This is going to be bad…

[Anonymous]

I am a parent of 2 HS children in Fairfax county. Yesterday, I was in an accident and had to be rushed to the ER. I personally saw that the ER was packed, due to the unavailability of rooms, I and some other patients spent a lot of time in the hallway, we do not want a situation that if something happens there are no beds in the hospital.
Please take this seriously, I witnessed firsthand the situation in the ER and our healthcare workers are working nonstop and we cannot add to their burden. The school board needs to provide a virtual/ hybrid option before this spins out of control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of 2 HS children in Fairfax county. Yesterday, I was in an accident and had to be rushed to the ER. I personally saw that the ER was packed, due to the unavailability of rooms, I and some other patients spent a lot of time in the hallway, we do not want a situation that if something happens there are no beds in the hospital.
Please take this seriously, I witnessed firsthand the situation in the ER and our healthcare workers are working nonstop and we cannot add to their burden. The school board needs to provide a virtual/ hybrid option before this spins out of control.

Thank you. Glad you're ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of 2 HS children in Fairfax county. Yesterday, I was in an accident and had to be rushed to the ER. I personally saw that the ER was packed, due to the unavailability of rooms, I and some other patients spent a lot of time in the hallway, we do not want a situation that if something happens there are no beds in the hospital.
Please take this seriously, I witnessed firsthand the situation in the ER and our healthcare workers are working nonstop and we cannot add to their burden. The school board needs to provide a virtual/ hybrid option before this spins out of control.

Spread in schools has shown to be lower than spread in the community. Where schools were open and spread seemed higher, it was due to increased outside school activities by parents.

So basically if we get kids in school and parents continue to be cautious, we should LOWER cases based on the data.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

It's TOTALLY worth the risk. Why do kids have to keep paying the price for everybody else's activities? Just got back from ES orientation. It was good to see/hear from normal parents again...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

So either you or the other driver made a poor driving decision, and now kids shouldn't be allowed to go back to in-person school. Nice. Glad you're just former OPEN and not in charge...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

So either you or the other driver made a poor driving decision, and now kids shouldn't be allowed to go back to in-person school. Nice. Glad you're just former OPEN and not in charge...

This is low, even for DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

[Anonymous]

WOW. Previous two posters are monsters.

ER PP, I'm glad you're fine. But it wasn't OK to be part of the rabid Open FCPS movement. It's sad that it took a personal adverse event to make you realize what others have been saying all along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

Horse crap

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

All disinformation fed to you by far-right groups. It's well-known that Open Schools movements across the country have been infiltrated by extremists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

Your advice is horrible! There are people who will spread Delta if they follow it.

Unfortunately this is not the first time I read that on this forum. These people will give Tylenol and send their kids.

Seeing so many tips posted online for concealing symptoms in under 12s.

What do you expect? This is what happens when you open school for unvax kids. MS and HS should be open buy K-6 should be virtual if they don't want folks sending in sick kids.

Did you miss the parents unleashing holy hell all last year and especially the ones of young kids?

The amount of threads saying 'let older kids stay at home, but the little ones need to be in school'.

Okay Sally - the wave of plague and ICU hospitalizations is all on you because you didn't want to watch the 4 and 6-year-old for another day.

Yup. Even though the biggest infection numbers are in people in their 20s and 30s, and sports events and bars are packed, and numbers started rising before school started, this one is definitely on Sally. GMAFB

+1. Sorry my five and seven year old got absolutely nothing out of virtual school, but 20 somethings got to keep going to bars and orange theory fitness last winter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

First PP is a troll. OpenFCPS is bipartisan and uses data. Not your anecdotal claim about an ER in Mississippi or wherever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who is “they”?

Why would you have to quarantine if you have two negative covid tests?
Who said you can’t start school?

They is INOVA Urgent Care. And the provided a letter for missing work at a FCHD site and a letter for school. And both said my fully vaxxed, fever free, very mild symptom, rapid test negative kid should be excluded from work and school for 10 days (plus no fever, plus symptoms improving) even if his PCR test was negative.

I certainly questioned this, amd was told “PCR tests are missing some delta cases, and we can’t be too careful”

FCHD has some jurisdiction over his job because he works at a Fairfax County site. And, of course FCHD has jurisdiction over FCPS.

We never really thought this kid had COVID. We acted out of an abundance of caution, since his job is public facing (but he wears a mask and it’s mostly outside).

I’m putting a word out caution out there. Don’t get your kid tested because they are mildly ill, or seem off, or whatever. Even if they are clear, you could be looking at 10 days of school for them, plus unvaxxed siblings, plus so,e amount of time for vaxxed siblings.

Your advice is horrible! There are people who will spread Delta if they follow it.

Unfortunately this is not the first time I read that on this forum. These people will give Tylenol and send their kids.

Seeing so many tips posted online for concealing symptoms in under 12s.

What do you expect? This is what happens when you open school for unvax kids. MS and HS should be open buy K-6 should be virtual if they don't want folks sending in sick kids.

Did you miss the parents unleashing holy hell all last year and especially the ones of young kids?

The amount of threads saying 'let older kids stay at home, but the little ones need to be in school'.

Okay Sally - the wave of plague and ICU hospitalizations is all on you because you didn't want to watch the 4 and 6-year-old for another day.

Yup. Even though the biggest infection numbers are in people in their 20s and 30s, and sports events and bars are packed, and numbers started rising before school started, this one is definitely on Sally. GMAFB

+1. Sorry my five and seven year old got absolutely nothing out of virtual school, but 20 somethings got to keep going to bars and orange theory fitness last winter.

It's just asinine reasoning. Adults can do whatever they want, but we need to keep kids out of school to save emergency room space for the adults in case something goes wrong or they get infected during one of their activities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who posted about the accident and I was an OPEN FCPS parent but after spending hours in the hallway due to lack of rooms in the ER and watching our healthcare workers work nonstop I changed my mind, when I walked out of the ER there were at least 25 people waiting. You do not want a situation in Fairfax where they do not have beds. We are in a good situation now but with schools opening, It may not, it is not worth the risk.

If you were really in #openFCPS you would be familiar with the many, many studies and articles showing lower risk to students and staff (in some cases, similar risk to staff in some cases lower) of COVID spread in schools. You may also be familiar with the Arlington Parents for Education #saferAtSchool hashtag. That's all be shared there repeatedly.

If you're still part of the group, you may want to search back through the archives. The data's all there. The data's still rolling in, by the way. Delta hasn't stopped it.

First PP is a troll. OpenFCPS is bipartisan and uses data. Not your anecdotal claim about an ER in Mississippi or wherever.

Google-based headline dumpster diving. The favored research technique of the 'close it down' crowd.