Have you sign-up for weekly asymptomatic testing at APS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why don't they want to be vaccinated?

For any of the reasons any other Americans don't want to be vaccinated: they think Covid isn't a big deal, they don't trust the government, they are afraid of "long-term" side effects, they heard that their cousin's friend's testicles swelled... any of the nonsense that is keeping people from getting the shot.

Seeing that African Americans are the least vaccinated demographic, that's why we should not have vaccine passports. Just a month ago, only 28% of black New Yorkers 18 to 44 were vaccinated. If you support vaccine passports, you're for barring almost 3 of every 4 black people from going to a restaurant. Now, even Black Lives Matters is protesting vaccine passports in New York.

People should actually trust the vaccines. COVID is not going away, no matter if 100% of people get vaccinated. Hopefully Virginia does not do this new form of segregation.

We should use positive messages to get people vaccinated, not coercion and racial segregation.

… or maybe they should just get vaccinated? Are you really framing the right for Black people to go get covid and die as a civil right? There’s no unequal vaccine access at this point. Get the shot or stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why don't they want to be vaccinated?

For any of the reasons any other Americans don't want to be vaccinated: they think Covid isn't a big deal, they don't trust the government, they are afraid of "long-term" side effects, they heard that their cousin's friend's testicles swelled... any of the nonsense that is keeping people from getting the shot.

Seeing that African Americans are the least vaccinated demographic, that's why we should not have vaccine passports. Just a month ago, only 28% of black New Yorkers 18 to 44 were vaccinated. If you support vaccine passports, you're for barring almost 3 of every 4 black people from going to a restaurant. Now, even Black Lives Matters is protesting vaccine passports in New York.

People should actually trust the vaccines. COVID is not going away, no matter if 100% of people get vaccinated. Hopefully Virginia does not do this new form of segregation.

We should use positive messages to get people vaccinated, not coercion and racial segregation.

… or maybe they should just get vaccinated? Are you really framing the right for Black people to go get covid and die as a civil right? There’s no unequal vaccine access at this point. Get the shot or stay home.

Shaming and racial segregation will not get more people to get vaccinated. We need to provide positive encouragement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two questions I haven't seen the answer to. But I'm only asking here, anonymously, as there is so much division and judgment in the community over these issues.

(1) I am curious if my kids table-mates at school are opted-in to testing or not. Could the teacher seat the opted-in kids together, and the opted-out kids together? That would seem to suit both groups needs best.

(2) Does the teacher know which kids are opted in, and which aren't?

(Our family is not opted-in due to the many problems with the design and execution of the APS testing program. But I generally would support an evidence-based, rapid, test to stay program using best practices to keep kids in school.)

Bumping this again

To #2, I think the teacher must know - at my kids' ES, they get pulled out around lunch/recess to go test. So there's visibility. I'm trying to get my kids to tell me how many in their classes are doing the testing, but they're unreliable narrators.

Mine at a 22207 ES said about 2-3 in their class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two questions I haven't seen the answer to. But I'm only asking here, anonymously, as there is so much division and judgment in the community over these issues.

(1) I am curious if my kids table-mates at school are opted-in to testing or not. Could the teacher seat the opted-in kids together, and the opted-out kids together? That would seem to suit both groups needs best.

(2) Does the teacher know which kids are opted in, and which aren't?

(Our family is not opted-in due to the many problems with the design and execution of the APS testing program. But I generally would support an evidence-based, rapid, test to stay program using best practices to keep kids in school.)

Bumping this again

To #2, I think the teacher must know - at my kids' ES, they get pulled out around lunch/recess to go test. So there's visibility. I'm trying to get my kids to tell me how many in their classes are doing the testing, but they're unreliable narrators.

Mine at a 22207 ES said about 2-3 in their class.

Isn't that prime APE territory?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two questions I haven't seen the answer to. But I'm only asking here, anonymously, as there is so much division and judgment in the community over these issues.

(1) I am curious if my kids table-mates at school are opted-in to testing or not. Could the teacher seat the opted-in kids together, and the opted-out kids together? That would seem to suit both groups needs best.

(2) Does the teacher know which kids are opted in, and which aren't?

(Our family is not opted-in due to the many problems with the design and execution of the APS testing program. But I generally would support an evidence-based, rapid, test to stay program using best practices to keep kids in school.)

Bumping this again

To #2, I think the teacher must know - at my kids' ES, they get pulled out around lunch/recess to go test. So there's visibility. I'm trying to get my kids to tell me how many in their classes are doing the testing, but they're unreliable narrators.

Mine at a 22207 ES said about 2-3 in their class.

Isn't that prime APE territory?

Smart Restart too (just wealthy whites in that group - the type who get groceries delivered by their poor minority human shields, then brag about how virtuous they are), but there's only like 10 people in SR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two questions I haven't seen the answer to. But I'm only asking here, anonymously, as there is so much division and judgment in the community over these issues.

(1) I am curious if my kids table-mates at school are opted-in to testing or not. Could the teacher seat the opted-in kids together, and the opted-out kids together? That would seem to suit both groups needs best.

(2) Does the teacher know which kids are opted in, and which aren't?

(Our family is not opted-in due to the many problems with the design and execution of the APS testing program. But I generally would support an evidence-based, rapid, test to stay program using best practices to keep kids in school.)

Bumping this again

To #2, I think the teacher must know - at my kids' ES, they get pulled out around lunch/recess to go test. So there's visibility. I'm trying to get my kids to tell me how many in their classes are doing the testing, but they're unreliable narrators.

Mine at a 22207 ES said about 2-3 in their class.

Isn't that prime APE territory?

Smart Restart too (just wealthy whites in that group - the type who get groceries delivered by their poor minority human shields, then brag about how virtuous they are), but there's only like 10 people in SR.

But I'm guess the SR people are signing their kids up to get tested?

Because they aren't psychopathic a-holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why don't they want to be vaccinated?

For any of the reasons any other Americans don't want to be vaccinated: they think Covid isn't a big deal, they don't trust the government, they are afraid of "long-term" side effects, they heard that their cousin's friend's testicles swelled... any of the nonsense that is keeping people from getting the shot.

Seeing that African Americans are the least vaccinated demographic, that's why we should not have vaccine passports. Just a month ago, only 28% of black New Yorkers 18 to 44 were vaccinated. If you support vaccine passports, you're for barring almost 3 of every 4 black people from going to a restaurant. Now, even Black Lives Matters is protesting vaccine passports in New York.

People should actually trust the vaccines. COVID is not going away, no matter if 100% of people get vaccinated. Hopefully Virginia does not do this new form of segregation.

We should use positive messages to get people vaccinated, not coercion and racial segregation.

I'm sorry, but I feel the same way about African Americans (or any other Americans) who do not get vaccines as I do about low-income people who vote republican. They are acting against their own interests in an illogical way. It is well known in the African American community that they suffer worse health outcomes from Covid. The vaccines have been in circulation since December of last year and there have been no significant long-term side effects (unlike Covid, which can leave people with permanent reduced lung function). People are making their choice... and that's fine, but it is not reasonable to expect society to bend over backwards to protect them indefinitely while people "do their own research". We should not enable bad choices at the expense of others...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two questions I haven't seen the answer to. But I'm only asking here, anonymously, as there is so much division and judgment in the community over these issues.

(1) I am curious if my kids table-mates at school are opted-in to testing or not. Could the teacher seat the opted-in kids together, and the opted-out kids together? That would seem to suit both groups needs best.

(2) Does the teacher know which kids are opted in, and which aren't?

(Our family is not opted-in due to the many problems with the design and execution of the APS testing program. But I generally would support an evidence-based, rapid, test to stay program using best practices to keep kids in school.)

Bumping this again

To #2, I think the teacher must know - at my kids' ES, they get pulled out around lunch/recess to go test. So there's visibility. I'm trying to get my kids to tell me how many in their classes are doing the testing, but they're unreliable narrators.

Mine at a 22207 ES said about 2-3 in their class.

Isn't that prime APE territory?

Smart Restart too (just wealthy whites in that group - the type who get groceries delivered by their poor minority human shields, then brag about how virtuous they are), but there's only like 10 people in SR.

But I'm guess the SR people are signing their kids up to get tested?

Because they aren't psychopathic a-holes.

Yep, they must be the 2-3. The other 80% of Arlington are psychopathic assholes according to you.

[Anonymous]

I think we should all just be kinder to one another and admit that just about everyone left posting in this thread is at least a LITTLE BIT on the spectrum for psychopathic asshole, ha.

*and scene*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I'm sorry, but I feel the same way about African Americans (or any other Americans) who do not get vaccines as I do about low-income people who vote republican. They are acting against their own interests in an illogical way. It is well known in the African American community that they suffer worse health outcomes from Covid. The vaccines have been in circulation since December of last year and there have been no significant long-term side effects (unlike Covid, which can leave people with permanent reduced lung function). People are making their choice... and that's fine, but it is not reasonable to expect society to bend over backwards to protect them indefinitely while people "do their own research". We should not enable bad choices at the expense of others...

Concerned Person: The vast majority of younger and middle age African Americans will be essentially segregated by vaccine passports
Arlington Branch COVIDian: Screw 'em, the only thing that matters is COVID, which overrides treatment of minorities

1 year earlier...

Concerned Person: Underprivileged minorities will be the most hurt by closed schools
Same Arlington Branch COVIDian: Screw 'em (even though my kids are remote anyway), the only thing that matters is COVID, not equity

1 year later when SOL scores were announced...

Concerned Person: We told you closed schools would hurt underprivileged minorities the most, now we need to focus on learning loss
Same Arlington Branch COVIDian: It wasn't because of closed schools, it was because "of the pandemic". Plus, don't say "learning loss", say "unfinished learning" (and don't say "closed schools", it was "closed school buildings"). I love equity too and am getting a shirt that says "equity warrior".

Now with Asymptomatic Testing...

Concerned Person: Having healthy kids be excluded from school because of close contacts, when the odds are overwhelming they'll never be positive, will just hurt the same underprivileged minorities who were hurt the most by closed schools.
Same Arlington Branch COVIDian: Screw 'em, the only thing that matters is COVID (even though I'm vaccinated), not equity

[Anonymous]

Minorities were people who were speaking up in favor of having school from home last year, but the APE people wouldn't know this fact because they were busy shouting them down at the meetings in front of their kids. Good times.

[Anonymous]

Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot:

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/04/23/tensions-over-virtual-and-in-person-education-boil-over-in-school-board-meeting/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot:

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/04/23/tensions-over-virtual-and-in-person-education-boil-over-in-school-board-meeting/

Yes, Tannia Talento claiming she speaks for all minorities, when 90%+ of every demographic chose to come back in-person 5 days a week less than 2 weeks later in a survey (including Hispanic kids at 95%). Perfect example of the closed school activists' commitment to "equity".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot:

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/04/23/tensions-over-virtual-and-in-person-education-boil-over-in-school-board-meeting/

Yes, Tannia Talento claiming she speaks for all minorities, when 90%+ of every demographic chose to come back in-person 5 days a week less than 2 weeks later in a survey (including Hispanic kids at 95%). Perfect example of the closed school activists' commitment to "equity".

Same people pushing closed schools last year are pushing asymptomatic testing this year. That's enough for me to not opt in.

[Anonymous]

Eh. I watched that board meeting and I know what I saw in terms of who was arguing to continue to allow schools from home and not to force return for all too early. I'm not part of Smart Restart or any of the other groups but I know what I saw. You, of course, can make up your own reality, as APE tends to do.