

Besides their obvious primary goal of educating students, MCPS should be trying to minimize the harmful effects of the pandemic on kids. The best way they could do that would be to keep schools open.

The real issue is people like you minimizing Covid. A child just died in a neighboring county. That child never should have died. There is no safe way to keep schools fully in person.

Children die of the flu every year. We don't shut down for the flu. Children die in car accidents. We don't shut down roads until new magical safety devices are invented that prevent all vehicular deaths.

Schools are plenty safe for students. And they're safe for teachers that actually go out and get their vaccinations and boosters.

Further, the logical mistake you're making is that your looking at the overall risk of COVID when what you should be doing is looking at how opening/closing schools changes that risk. It doesn't matter what we do with schools- COVID will remain in widespread circulation in the world, and we'll all be exposed. Probably in the very near future. For that reason, the *marginal* increase in COVID risk by keeping schools open is extremely low. But we know there is real harm to education, and development, as well as students' mental health.

exactly.

Amen!

Children die in car accidents every day. I don’t see you advocating that we all walk everywhere. I am not saying that it’s a good thing, but taking calculated risks is part of life. If you never let anything happen to a child, then nothing will ever happen to him (Nemo reference).