Northam - 2pm today

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

Please watch the entire press conference. The expert at the end made it very clear that schools that have been open using the governor’s mitigation’s have had great success. He said that opening schools should not be dependent on vaccines, just mitigations.

Seriously stop being so selfish. Think about the children.

YOU stop being so selfish. Or, you know, quit your job and sign up to teach in person, since its oh so important and oh so "safe"during a pandemic.

But you won't, so no. Teachers will wait for both doses of the vaccine to take effect.

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The 50 percent stat is wrong and has been corrected multiple times but somehow people keep repeating it for some reason ???

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

14 days after the 18th, you will be at 80-90% effective. That’s substantial protection. We don’t need to wait until everyone has had two doses plus two weeks.

Nope. 14 days after second dose. First dose is at 50 percent after ten days, hence a second dose. Parents should absolutely be okay with waiting tillteachers get 2nd dose cause then we will all be much more willing to go back. 1 dose... no way. A lot of people are still getting it between doses.

Cite? I haven't heard about this.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

Please watch the entire press conference. The expert at the end made it very clear that schools that have been open using the governor’s mitigation’s have had great success. He said that opening schools should not be dependent on vaccines, just mitigations.

Seriously stop being so selfish. Think about the children.

Uh, a teacher's child is more important to her than your child. And a teacher's child needs her mom to be alive and well, not dead or sick. You're the one being selfish by asking a teacher to risk her health and life because you need childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s exactly what Brabrand already presented and the school board said no.

This is irrelevant

Irrelevant to what?

Getting schools to open sooner and full time. Looks like I am keeping my apps in for private but I had hoped to keep my kids in public.

If you remember back to the spring, it wasn't Brabrand or the school board that closed schools. It was Northam.

While this is not (yet) an order, a command from the governor has weight.

Right - I didn’t complain about the fcps closure from March-June. Only August to present.

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Because it works for their argument.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

Ignorance. There are a whole lot of people that didn’t think it was a good idea to open the schools back up in the middle of a pandemic. Parents, teachers, epidemiologists... a lot of people said hey, let’s not put 30,000 people (ok-hybrid- 15,000) back together at the height of a historical pandemic. YOU were educated in person?

I said open school in August during low corona numbers just like I knew there were no WMDs Iraq. Everything is coming out that it was wrong to close schools for so long. I can’t run for office though, I hate constituents.

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Because there seems to be confusion, here is the deal with vaccine effectiveness: by 10 days post first dose you are 80-90% protected. The second dose ups protection to 95% and makes protection longer lasting and more durable.

I’m not arguing when people should feel safe doing stuff. I just want people to have correct info.

I’m a public health professional working in Covid, and discussed this with my Covid-doc brother today, if that helps you trust my info.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

You know- the problem with teachers is- they’re educated.

That’s why I have to be the voice for the kids, especially if their parents are educated or know how to work the system. In most cases I support the school system in that I think they often do what is best for students but they did not by closing schools August - present so I had to at least speak up.

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Anonymous wrote:Because there seems to be confusion, here is the deal with vaccine effectiveness: by 10 days post first dose you are 80-90% protected. The second dose ups protection to 95% and makes protection longer lasting and more durable.

I’m not arguing when people should feel safe doing stuff. I just want people to have correct info.

I’m a public health professional working in Covid, and discussed this with my Covid-doc brother today, if that helps you trust my info.

Literally someone posted the journal of medicine article about this but the 50% lie keeps being repeated. Bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

Please watch the entire press conference. The expert at the end made it very clear that schools that have been open using the governor’s mitigation’s have had great success. He said that opening schools should not be dependent on vaccines, just mitigations.

Seriously stop being so selfish. Think about the children.

Uh, a teacher's child is more important to her than your child. And a teacher's child needs her mom to be alive and well, not dead or sick. You're the one being selfish by asking a teacher to risk her health and life because you need childcare.

Then they should quit not make the kids suffer. A nurse can’t care for you over zoom so a nurse has to quit if they no longer want to do their job.

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Anonymous wrote:Because there seems to be confusion, here is the deal with vaccine effectiveness: by 10 days post first dose you are 80-90% protected. The second dose ups protection to 95% and makes protection longer lasting and more durable.

I’m not arguing when people should feel safe doing stuff. I just want people to have correct info.

I’m a public health professional working in Covid, and discussed this with my Covid-doc brother today, if that helps you trust my info.

I’m a teacher- the vaccine does it for me. It does it for most of us. Kids 10-16 are still a concern, but then I feel like every family kind of has to weigh all of the factors and make their choice, as some kids just can’t do the distance learning thing, and there are other things, like mental health or obesity, to consider. I am just sick of people acting like teachers kept school buildings closed. The pandemic did. It was not a good idea to open up before this vaccine.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

And teachers are parents, too. You don’t love your kids any more than I love mine. Virtual was fine, to keep my family safe. It’s a damn pandemic.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

Please watch the entire press conference. The expert at the end made it very clear that schools that have been open using the governor’s mitigation’s have had great success. He said that opening schools should not be dependent on vaccines, just mitigations.

Seriously stop being so selfish. Think about the children.

Uh, a teacher's child is more important to her than your child. And a teacher's child needs her mom to be alive and well, not dead or sick. You're the one being selfish by asking a teacher to risk her health and life because you need childcare.

Then they should quit not make the kids suffer. A nurse can’t care for you over zoom so a nurse has to quit if they no longer want to do their job.

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OpenFCPS Lie: Teachers don't want to go back to work.

Reality: Teachers shutdown website to register for vaccinations on Day 1, so they can go back to work.

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Anonymous wrote:Because there seems to be confusion, here is the deal with vaccine effectiveness: by 10 days post first dose you are 80-90% protected. The second dose ups protection to 95% and makes protection longer lasting and more durable.

I’m not arguing when people should feel safe doing stuff. I just want people to have correct info.

I’m a public health professional working in Covid, and discussed this with my Covid-doc brother today, if that helps you trust my info.

I’m a teacher- the vaccine does it for me. It does it for most of us. Kids 10-16 are still a concern, but then I feel like every family kind of has to weigh all of the factors and make their choice, as some kids just can’t do the distance learning thing, and there are other things, like mental health or obesity, to consider. I am just sick of people acting like teachers kept school buildings closed. The pandemic did. It was not a good idea to open up before this vaccine.

We are just lucky a vaccine was ready so quickly. What would have happened otherwise?