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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).  [/quote]

We're just exposing the flaw Becky. [/quote]

There's only a flaw if you're a sociopath who likes to make more work for yourself, Susan.

In other words, you are exposing a straw man because your panties are in a twist that COVID exists at all.[/quote]

This makes no sense. [b]The practical result of this is almost exactly what actually following the CDC exposure and quarantine guidance[/b]. Are you suggesting they're sociopathic COVID-deniers?[/quote]

Your second sentence makes no sense. It's a fragment.

And I'm not suggesting they are deniers, per se-- I'm suggesting most such people who huff and puff on DCUM haven't lost multiple family members to COVID, have been well-protected and mostly just very [i]inconvenienced [/i]by COVID and "ready for it to be over." Which we all are, of course. But they are using at least a sprinkling of denial to act like it's closer to over than it is-- because the vast majority of them haven't had to deal with most of the most devastating effects.

The person who said they wouldn't tell their school of a positive COVID test so that the poor exposed kids, some of whom will probably have contracted it from their child, won't have to do a 10-day quarantine?

What do you even say to that?

1) Without knowing they were exposed, as soon as possible, those kids will be more likely to spread it to more people in their community, including immunocompromised and other unvaccinated people, some of whom may die. (I'm not even assuming the kids themselves will be very sick or even get long COVID.)

2) If she keeps it a secret, again, PROBABLY SOME OF THE KIDS WILL GET SICK (from likely having been exposed to the PP's kid before they tested positive) AND THE CLASS WILL HAVE TO QUARANTINE ANYWAY. Just a day or two later, when more people will have been infected. This is how viruses work, FFS.

PP thinks if other people don't see it, it doesn't exist.[/quote]

It's not the posters fault. It's MCPS for not using the money they have for tests.  Pure and simple. [/quote]

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