FCPS new info on masks

[Anonymous]

So if the CDC says the masks aren't needed, will those who spent the whole week citing masks studies over and over, believe the CDC?? I mean they keep saying following the science and follow the CDC so will today at 3 PM they believe those studies don't matter? Or that the CDC is wrong and they did their research so they know better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if the CDC says the masks aren't needed, will those who spent the whole week citing masks studies over and over, believe the CDC?? I mean they keep saying following the science and follow the CDC so will today at 3 PM they believe those studies don't matter? Or that the CDC is wrong and they did their research so they know better?

I would look to when the CDC shortened isolation and quarantine for the answer to that. A lot of people spent a lot of time talking about why the CDC was wrong after that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if the CDC says the masks aren't needed, will those who spent the whole week citing masks studies over and over, believe the CDC?? I mean they keep saying following the science and follow the CDC so will today at 3 PM they believe those studies don't matter? Or that the CDC is wrong and they did their research so they know better?

I don't think you are following what people are saying. There were many sane people that were fighting the removal of the mask mandate while Omicron was still surging. Now that the Omicron peak has passed and numbers (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) are plummeting, this is exactly the time to begin the off-ramp. Not when Youngkin signed his illegal EO.

By the way, the FCPS metrics (moderate for 7 days) will probably be met by mid-March. So, for all of the celebrating about the recent law change, the state and FCPS will be almost exactly aligned on the end of mask mandates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So if the CDC says the masks aren't needed, will those who spent the whole week citing masks studies over and over, believe the CDC?? I mean they keep saying following the science and follow the CDC so will today at 3 PM they believe those studies don't matter? Or that the CDC is wrong and they did their research so they know better?

I don't think you are following what people are saying. There were many sane people that were fighting the removal of the mask mandate while Omicron was still surging. Now that the Omicron peak has passed and numbers (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) are plummeting, this is exactly the time to begin the off-ramp. Not when Youngkin signed his illegal EO.

By the way, the FCPS metrics (moderate for 7 days) will probably be met by mid-March. So, for all of the celebrating about the recent law change, the state and FCPS will be almost exactly aligned on the end of mask mandates.

I hope I'm wrong, but I do not think the FCPS metrics will be met in mid-March. We've only had one week the entire school year when these metrics would have been met. Even over the summer of 2021, less than two months were in the metric that FCPS prescribes for no masks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So if the CDC says the masks aren't needed, will those who spent the whole week citing masks studies over and over, believe the CDC?? I mean they keep saying following the science and follow the CDC so will today at 3 PM they believe those studies don't matter? Or that the CDC is wrong and they did their research so they know better?

I don't think you are following what people are saying. There were many sane people that were fighting the removal of the mask mandate while Omicron was still surging. Now that the Omicron peak has passed and numbers (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) are plummeting, this is exactly the time to begin the off-ramp. Not when Youngkin signed his illegal EO.

By the way, the FCPS metrics (moderate for 7 days) will probably be met by mid-March. So, for all of the celebrating about the recent law change, the state and FCPS will be almost exactly aligned on the end of mask mandates.

I'm not so sure FCPS county would have made any sort of policy on removing masks if there wasn't an EO and subsequent law in-process. I give full credit to those who are advocating for changes that they got results, whether or not I believe in those results...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm burning all my masks today. LET'S GO!! My middle schoolers don't want to take them off for cosmetic reasons (they also want to see what their friends will do), but I'm so happy about this.

Cosmetic reasons?

I believe that, many kids this age are super conscious of their looks and don’t mind hiding behind a mask.

Which is another indirect harm of masks that clearly screwed with the kid's mental health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if the CDC says the masks aren't needed, will those who spent the whole week citing masks studies over and over, believe the CDC?? I mean they keep saying following the science and follow the CDC so will today at 3 PM they believe those studies don't matter? Or that the CDC is wrong and they did their research so they know better?

I don't think you are following what people are saying. There were many sane people that were fighting the removal of the mask mandate while Omicron was still surging. Now that the Omicron peak has passed and numbers (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) are plummeting, this is exactly the time to begin the off-ramp. Not when Youngkin signed his illegal EO.

By the way, the FCPS metrics (moderate for 7 days) will probably be met by mid-March. So, for all of the celebrating about the recent law change, the state and FCPS will be almost exactly aligned on the end of mask mandates.

I think the goal is to get rid of the off ramps so that there are no longer any "on-ramps" next flu season when Covid will surge again. The point is to move on when it becomes endemic and I think this goal has been reached. It's about deaths now and more accurate hospitalization count that won't include those hospitalized for other reasons and then testing positive in the hospital or having a record of a positive PCR a month ago and already recovered.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS isn't even acknowledging March 1.

The various fcps newsletters, weekly email from school, SB newsletter, etc has said NOTHING about March 1. There are long wordy paragraphs about XYZ, but nothing about masks post Mar 1.

They're in denial of the inevitable.

It's their passive aggressive 'in denial' approach.

Scroll upthread. It's all there, clear, detailed, and surprisingly pretty sane.

Up until just this morning, FCPS and Brandbrand were radio silent.

Brabrand's email upthread was sent today - barely 3 days before mask optional.

Way to wait until the last possible moment to acknowledge the elephant in the room. I'm surprised he didn't send the email at 5pm on a Friday.

And you would complain about our pinky toe hurting..... Anything to bash. Take as a step forward or take your kids out of public school and move on.

[Anonymous]

We are now low risk per cdc

[Anonymous]

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-by-county.html

[Anonymous]

So now VDH needs to adapt and then we can unmask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-by-county.html

We’re now in the low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS isn't even acknowledging March 1.

The various fcps newsletters, weekly email from school, SB newsletter, etc has said NOTHING about March 1. There are long wordy paragraphs about XYZ, but nothing about masks post Mar 1.

They're in denial of the inevitable.

It's their passive aggressive 'in denial' approach.

Scroll upthread. It's all there, clear, detailed, and surprisingly pretty sane.

Up until just this morning, FCPS and Brandbrand were radio silent.

Brabrand's email upthread was sent today - barely 3 days before mask optional.

Way to wait until the last possible moment to acknowledge the elephant in the room. I'm surprised he didn't send the email at 5pm on a Friday.

He absolutely would have but the CDC was going to beat him to it at 3pm so just another required force of the hand in order for Brabrand to get anything done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now VDH needs to adapt and then we can unmask?

For teachers I think VDH only says employers have to follow CDC. FCPS needs to adapt, but otherwise no obstacles.

[Anonymous]

I was always going to ask my child to follow cdc guidelines regardless of state politics. This makes it easy. By the way, CDC probably could and did model this, and let lawmakers know…