MCPS covid dashboard data?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just tested positive. Cases are really rampant at our school.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

Social distancing? China can't even control Covid any more with their strategy of imprisoning people in their homes, interminably re-homing both the sick and healthy, stealing babies and children, beating pets to death, and so on. Social distancing as a meaningful mitigation measure is absurd. I suppose it gives you the theatre you're looking for, though. Dead pets next...

Wow, just wow. You really live in your own privileged world.

Ehhh, your reply makes no sense. Social distancing is a relic of 2020. It has no meaningful impact on an airborne virus. It was something designed in the 1800's to control droplet spread. Covid cannot be controlled with this kind of silliness.

With adult attitudes like this, at least it helps explain why we're getting covid spikes in schools.

I don't even bother arguing with non-masking parents anymore. If they're version of reality is correct, then I don't feel bad at all if they make fun of my mask. Don't even care as long as they don't bully or bother others.

I have sympathy for their children if they're wrong, though.

My kid tells me how some kids are having trouble running in PE. In my kid's case, it's understandable from too many video games. But the other kids, not so sure. My kid says some of the athletic types seem pretty winded. I'd offer to check their oxygen levels, but it's none of my business.

They should be doing pe outdoors. Or, maybe the kids have undiagnosed asthma who knows. Covid is going up in mcps.

And yet, hospitalizations in kids are stable. Congratulations. This is what endemic looks like. We won.

Hospitalization is a lagging indicator that is unlikely to catch the damaged you're doing nt repeatedly exposing your family to COVID. I don't know how you can still be ignorant about this, but I'm betting it's a combination of your unwillingness to accept responsibility for what your actions have done to your kids, and the cognitive effects you've already suffered.

If I wasn't so irritated by this attitude, I might have proofed my phone's autocorrect before posting that. Apologies.

I am surprised at the attitude that Covid surging in mcps is ok. Poor parenting at its finest.

I'm pretty close to keeping the kid home for a week or two. I hate feeling like we are rolling the dice with increasingly terrible odds.

Increasingly terrible odds of what? We're not even seeing higher rates of hospitalizations in kids. They spiked during covid, and have remained how since February.

Give it rest and find a real talking point. Getting sick is pretty miserable. I wouldn't think twice about keeping my kids home given MCPS cannot seem to keep the kids safe. They are spiking again now inn MCPS. We are talking about MCPS... not where ever place you are living.

OK, but people get sick. That’s normal. We don’t make dramatic societal changes to avoid mild illnesses. We accept that we’re going to get sick from time-to-time.

I guess you’re not just a zero covid person, but a zero illness person. The next 8 months are going to be rough for you.

I don't find any of this brought and no matter what it is, we will make i work. Sounds like the past two years have been rough on you pretending that you've been impacted when you haven't

Well, at some point you’re going to have to “make it work” to rejoin society again, accepting the risk of covid. Unless you’ve got a massive trust fund, you’re not going to be able to stay isolated forever.

We seem to be doing it just fine... no trust fund.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

Social distancing? China can't even control Covid any more with their strategy of imprisoning people in their homes, interminably re-homing both the sick and healthy, stealing babies and children, beating pets to death, and so on. Social distancing as a meaningful mitigation measure is absurd. I suppose it gives you the theatre you're looking for, though. Dead pets next...

Wow, just wow. You really live in your own privileged world.

Ehhh, your reply makes no sense. Social distancing is a relic of 2020. It has no meaningful impact on an airborne virus. It was something designed in the 1800's to control droplet spread. Covid cannot be controlled with this kind of silliness.

With adult attitudes like this, at least it helps explain why we're getting covid spikes in schools.

I don't even bother arguing with non-masking parents anymore. If they're version of reality is correct, then I don't feel bad at all if they make fun of my mask. Don't even care as long as they don't bully or bother others.

I have sympathy for their children if they're wrong, though.

My kid tells me how some kids are having trouble running in PE. In my kid's case, it's understandable from too many video games. But the other kids, not so sure. My kid says some of the athletic types seem pretty winded. I'd offer to check their oxygen levels, but it's none of my business.

They should be doing pe outdoors. Or, maybe the kids have undiagnosed asthma who knows. Covid is going up in mcps.

And yet, hospitalizations in kids are stable. Congratulations. This is what endemic looks like. We won.

Hospitalization is a lagging indicator that is unlikely to catch the damaged you're doing nt repeatedly exposing your family to COVID. I don't know how you can still be ignorant about this, but I'm betting it's a combination of your unwillingness to accept responsibility for what your actions have done to your kids, and the cognitive effects you've already suffered.

If I wasn't so irritated by this attitude, I might have proofed my phone's autocorrect before posting that. Apologies.

I am surprised at the attitude that Covid surging in mcps is ok. Poor parenting at its finest.

I'm pretty close to keeping the kid home for a week or two. I hate feeling like we are rolling the dice with increasingly terrible odds.

Increasingly terrible odds of what? We're not even seeing higher rates of hospitalizations in kids. They spiked during covid, and have remained how since February.

Give it rest and find a real talking point. Getting sick is pretty miserable. I wouldn't think twice about keeping my kids home given MCPS cannot seem to keep the kids safe. They are spiking again now inn MCPS. We are talking about MCPS... not where ever place you are living.

Most MCPS kids are in school, not hiding at home. We are talking about MCPS...not your Zero Covid cult.

No one is talking about zero covid but no safety precautions in place given the school size is not setting a good example and does a lot of harm to our community.

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Anonymous wrote:And not just the risk of covid, but the risk of flu, colds, and countless other illnesses that are endemic. Just like covid is becoming.

They haven't killed this many people or mutated this much.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered). I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er. I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.

It really doesn't matter as you will send your kids and they will not close schools but some will have serious issues getting covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.

Kids don't live alone and live with adults. Kids bring home covid. You may not care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do. Why does it matter? Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread. Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted. Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization. However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and masking. Multiple layers of mitigation have proven helpful. You can deny it all you want but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself. These kids live with adults and in a community where what is no big deal to one may be a huge deal for another. Time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility toward covid.

Social distancing? China can't even control Covid any more with their strategy of imprisoning people in their homes, interminably re-homing both the sick and healthy, stealing babies and children, beating pets to death, and so on. Social distancing as a meaningful mitigation measure is absurd. I suppose it gives you the theatre you're looking for, though. Dead pets next...

Wow, just wow. You really live in your own privileged world.

Ehhh, your reply makes no sense. Social distancing is a relic of 2020. It has no meaningful impact on an airborne virus. It was something designed in the 1800's to control droplet spread. Covid cannot be controlled with this kind of silliness.

With adult attitudes like this, at least it helps explain why we're getting covid spikes in schools.

I don't even bother arguing with non-masking parents anymore. If they're version of reality is correct, then I don't feel bad at all if they make fun of my mask. Don't even care as long as they don't bully or bother others.

I have sympathy for their children if they're wrong, though.

My kid tells me how some kids are having trouble running in PE. In my kid's case, it's understandable from too many video games. But the other kids, not so sure. My kid says some of the athletic types seem pretty winded. I'd offer to check their oxygen levels, but it's none of my business.

They should be doing pe outdoors. Or, maybe the kids have undiagnosed asthma who knows. Covid is going up in mcps.

And yet, hospitalizations in kids are stable. Congratulations. This is what endemic looks like. We won.

We did not win anything and numbers are up in mcps so we lost. It’s not just about hospitalizations and these kids live with adults. Pathetic.

Also all the missed school for quarantine. If people are eating covid is just like any other endemic virus, then they need to do away with this mandatory quarantine and instead just adhere to the 24 hour fever free rule. Otherwise, put masks back when spread is high because my kids already were forced to miss over two weeks of school for covid where they had one day of mild symptoms.

You and your kids should have been more careful and planned for this. Sending sick kids to school is not the right thing to do.

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Anonymous wrote:And not just the risk of covid, but the risk of flu, colds, and countless other illnesses that are endemic. Just like covid is becoming.

They haven't killed this many people or mutated this much.

The 1918 Flu pandemic’s mortality rate was twice what we’ve had with Covid. And about half of those deaths were in people 20-40 years old, compared to 75% of Covid deaths coming from elderly individuals.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, it's so nice to hear from the crazy anti maskers again. I thought maybe you all had slithered back to the Fairfax boards for good.

Taking precautions isn't forever. Remember how sick your families were in December and January? We were fine because we were careful. Once covod had burned through your wretched micoclotting bodies and gone dormant again, we came back to school, masked, and have had a good year.

However, now that cases are going nuts, the question becomes, is it worth taking a week or two at home because mcps will do nothing to stop psychos like your sociopathic children from infecting their classmates and teachers? Quite probably, the answer is yes

Pediatric hospitalizations are just as low now as they were back in February. Kids are doing fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, it's so nice to hear from the crazy anti maskers again. I thought maybe you all had slithered back to the Fairfax boards for good.

Taking precautions isn't forever. Remember how sick your families were in December and January? We were fine because we were careful. Once covod had burned through your wretched micoclotting bodies and gone dormant again, we came back to school, masked, and have had a good year.

However, now that cases are going nuts, the question becomes, is it worth taking a week or two at home because mcps will do nothing to stop psychos like your sociopathic children from infecting their classmates and teachers? Quite probably, the answer is yes

Pediatric hospitalizations are just as low now as they were back in February. Kids are doing fine.

Can you show us the data that all kids are fine, and none are having complications due to covid. Or, when they bring covid home, its having no impact on the adults and other family members they live with. You keep using hospitalizations as a talking point but they have always been low for kids. The issue is transmission within MCPS that impacts them, their families and the community. If your grocery store worker gets covid and cannot work for two weeks, its far more of an impact on them, than it would be someone like you. How hard is that to understand? I guess you never get out of your perfectly manicured bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:And not just the risk of covid, but the risk of flu, colds, and countless other illnesses that are endemic. Just like covid is becoming.

They haven't killed this many people or mutated this much.

The 1918 Flu pandemic’s mortality rate was twice what we’ve had with Covid. And about half of those deaths were in people 20-40 years old, compared to 75% of Covid deaths coming from elderly individuals.

So, basically lets stop caring about the elderly. Do you even have kids in MCPS? Have you thought about what you are teaching them and how it will impact the adults they become?

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Anonymous wrote:And not just the risk of covid, but the risk of flu, colds, and countless other illnesses that are endemic. Just like covid is becoming.

They haven't killed this many people or mutated this much.

The 1918 Flu pandemic’s mortality rate was twice what we’ve had with Covid. And about half of those deaths were in people 20-40 years old, compared to 75% of Covid deaths coming from elderly individuals.

So, basically lets stop caring about the elderly. Do you even have kids in MCPS? Have you thought about what you are teaching them and how it will impact the adults they become?

Who said stop caring about the elderly? If that’s who you’re trying to protect, why aren’t you focusing on helping them as opposed to hurting kids?

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Anonymous wrote:And not just the risk of covid, but the risk of flu, colds, and countless other illnesses that are endemic. Just like covid is becoming.

They haven't killed this many people or mutated this much.

The 1918 Flu pandemic’s mortality rate was twice what we’ve had with Covid. And about half of those deaths were in people 20-40 years old, compared to 75% of Covid deaths coming from elderly individuals.

So, basically lets stop caring about the elderly. Do you even have kids in MCPS? Have you thought about what you are teaching them and how it will impact the adults they become?

Who said stop caring about the elderly? If that’s who you’re trying to protect, why aren’t you focusing on helping them as opposed to hurting kids?

This is a discussion about MCPS. Kids live with their parents and grandparents and others. So, if kids get covid, it means parents have to take off work to care for them. Some live pay check to pay check with no sick leave. Or, worse, the parents get covid from the kids and it cycles through the house for week. Its not just about our kids. Our kids live in families as part of a community.

If you cared about MCPS kids, you'd understand that and understand that if kids get covid, they miss school and activities, which isn't a good thing.

By your message, you are just a trouble maker and don't even have kids or have them in MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, it's so nice to hear from the crazy anti maskers again. I thought maybe you all had slithered back to the Fairfax boards for good.

Taking precautions isn't forever. Remember how sick your families were in December and January? We were fine because we were careful. Once covod had burned through your wretched micoclotting bodies and gone dormant again, we came back to school, masked, and have had a good year.

However, now that cases are going nuts, the question becomes, is it worth taking a week or two at home because mcps will do nothing to stop psychos like your sociopathic children from infecting their classmates and teachers? Quite probably, the answer is yes

Pediatric hospitalizations are just as low now as they were back in February. Kids are doing fine.

Can you show us the data that all kids are fine, and none are having complications due to covid. Or, when they bring covid home, its having no impact on the adults and other family members they live with. You keep using hospitalizations as a talking point but they have always been low for kids. The issue is transmission within MCPS that impacts them, their families and the community. If your grocery store worker gets covid and cannot work for two weeks, its far more of an impact on them, than it would be someone like you. How hard is that to understand? I guess you never get out of your perfectly manicured bubble.

There was higher mortality from the flu in 2017-2018 than we’re seeing from covid now in vaccinated/booster adults. Were you freaking out this much then, too?

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, it's so nice to hear from the crazy anti maskers again. I thought maybe you all had slithered back to the Fairfax boards for good.

Taking precautions isn't forever. Remember how sick your families were in December and January? We were fine because we were careful. Once covod had burned through your wretched micoclotting bodies and gone dormant again, we came back to school, masked, and have had a good year.

However, now that cases are going nuts, the question becomes, is it worth taking a week or two at home because mcps will do nothing to stop psychos like your sociopathic children from infecting their classmates and teachers? Quite probably, the answer is yes

Pediatric hospitalizations are just as low now as they were back in February. Kids are doing fine.

Can you show us the data that all kids are fine, and none are having complications due to covid. Or, when they bring covid home, its having no impact on the adults and other family members they live with. You keep using hospitalizations as a talking point but they have always been low for kids. The issue is transmission within MCPS that impacts them, their families and the community. If your grocery store worker gets covid and cannot work for two weeks, its far more of an impact on them, than it would be someone like you. How hard is that to understand? I guess you never get out of your perfectly manicured bubble.

There was higher mortality from the flu in 2017-2018 than we’re seeing from covid now in vaccinated/booster adults. Were you freaking out this much then, too?

Which part of there is more to this than hospitalization. The issue is transmission at school. You don’t even have kids in mcps.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, it's so nice to hear from the crazy anti maskers again. I thought maybe you all had slithered back to the Fairfax boards for good.

Taking precautions isn't forever. Remember how sick your families were in December and January? We were fine because we were careful. Once covod had burned through your wretched micoclotting bodies and gone dormant again, we came back to school, masked, and have had a good year.

However, now that cases are going nuts, the question becomes, is it worth taking a week or two at home because mcps will do nothing to stop psychos like your sociopathic children from infecting their classmates and teachers? Quite probably, the answer is yes

Pediatric hospitalizations are just as low now as they were back in February. Kids are doing fine.

Can you show us the data that all kids are fine, and none are having complications due to covid. Or, when they bring covid home, its having no impact on the adults and other family members they live with. You keep using hospitalizations as a talking point but they have always been low for kids. The issue is transmission within MCPS that impacts them, their families and the community. If your grocery store worker gets covid and cannot work for two weeks, its far more of an impact on them, than it would be someone like you. How hard is that to understand? I guess you never get out of your perfectly manicured bubble.

There was higher mortality from the flu in 2017-2018 than we’re seeing from covid now in vaccinated/booster adults. Were you freaking out this much then, too?

Which part of there is more to this than hospitalization. The issue is transmission at school. You don’t even have kids in mcps.

I do have one kid in MCPS and another in Prek.

The issue with covid is severity. That’s what really distinguishes it from other respiratory infections which collectively spread at very high levels. With vaccines and boosters, the severity of covid infections is similar to that of other common respiratory infections, such as the flu.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, it's so nice to hear from the crazy anti maskers again. I thought maybe you all had slithered back to the Fairfax boards for good.

Taking precautions isn't forever. Remember how sick your families were in December and January? We were fine because we were careful. Once covod had burned through your wretched micoclotting bodies and gone dormant again, we came back to school, masked, and have had a good year.

However, now that cases are going nuts, the question becomes, is it worth taking a week or two at home because mcps will do nothing to stop psychos like your sociopathic children from infecting their classmates and teachers? Quite probably, the answer is yes

Pediatric hospitalizations are just as low now as they were back in February. Kids are doing fine.

Can you show us the data that all kids are fine, and none are having complications due to covid. Or, when they bring covid home, its having no impact on the adults and other family members they live with. You keep using hospitalizations as a talking point but they have always been low for kids. The issue is transmission within MCPS that impacts them, their families and the community. If your grocery store worker gets covid and cannot work for two weeks, its far more of an impact on them, than it would be someone like you. How hard is that to understand? I guess you never get out of your perfectly manicured bubble.

There was higher mortality from the flu in 2017-2018 than we’re seeing from covid now in vaccinated/booster adults. Were you freaking out this much then, too?

Which part of there is more to this than hospitalization. The issue is transmission at school. You don’t even have kids in mcps.

I do have one kid in MCPS and another in Prek.

The issue with covid is severity. That’s what really distinguishes it from other respiratory infections which collectively spread at very high levels. With vaccines and boosters, the severity of covid infections is similar to that of other common respiratory infections, such as the flu.

No. The real issue with COVID is that it does long term damage. (In addition to killing your grandparents, which most people would also consider an issue. But not you!)

https://fortune.com/2022/05/08/surviving-pandemic-half-the-battle-long-covid-growing-public-health-crisis-could-affect-a-billion-in-just-a-few-years/