Any schools going remote - increases in cases?
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Anonymous
The situation in China should put an end to this argument. They continue to implement city-wide lockdowns where literally no one can leave their houses for days and weeks on end. And they still see it spreading. It is here to stay. That is just reality. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
A bunch of already-vaccinated kids tested positive on some stale tests and have colds for a day. Let’s keep them from school for 5 days of zero instruction. Next! |
Anonymous
Lots of stuff to die from, especially if diabetic, obese, unhealthy. Start citing health comorbidities next time you bring up a recent death or anything. My great aunt died of infections during her hip replacement. Maybe it was Covid! |
Anonymous
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Genuine question for the people who support remote learning and other Covid prevention measures in schools: do you envision using these measures forever to control the spread of Covid? If not, what would have to happen for you to believe they are no longer necessary? Is it better treatment, different vaccines, more herd immunity?
We know kids are statistically very unlikely to get very sick from Covid (so much so that it's been hard to even prove vaccine efficacy for this cohort), and we also know we are all statistically very likely (if not guaranteed) to get Covid (probably repeatedly). Given this, what is the perceived benefit of school interruptions, and what is the basis for believing it outweighs the known harm? |
Anonymous
| Children are now getting post-COVID hepatitis. Tell me again how it doesn’t harm kids? |
Anonymous
A child sick with a cold isn't going to learn anything at school and should be home with a parent. |
Anonymous
Covid is the gift that keeps on giving. |
Anonymous
You keep posting this stuff to try to bully others into thinking like you are. In MCPS, numbers are very high given its only the second week in May for May and its spreading again at an alarming rate. Mitigation is important to keep our community healthy. There is NO herd immunity. There is no better vaccine. This is as good as it gets. We will keep our kids in remote except if we can find a school that handles it responsibly which we have yet to do. I'd rather your kids get covid and your family vs. ours. Kids don't live alone. They live with adults who live in a community so them getting and spreading covid doesn't just impact the child, but also their family and community. And, define very sick? My last "cold" as an adult has lasted over a month and I still cannot get over it, with multiple antibiotics. My child doesn't feel good about bringing it home to me, and in fact feels terrible about it. |
Anonymous
Answer - no, I don't. I expect our government to tire of it as well, and fund the next wave of research (as Biden has been begging Congress to do this spring) for a universal vaccine /booster. The army has been working on one for three years. Pushing this over the finish line would help a lot - then, like measles, mumps, polio we wouldn't have to "just live with it". This is solvable. I do hope that good air filtration continues - seems like an overall good since kids lose a lot of school days to transmissible crud in a normal year. |
Anonymous
PP here. This is the first time I've posted about anything Covid-related, so I don't "keep" doing anything, and don't see how asking a sincere question could be interpreted as bullying. You didn't answer the question directly, but I take your "there is no better vaccine. this is as good as it gets. we will keep our kids in remote" and "my last cold as an adult lasted over a month" to mean you don't think Covid restrictions in school should ever end, and perhaps restrictions are warranted for even the common cold? I don't define "very" sick as feeling bad for a month. I define it as a sickness that requires significant medical intervention and/or has long-term health consequences. I cannot see how feeling bad, even if for a month, justifies the disruption to family life and routine caused when kids can't be in school (being able to keep your kids home for permanent remove learning is a privilege many don't have, especially those who rely on school for childcare), let alone the learning loss and mental health problems associated with remote learning. I'm genuinely trying to understand where you're coming from. To 18:46, thank you for answering the question. This is the kind of reply I was hoping my question would elicit. To 18:08, I haven't seen anything definitively linking Covid and hepatitis, but if you have a link I would be interested in reading more. That would certainly be a compelling fact. |
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No, no one’s going remote.
Same nil symptoms whether vaxxed or not for cast majority of the kids |
Anonymous
Unless new data came out in the last few days, I thought no (maybe 1?) Of the kids was known to have had covid but most/many had evidence of an adenovirus. Hepatitis has apparently been a rare but known side affect if adenovirus. This was from a science article in a mainstream newspaper. Please share if you have other data, po. |
Anonymous
| We have decent weather a lot of the year in DMV - air filtration, air flow from outside, routine PCR tests and rapid tests as needed (like before events or when symptoms show up between scheduled PCRs) should be able to keep kids unmasked, schools open. Schools that are struggling probably aren't doing all the above consistently. |
Anonymous
No and No. Please homeschool. |