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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]Right here in the definition of close contact

Close Contact through Proximity and Duration of Exposure: Someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html[/quote]

Exactly - an infected person, not someone who displays a symptom of infection. [/quote]

What part of Clinically Compatible Illness do you not understand.  Let me put it in easy to understand worlds for you. Clinically compatible = have a symptom or symptoms of the illness.   A sore throat is clinically compatible to strep throat. It's also clinically compatible to Covid.  So until you know which one it is for sure, you have unvaccinated kids quarantine so it doesn't spread if there is a positive test.  I'd rather my kids come home for a few days while we wait and see instead of possibly exposing others. [/quote]

That is not what it says in the guidance.[/quote]

That is exactly what it says in the guidance. I literally cut and pasted from the guidance. The problem is people are not reading the full guidance and the links within the guidance. That is where the details are that everyone likes to ignore.  The guidance should be more clear but it is there. [/quote]

It does not say that one symptom--which could be a symptom of MANY other problems--is clinically compatible. [/quote]

I don't know how to explain science to you if you are so unwilling to take the time to understand.  Clinically compatible means you have a symptom, ANY single symptom, of an illness.

Vomiting is clinically compatible for food positioning, gastrointestinal issues, lactose intolerance, anxiety, eating too much, stomach cancer, punctured intestine, etc. it is also clinically compatible for COVID.  Until a diagnosis is made it could be any of those possibilities.  Because Covid is highly transmitted, until it can be ruled out with a negative test or alternate diagnosis, those in close contact should stay home to eliminate further possible spread.  Where have you all been since March 2020??[/quote]

If you're going to take it to this extreme, then enforce a seating chart in the classroom, in the lunch room, etc. But no...as soon as a kid leaves a skidmark in his underwear, it's time to quarantine the whole class.[/quote]

I would hope those are already required and in place. If not that's fix #1 that needs to happen. [/quote]

These are not in place. Teachers were specifically told that there are no social distancing requirements this fall. Most classroom teachers have regular required seating but kids are always separating out into groups, sitting on the rug, going to art class, going to recess, even just walking in lines in the hallway, at their cubbies, in the bathroom…[/quote]

As being discussed, those two frameworks are entirely incompatible. You can't have this crazy quarantine policy without seating charts unless your real plan is to be deliberately destructive of in-person. In our FCPS ES, we have seating charts for everything (class, specials, lunch)...so you may hear about a story about a table that suddenly disappeared, but that's it. I mean there's no other way to read this than MoCo/MCPS wants to go from 1,000 quarantined to 60,000 quarantined in the next couple of weeks to force DL. It's so unfair to those kids to have such irresponsible adults in charge.[/quote]

Yes! They have open seating, packed lunchrooms, kids all mixed up in different groups all day. Entirely incompatible with their draconian new quarantine idea![/quote]

Gosh that’s terrible- what school? Our ES isn’t like that.  [/quote]

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