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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]OP here.  I'd say the difference is significant not only because of the numbers themselves (maybe double the dashboard, although 2 x a fairly low number is still a fairly low number), but also because of distribution of the cases (I know from other families that some are clustered).  I am grateful to the principal for keeping the school community informed, of course, but for those who are trying to observe patterns at a higher altitude, it would be good if the MCPS dashboard were . . . accurate-er.  I didn't know myself that the Google form was the key to dashboard registration.[/quote]

Ok, but I still don’t see how it practically makes a difference. Schools are open and will stay open. Kids will occasionally get covid, and the vast majority will be just fine. If you're not willing to accept the small risk that covid presents, then homeschool and isolate for the rest of your life.[/quote]

It really doesn't matter  as you will send your kids  and they will not  close schools but some will have serious issues getting  covid and all of them will bring it home to their families, causing more spread and issues, but clearly this poster doesn't care about anyone but themselves.[/quote]

I couldn’t find a coherent message in this post. Care to try again? What practical changes would result from posting more accurate data on cases in kids attending schools? We've always known large numbers of cases are never identified at all, due to asymptomatic infections or very mildly symptomatic infections, so looking at hospitalizations has always provided a more accurate way to compare the severity of covid over time. And hospitalizations in kids remain extremely low in Maryland.[/quote]

Kids don't live alone and live with adults.  Kids bring home covid.  You may not  care about getting and spreading covid, but some of us do.  Why does it matter?  Some parents may choose to mask their kids or keep them home.

As you said, we really need universal weekly testing to figure out the actual spread.  Not these bad home test and trusting parents to do them.

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We know covid is circulating at significant levels, and will remain circulating at significant levels for the foreseeable future. We don’t need more testing to tell us that. Anyone concerned by that should act accordingly. The most effective mitigation is to get the third shot, and the fourth if you're immunocompromised. You can layer additional personal mitigations on that, such as PPE, although if you're still wearing masks now I really don't get what your end-game is.[/quote]

Actually, you clearly aren't reading the new studies on getting boosted.  Getting boosted will help you from severity in terms of hospitalization.  However, numbers are important as proper mitigation should be  done in MCPS, including upgrading the HVAC systems (not the little stuff they did), social distancing and  masking.  Multiple layers of mitigation have proven  helpful.  You can deny  it all you want  but you clearly don't care about anyone, including yourself.  These kids live with adults  and in a community  where what  is  no  big deal to one may be a  huge deal for another.  Time for you  to grow up  and take some personal responsibility  toward covid.[/quote]

As you said, boosters provide significant, durable protection against severe illness, and have retained those benefits against new variants.

Severe illness is what we need to prevent. Mild cases aren’t any more of a problem than other respiratory infections.

You're not going to stop transmissions. Attempting to do so is a fool's errand. As covid becomes endemic, it will remain circulating at high enough levels thay anyone interacting with others in society will need to expect exposure.[/quote]

Wow, you simply don't care about the impact you giving someone else covid might have.  If your housekeeper or nanny cannot work for a week, it is much more serious for them than you.  If they then get their child sick, it could be  2-3 weeks out of work.  You can find someone to fill their position, but they cannot replace that income.   Or, the minimum wage store clerk who doesn't get sick leave... see how that works.

Basic mitigation when numbers are increasing in schools is common sense.  Clearly, you are struggling with that.  Maybe we can recommend a  good therapist for you for that and to develop some empathy.

Kids getting covid multiple times cannot be healthy nor them or their teachers missing weeks of school due  to covid.  Or, the impact it has on families.

We could get this under control if people worked together but as long as we have people like you who don't think twice about getting it or spreading it, it is a lost cause.  It would be  nice if MCPS had specific schools where there was masking and mitigation for families who wanted it.[/quote]

Getting covid “under control” means measures that keep severe illness low. The most effective and least disruptive way to do that is through vaccination and boosters.

The flu historically circulates at higher levels in the winter than current covid levels. Being significantly more contagious, we can expect endemic covid levels to remain much higher than the flu. For perspective, we had 35 million flu cases during the last flu season before covid. So we can expect higher numbers than that for covid cases.

We can temporarily slow cases with increasingly disruptive mitigation measures, like masking, social distancing, and quarantines, but the effects of those mitigations do not last when the mitigations are lifted. And we're not going to keep up those mitigations forever.

I understand you're scared of the prospects of living with covid in the community, but this is the world we live in now, and nothing is going to change that.[/quote]

You simply don't get it.  You keep boosting yourself and good luck with that.[/quote]

What’s your plan? Staying in your basement until covid is eradicated?

Covid is here to stay. Expect to be exposed regularly, and act accordingly.[/quote]
DCUM and its basement fetish.  :roll: [/quote]

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