MCPS covid cases

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Anonymous wrote:A child at my daughter's HS, Poolesville, was bragging about having covid for a week and still being in school. Kids told the principal but it was too late. Lots of kids are falling sick, including my whole family due to exposure to my daughter. Because of this, my youngest, who was supposed to get her covid shot, instead got a PCR test. I have violent gastro issues like the stomach bug but it is covid. Now, my class is quarantined until I test negative. I am pissed!!! What parent allows their kid to do this????

While this does not surprise me, where are the positives on the mcps dashboard.

This just happened today and positive notifications are being sent out as children go into quarantine. The link providing support therapy, and academic notes and assignments were mailed to us today. The dashboard should be updated soon.

If it just happened today, how does your daughter know she’s positive for covid already?

Responsible parents take their kids to test or do a home test. Where we get tested its generally 12 hours or less.

OP I have a kid at PHS. Would you care to share which class? My son hasn’t heard any of this. He’s a 9th grade Global student.

My daughter and the 3 others so far who are quarantined are in SMACS with the child who was confirmed positive. The class was Physics but also R and E, and Pre-Calc. Also, the bus that goes to Little Bennett, 2302, I believe. No Global kids have been quarantined as of yet. They are still tracing.

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She told me the bus has closed windows and the confirmed child coughing and bragging about having covid and not having to quarantine sat in the row across from her. She said there also was a girl coughing the entire time sitting in the back. She was absent this Monday. She said that the girl said her parents would not let her stay home because she was not doing well in her classes and could not afford to miss school. This was the reason the confirmed child who said he did not quarantine gave as well. Why do they not allow windows to be opened on a bus that is packed with tons of students.

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Anonymous wrote:She told me the bus has closed windows and the confirmed child coughing and bragging about having covid and not having to quarantine sat in the row across from her. She said there also was a girl coughing the entire time sitting in the back. She was absent this Monday. She said that the girl said her parents would not let her stay home because she was not doing well in her classes and could not afford to miss school. This was the reason the confirmed child who said he did not quarantine gave as well. Why do they not allow windows to be opened on a bus that is packed with tons of students.

It’s freezing out. Not being rude but parents wanted schools to open as normal and that’s what they got. It was only a mater of time.

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Anonymous wrote:She told me the bus has closed windows and the confirmed child coughing and bragging about having covid and not having to quarantine sat in the row across from her. She said there also was a girl coughing the entire time sitting in the back. She was absent this Monday. She said that the girl said her parents would not let her stay home because she was not doing well in her classes and could not afford to miss school. This was the reason the confirmed child who said he did not quarantine gave as well. Why do they not allow windows to be opened on a bus that is packed with tons of students.

It’s freezing out. Not being rude but parents wanted schools to open as normal and that’s what they got. It was only a mater of time.

Feel better

Yeah, schools have been open for going on four months, and it's been great. So far, much better than last year.

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Thank you. I posted a thread just about PHS. Please update that one if you would. It’s only a matter of time before community to Global. Lots of my kids friends are in SMCS math. I’m so sorry for you and your family. Thank you for being responsible.

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I realize so much of this is based on third hand information about what a child says, but I would have some strong words for those parents.

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Freudian slip? They didn’t play a part in the return, but they certainly played a part in the failure to reopen. Specifically, MCEA certainly did, through impact bargaining and political lobbying at the local and state levels. And who makes up MCEA’s membership?

When the crazies were screaming to reopen as the body count was piling up, teachers acted with reason. This kept our children safe.

Jesus H. The power of denial. So strong.

school closure last year was a mistake. A huge mistake. And most everyone is starting to realize that it did almost nothing to stop the spread and came at an enormous cost to students.

I know its hard to admit that you were wrong. But you were. very very wrong.

Those that wanted to open in Sept 2020 were right. And their predictions about learning loss, mental health, development, etc all, sadly, came true

The lockdowners will never admit they were wrong. That would mean coming to terms with harming 160,000 kids for no reason.

It's a really dumb debate and has been oversimplified horribly. In places that provided real mitigations, schools could have opened sooner, no question. In places that did hardly any, harm was done. Time to use our lessons learned and move forward and insist on keeping schools open the right way.

You make a good point.

But here, in MoCo, almost nobody was advocating to just throw the doors open. Almost everyone, including the organized groups, wanted it open, with mitigations.

But they were all accused of being "teacher-killers" or wanting "dead children in the hallways"

It was near impossible to have the conversation about how to open because those want to say remote refused to come to the conversation in good faith.

We have very little in terms of mitigation except masking, which is inconsistent in school.

I don't get why you are debating this. Any of us who didn't feel safe to return, choose to remain in virtual. Simple. You are creating problems that aren't there. If cases go up, there is little testing, so MCPS will not know and not close. So, move on already.

One reason our numbers were lower was because schools were not in person.

If it were really true that MCPS wasn't doing any mitigations, that would simply even more strongly suggest covid isn't a concern in schools.

Though in reality, MCPS has been aggressively enforcing quarantine requirements, implementing cohorting to varying degrees, and coercively enrolling students in surveillance testing.

I know you need to constantly work at convincing yourself that in-person school is dangerous to justify the harm you're doing to your children, but you should at least get your facts straight.

No the difference is most adults and older students are vaccinated.

My child are harmed by people like you who don’t take Covid seriously.

Considering no one in my family has had covid, I don't see how you could possibly suggest I've done anything to harm your kids. That's all on you. Get them vaccinated and get yourself boosted.

It’s a brand new vaccine and the safety for kids has not really been determined yet. Once all of you get your kids vaccinated so you can resume your risky behavior, there will be more data for the rest of us. Thanks!!

It's a vax built on 15 years of research starting with the first SARS.

15 years of research is good but that is not the point. We don’t know long term safety.

name a vaccine with side effects that lay dormant for 6+ months.

There isn't one.

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Freudian slip? They didn’t play a part in the return, but they certainly played a part in the failure to reopen. Specifically, MCEA certainly did, through impact bargaining and political lobbying at the local and state levels. And who makes up MCEA’s membership?

When the crazies were screaming to reopen as the body count was piling up, teachers acted with reason. This kept our children safe.

Jesus H. The power of denial. So strong.

school closure last year was a mistake. A huge mistake. And most everyone is starting to realize that it did almost nothing to stop the spread and came at an enormous cost to students.

I know its hard to admit that you were wrong. But you were. very very wrong.

Those that wanted to open in Sept 2020 were right. And their predictions about learning loss, mental health, development, etc all, sadly, came true

The lockdowners will never admit they were wrong. That would mean coming to terms with harming 160,000 kids for no reason.

It's a really dumb debate and has been oversimplified horribly. In places that provided real mitigations, schools could have opened sooner, no question. In places that did hardly any, harm was done. Time to use our lessons learned and move forward and insist on keeping schools open the right way.

You make a good point.

But here, in MoCo, almost nobody was advocating to just throw the doors open. Almost everyone, including the organized groups, wanted it open, with mitigations.

But they were all accused of being "teacher-killers" or wanting "dead children in the hallways"

It was near impossible to have the conversation about how to open because those want to say remote refused to come to the conversation in good faith.

We have very little in terms of mitigation except masking, which is inconsistent in school.

I don't get why you are debating this. Any of us who didn't feel safe to return, choose to remain in virtual. Simple. You are creating problems that aren't there. If cases go up, there is little testing, so MCPS will not know and not close. So, move on already.

One reason our numbers were lower was because schools were not in person.

If it were really true that MCPS wasn't doing any mitigations, that would simply even more strongly suggest covid isn't a concern in schools.

Though in reality, MCPS has been aggressively enforcing quarantine requirements, implementing cohorting to varying degrees, and coercively enrolling students in surveillance testing.

I know you need to constantly work at convincing yourself that in-person school is dangerous to justify the harm you're doing to your children, but you should at least get your facts straight.

No the difference is most adults and older students are vaccinated.

My child are harmed by people like you who don’t take Covid seriously.

Considering no one in my family has had covid, I don't see how you could possibly suggest I've done anything to harm your kids. That's all on you. Get them vaccinated and get yourself boosted.

It’s a brand new vaccine and the safety for kids has not really been determined yet. Once all of you get your kids vaccinated so you can resume your risky behavior, there will be more data for the rest of us. Thanks!!

It's a vax built on 15 years of research starting with the first SARS.

15 years of research is good but that is not the point. We don’t know long term safety.

name a vaccine with side effects that lay dormant for 6+ months.

There isn't one.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114674/

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15 years of research is good but that is not the point. We don’t know long term safety.

name a vaccine with side effects that lay dormant for 6+ months.

There isn't one.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114674/

Oh hey, you're citing an article by anti-vaxxers from 1999! Now, how about this one? https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa032665

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15 years of research is good but that is not the point. We don’t know long term safety.

name a vaccine with side effects that lay dormant for 6+ months.

There isn't one.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114674/

Oh hey, you're citing an article by anti-vaxxers from 1999! Now, how about this one? https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa032665

So, your answer to anything you don't like is someone is an anti-vaxxer even though they are vaccinated. You really need to work on your talking points.

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So, your answer to anything you don't like is someone is an anti-vaxxer even though they are vaccinated. You really need to work on your talking points.

There are a lot of pieces of writing in the world I don't like. Most of them are not written by anti-vaxxers. The article you (or whoever) linked to, from 1999, was written by anti-vaxxers. In addition, further research did not support the anti-vaxxers' claim.

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So, your answer to anything you don't like is someone is an anti-vaxxer even though they are vaccinated. You really need to work on your talking points.

There are a lot of pieces of writing in the world I don't like. Most of them are not written by anti-vaxxers. The article you (or whoever) linked to, from 1999, was written by anti-vaxxers. In addition, further research did not support the anti-vaxxers' claim.

There are lots of issues with vaccines. You can deny it all you want, but you are just fortunate you nor your family has had any issues with them.

The majority of people are vaccinated in MoCo so you need to find new talking points other than slamming people for being anti-vaccine given most are vaccinated. Clearly these vaccines help with symptoms but they are not as good at stoping covid as you were told. So, this is going to be a never ending issue as people aren't willing to be part of the solution beyond only partially effective vaccines to help stop covid.

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So, your answer to anything you don't like is someone is an anti-vaxxer even though they are vaccinated. You really need to work on your talking points.

There are a lot of pieces of writing in the world I don't like. Most of them are not written by anti-vaxxers. The article you (or whoever) linked to, from 1999, was written by anti-vaxxers. In addition, further research did not support the anti-vaxxers' claim.

There are lots of issues with vaccines. You can deny it all you want, but you are just fortunate you nor your family has had any issues with them.

The majority of people are vaccinated in MoCo so you need to find new talking points other than slamming people for being anti-vaccine given most are vaccinated. Clearly these vaccines help with symptoms but they are not as good at stoping covid as you were told. So, this is going to be a never ending issue as people aren't willing to be part of the solution beyond only partially effective vaccines to help stop covid.

This particular issue was whether there are long-term consequences of vaccines in the absence of short-term consequences, and the answer is no.

The vaccines are highly effective at stopping covid, as well as at stopping transmission of the virus SARS-CoV-2.

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Name the kid who is coming to school with COVID and tell the teachers too. Lets see how this will play out come college admission time. POS.

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So, your answer to anything you don't like is someone is an anti-vaxxer even though they are vaccinated. You really need to work on your talking points.

There are a lot of pieces of writing in the world I don't like. Most of them are not written by anti-vaxxers. The article you (or whoever) linked to, from 1999, was written by anti-vaxxers. In addition, further research did not support the anti-vaxxers' claim.

There are lots of issues with vaccines. You can deny it all you want, but you are just fortunate you nor your family has had any issues with them.

The majority of people are vaccinated in MoCo so you need to find new talking points other than slamming people for being anti-vaccine given most are vaccinated. Clearly these vaccines help with symptoms but they are not as good at stoping covid as you were told. So, this is going to be a never ending issue as people aren't willing to be part of the solution beyond only partially effective vaccines to help stop covid.

This particular issue was whether there are long-term consequences of vaccines in the absence of short-term consequences, and the answer is no.

The vaccines are highly effective at stopping covid, as well as at stopping transmission of the virus SARS-CoV-2.

They aren't highly effective as we are still having vaccinated people get covid. And, we need a booster after 6 months, with the booster being another full dose.