Travis Gayles to resign - MoCo

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Must be exhausted from fighting all the morons.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

LOL

Must be exhausting for him to defend his ridiculous decisions that were completely not supported by science. Closing outdoor playgrounds? Give me a break. We knew from the beginning that should not have been done. Trying to close down private schools that were planning to reopen safely?

He was downright inept.

Given no kids are vaccinated and they get very close on playgrounds, it is reasonable. Buy a swing set.

Given that outdoor transmission was not an issue, it was complexity unreasonable.

And watch your privilege. Not everyone can afford a swing set and not everyone has room for one.

Actually, the playgrounds were closed in the early part of the pandemic for fear of surface spread. Once that was debunk, it took months for them to open the back up.

Don’t forget that part of that delay was because Gayles included ridiculous requirements in the county executive order that allowed playgrounds to reopen. And then wouldn’t meet with or respond to emails from Montgomery Parks for a week, at which point he finally told them to ignore the order.

So much of what he’s been doing was just for show. He’s been acting as a politician the whole time. This appears to have been his career plan all along. He didn’t even practice as a pediatrician for three years.

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is currently outside of the USA on vacation , during a pandemic

In fact he's in France, which has the highest risk rating (Level 4) according to the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/map-and-travel-notices.html

lol. Reminds me of when he talked about going to the gym as kept schools closed. Or when he talked about his plan to travel out-of-state to see family over Thanksgiving as he told others to avoid travel and gatherings.

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Anonymous wrote:It is terrible he was getting death and other threats. Absolutely unacceptable.
He was also horrible in this role during the pandemic crisis time.
He probably would have been adequate in 'normal times' dealing with whatever the 'normal' set of issues would be that he would need to manage. But during the pandemic, he was terrible and actually not very science driven.

We have the highest vaccination rate around and relatively lowest transmission of large counties (we were last in the region to go from ‘moderate’ to ‘substantial’)

Nothing to do with gayles. We all drove an hour plus for vaccines on our own in April. A lot of people can and are working from home. Moco’s population (liberal, educated, affluent, covid cautious) is why.

It's both. Rational leadership and rational population (for the most part). You can't just have one, and end up with the vaccination rates and mostly good behavior we've had since March 2020.

Gayles literally outlawed outdoor playgrounds and tried to close private schools that were set to follow the CDC guidelines at the time; he perpetuated restrictions for reopening MCPS-- while other large school districts around the country successfully opened in hybrid fashions. He made the mask mandate in MoCo start at age 2 instead of age 5-- once it was reduced from I think 9 at the initial outset-- and never provided data for that. Much of NOVA with similar demographics/numbers has had an age 5 mandate. I could go on...
I have no idea exactly where the locus of control on this was, but everyone I knew was driving/traveling at least 45 minutes in each direction to get vaccines for a LONG time-- at the least, he did not succeed in any advocacy about getting reasonable amount of vaccines downcounty.
Yes, keeping businesses at very reduced capacity for a while obviously impeded the spread of the virus...but at what cost? A very compliant and risk-averse population is the driver here, IMHO, of a lot of the 'success.'
To his credit, it does appear that he and his team were successful in reaching (from what I've read) harder to reach minority populations who have significant vaccine hesitancy (as illustrated by the inner city of Baltimore and their abysmal vaccine numbers).
But overall? Not rational leadership at all.

Well summarized. Then there were his nasty internal emails regarding a parent who was trying to get more info. He was divisive - everything was class warfare to him. Good riddance.

Member when we were wiping down groceries? That’s because we thought there might be surface transmission. Don’t say this wasn’t a thing because it was. That’s why they initially shut the playgrounds. He also didn’t try to shut down private schools who were trying to follow cdc guidelines. He knew that some private schools had good plans set up and knew others did NOT have good plans. Listen, these are schools not health experts or doctors! So he wanted to work together with them to develop and implement plans that were actually safe. He could not do this if they didn’t communicate their plans to the health dept. As for vaccine access, you can thank Hogan for his allocations to mass sites everywhere except MoCo. That was not Gayles at all who made you drive to six flags. You may think he kept things shut longer than you would have. But you cannot say that anything he did put the community at more risk. He minimized our community spread very effectively and reached all kinds of groups with vaccine hesitancy and access issues. I can’t believe you are whining that your 4 year old or whatever had to play in your own backyard and had to wear a mask and you had to drive 45 minutes twice (when you prob drive 6 hrs to obx like everyone else around here). This man was the one making the tough choices and I hope he knows there are many of us who are thankful for his efforts even as people treated him so incredibly poorly.

Yes, to all of this.

Your post is filled with a tremendous amount of inaccuracies, aside from the personal assumptions here (which are incorrect). There were questions about surface transmission originally, but for everyone crying he was science based--he did not quickly follow the science once this was debunked. Also, for the record, he did "try to shut down private schools who were trying to follow cdc guidelines." Bless your heart, pp.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Must be exhausted from fighting all the morons.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

LOL

Must be exhausting for him to defend his ridiculous decisions that were completely not supported by science. Closing outdoor playgrounds? Give me a break. We knew from the beginning that should not have been done. Trying to close down private schools that were planning to reopen safely?

He was downright inept.

Given no kids are vaccinated and they get very close on playgrounds, it is reasonable. Buy a swing set.

Given that outdoor transmission was not an issue, it was complexity unreasonable.

And watch your privilege. Not everyone can afford a swing set and not everyone has room for one.

Actually, the playgrounds were closed in the early part of the pandemic for fear of surface spread. Once that was debunk, it took months for them to open the back up.

Don’t forget that part of that delay was because Gayles included ridiculous requirements in the county executive order that allowed playgrounds to reopen. And then wouldn’t meet with or respond to emails from Montgomery Parks for a week, at which point he finally told them to ignore the order.

So much of what he’s been doing was just for show. He’s been acting as a politician the whole time. This appears to have been his career plan all along. He didn’t even practice as a pediatrician for three years.

This. His appearance on 60 Minutes solidified that for me. He has plans to be in politics is my guess. He was not qualified to be in his current position.

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Anonymous wrote:To the person harping about the playgrounds - they were closed for what, three weeks? You couldn’t figure out how to entertain your kids for three weeks? Nobody had complete information back then, we thought that covid could spread on surfaces and that we had to avoid any and all gatherings.

Ours had fencing around it for a few months.

+1 They were closed until the end of the summer. With fencing.

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Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

I’m sorry. He wanted to keep you and your kids from getting sick. He may think that’s more important than your super important work zoom meeting, Jennifer, but it was his job to keep from overwhelming our health system, not make sure you had childcare.

Not Jennifer. Gayles had no problem with me sending them to childcare though. Didn’t hear a peep from him over my toddlers home daycare did we? Why is that? Gayles was wrong. Nothing to do with his race or sexuality. Jack Smith is a straight white dude and he sucked too.

Gayle's had to shut the private schools down in the name of equity. Allowing them to operate in person would only exasperate the achievement gap and closing the achievement gap is THE most important thing to the woke. If regular people don't wake up and understand that woke lunatics will use the concept of equity to hamstring their kids and their families we're all in trouble.

Kind of. Though, they actually like to hamstring other people’s kids. The wokest people in my neighborhood sent their kids to private as soon as it looked like schools would stay closed. Of course, they want their OWN kids to benefit from their privilege.

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Six pages in and I can’t believe all the posts whining about playgrounds. From over a year ago. Seriously. Playgrounds.
The public health of the county, and the nation, rested on local public health officials and the Karens here are STILL screeching about…playgrounds.

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Gayles made up his own rules that had nothing to do with science. His personal judgment negatively impacted a lot of people. Glad to see him go.

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Anonymous wrote:Six pages in and I can’t believe all the posts whining about playgrounds. From over a year ago. Seriously. Playgrounds.
The public health of the county, and the nation, rested on local public health officials and the Karens here are STILL screeching about…playgrounds.

But he didn’t do that as much as make anxiety control driven decisions that negatively impacted peoples lives unnecessarily. Sorry your delicate sensitivities are hurt by calling out Gayles in over his head and a disastrous leader.
And using the racist and misogynistic term Karen is very telling about who you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, dammit. I liked Gayles because he was covid cautious.

He’s probably burned out, poor guy.

He wasn't cautious at all. He let the virus loose in the county. He was told directly that MCPS teachers were directly exposed to the first COVID positive person in the county and he let all those teachers stay in their schools the last week schools were open.

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Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t this the guy that people emailed about the closures last year (outdoor spaces/playgrounds, and the attempts to close private schools), and he responded by forwarding their emails to other members of the local govt to make fun of them and call them Karens?

Worse than that, sadly. He said "The privileged class of Montgomery County are showing their a$$es." He is horrendous. So glad he is gone.

He was dumb to put it in writing in an email, but he was 100% not wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

I’m sorry. He wanted to keep you and your kids from getting sick. He may think that’s more important than your super important work zoom meeting, Jennifer, but it was his job to keep from overwhelming our health system, not make sure you had childcare.

Not Jennifer. Gayles had no problem with me sending them to childcare though. Didn’t hear a peep from him over my toddlers home daycare did we? Why is that? Gayles was wrong. Nothing to do with his race or sexuality. Jack Smith is a straight white dude and he sucked too.

Gayle's had to shut the private schools down in the name of equity. Allowing them to operate in person would only exasperate the achievement gap and closing the achievement gap is THE most important thing to the woke. If regular people don't wake up and understand that woke lunatics will use the concept of equity to hamstring their kids and their families we're all in trouble.

The word is exacerbate. Guess they didn’t teach you that in your non-woke private school.

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Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

I’m sorry. He wanted to keep you and your kids from getting sick. He may think that’s more important than your super important work zoom meeting, Jennifer, but it was his job to keep from overwhelming our health system, not make sure you had childcare.

Not Jennifer. Gayles had no problem with me sending them to childcare though. Didn’t hear a peep from him over my toddlers home daycare did we? Why is that? Gayles was wrong. Nothing to do with his race or sexuality. Jack Smith is a straight white dude and he sucked too.

Guess what? Daycares are regulated and have to adhere to many standard requirements that k-12 private schools do not. So your home daycare theoretically had oversight mechanisms in place that private schools did not have.

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Anonymous wrote:He had no empathy for parents and kids. Despite being a pediatrician he seemed completely unaware of children’s needs and unsympathetic to what they were going through. He was arrogant. He showed distain for constituents. Not a nice guy. Good riddance to him and Jack Smith.

I’m sorry. He wanted to keep you and your kids from getting sick. He may think that’s more important than your super important work zoom meeting, Jennifer, but it was his job to keep from overwhelming our health system, not make sure you had childcare.

Not Jennifer. Gayles had no problem with me sending them to childcare though. Didn’t hear a peep from him over my toddlers home daycare did we? Why is that? Gayles was wrong. Nothing to do with his race or sexuality. Jack Smith is a straight white dude and he sucked too.

Gayle's had to shut the private schools down in the name of equity. Allowing them to operate in person would only exasperate the achievement gap and closing the achievement gap is THE most important thing to the woke. If regular people don't wake up and understand that woke lunatics will use the concept of equity to hamstring their kids and their families we're all in trouble.

Kind of. Though, they actually like to hamstring other people’s kids. The wokest people in my neighborhood sent their kids to private as soon as it looked like schools would stay closed. Of course, they want their OWN kids to benefit from their privilege.

Yep. Look no further than the former MCPS BOE member who tried to usher in busing the year AFTER her last kid left for college. "Hey, now that my kids are safely out of MCPS, let's institute busing."

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, dammit. I liked Gayles because he was covid cautious.

He’s probably burned out, poor guy.

He wasn't cautious at all. He let the virus loose in the county. He was told directly that MCPS teachers were directly exposed to the first COVID positive person in the county and he let all those teachers stay in their schools the last week schools were open.

He also failed to step up inspections of elder care facilities before the outbreak but after it was clear that there was a deadly respiratory virus that was particularly dangerous to old people. That resulted in more disease and more death. Unforgivable.