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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]From another thread:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/

"Been tracking 4 cases and higher at schools. Normally the list is only 10 to 20 schools long.

MCPS data 4/19/22 reported 812 new cases in the past 10 days and 313 active quarantines. At this time, 41% of MCPS schools (86 out of 209) schools have 4 or more infections and 17 have 10 or more infections in the past 10 days. (Note that last week and this Monday was Spring break, so the last 10 days is really just yesterday and today?)"[/quote]

As of 5:49 AM, 4/22, that number is slowly increasing.  1035 reported cases.

I know multiple people with covid right now.[/quote]

And not a single peep about virtual. We've finally achieved end game. Feels great to be in this spot.[/quote]

Mcps was clear all year that they would be ignoring Covid.   We have not come close to the end game.   [/quote]

You do you. From my POV, it's finally over. [/quote]

It’s far from over.  [/quote]

For you I suppose. For me, it's been over for quite a while, and it's great seeing other parts of society (schools, planes, etc.) getting on board with that.[/quote]

So you don't care at all if large numbers of people become sick at the same time? [/quote]

NP. Define "sick". Relatively few people are getting hospitalized these days.[/quote]

That's the point. The CDC has chosen to focus on hospitalizations, ignoring the fact that increases in cases have ripple effects everywhere through worker absences, student absences, and continued spread throughout the community. I have a teen sick with COVID right now. He is missing an entire week of school, assuming that he feels better next week, which at this point, we don't know, because he's pretty sick.  He will miss work all weekend, and all of us in the house run the risk of testing positive and missing more school and our work extending through next week.

You can pretend that cases don't matter, but each case disrupts more than just the life of the person infected.  [/quote]

Look, the point is that you cannot really "prevent" cases in the long run, you can only delay them. That's important if hospitals are getting overwhelmed ("flatten the curve"), but not otherwise. With the virus not going away, you will have to face the disruption of an infection eventually. The CDC has recognized this reality and therefore adjusted their metrics. I'm not sure why you think you know better than the CDC what's important.[/quote]

This is just flat out wrong.  Of COURSE we can prevent cases.  Not all of them, no, but some of them, perhaps even most of them, absolutely.  And even if  cases stay below hospital capacity, it still is important to prevent as many as possible.  Every infection with COVID, even the mild ones, increases your risk of major systemic damage from long COVID - brain damage, heart damage, lung damage, etc.  I would like to avoid it if at all possible, and certainly want to limit the number of times my family and I are exposed to that risk.

Incremental reductions (or increases) in risk absolutely matter and can have a large ripple effect (exponential spread, anyone?).  It's not black and white; our choices are not only the one extreme of total lockdown vs. the other extreme of no precautions/let 'er rip.

"Learning to live with COVID" doesn't mean "back to 2019".  We actually have to do the LEARNING part.[/quote]

Not everyone follows your Covidian logic. Not even the CDC.[/quote]

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