13 COVID cases in one day at Janney??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what?

1. The CDC says 85 percent of kids in DC have already had coronavirus.

2. Everyone is going to get it no matter what. If you think you’re going to avoid, I have a big beautiful bridge to sell you.

So what you don't care about your kids, but are other parents that are worry and care.The DCPS what to be more careful 🤔

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what?

1. The CDC says 85 percent of kids in DC have already had coronavirus.

2. Everyone is going to get it no matter what. If you think you’re going to avoid, I have a big beautiful bridge to sell you.

So what you don't care about your kids, but are other parents that are worry and care.The DCPS what to be more careful 🤔

So put a mask on your kid if you care about them so much, and leave everyone else alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what?

1. The CDC says 85 percent of kids in DC have already had coronavirus.

2. Everyone is going to get it no matter what. If you think you’re going to avoid, I have a big beautiful bridge to sell you.

So what you don't care about your kids, but are other parents that are worry and care.The DCPS what to be more careful 🤔

If masking and closing schools and strict quarantines worked, how did 85 percent of kids get coronavirus antibodies in their blood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Do you even know how many of these cases were transmitted in the classroom, vs. acquired outside of school (let alone that masks would have prevented it)? I have two kids at Janney, and we have had a few cases in their classrooms over the past months, but never in quick enough succession to suggest in-class transmission.

My child’s class at Janney had a literal “outbreak,” as that is defined by DC Health. Five kids in three days, six in a week. It was a little over a month ago. No one else got it after that initial cluster, despite the class being maskless and the cluster being from several different tables. My child is very close with several in that outbreak and is up in their unmasked faces everyday and by some miracle, never got it. My other child’s Janney class had three positives in one week - a teacher and two kids, including one at her table. She didn’t get it either. She also had a positive in the class two weeks ago who per the notice was in class with symptoms because they thought it was allergies. That positive sits next to my child maskless at a shared table, and neither my child nor the two other kids at the table got COVID.

So, yes, there has been undeniable spread in classrooms at Janney. But spread isn’t inevitable and Janney is actually IMO doing a great job. So happy they aren’t panicking like some of the fearmongers on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, please opt out of covid testing for your child. It's the only way to stop this madness of masking and quarantines.

I want my kids masking if there's lots of covid in the class. And I don't want them going to school if they have covid. But if they don't have covid, I want them at school. I don't have any problem with the asymptomatic testing — or with keeping school open despite lots of cases.

NP. You will always, always be free to mask your kid. I don't want my kid to be forced to mask for ten days every couple of weeks because another kid in the class tested positive. That leads to nearly permanent masking, and it will continue indefinitely.

There is a reason the NFL stopped asymptomatic testing, as another PP above explained: they found very little evidence of asymptomatic transmission, and it was a far bigger problem for people to take a negative test as carte blanche to come in. Keep your kid home if they have symptoms. Don't pull a healthy kid out of school because of a random positive test.

We opted out of testing at the beginning of the year.

This. It's a de facto masking policy because the clock starts over for masking for 10 days with each new asymptomatic positive case. The masking doesn't even help because my kid's class has been masking for over a month and there are still new cases. Who are these crazy parents who haven't opted out of asymptomatic testing???

I haven’t opted my kids out. If they have covid, I want to know so I can keep them home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Do you even know how many of these cases were transmitted in the classroom, vs. acquired outside of school (let alone that masks would have prevented it)? I have two kids at Janney, and we have had a few cases in their classrooms over the past months, but never in quick enough succession to suggest in-class transmission.

My child’s class at Janney had a literal “outbreak,” as that is defined by DC Health. Five kids in three days, six in a week. It was a little over a month ago. No one else got it after that initial cluster, despite the class being maskless and the cluster being from several different tables. My child is very close with several in that outbreak and is up in their unmasked faces everyday and by some miracle, never got it. My other child’s Janney class had three positives in one week - a teacher and two kids, including one at her table. She didn’t get it either. She also had a positive in the class two weeks ago who per the notice was in class with symptoms because they thought it was allergies. That positive sits next to my child maskless at a shared table, and neither my child nor the two other kids at the table got COVID.

So, yes, there has been undeniable spread in classrooms at Janney. But spread isn’t inevitable and Janney is actually IMO doing a great job. So happy they aren’t panicking like some of the fearmongers on here.

Thanks for that information, that's what I was looking for, since you can never tell from the notifications. Sounds like spread is pretty random. FWIW, none of the cases in my kids' classes turned into an outbreak, despite very few kids masking. And agree that I'm glad Janney is keeping their cool. This is bound to happen for the foreseeable future, which is why I also wish DCPS would stop forcing everybody to mask for 10 days as soon as there is a case in the class. Let the parents know there was a case and then let them make their own decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what?

1. The CDC says 85 percent of kids in DC have already had coronavirus.

2. Everyone is going to get it no matter what. If you think you’re going to avoid, I have a big beautiful bridge to sell you.

So what you don't care about your kids, but are other parents that are worry and care.The DCPS what to be more careful 🤔

Right, 85% of DC parents don't care about their kids.

Jeez you suck, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what?

1. The CDC says 85 percent of kids in DC have already had coronavirus.

2. Everyone is going to get it no matter what. If you think you’re going to avoid, I have a big beautiful bridge to sell you.

So what you don't care about your kids, but are other parents that are worry and care.The DCPS what to be more careful 🤔

If masking and closing schools and strict quarantines worked, how did 85 percent of kids get coronavirus antibodies in their blood?

This stat is misleading. There are variations in the number of infections among different populations. They didn't test 100 percent of kids to say 85 percent of kids have had covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what?

1. The CDC says 85 percent of kids in DC have already had coronavirus.

2. Everyone is going to get it no matter what. If you think you’re going to avoid, I have a big beautiful bridge to sell you.

So what you don't care about your kids, but are other parents that are worry and care.The DCPS what to be more careful 🤔

If masking and closing schools and strict quarantines worked, how did 85 percent of kids get coronavirus antibodies in their blood?

This stat is misleading. There are variations in the number of infections among different populations. They didn't test 100 percent of kids to say 85 percent of kids have had covid.

Oh lord takes a stats or science class and learn about sampling.

[Anonymous]

Pandemics tend to last 3-4 years. At that point, the population has developed enough immunity to keep the spread manageable and the virus has evolved into something that causes milder infections than earlier strands. So far covid is following that trajectory.

Time is a good thing. Over the past two years we've developed treatments, like plaxovid, that are helping a lot of people who may not have survived covid. We're figuring out what medical interventions save lives and which ones don't. Research came out on how covid is truly spread and ways to reduce your risk, if you choose. More research is coming out now about long covid, which will help inform risk-reward decisions. My point: the longer you can hold off getting it, the better the outcomes for your family. And if you aren't sacrificing anything that truly matters in your life to achieve that end, then that's a win. If we're lucky, the next variant will be even milder than this one.

Also, I'm not sure saying "most" people in DC have had covid is accurate. That may be true in some wards. In our social circle its been less than half the kids and adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pandemics tend to last 3-4 years. At that point, the population has developed enough immunity to keep the spread manageable and the virus has evolved into something that causes milder infections than earlier strands. So far covid is following that trajectory.

Time is a good thing. Over the past two years we've developed treatments, like plaxovid, that are helping a lot of people who may not have survived covid. We're figuring out what medical interventions save lives and which ones don't. Research came out on how covid is truly spread and ways to reduce your risk, if you choose. More research is coming out now about long covid, which will help inform risk-reward decisions. My point: the longer you can hold off getting it, the better the outcomes for your family. And if you aren't sacrificing anything that truly matters in your life to achieve that end, then that's a win. If we're lucky, the next variant will be even milder than this one.

Also, I'm not sure saying "most" people in DC have had covid is accurate. That may be true in some wards. In our social circle its been less than half the kids and adults.

That you or they know about. That was the point of the original CDC study showing that a majority had already had it — they looked at blood draws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Do you even know how many of these cases were transmitted in the classroom, vs. acquired outside of school (let alone that masks would have prevented it)? I have two kids at Janney, and we have had a few cases in their classrooms over the past months, but never in quick enough succession to suggest in-class transmission.

My child’s class at Janney had a literal “outbreak,” as that is defined by DC Health. Five kids in three days, six in a week. It was a little over a month ago. No one else got it after that initial cluster, despite the class being maskless and the cluster being from several different tables. My child is very close with several in that outbreak and is up in their unmasked faces everyday and by some miracle, never got it. My other child’s Janney class had three positives in one week - a teacher and two kids, including one at her table. She didn’t get it either. She also had a positive in the class two weeks ago who per the notice was in class with symptoms because they thought it was allergies. That positive sits next to my child maskless at a shared table, and neither my child nor the two other kids at the table got COVID.

So, yes, there has been undeniable spread in classrooms at Janney. But spread isn’t inevitable and Janney is actually IMO doing a great job. So happy they aren’t panicking like some of the fearmongers on here.

Thanks for that information, that's what I was looking for, since you can never tell from the notifications. Sounds like spread is pretty random. FWIW, none of the cases in my kids' classes turned into an outbreak, despite very few kids masking. And agree that I'm glad Janney is keeping their cool. This is bound to happen for the foreseeable future, which is why I also wish DCPS would stop forcing everybody to mask for 10 days as soon as there is a case in the class. Let the parents know there was a case and then let them make their own decisions.

Well, look at it this way: After tomorrow, they won't be able to make anyone mask for 10 days, since school is out on the 24th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you had Covid already, it is no big deal.
If you have not had Covid, it is a big deal.
Debate solved!

Show me data that having had covid makes having covid again this year no big deal.
The current variants evade immunity from prior variants and from vaccines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you had Covid already, it is no big deal.
If you have not had Covid, it is a big deal.
Debate solved!

Show me data that having had covid makes having covid again this year no big deal.
The current variants evade immunity from prior variants and from vaccines.

Truly, I wish some of you had taken a research methods class at some point. Some of you are just so much less than I'd expect from what is generally an educated message board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I have learned from this pandemic is that there are a fair number of incredibly stupid people who are willing to completely ignore the dangers of a serious disease if it means they can avoid mild inconvenience.

YES!

To the other PP: the mitigation measures in place previously that were dropped recently had not failed. They had done a good job and were then dropped. We wouldn't have seen 13 cases reported by an elementary in one day if students and staff were masked in classrooms, even if some incredibly stupid people may have already been willfully sending their children to school contagious.

Do you even know how many of these cases were transmitted in the classroom, vs. acquired outside of school (let alone that masks would have prevented it)? I have two kids at Janney, and we have had a few cases in their classrooms over the past months, but never in quick enough succession to suggest in-class transmission.

My child’s class at Janney had a literal “outbreak,” as that is defined by DC Health. Five kids in three days, six in a week. It was a little over a month ago. No one else got it after that initial cluster, despite the class being maskless and the cluster being from several different tables. My child is very close with several in that outbreak and is up in their unmasked faces everyday and by some miracle, never got it. My other child’s Janney class had three positives in one week - a teacher and two kids, including one at her table. She didn’t get it either. She also had a positive in the class two weeks ago who per the notice was in class with symptoms because they thought it was allergies. That positive sits next to my child maskless at a shared table, and neither my child nor the two other kids at the table got COVID.

So, yes, there has been undeniable spread in classrooms at Janney. But spread isn’t inevitable and Janney is actually IMO doing a great job. So happy they aren’t panicking like some of the fearmongers on here.

Thanks for that information, that's what I was looking for, since you can never tell from the notifications. Sounds like spread is pretty random. FWIW, none of the cases in my kids' classes turned into an outbreak, despite very few kids masking. And agree that I'm glad Janney is keeping their cool. This is bound to happen for the foreseeable future, which is why I also wish DCPS would stop forcing everybody to mask for 10 days as soon as there is a case in the class. Let the parents know there was a case and then let them make their own decisions.

Well, look at it this way: After tomorrow, they won't be able to make anyone mask for 10 days, since school is out on the 24th.

Yes, then the question will be if summer camp will follow the same stupid policy.