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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Presumably, Silver Spring won't still be a hot spot in the Fall. The numbers for 20906, for example, while high are only slowly going up (ie: 10-25 new cases per day for past week). [/quote]

That's because we're shut down.  If things are going up a little with things shut down, I certainly wouldn't expect them to go down when we stop social distancing.

My kids went to Blair.  I can tell you that while you can't feasibly keep kids 6 feet apart in the classroom, that's still a lot better than the spacing in the cafeteria, on buses, or in the halls between class periods.[/quote]

Honest question. We know Blair has a ton of kids, but it is also one of the largest high schools in terms of square footage. Is it actually more crowded than any other MCPS HS?

If we go by at a glance, Blair is at 117% capacity, on 30 acres, with 10 portables.

Walter Johnson (chosen literally at random) is at 124% capacity, on 31 acres, with 6 portables.

I'm not trying to play "gotcha." I just don't think Blair is alone here. [/quote]

I'm the poster you quoted, and I agree with you.  I too don't think that Blair is alone in being crowded.  It is quite possible that other schools may be more crowded, but I don't have direct experience with them.  Regardless of relative population densities, I find it highly doubtful that any MCPS school (including elementary and middle schools) can 
provide adequate social distancing.  I referenced Blair, because that was the subject of OP's original question.[/quote]

WJ students do not come from roughly 1/2 of the county. That greatly reduces the likely of WJ becoming a place that spreads coronavirus across households in different parts of MoCo.

WJ students can eat off campus, reducing density in the cafeteria.[/quote]

If WJ students are eating off campus, what makes you think that the people working and dining in those restaurants don't live in households in different parts of MoCo?  For that matter, I suspect some of the staff in Walter Johnson lives in different parts of MoCo.  Moreover, is there some zoning restriction for the Walter Johnson neighborhood to keep coronavirus out?  I don't live in that neighborhood, but I'd be highly surprised if there weren't parents living there who worked in other parts of MoCo (maybe even the Blair district), Virginia, and DC.

All the medical experts I've heard have said that the only way to be safe is to avoid other people as much as possible, and to keep at least six feet away from people you have to be around.  I haven't heard any doctor or scientist say that immunity comes with zip codes and/or bank accounts.[/quote]

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