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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a couple friends who have plans to move their kids out of MCPS for this coming year if they stay with the current model. Moving in with relatives in other school districts that plan to be open in the fall.[/quote]

Well, they will have to move far away to have that kind of a "guarantee."[/quote]

In Maryland, Montgomery, PG, and Baltimore are hit the worst, in terms of per-capita case rates. Then there's second-tier adjacent counties like Frederick and Anne Arundel. After that, all the remaining counties in MD are doing pretty well (OK, one breakout in the chicken processing plants on Delaware border, but that's isolated).

Virginia is similar -- NoVA hit the hardest, then all the rest of VA is pretty good. Plenty of places where it's a lot more likely they'll be open for school this fall.[/quote]

Don’t get why you say the chicken processing plant outbreak is isolated, but the outsized fatality impact from nursing homes in MoCo isn’t?

Also, you need to educate yourself on the death rate a bit. Kent has a higher per capita death rate than MoCo. Add to that the fact that 72% of MoCo’s confirmed deaths are among nursing home residents (not community spread, unlike the processing plant outbreaks) and MoCo really hasn’t been hit as hard as Elrich and Gayles would like you to think.

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All of Western MD (Garrett, Allegany, Washington counties) has a much lower rate compared to MoCo and PG. Heck, Garrett County has so few cases (6 total) that they put out a press release when they have one:
https://garretthealth.org/garrett-county-notified-of-6th-positive-covid-19-case/

Those parts of MD are already in stage 1 of opening -- kids can go to the playground, you can buy clothes, get a haircut. All with restrictions in place, but it's still allowed.

I can easily see the possibility that schools in those parts of MD open up like normal in the Fall. I can also easily see the possibility that MCPS does not -- the rates are just too high in certain parts of MoCo (Silver Spring, Wheaton) to do it, and I don't see them opening just part of MCPS for in-class, like Damascus and Germantown, while not opening other parts that are harder hit. It's too difficult logistically and there would also be equity questions.[/quote]

And there aren’t equity questions around other districts opening up and MCPS not?

Come on. [/quote]

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