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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait until a single kid gets Kawasaki's disease related to COVID they contracted at school and there is a death. The outrage will be insane. [/quote]

You might be right, if a kid dies. If a teacher dies? Oh well, that’s just part of your job. You chose the profession. Now, get your lazy ass back into the classroom and teach my child! If you die, MCPS can just get somebody else...and probably cheaper. It’s a win-win for me! My taxes won’t go up and my kid will be out of my hair.

Teachers...get...no...respect. [/quote]

Do doctors get respect? What about grocery store workers? This argument is so tired. All the teachers I know want to get back in the classroom because they love their jobs. If you don’t want to teach, don’t. Stop bringing everyone down with you.[/quote]

You miss the point. I am a teacher and I desperately want to get back with my students. I zoom with them daily for about an hour and have optional “check in” zooms every afternoon. I am working with some awesome parents who think of school as a partnership...and with some who are completely overwhelmed just trying to put food on the table...and some who have checked out because, despite access to technology and time, they have just given up because it is “too hard.” I want to go back...but I am very concerned that protocols and adequate funding for the myriad things we will need to stay safer (not completely safe) will not be followed or available. I don’t want to be put in the same position as the VERY brave hospital workers and others who had to improvise and scramble for basic protections. In regular times, schools are known to be vectors for spreading diseases. One HUGE unanswered question is whether kids can easily pass on the virus. There is not enough info yet to determine that. If they prove to be poor carriers, we can all breathe more easily. If they do turn out to be “good” carriers, not only are they endangering their classmates and school staff, they are endangering their own families. Those who advocate spreading the virus to foster herd immunity are simply saying a certain number of people will have to die in order to “beat” this. They have a point. But, the initial estimate, which the president likes to cite, predicted 2 million dead if we did NOTHING to halt the spread. We are approaching 100,000. How many are too many?[/quote]

I think you need to stay home. Honestly. You sound like a great teacher and thank you for caring for the kids. But this virus is not killing kids (no Kawasaki is not corona, stop the hysteria) or younger/middle aged adults who make up the teacher pool.  Kids need school, academic structure and socialization and parents with jobs like they need air.  I have a 10 year who has developed extreme depression over being yanked from school and the social isolation.  Friends tell me their kids are also becoming mentally and emotionally sick. Kids count too.  I am sick of everyone’s focus on older adults.  Unless you have pre existing conditions or are over age 65, your odds of surviving this virus are excellent. Time to start finding a way to put our future generations first and for the older generations to shelter in place until they are sick if it.

I never said the virus is killing kids. I said it is unknown right now whether the are “good” carriers of the disease. Transmission isn’t an issue just for kids and staff...the kids go back home. They can carry the virus back into your home. If you are okay with that, fine. Just be aware that the older people in your life can also be exposed, if you or your kid interact with them. You seem to be saying that some older people will just have to be sacrificed for the greater good. Okay. I said that is a fair point. Let’s just be honest about the potential losses.

There will never be a vaccine. All of the current candidates are slowly failing one by one. Put the kids back in school.  They are not sacrificial lambs. [/quote][/quote]

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