OMICRON to send us back to distance learning

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Anonymous wrote:From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

Omicron is an anagram for Oncomir (good luck with that)

Side note: it is also an anagram for Moronic 🐑

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can close schools again right after they close restaurants, bars and gyms. They need to be the last thing to close, not the first.

completely agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's not jump the gun.

Limited data impede any firm conclusions about the threat posed by omicron and whether it can evade immunity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/29/how-bad-is-omicron-variant/


“Omicron is like the song ‘One Piece at a Time’ by Johnny Cash, where he puts together a car from stolen bits of lots of different cars. It is made of mutations that were somewhat successful separately in other variants, but together it is hard to say more than it looks weird,” Neuman said.

Scientists don’t want to get ahead of the facts: No one knows yet how this variant behaves in real-world situations. But if it has a high degree of immune evasiveness, vaccine makers will have to revise their formulas, something already in the works at a preliminary stage. This would be a major setback in the world’s efforts to emerge from a pandemic soon to enter its third full year. The other possibility: Omicron could go the way of alpha, beta, lambda, gamma, mu and other variants that had worrisome mutations and a period of notoriety but were driven virtually to extinction by the more transmissible delta variant.

South Africa, now late in its springtime, was experiencing a low level of viral transmission before omicron appeared and started a cluster of infections. That cluster could have represented a random superspreader event rather than a clear signal of greater transmissibility of omicron.

Experience offers some hope that omicron could fade as a threat. Other variants — for example, mu — have appeared with mutations that are known to lower the potency of antibodies. But that immune-escape advantage was not enough to overcome a relative weakness in other mechanisms that enable infection. So when the mu variant appeared in Southern California, it generated headlines for a week or two before being crushed by delta.

+1
I love that Johnny Cash song.

[Anonymous]

I don't think we will shutdown. My ES has 950 kids. Most weeks we go without an infection. Some weeks it's no infection but some kids are quarantined. Occasionally it's a teacher tests positive. And this was before the vaccine for the younger kids came out. I hope the state and county will see how hard on the younger kids being at home was and won't make the same mistake again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think we will shutdown. My ES has 950 kids. Most weeks we go without an infection. Some weeks it's no infection but some kids are quarantined. Occasionally it's a teacher tests positive. And this was before the vaccine for the younger kids came out. I hope the state and county will see how hard on the younger kids being at home was and won't make the same mistake again.

Sounds like our school, down to the number of students. The only difference is I think we have had only one staff case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

That woald be so much fun to relive those fun memories all over once more!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

That woald be so much fun to relive those fun memories all over once more!

I think people should mentally prepare for the possibility if not likelihood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

That woald be so much fun to relive those fun memories all over once more!

I love you

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

That woald be so much fun to relive those fun memories all over once more!

I think people should mentally prepare for the possibility if not likelihood.

Weird I didn’t know kindergarten started with 4 year olds

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

That woald be so much fun to relive those fun memories all over once more!

I think people should mentally prepare for the possibility if not likelihood.

Weird I didn’t know kindergarten started with 4 year olds

No, but how do you protect young children if this impacts American kids too. Valid question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

+1

This whole thing is so played out. Many of us appreciate both options and just want kids to thrive. I thought the thread was about whether or not a new variant would change the current status quo.

[Anonymous]

It’s not happening in the US. Democrats won’t advocate for it anymore. The situation would have to be dire and one report of increased hospitalization among 0-4 won’t do it.

I say that a boosted teacher with two 0-4 kids. I hope the FDA will approve the vaccine for my kids soon. My pediatrician thought maybe by February.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not happening in the US. Democrats won’t advocate for it anymore. The situation would have to be dire and one report of increased hospitalization among 0-4 won’t do it.

I say that a boosted teacher with two 0-4 kids. I hope the FDA will approve the vaccine for my kids soon. My pediatrician thought maybe by February.

I don't see how omicron doesn't spread before a vaccine for that age group. 9% of people coming into Amsterdam are testing positive despite pre-flight tests and vaccination. There is an urgency here.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not happening in the US. Democrats won’t advocate for it anymore. The situation would have to be dire and one report of increased hospitalization among 0-4 won’t do it.

I say that a boosted teacher with two 0-4 kids. I hope the FDA will approve the vaccine for my kids soon. My pediatrician thought maybe by February.

I don't see how omicron doesn't spread before a vaccine for that age group. 9% of people coming into Amsterdam are testing positive despite pre-flight tests and vaccination. There is an urgency here.

Literally the same things were said about Delta and we did okay here