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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, we must not be taking the right precautions because even with the small number of students we currently have in the buildings, the schools keep sending out covid notifications.[/quote]

sending out a covid notification that there has been the case in the building does not indicate a lack of precaution- it simply indicates that covid is circulating in the community.
Sending out a covid notification of an outbreak in a school would indicate a lack of precautions.[/quote]

When teachers are catching it from students (which is what is happening in the cohorts right now) it’s a problem. [/quote]

lies and fearmongering.   VDH reports outbreaks in schools by school names.  An outbreak is defined as 2 or more cases traced to the same place.   The ONLY Outbreak in a public school in NOVA was Woodson.  5 cases total, and already documented that it was between teachers.  
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/outbreaks-in-school-settings/

I get that you don't want to go back to work- but you can't make up facts.[/quote]

Look here for fcps data. The woodson outbreak did involve a student.
https://public.tableau.com/views/FCPSCOVIDDailyReporting_16039950185580/FCPSDailyReportedCases-TableView?%3Alanguage=en&%3Adisplay_count=y&publish=yes&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Amobile=true#1

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That data doesn't demonstrate that the Woodson outbreak involved a student.  That data demonstrates that a student reported having COVID on Nov 13th.   VDH documents 5 cases at Woodson traced back to the same source- teachers.

Fairfax County Health dept has talked about this too- they said that teachers let down their guard around each other- they take off their masks, they go out to lunch, they eat together- etc.

And of course there will continue to be positive cases.  But so long as there is not significant transmission in the schools, there is no reason for schools not to be open.

The idea that the schools are teaming with asymptomatic kids who are masked and spaced somehow transmitting to teachers????  There are simply zero facts to support that inflammatory rhetoric. [/quote]

That’s the catch : they aren’t distanced the whole time. Mask wearing is spotty. Kids pull them down, they slide down. Only people who don’t work in schools think the mitigation is playing out in real life exactly how it claims it will on paper. And in fact it makes teachers jobs harder because now people like you think “you couldn’t have possibly gotten it in school, there’s mitigation” when the mitigation plans are pure theater. [/quote]

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