Masks optional by spring break

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Anonymous wrote:No more testing, no cases. We just got out of a huge surge right after the last mask lifting.

I'm not really sure what you mean. You don't actually think the surge was due to people not wear some Old Navy fabric across their nose and mouth, right?

The surge was a new variant thanks to those traveling who relied on the vaccine as a cure and it wasn’t. The surge was due to selfish people not staying home and stressing it. It will happen again.

Why do you keep letting the unvaccinated off the hook? But I am glad you are recognizing that it had nothing to do with mask wearing -- so let's drop them, eh?

Vaccines help with symptoms but are not stopping the spread of new variants. MOCO is highly vaccinated and just had a huge surge so clearly these vaccines alone are not enough to stop surges. When students get Covid they miss out on school. The idea of masking and precautions is to stop the spread to keep students in school, which should be everyone,’s goal. It’s sad we live in a me culture and not a we culture. Everyone hates masks but we mask to keep ourselves safe and to keep others safe. It’s part of living in a community.

Look at the data in cities and countries that split out cases by vaccination status. Vaccination still reduces spread. Stop spreading misinformation because you want everyone to stay home in 2022. Our goal is not zero cases. Stop it. Enough.

You may be ok getting Covid but others of us are not ok getting it from you. We just had a huge surge and many of those students and staff were vaccinated. Enough is enough with people like you spreading it and not caring about anyone but yourself. If masking is so hard, stay home.

Can you please say what will be enough for you? Does it have to be the literal eradication of COVID from the world? I would be happy to have a discussion with anyone about when the appropriate time for this is (I did not think it was in January during the surge, but would be ok now) but when people just dig in and say they want to be “safe” and “not get COVID” you just sound resigned to wearing a mask for the rest of your life because life is not 100 percent safe and COVID is not going away. Which is fine if you want to but I do not want that for myself or my children.

It doesn't matter what response I give you, you will always rationalize why your beliefs are more important. No one likes wearing masks. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep our community safe. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Its not just about you. Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children who to live in a densely populated community and show empathy and concern to others. One day it may be your or your child who needs empathy and support.

Our schools are very large, there is no social distancing and it just takes one selfish parent to send their child to school sick or an asymptomatic situation to cause a school outbreak which impacts many families, not just yours.

I am a scientist and I deal with facts and numbers. I also think policies should be set based on facts and measurables not your individual feelings about safety. I feel frustrated with people who continually post the same things about anyone who disagrees with them being bad and theoretical feelings about safety and empathy. I that is not a productive conversation, it’s moral posturing.

We don't have facts or numbers. MCPS, the State of Maryland, MoCo and the Fed's haven't been transparent. And, now they are giving out home tests so people aren't reporting positives so we have even less facts and numbers than before. Plus, the home test aren't always accurate. Its hard to have a productive conversation with all the cover ups and lack of information by the government. The fact is we know MoCo is highly vaccinated and we still had a terrible surge in our schools a month ago. Thankfully it was short lived but it ramped up quickly and can happen again.

This is a serious question, what cover ups do you think have happened? Some one is suppressing case counts? That’s a new one for me.

Obviously case rate data is imperfect since many people are asymptomatic and/or test at home. There are multiple models to account for these known sources of error, some of which are better than others in terms of thoroughness. But in height think trends hold up fairly well. As do hospitalization rates and measures of hospital capacity, both of which I would argue are far more important than a perfect case count. I’d be happy with a metric based on hospitalization rates or hospital capacity for that matter. But the idea we can’t even talk about getting masks off our kids with our name calling (despite under 6s never masking in most of the world and under 12s never masking in many countries with very little differences in outcomes) is …well it’s not encouraging.

We are not talking hospitalizations we are talking transmission. I don’t care about hospitalizations, I care transmissions and positives. I care your family doesn’t care and will give it to my family.

Do you not get that it can be a big deal for other families and their lives don’t just revolve around your wants and entitlement.

My family does care and we are all fully vaccinated and have cheerfully worn our masks for nearly two years now to protect those at risk before they were protected by vaccination. But we can still ask reasonable questions about the purpose and duration of these restrictions. I am concerned that people who are vaguely concerned with the concept of transmission, unlinked to the actual severity of disease, who are unwilling to discuss any metrics that could be acceptable because of “cover ups” are essentially expecting our children to wear masks for another two years or more. That it will never be the right time and the cases will never be low “enough” and they can just insult people for suggesting otherwise.

My concern is that a the PP has such a level of anxiety that they will never get to a point where they feel comfortable without masks under any circumstances

Being concerned about Covid I’d not anxiety but you should get your mental health checked. We are not at the level to unmask yet.

Why are these crazies saying it's not time, but fail to indicate when will be the right time? It's because it will NEVER be the right time.

The right time is when we stop having huge surges and the numbers are low and stay low. We haven't had that yet. You are the crazy if you are unwilling to take even the most basic precautions to keep our community healthy.

MoCo is highly vaccinated. You folks keep changing the definitions of "basic precautions."

Well, the virus keeps changing, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Frederick county just said no more masks. It’s coming, anxious people, prepare.

AACPS board voted this evening to go mask optional.

None of this is relevant as this is MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:No more testing, no cases. We just got out of a huge surge right after the last mask lifting.

I'm not really sure what you mean. You don't actually think the surge was due to people not wear some Old Navy fabric across their nose and mouth, right?

The surge was a new variant thanks to those traveling who relied on the vaccine as a cure and it wasn’t. The surge was due to selfish people not staying home and stressing it. It will happen again.

Why do you keep letting the unvaccinated off the hook? But I am glad you are recognizing that it had nothing to do with mask wearing -- so let's drop them, eh?

Vaccines help with symptoms but are not stopping the spread of new variants. MOCO is highly vaccinated and just had a huge surge so clearly these vaccines alone are not enough to stop surges. When students get Covid they miss out on school. The idea of masking and precautions is to stop the spread to keep students in school, which should be everyone,’s goal. It’s sad we live in a me culture and not a we culture. Everyone hates masks but we mask to keep ourselves safe and to keep others safe. It’s part of living in a community.

Look at the data in cities and countries that split out cases by vaccination status. Vaccination still reduces spread. Stop spreading misinformation because you want everyone to stay home in 2022. Our goal is not zero cases. Stop it. Enough.

You may be ok getting Covid but others of us are not ok getting it from you. We just had a huge surge and many of those students and staff were vaccinated. Enough is enough with people like you spreading it and not caring about anyone but yourself. If masking is so hard, stay home.

Can you please say what will be enough for you? Does it have to be the literal eradication of COVID from the world? I would be happy to have a discussion with anyone about when the appropriate time for this is (I did not think it was in January during the surge, but would be ok now) but when people just dig in and say they want to be “safe” and “not get COVID” you just sound resigned to wearing a mask for the rest of your life because life is not 100 percent safe and COVID is not going away. Which is fine if you want to but I do not want that for myself or my children.

It doesn't matter what response I give you, you will always rationalize why your beliefs are more important. No one likes wearing masks. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep our community safe. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Its not just about you. Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children who to live in a densely populated community and show empathy and concern to others. One day it may be your or your child who needs empathy and support.

Our schools are very large, there is no social distancing and it just takes one selfish parent to send their child to school sick or an asymptomatic situation to cause a school outbreak which impacts many families, not just yours.

I am a scientist and I deal with facts and numbers. I also think policies should be set based on facts and measurables not your individual feelings about safety. I feel frustrated with people who continually post the same things about anyone who disagrees with them being bad and theoretical feelings about safety and empathy. I that is not a productive conversation, it’s moral posturing.

We don't have facts or numbers. MCPS, the State of Maryland, MoCo and the Fed's haven't been transparent. And, now they are giving out home tests so people aren't reporting positives so we have even less facts and numbers than before. Plus, the home test aren't always accurate. Its hard to have a productive conversation with all the cover ups and lack of information by the government. The fact is we know MoCo is highly vaccinated and we still had a terrible surge in our schools a month ago. Thankfully it was short lived but it ramped up quickly and can happen again.

This is a serious question, what cover ups do you think have happened? Some one is suppressing case counts? That’s a new one for me.

Obviously case rate data is imperfect since many people are asymptomatic and/or test at home. There are multiple models to account for these known sources of error, some of which are better than others in terms of thoroughness. But in height think trends hold up fairly well. As do hospitalization rates and measures of hospital capacity, both of which I would argue are far more important than a perfect case count. I’d be happy with a metric based on hospitalization rates or hospital capacity for that matter. But the idea we can’t even talk about getting masks off our kids with our name calling (despite under 6s never masking in most of the world and under 12s never masking in many countries with very little differences in outcomes) is …well it’s not encouraging.

We are not talking hospitalizations we are talking transmission. I don’t care about hospitalizations, I care transmissions and positives. I care your family doesn’t care and will give it to my family.

Do you not get that it can be a big deal for other families and their lives don’t just revolve around your wants and entitlement.

My family does care and we are all fully vaccinated and have cheerfully worn our masks for nearly two years now to protect those at risk before they were protected by vaccination. But we can still ask reasonable questions about the purpose and duration of these restrictions. I am concerned that people who are vaguely concerned with the concept of transmission, unlinked to the actual severity of disease, who are unwilling to discuss any metrics that could be acceptable because of “cover ups” are essentially expecting our children to wear masks for another two years or more. That it will never be the right time and the cases will never be low “enough” and they can just insult people for suggesting otherwise.

My concern is that a the PP has such a level of anxiety that they will never get to a point where they feel comfortable without masks under any circumstances

Being concerned about Covid I’d not anxiety but you should get your mental health checked. We are not at the level to unmask yet.

Why are these crazies saying it's not time, but fail to indicate when will be the right time? It's because it will NEVER be the right time.

The right time is when we stop having huge surges and the numbers are low and stay low. We haven't had that yet. You are the crazy if you are unwilling to take even the most basic precautions to keep our community healthy.

MoCo is highly vaccinated. You folks keep changing the definitions of "basic precautions."

What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

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Anonymous wrote:No more testing, no cases. We just got out of a huge surge right after the last mask lifting.

I'm not really sure what you mean. You don't actually think the surge was due to people not wear some Old Navy fabric across their nose and mouth, right?

The surge was a new variant thanks to those traveling who relied on the vaccine as a cure and it wasn’t. The surge was due to selfish people not staying home and stressing it. It will happen again.

Why do you keep letting the unvaccinated off the hook? But I am glad you are recognizing that it had nothing to do with mask wearing -- so let's drop them, eh?

Vaccines help with symptoms but are not stopping the spread of new variants. MOCO is highly vaccinated and just had a huge surge so clearly these vaccines alone are not enough to stop surges. When students get Covid they miss out on school. The idea of masking and precautions is to stop the spread to keep students in school, which should be everyone,’s goal. It’s sad we live in a me culture and not a we culture. Everyone hates masks but we mask to keep ourselves safe and to keep others safe. It’s part of living in a community.

Look at the data in cities and countries that split out cases by vaccination status. Vaccination still reduces spread. Stop spreading misinformation because you want everyone to stay home in 2022. Our goal is not zero cases. Stop it. Enough.

You may be ok getting Covid but others of us are not ok getting it from you. We just had a huge surge and many of those students and staff were vaccinated. Enough is enough with people like you spreading it and not caring about anyone but yourself. If masking is so hard, stay home.

Can you please say what will be enough for you? Does it have to be the literal eradication of COVID from the world? I would be happy to have a discussion with anyone about when the appropriate time for this is (I did not think it was in January during the surge, but would be ok now) but when people just dig in and say they want to be “safe” and “not get COVID” you just sound resigned to wearing a mask for the rest of your life because life is not 100 percent safe and COVID is not going away. Which is fine if you want to but I do not want that for myself or my children.

It doesn't matter what response I give you, you will always rationalize why your beliefs are more important. No one likes wearing masks. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep our community safe. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Its not just about you. Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children who to live in a densely populated community and show empathy and concern to others. One day it may be your or your child who needs empathy and support.

Our schools are very large, there is no social distancing and it just takes one selfish parent to send their child to school sick or an asymptomatic situation to cause a school outbreak which impacts many families, not just yours.

I am a scientist and I deal with facts and numbers. I also think policies should be set based on facts and measurables not your individual feelings about safety. I feel frustrated with people who continually post the same things about anyone who disagrees with them being bad and theoretical feelings about safety and empathy. I that is not a productive conversation, it’s moral posturing.

We don't have facts or numbers. MCPS, the State of Maryland, MoCo and the Fed's haven't been transparent. And, now they are giving out home tests so people aren't reporting positives so we have even less facts and numbers than before. Plus, the home test aren't always accurate. Its hard to have a productive conversation with all the cover ups and lack of information by the government. The fact is we know MoCo is highly vaccinated and we still had a terrible surge in our schools a month ago. Thankfully it was short lived but it ramped up quickly and can happen again.

This is a serious question, what cover ups do you think have happened? Some one is suppressing case counts? That’s a new one for me.

Obviously case rate data is imperfect since many people are asymptomatic and/or test at home. There are multiple models to account for these known sources of error, some of which are better than others in terms of thoroughness. But in height think trends hold up fairly well. As do hospitalization rates and measures of hospital capacity, both of which I would argue are far more important than a perfect case count. I’d be happy with a metric based on hospitalization rates or hospital capacity for that matter. But the idea we can’t even talk about getting masks off our kids with our name calling (despite under 6s never masking in most of the world and under 12s never masking in many countries with very little differences in outcomes) is …well it’s not encouraging.

We are not talking hospitalizations we are talking transmission. I don’t care about hospitalizations, I care transmissions and positives. I care your family doesn’t care and will give it to my family.

Do you not get that it can be a big deal for other families and their lives don’t just revolve around your wants and entitlement.

My family does care and we are all fully vaccinated and have cheerfully worn our masks for nearly two years now to protect those at risk before they were protected by vaccination. But we can still ask reasonable questions about the purpose and duration of these restrictions. I am concerned that people who are vaguely concerned with the concept of transmission, unlinked to the actual severity of disease, who are unwilling to discuss any metrics that could be acceptable because of “cover ups” are essentially expecting our children to wear masks for another two years or more. That it will never be the right time and the cases will never be low “enough” and they can just insult people for suggesting otherwise.

My concern is that a the PP has such a level of anxiety that they will never get to a point where they feel comfortable without masks under any circumstances

Being concerned about Covid I’d not anxiety but you should get your mental health checked. We are not at the level to unmask yet.

Why are these crazies saying it's not time, but fail to indicate when will be the right time? It's because it will NEVER be the right time.

The right time is when we stop having huge surges and the numbers are low and stay low. We haven't had that yet. You are the crazy if you are unwilling to take even the most basic precautions to keep our community healthy.

MoCo is highly vaccinated. You folks keep changing the definitions of "basic precautions."

What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

We wait for a new vax that works on an unknown variant? OK...

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I’m so excited for my kids to go to school without masks!!!!!! I know my kids teachers are excited too! I predict masks are gone in MCPS well before spring break!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so excited for my kids to go to school without masks!!!!!! I know my kids teachers are excited too! I predict masks are gone in MCPS well before spring break!

Yeah, right.

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What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

Nope. The original Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work well against the variants, including omicron. No need to reformulate. We're good. You're good, I'm good, we're good.

What are the basic precautions we take against measles or chicken pox? Vaccines. Same for covid. The same as its always been.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so excited for my kids to go to school without masks!!!!!! I know my kids teachers are excited too! I predict masks are gone in MCPS well before spring break!

Right and they will be back right after spring break.

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What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

Nope. The original Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work well against the variants, including omicron. No need to reformulate. We're good. You're good, I'm good, we're good.

What are the basic precautions we take against measles or chicken pox? Vaccines. Same for covid. The same as its always been.

In what delusional world are you living in? This vaccine is not equal to chicken pox or measles as we got those under control. And, if we don’t need bbetter vaccines why are they working on new formulas? Denial must be great.

I’m not good getting Covid. You may be good but delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:No more testing, no cases. We just got out of a huge surge right after the last mask lifting.

I'm not really sure what you mean. You don't actually think the surge was due to people not wear some Old Navy fabric across their nose and mouth, right?

The surge was a new variant thanks to those traveling who relied on the vaccine as a cure and it wasn’t. The surge was due to selfish people not staying home and stressing it. It will happen again.

Why do you keep letting the unvaccinated off the hook? But I am glad you are recognizing that it had nothing to do with mask wearing -- so let's drop them, eh?

Vaccines help with symptoms but are not stopping the spread of new variants. MOCO is highly vaccinated and just had a huge surge so clearly these vaccines alone are not enough to stop surges. When students get Covid they miss out on school. The idea of masking and precautions is to stop the spread to keep students in school, which should be everyone,’s goal. It’s sad we live in a me culture and not a we culture. Everyone hates masks but we mask to keep ourselves safe and to keep others safe. It’s part of living in a community.

Look at the data in cities and countries that split out cases by vaccination status. Vaccination still reduces spread. Stop spreading misinformation because you want everyone to stay home in 2022. Our goal is not zero cases. Stop it. Enough.

You may be ok getting Covid but others of us are not ok getting it from you. We just had a huge surge and many of those students and staff were vaccinated. Enough is enough with people like you spreading it and not caring about anyone but yourself. If masking is so hard, stay home.

Can you please say what will be enough for you? Does it have to be the literal eradication of COVID from the world? I would be happy to have a discussion with anyone about when the appropriate time for this is (I did not think it was in January during the surge, but would be ok now) but when people just dig in and say they want to be “safe” and “not get COVID” you just sound resigned to wearing a mask for the rest of your life because life is not 100 percent safe and COVID is not going away. Which is fine if you want to but I do not want that for myself or my children.

It doesn't matter what response I give you, you will always rationalize why your beliefs are more important. No one likes wearing masks. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep our community safe. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Its not just about you. Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children who to live in a densely populated community and show empathy and concern to others. One day it may be your or your child who needs empathy and support.

Our schools are very large, there is no social distancing and it just takes one selfish parent to send their child to school sick or an asymptomatic situation to cause a school outbreak which impacts many families, not just yours.

I am a scientist and I deal with facts and numbers. I also think policies should be set based on facts and measurables not your individual feelings about safety. I feel frustrated with people who continually post the same things about anyone who disagrees with them being bad and theoretical feelings about safety and empathy. I that is not a productive conversation, it’s moral posturing.

We don't have facts or numbers. MCPS, the State of Maryland, MoCo and the Fed's haven't been transparent. And, now they are giving out home tests so people aren't reporting positives so we have even less facts and numbers than before. Plus, the home test aren't always accurate. Its hard to have a productive conversation with all the cover ups and lack of information by the government. The fact is we know MoCo is highly vaccinated and we still had a terrible surge in our schools a month ago. Thankfully it was short lived but it ramped up quickly and can happen again.

This is a serious question, what cover ups do you think have happened? Some one is suppressing case counts? That’s a new one for me.

Obviously case rate data is imperfect since many people are asymptomatic and/or test at home. There are multiple models to account for these known sources of error, some of which are better than others in terms of thoroughness. But in height think trends hold up fairly well. As do hospitalization rates and measures of hospital capacity, both of which I would argue are far more important than a perfect case count. I’d be happy with a metric based on hospitalization rates or hospital capacity for that matter. But the idea we can’t even talk about getting masks off our kids with our name calling (despite under 6s never masking in most of the world and under 12s never masking in many countries with very little differences in outcomes) is …well it’s not encouraging.

We are not talking hospitalizations we are talking transmission. I don’t care about hospitalizations, I care transmissions and positives. I care your family doesn’t care and will give it to my family.

Do you not get that it can be a big deal for other families and their lives don’t just revolve around your wants and entitlement.

My family does care and we are all fully vaccinated and have cheerfully worn our masks for nearly two years now to protect those at risk before they were protected by vaccination. But we can still ask reasonable questions about the purpose and duration of these restrictions. I am concerned that people who are vaguely concerned with the concept of transmission, unlinked to the actual severity of disease, who are unwilling to discuss any metrics that could be acceptable because of “cover ups” are essentially expecting our children to wear masks for another two years or more. That it will never be the right time and the cases will never be low “enough” and they can just insult people for suggesting otherwise.

My concern is that a the PP has such a level of anxiety that they will never get to a point where they feel comfortable without masks under any circumstances

Being concerned about Covid I’d not anxiety but you should get your mental health checked. We are not at the level to unmask yet.

Why are these crazies saying it's not time, but fail to indicate when will be the right time? It's because it will NEVER be the right time.

The right time is when we stop having huge surges and the numbers are low and stay low. We haven't had that yet. You are the crazy if you are unwilling to take even the most basic precautions to keep our community healthy.

MoCo is highly vaccinated. You folks keep changing the definitions of "basic precautions."

What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

We wait for a new vax that works on an unknown variant? OK...

The new variants are here. No need to wait.

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Anonymous wrote:No more testing, no cases. We just got out of a huge surge right after the last mask lifting.

I'm not really sure what you mean. You don't actually think the surge was due to people not wear some Old Navy fabric across their nose and mouth, right?

The surge was a new variant thanks to those traveling who relied on the vaccine as a cure and it wasn’t. The surge was due to selfish people not staying home and stressing it. It will happen again.

Why do you keep letting the unvaccinated off the hook? But I am glad you are recognizing that it had nothing to do with mask wearing -- so let's drop them, eh?

Vaccines help with symptoms but are not stopping the spread of new variants. MOCO is highly vaccinated and just had a huge surge so clearly these vaccines alone are not enough to stop surges. When students get Covid they miss out on school. The idea of masking and precautions is to stop the spread to keep students in school, which should be everyone,’s goal. It’s sad we live in a me culture and not a we culture. Everyone hates masks but we mask to keep ourselves safe and to keep others safe. It’s part of living in a community.

Look at the data in cities and countries that split out cases by vaccination status. Vaccination still reduces spread. Stop spreading misinformation because you want everyone to stay home in 2022. Our goal is not zero cases. Stop it. Enough.

You may be ok getting Covid but others of us are not ok getting it from you. We just had a huge surge and many of those students and staff were vaccinated. Enough is enough with people like you spreading it and not caring about anyone but yourself. If masking is so hard, stay home.

Can you please say what will be enough for you? Does it have to be the literal eradication of COVID from the world? I would be happy to have a discussion with anyone about when the appropriate time for this is (I did not think it was in January during the surge, but would be ok now) but when people just dig in and say they want to be “safe” and “not get COVID” you just sound resigned to wearing a mask for the rest of your life because life is not 100 percent safe and COVID is not going away. Which is fine if you want to but I do not want that for myself or my children.

It doesn't matter what response I give you, you will always rationalize why your beliefs are more important. No one likes wearing masks. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep our community safe. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Its not just about you. Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children who to live in a densely populated community and show empathy and concern to others. One day it may be your or your child who needs empathy and support.

Our schools are very large, there is no social distancing and it just takes one selfish parent to send their child to school sick or an asymptomatic situation to cause a school outbreak which impacts many families, not just yours.

I am a scientist and I deal with facts and numbers. I also think policies should be set based on facts and measurables not your individual feelings about safety. I feel frustrated with people who continually post the same things about anyone who disagrees with them being bad and theoretical feelings about safety and empathy. I that is not a productive conversation, it’s moral posturing.

We don't have facts or numbers. MCPS, the State of Maryland, MoCo and the Fed's haven't been transparent. And, now they are giving out home tests so people aren't reporting positives so we have even less facts and numbers than before. Plus, the home test aren't always accurate. Its hard to have a productive conversation with all the cover ups and lack of information by the government. The fact is we know MoCo is highly vaccinated and we still had a terrible surge in our schools a month ago. Thankfully it was short lived but it ramped up quickly and can happen again.

This is a serious question, what cover ups do you think have happened? Some one is suppressing case counts? That’s a new one for me.

Obviously case rate data is imperfect since many people are asymptomatic and/or test at home. There are multiple models to account for these known sources of error, some of which are better than others in terms of thoroughness. But in height think trends hold up fairly well. As do hospitalization rates and measures of hospital capacity, both of which I would argue are far more important than a perfect case count. I’d be happy with a metric based on hospitalization rates or hospital capacity for that matter. But the idea we can’t even talk about getting masks off our kids with our name calling (despite under 6s never masking in most of the world and under 12s never masking in many countries with very little differences in outcomes) is …well it’s not encouraging.

We are not talking hospitalizations we are talking transmission. I don’t care about hospitalizations, I care transmissions and positives. I care your family doesn’t care and will give it to my family.

Do you not get that it can be a big deal for other families and their lives don’t just revolve around your wants and entitlement.

My family does care and we are all fully vaccinated and have cheerfully worn our masks for nearly two years now to protect those at risk before they were protected by vaccination. But we can still ask reasonable questions about the purpose and duration of these restrictions. I am concerned that people who are vaguely concerned with the concept of transmission, unlinked to the actual severity of disease, who are unwilling to discuss any metrics that could be acceptable because of “cover ups” are essentially expecting our children to wear masks for another two years or more. That it will never be the right time and the cases will never be low “enough” and they can just insult people for suggesting otherwise.

My concern is that a the PP has such a level of anxiety that they will never get to a point where they feel comfortable without masks under any circumstances

Being concerned about Covid I’d not anxiety but you should get your mental health checked. We are not at the level to unmask yet.

Again, I ask you what is the level and you didn't have an answer.

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Anonymous wrote:No more testing, no cases. We just got out of a huge surge right after the last mask lifting.

I'm not really sure what you mean. You don't actually think the surge was due to people not wear some Old Navy fabric across their nose and mouth, right?

The surge was a new variant thanks to those traveling who relied on the vaccine as a cure and it wasn’t. The surge was due to selfish people not staying home and stressing it. It will happen again.

Why do you keep letting the unvaccinated off the hook? But I am glad you are recognizing that it had nothing to do with mask wearing -- so let's drop them, eh?

Vaccines help with symptoms but are not stopping the spread of new variants. MOCO is highly vaccinated and just had a huge surge so clearly these vaccines alone are not enough to stop surges. When students get Covid they miss out on school. The idea of masking and precautions is to stop the spread to keep students in school, which should be everyone,’s goal. It’s sad we live in a me culture and not a we culture. Everyone hates masks but we mask to keep ourselves safe and to keep others safe. It’s part of living in a community.

Look at the data in cities and countries that split out cases by vaccination status. Vaccination still reduces spread. Stop spreading misinformation because you want everyone to stay home in 2022. Our goal is not zero cases. Stop it. Enough.

You may be ok getting Covid but others of us are not ok getting it from you. We just had a huge surge and many of those students and staff were vaccinated. Enough is enough with people like you spreading it and not caring about anyone but yourself. If masking is so hard, stay home.

Can you please say what will be enough for you? Does it have to be the literal eradication of COVID from the world? I would be happy to have a discussion with anyone about when the appropriate time for this is (I did not think it was in January during the surge, but would be ok now) but when people just dig in and say they want to be “safe” and “not get COVID” you just sound resigned to wearing a mask for the rest of your life because life is not 100 percent safe and COVID is not going away. Which is fine if you want to but I do not want that for myself or my children.

It doesn't matter what response I give you, you will always rationalize why your beliefs are more important. No one likes wearing masks. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep our community safe. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Its not just about you. Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children who to live in a densely populated community and show empathy and concern to others. One day it may be your or your child who needs empathy and support.

Our schools are very large, there is no social distancing and it just takes one selfish parent to send their child to school sick or an asymptomatic situation to cause a school outbreak which impacts many families, not just yours.

I am a scientist and I deal with facts and numbers. I also think policies should be set based on facts and measurables not your individual feelings about safety. I feel frustrated with people who continually post the same things about anyone who disagrees with them being bad and theoretical feelings about safety and empathy. I that is not a productive conversation, it’s moral posturing.

We don't have facts or numbers. MCPS, the State of Maryland, MoCo and the Fed's haven't been transparent. And, now they are giving out home tests so people aren't reporting positives so we have even less facts and numbers than before. Plus, the home test aren't always accurate. Its hard to have a productive conversation with all the cover ups and lack of information by the government. The fact is we know MoCo is highly vaccinated and we still had a terrible surge in our schools a month ago. Thankfully it was short lived but it ramped up quickly and can happen again.

This is a serious question, what cover ups do you think have happened? Some one is suppressing case counts? That’s a new one for me.

Obviously case rate data is imperfect since many people are asymptomatic and/or test at home. There are multiple models to account for these known sources of error, some of which are better than others in terms of thoroughness. But in height think trends hold up fairly well. As do hospitalization rates and measures of hospital capacity, both of which I would argue are far more important than a perfect case count. I’d be happy with a metric based on hospitalization rates or hospital capacity for that matter. But the idea we can’t even talk about getting masks off our kids with our name calling (despite under 6s never masking in most of the world and under 12s never masking in many countries with very little differences in outcomes) is …well it’s not encouraging.

We are not talking hospitalizations we are talking transmission. I don’t care about hospitalizations, I care transmissions and positives. I care your family doesn’t care and will give it to my family.

Do you not get that it can be a big deal for other families and their lives don’t just revolve around your wants and entitlement.

My family does care and we are all fully vaccinated and have cheerfully worn our masks for nearly two years now to protect those at risk before they were protected by vaccination. But we can still ask reasonable questions about the purpose and duration of these restrictions. I am concerned that people who are vaguely concerned with the concept of transmission, unlinked to the actual severity of disease, who are unwilling to discuss any metrics that could be acceptable because of “cover ups” are essentially expecting our children to wear masks for another two years or more. That it will never be the right time and the cases will never be low “enough” and they can just insult people for suggesting otherwise.

My concern is that a the PP has such a level of anxiety that they will never get to a point where they feel comfortable without masks under any circumstances

Being concerned about Covid I’d not anxiety but you should get your mental health checked. We are not at the level to unmask yet.

Again, I ask you what is the level and you didn't have an answer.

The level of what?

Some of us have told you and you just don't want to listen. We just got through a huge surge. It ramped up very quickly. There was zero excuse for the county and MCPS to put zero precautions in place beyond masking and it was a s$it show.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so excited for my kids to go to school without masks!!!!!! I know my kids teachers are excited too! I predict masks are gone in MCPS well before spring break!

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What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

Nope. The original Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work well against the variants, including omicron. No need to reformulate. We're good. You're good, I'm good, we're good.

What are the basic precautions we take against measles or chicken pox? Vaccines. Same for covid. The same as its always been.

Measles and chicken pox viruses don't drift - no variants. Apples and orangutans.

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What does highly vaccinated mean? It worked for Delta but now these vaccines need to be reformulated for the new variants. Basic precautions are social distancing, masking and testing. The same as its always been. We just got out of a huge surge. To keep numbers down, we should continue to take precautions until new vaccines are available and we know they work with transmission.

Nope. The original Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work well against the variants, including omicron. No need to reformulate. We're good. You're good, I'm good, we're good.

What are the basic precautions we take against measles or chicken pox? Vaccines. Same for covid. The same as its always been.

Measles and chicken pox viruses don't drift - no variants. Apples and orangutans.

Do you think before you post? By your logic masks should stay.

Chicken Pox:
https://www.webmd.com/children/what-is-chickenpox
"How Is It Spread? Very easily. You can get the virus by breathing in particles that come from chickenpox blisters or by touching something on which the particles landed."
That means its not only air born but on the surface so we should go back to extra cleanings as well.

Measles:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/8584-measles
"Contaminated droplets that are spread through the air when you cough, sneeze or talk."

The only difference is those vaccine actually are working!