Should we prepare for virtual schooling starting in January?

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Add two weeks now to break advocate testing in tents set up outside some schools. Practice Some safety measures or staff will be out sick too. No staff no school. At least try to contain the spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are all going to get it.

Yes your family will all get it.

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

Ok, so you “don’t have time…”
I thought this was about safety?
Is 2 weeks of illness less “inconvenient” than 4 weeks of virtual school + 2 weeks of Illness? If getting a breakthrough case is inevitable, I think 6 weeks of inconvenience is greater than 2, no? Is my math correct here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

You aren't concerned about your children getting a deadly virus that has claimed the lives of millions?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

Ok, so you “don’t have time…”
I thought this was about safety?
Is 2 weeks of illness less “inconvenient” than 4 weeks of virtual school + 2 weeks of Illness? If getting a breakthrough case is inevitable, I think 6 weeks of inconvenience is greater than 2, no? Is my math correct here?

I know many parents who complained that DL was inconvenient and their kids fell way behind because they never made time for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

I was just reading a story in the paper about a vaccinated person while still died from covid. I'd try to not put myself or loved ones at risk regardless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

You aren't concerned about your children getting a deadly virus that has claimed the lives of millions?

No, because they’re vaccinated!
And BEFORE they were vaccinated, they were STILL at less risk of severe outcomes from covid than RSV or flu!
I also have an unvaccinated 3 year old and the risk to him is still EXTREMELY small; again, less than RSV and flu.
This is actually a fact, as hard as it might be for you to hear this!
When have we ever shut down an entire school system for flu? Even though it is literally more dangerous than covid?
I swear, some of y’all covid extremists are just as ignorant and anti-science as the anti vaxxers.

And before you come in here like “but, LONG COVID!!!” the risk of long covid is, contrary to popular belief, also very small.

No person who actually works in public health (as I do) would EVER be as cavalier about the actual societal harms of shutting down essential services like education. Before vaccines, the calculation was different (and yet every other county in the world still managed to provide more school to their kids than Maryland). We are prioritizing the wrong things. A pandemic response that imposes 100% of the burden to respond on individuals and deprives kids of education is not good for society and not good for public health and not effective at mitigating spread of the virus.

But the anti-science, irrational hysteria and crippling re-entry anxiety from people like you is what gives our government cover to continue their half-assed and ineffective pandemic response.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

Ok, so you “don’t have time…”
I thought this was about safety?
Is 2 weeks of illness less “inconvenient” than 4 weeks of virtual school + 2 weeks of Illness? If getting a breakthrough case is inevitable, I think 6 weeks of inconvenience is greater than 2, no? Is my math correct here?

Let me clarify: when one person gets covid, your household doesn’t typically get it immediately. The dominoes fall more slowly, and the timeline extends beyond 2 weeks. Relatives are currently on week 3 with covid; they are a family of 4.

As a working mom of 4, I definitely don’t have sufficient leave for multiple weeks of covid.

I am not afraid that any of us will die. We are vaxxed. The adults are boosted. We will survive.

The original question I responded to was what are you afraid of if you are vaxxed. I told you.

Fwiw, people with asthma or who typically need inhalers or nebulizers when they have an upper respiratory infection are struggling with omicron despite being vaxxed.

Everyone is sick right now. It makes no sense to drag everyone back on the heels of the holidays when people are traveling and going to parties. Covid is surging right now, but should peak by the end result f January. Virtual until February would help get things under control.

[Anonymous]

There will be “some” big issue when all schools go back in a week. Teachers will be getting sick and there are not enough substitutes( even with lowering the bar and not even requiring a BS degree-just a number of credits). There will be an issue of not having enough teachers in the building in January. Not sure how school systems will deal with this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

Ok, so you “don’t have time…”
I thought this was about safety?
Is 2 weeks of illness less “inconvenient” than 4 weeks of virtual school + 2 weeks of Illness? If getting a breakthrough case is inevitable, I think 6 weeks of inconvenience is greater than 2, no? Is my math correct here?

Let me clarify: when one person gets covid, your household doesn’t typically get it immediately. The dominoes fall more slowly, and the timeline extends beyond 2 weeks. Relatives are currently on week 3 with covid; they are a family of 4.

As a working mom of 4, I definitely don’t have sufficient leave for multiple weeks of covid.

I am not afraid that any of us will die. We are vaxxed. The adults are boosted. We will survive.

The original question I responded to was what are you afraid of if you are vaxxed. I told you.

Fwiw, people with asthma or who typically need inhalers or nebulizers when they have an upper respiratory infection are struggling with omicron despite being vaxxed.

Everyone is sick right now. It makes no sense to drag everyone back on the heels of the holidays when people are traveling and going to parties. Covid is surging right now, but should peak by the end result f January. Virtual until February would help get things under control.

Your story doesn’t make sense. You don’t have 4 weeks of leave for covid quarantine, but you do have four weeks of leave for virtual school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

Ok, so you “don’t have time…”
I thought this was about safety?
Is 2 weeks of illness less “inconvenient” than 4 weeks of virtual school + 2 weeks of Illness? If getting a breakthrough case is inevitable, I think 6 weeks of inconvenience is greater than 2, no? Is my math correct here?

Let me clarify: when one person gets covid, your household doesn’t typically get it immediately. The dominoes fall more slowly, and the timeline extends beyond 2 weeks. Relatives are currently on week 3 with covid; they are a family of 4.

As a working mom of 4, I definitely don’t have sufficient leave for multiple weeks of covid.

I am not afraid that any of us will die. We are vaxxed. The adults are boosted. We will survive.

The original question I responded to was what are you afraid of if you are vaxxed. I told you.

Fwiw, people with asthma or who typically need inhalers or nebulizers when they have an upper respiratory infection are struggling with omicron despite being vaxxed.

Everyone is sick right now. It makes no sense to drag everyone back on the heels of the holidays when people are traveling and going to parties. Covid is surging right now, but should peak by the end result f January. Virtual until February would help get things under control.

Your story doesn’t make sense. You don’t have 4 weeks of leave for covid quarantine, but you do have four weeks of leave for virtual school?

?

My kids were virtual for over a year while I worked from home. They quickly learned the technology. I didn’t hover. My office is still working remotely. I’d rather have 4 weeks of virtual learning in January than 4 weeks of covid in my house. I’m also the primary caregiver for my elderly parents. If my family gets sick, there’s nobody local to care for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no point to requiring a PCR test to return to school when your school community is in the middle of a widespread outbreak of a disease.

Requiring testing makes sense when you area has little community spread, but students might have traveled to areas of spread.

But if COVID is widely circulating in the community, a single test on a single day is pretty meaningless, as they can just pick COVID up from the community that afternoon.

If you don't want COVID in the schools, either switch to virtual until COVID spread in the community is no longer widespread, or acknowledge that COVID is widespread and make KN95 masks mandatory and don't allow kids to eat near each other (this part is very hard). Or just allow spread during the lunch time and hope for the best.

What does it matter if COVID is in school buildings if students and staff have it anyway, whether you let them in the building or not? Is it worse for COVID to be in school buildings vs everywhere else?

What about the kids and staff who don’t have it? What about the staff who get sick enough to need leave? What about those with health issues?

We are talking about mcps not MoCo. MoCo Is a different topic. The issue is keeping staff, students and families safe.

The best way to keep students safe is to keep them in school. You’re obviously not interested in what is best for students here.

So you're saying the best way to keep them safe is to expose them to COVID?

Why are you so worried about your kids getting covid? Are you all not vaccinated?

Here’s why:

I know several families who have covid. All were vaccinated. Here’s how it played out:

Older kids who were vaxxed but not boosted got very sick. Think: 2 weeks of symptoms.

Those who were very recently boosted (1-3 weeks) had the mildest symptoms. Everyone who was boosted more than a month out were laid up in bed for nearly two weeks (or on the toilet).

I’m boosted, but I’m convinced the protection wanes much faster than doctors predict.

I don’t have time for my family of six to be sick for weeks on end. Since my kids aren’t boosted, I’m worried they will be sick for a while. My booster is 1+ month out, and dh’s is 2+ months out.

Ok, so you “don’t have time…”
I thought this was about safety?
Is 2 weeks of illness less “inconvenient” than 4 weeks of virtual school + 2 weeks of Illness? If getting a breakthrough case is inevitable, I think 6 weeks of inconvenience is greater than 2, no? Is my math correct here?

Let me clarify: when one person gets covid, your household doesn’t typically get it immediately. The dominoes fall more slowly, and the timeline extends beyond 2 weeks. Relatives are currently on week 3 with covid; they are a family of 4.

As a working mom of 4, I definitely don’t have sufficient leave for multiple weeks of covid.

I am not afraid that any of us will die. We are vaxxed. The adults are boosted. We will survive.

The original question I responded to was what are you afraid of if you are vaxxed. I told you.

Fwiw, people with asthma or who typically need inhalers or nebulizers when they have an upper respiratory infection are struggling with omicron despite being vaxxed.

Everyone is sick right now. It makes no sense to drag everyone back on the heels of the holidays when people are traveling and going to parties. Covid is surging right now, but should peak by the end result f January. Virtual until February would help get things under control.

Your story doesn’t make sense. You don’t have 4 weeks of leave for covid quarantine, but you do have four weeks of leave for virtual school?

?

My kids were virtual for over a year while I worked from home. They quickly learned the technology. I didn’t hover. My office is still working remotely. I’d rather have 4 weeks of virtual learning in January than 4 weeks of covid in my house. I’m also the primary caregiver for my elderly parents. If my family gets sick, there’s nobody local to care for them.

Ok, but if you can work from home with kids doing virtual, you can work from home with kids under quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There will be “some” big issue when all schools go back in a week. Teachers will be getting sick and there are not enough substitutes( even with lowering the bar and not even requiring a BS degree-just a number of credits). There will be an issue of not having enough teachers in the building in January. Not sure how school systems will deal with this.

This is going to be the real issue.