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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]I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure. [/quote]

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given  this variant is far more contagious?  How quickly will they  be posting here complaining abotu that.  [/quote]

Absolutely.  I am on  day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.[/quote]

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.[/quote]

Same here.  Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job.  Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.  [/quote]

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?[/quote]

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher[/quote]

Of course I would not do that.  I  am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on.  They would send their kids in with the same "cold"[/quote]

MCPS needs to make classrooms or  schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care.  They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.[/quote]

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away. [/quote]

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious. [/quote]

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?[/quote]

The issue is parents like you will not keep sick kids home and have no issue infecting the rest of us.  The issue is the consequences of covid are no big deal for you as you just ignore them and go about what ever you want but some of us can get very sick from it and miss work and other things like necessary medical appointments.[/quote]

Should actual sick kids and staff be in school? Of course not. But some you still seem to have trouble grasping that Covid in kids can present itself so mildly that it’s easy to miss. The only reason we knew my DS had it is because we tested him before visiting grandparents.  He had NO symptoms.  He had been at camp and probably picked it up there, likely from another kid or counselor who was not obviously sick. It’s just part of life now, but sone of you want to keep blaming your woes on everyone else. [/quote]

We’ve never expected asymptomatic kids or staff to stay home from school or work. Never. Asymptomatic flu/strep/RSV testing isn’t a thing. It’s time we treat covid the same way.[/quote]

Actually, our pediatrician tests both kids if one pops positive for strep. She’s caught it in the asymptomatic sibling multiple times.[/quote]

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