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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.[/quote]

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County.  Too many.  And they have very loud voices.  Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.  [/quote]

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think. [/quote]

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise. [/quote]

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?[/quote]

This.  Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.
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In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure  in the fall/winter [b]as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. [/b] I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms.  (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.[/quote]

That comment is so 2020.  Get with the times, PP.

Choosing not to be vaccinated is NOT selfish.  We know that vaccinated individuals can still transmit Covid.

It is selfish to expect other people to make the same medical decisions as you, without knowing anything about their situation.  [/quote]

anti-vaxers are horrible people [/quote]

So are people vaccinated spreading it. B[/quote]

Exactly.  You know what was selfish?

All those people who got vaccinated and threw away their masks.  They felt overly confident and walked around saying ‘I’m vaccinated, so I don’t need a mask!’  They we’re out there spreading Covid all over.  [/quote]

So masks until when exactly?[/quote]

DP and I want to know, too.  When is it enough?  If you can’t come up with a reasonable timeframe, you can’t claim those of us who push back on indefinite masking are being hyperbolic.[/quote]

How about local cases below the 50/100k mark?[/quote]

How about no?

Local hospitals are not overwhelmed.  Basing on numbers of cases is ridiculous.  You can ask us to mask up if hospitals start to get overwhelmed.  Other than that, there is no good reason for a mask mandate.

And if that does happen to be the case, it needs to be masks EVERYWHERE.  Not just kids in schools.  [/quote]

Oh, I see—your question was pretextual for you getting to rant more.[/quote]

Oh, I see - you want us to mask forever.  I mean cases below the 50K mark?  You basically want our 4 year olds to be masked without an end in sight.  [/quote]

We are talking about mcps and school aged kids.   Very few are 4 and clearly you don’t care about their health or the fact they can get the new variant frequently.    Nor do you care about others.

We need multiple layers of mitigation to get this under control and the do nothing crowd does not care about anyone but themselves.   They will be the first to complain when their kids are sick or they have subs.  [/quote]

It IS under control. This is as good as it gets. If you find your home to be more Covid free than the general public, stay there. [/quote]

YES!  This is as good as we are going to get for the foreseeable future.  Cases will go up and down.  As long as deaths and hospitalizations remain low, life should go on as normal.  And our kids don’t need to bear any more of the burden than any other members of society.  [/quote]

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