Caitlyn Peetz on Twitter: 8am MCPS press conference for a “COVID-19 update”

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Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

That’s absolutely my position as well. It wasn’t until the low case rates over the summer were still not enough to get people to chill out. I’ve been very pleased by how contagious omicron is. I think with a lot of work you could from Delta for a long time. But I don’t think there’s any hiding from Omicron. I was skeptical when news about the new variant came out, but the spike we’re seeing is really incredible.

I'd be really curious to see what country these IP addresses are coming from.

You're a loon.

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Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

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Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

That’s absolutely my position as well. It wasn’t until the low case rates over the summer were still not enough to get people to chill out. I’ve been very pleased by how contagious omicron is. I think with a lot of work you could from Delta for a long time. But I don’t think there’s any hiding from Omicron. I was skeptical when news about the new variant came out, but the spike we’re seeing is really incredible.

I'd be really curious to see what country these IP addresses are coming from.

You're a loon.

And you're paid.

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So was there a press conference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

Seeing as the county is having trouble getting the parking lots and bus route plowed, this may happen by default.

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Anonymous wrote:So was there a press conference?

Watching it now. It is on the MoCo schools website as a YouTube video.

I am wondering if we have access to the red, yellow, green school list she keeps talking about. This seems different from the Covid#/school list.

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Press conference happening now. Splitting schools into green (<3% testing positive), yellow (3-5%) , and red (>5%) lists. 11 schools are currently red and will go virtual for two weeks starting tomorrow. 89 are in yellow. More info to come later.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So was there a press conference?

Watching it now. It is on the MoCo schools website as a YouTube video.

I am wondering if we have access to the red, yellow, green school list she keeps talking about. This seems different from the Covid#/school list.

Yeah I'd like to know what the 89 schools in yellow are. It's only a matter of time till they move to red.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

Seeing as the county is having trouble getting the parking lots and bus route plowed, this may happen by default.

Privatize education. Amazon just delivered an overnight order by a man in a beat up sedan. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So was there a press conference?

Watching it now. It is on the MoCo schools website as a YouTube video.

I am wondering if we have access to the red, yellow, green school list she keeps talking about. This seems different from the Covid#/school list.

Yeah I'd like to know what the 89 schools in yellow are. It's only a matter of time till they move to red.

Also looking for that list. Please post if you find it!

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Where’s the list???

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Is it YouTube glitching or the current speaker?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it YouTube glitching or the current speaker?

the speaker

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List is:

Rock Terrace
Cannon Road
North Chevy Chase elementary
Hallie Wells
Monocacy
Roberto Clemente
Forest Knolls
Waters Landing
Rosemont
Seneca Valley
Sherwood elementary

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