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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

You sound very ignorant about how Covid often presents itself as very mild or even asymptomatic, especially in kids. Are you kids even in school? If not how would you know that other students are showing up to school visibly ill? IME this area has been pretty responsible overall.

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What’s going on in Kensington/Bethesda/garret park? I don’t have kids at those schools but live nearby and overall community mask usage is still extremely high- like I was in Safeway in CT Ave the other day and probably 90% of shoppers were masked.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

You sound very ignorant about how Covid often presents itself as very mild or even asymptomatic, especially in kids. Are you kids even in school? If not how would you know that other students are showing up to school visibly ill? IME this area has been pretty responsible overall.

If this area was that responsible we wouldn't be seeing some of the surges at some MCPS schools and central office. This is why we also need mandatory weekly testing.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s going on in Kensington/Bethesda/garret park? I don’t have kids at those schools but live nearby and overall community mask usage is still extremely high- like I was in Safeway in CT Ave the other day and probably 90% of shoppers were masked.

Bethesda and Rockville are not masking that much. Kensington, Wheaton, Silver Spring are masking a lot more.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

You sound very ignorant about how Covid often presents itself as very mild or even asymptomatic, especially in kids. Are you kids even in school? If not how would you know that other students are showing up to school visibly ill? IME this area has been pretty responsible overall.

If this area was that responsible we wouldn't be seeing some of the surges at some MCPS schools and central office. This is why we also need mandatory weekly testing.

You'll never get this. Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

You sound very ignorant about how Covid often presents itself as very mild or even asymptomatic, especially in kids. Are you kids even in school? If not how would you know that other students are showing up to school visibly ill? IME this area has been pretty responsible overall.

If this area was that responsible we wouldn't be seeing some of the surges at some MCPS schools and central office. This is why we also need mandatory weekly testing.

Again, you sound ignorant about the contagiousness and symptoms associated with Covid and somehow after two years think that only if everyone were “more responsible” we could stamp Covid out. Testing is another story and I agree that if the goal were to keep cases as low as possible, there would be mandatory testing for everyone in the community, not just schools. Kind of like what they do in china. But that’s not the public health goal here and never was.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

The only way you would achieve this is daily rapid testing to enter schools. Would still likely miss some asymptomatic cases but you’d have a good chance of catching most symptomatic ones. Have you advocated to the BOE for this?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s going on in Kensington/Bethesda/garret park? I don’t have kids at those schools but live nearby and overall community mask usage is still extremely high- like I was in Safeway in CT Ave the other day and probably 90% of shoppers were masked.

Bethesda and Rockville are not masking that much. Kensington, Wheaton, Silver Spring are masking a lot more.

DP and I live in Bethesda and that is not my observation at all! I agree as you go further up the pike to Rockville usage dips a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s going on in Kensington/Bethesda/garret park? I don’t have kids at those schools but live nearby and overall community mask usage is still extremely high- like I was in Safeway in CT Ave the other day and probably 90% of shoppers were masked.

Some of those schools are in silver spring too. Definitely seems to be a significant down-county outbreak right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

Play that out.

Set aside the cost and lack of human resources. Suppose MCPS could frequent PCR and/or antibody testing and extended isolation and quarantine periods. You’re still not going to completely keep covid out, but to the extent you can keep that up, you’ll be able to keep some of those cases out of school. Now, we don’t know whether that would actually have an impact on the number of cases in MCPS students, since most of the cases are almost certainly picked up off-campus. But let's ignore that.

Then what? You're not going to keep that up forever. At some point you'd have to stop it, and covid is still going to be around. We already have vaccines and therapies are highly effective at preventing serious illness, so this is about as good as it's going to get.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

Play that out.

Set aside the cost and lack of human resources. Suppose MCPS could frequent PCR and/or antibody testing and extended isolation and quarantine periods. You’re still not going to completely keep covid out, but to the extent you can keep that up, you’ll be able to keep some of those cases out of school. Now, we don’t know whether that would actually have an impact on the number of cases in MCPS students, since most of the cases are almost certainly picked up off-campus. But let's ignore that.

Then what? You're not going to keep that up forever. At some point you'd have to stop it, and covid is still going to be around. We already have vaccines and therapies are highly effective at preventing serious illness, so this is about as good as it's going to get.

That's a mischaracterization if the vaccine and you know it. And the treatment is not as widely available as you think. Plus we are seeing more and more long term effects from "mild" cases, even in the vaccinated. I have no interest in getting covid or having my kids get covid. You can take that gamble but I will not.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

Play that out.

Set aside the cost and lack of human resources. Suppose MCPS could frequent PCR and/or antibody testing and extended isolation and quarantine periods. You’re still not going to completely keep covid out, but to the extent you can keep that up, you’ll be able to keep some of those cases out of school. Now, we don’t know whether that would actually have an impact on the number of cases in MCPS students, since most of the cases are almost certainly picked up off-campus. But let's ignore that.

Then what? You're not going to keep that up forever. At some point you'd have to stop it, and covid is still going to be around. We already have vaccines and therapies are highly effective at preventing serious illness, so this is about as good as it's going to get.

That's a mischaracterization if the vaccine and you know it. And the treatment is not as widely available as you think. Plus we are seeing more and more long term effects from "mild" cases, even in the vaccinated. I have no interest in getting covid or having my kids get covid. You can take that gamble but I will not.

Well, you're not going to get the Shanghai Protocol here because it's a fool's errand. Everything else is just window dressing. If you're not going to "take the gamble", it sounds like your kids won't be eligible for parole until they're 18.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

Play that out.

Set aside the cost and lack of human resources. Suppose MCPS could frequent PCR and/or antibody testing and extended isolation and quarantine periods. You’re still not going to completely keep covid out, but to the extent you can keep that up, you’ll be able to keep some of those cases out of school. Now, we don’t know whether that would actually have an impact on the number of cases in MCPS students, since most of the cases are almost certainly picked up off-campus. But let's ignore that.

Then what? You're not going to keep that up forever. At some point you'd have to stop it, and covid is still going to be around. We already have vaccines and therapies are highly effective at preventing serious illness, so this is about as good as it's going to get.

That's a mischaracterization if the vaccine and you know it. And the treatment is not as widely available as you think. Plus we are seeing more and more long term effects from "mild" cases, even in the vaccinated. I have no interest in getting covid or having my kids get covid. You can take that gamble but I will not.

How is that not an accurate characterization of the vaccine? Have you looked at hospitalization and mortality rates between vaccinated/booster and unvaccinated people? They're absolutely highly effective at preventing serious illness.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life.

Except the risks you take impact all of us. But, clearly you don’t care.

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not.

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring. Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre.

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you. So, yes, you are selfish.

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS. Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid. Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.

Play that out.

Set aside the cost and lack of human resources. Suppose MCPS could frequent PCR and/or antibody testing and extended isolation and quarantine periods. You’re still not going to completely keep covid out, but to the extent you can keep that up, you’ll be able to keep some of those cases out of school. Now, we don’t know whether that would actually have an impact on the number of cases in MCPS students, since most of the cases are almost certainly picked up off-campus. But let's ignore that.

Then what? You're not going to keep that up forever. At some point you'd have to stop it, and covid is still going to be around. We already have vaccines and therapies are highly effective at preventing serious illness, so this is about as good as it's going to get.

So, why not give it a try. Mitigation has been proven to help. Let me guess. You don't want testing as you know at some point your kids will bring it in and you cannot be bothered keeping them at home.