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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently the new “guidance” confirms what we’ve been hearing. If a child has “symptoms” associated with COVID (could be a runny nose) their close contacts (this has been interpreted as the entire class in many schools) are quarantined for ten days.

This is completely ludicrous and not based in science or CDC guidelines.[/quote]

hey can't know with 100% certainty which kids within an overcrowded classroom came into contact over the course of several hours so quarantining the entire class is the best effort to follow CDC guidelines. I'm sorry you feel that isn't convenient but they are concerned with child safety. [/quote]

If the CDC wanted to recommend quarantining the entire class if one person in it has a covid symptom, then they could do so. But they specifically have NOT done so. Maybe you should write to them.[/quote]

I think the CDC knows parents in red states would stop listening to them altogether if they did that. Remember being told not to bother wearing masks? [/quote]

So your position is that MCPS is following the guidance that CDC has actually NOT issued but would secretly like to? :roll: [/quote]

I think MCPS is being over cautious, but in the name of trying to avoid a systemwide shutdown. [/quote]

Why would there be a systemwide shutdown?[/quote]

It’s spreading at a lively clip. [/quote]

Except the 7 day average is going down....

You guys say stuff like this without any basis in fact.  It's 'surging' despite it just decreased a level.

It's worse than winter!  Despite the fact that are cases are about 1/3 of what they were in Jan/Feb

Hospitals are at capacity.  Despite the fact that MoCo has room in the ER, and ICU, and only averaging about 18-19 people in the ICU, out of our county of 1.1 million.

Stop with the rhetoric.  Turn off CNN, and read the local news.  Or, at the very least, look at our local dashboard, and don't pay any attention to what's happening in FL, TX, or LA.  It has no bearing on us in MoCo[/quote]

Oh it does have bearing- it’s our future unless everyone cuts out their selfish actions pronto. Might already be too late. This is delta we are talking about, not the OG covid.[/quote]

How?  How does it have bearing?

A community which is thousands of miles away with low vax rate and no mask compliance?  How does that have any bearing on our community, one with high vax rates and mask compliance?

And before you tell me "people travel".  Trust me, nobody from Texas is vacationing in Montgomery County[/quote]

Also, at the very least, even if you support these policies or want another lockdown, at least be honest.

Because when you say things like "its surging" or "its as bad as winter" YOU.  ARE.  LYING.

You're lying.  So try to find a way to make a case without lying[/quote]

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