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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid is new to private this year, and spent 18 mo of virtual in MCPS - with significant mental impact. How does one WEEK of virtual - to allow delayed testing on Weds or Thurs - impact our kids' mental health?[/quote]
Agree.  All the people whining about the supposed mental health harms of five days of virtual are either disingenuous or stupid or both.[/quote]

says someone who hasn't spoken to a psychologist or psychiatrist in the DMV.[/quote]

Five days is fine.[/quote]

I don't think most people are actually that worried about five days. Heck, I wouldn't even both with virtual for five days - just extend the break and call it good. They're worried that once you go virtual for five days, it's very, very easy to see the benchmarks get moved and five days become 15, become 25, become 50. Going virtual without clear metrics for why and for returning feels like the path to another virtual year. Whether it really is is obviously open to debate (and only time will really tell), but I think that's the real concern.[/quote]

You sound like you are panicking already. Try to remember- each wave has generally peaked in about 4 weeks. This wave started on the East Coast in mid- December. It will be nose diving by mid-late January.

So, at worst, that is 20 days of school, NOT 50[/quote]

OR, Moderna or Pfizer apply for approval for an Omicron-specific booster, and then benchmark changes from "get past the peak" to "virtual until teachers and staff all have the new booster," which is probably late spring at best. It's the potential for moving the goalposts that concerns me.[/quote]

It will absolutely not take until late Spring to get everyone boosted.

You don't need an Omicron specific Booster- you just need a regular Pfizer Booster Now- ideally, you went out and got it in late November/ early December.

It absolutely does NOT take several weeks to get a Covid Booster. Just walk into any vaccine site and tell them its your 1st shot. Just go to a different place than you did for your first 2.

Tell them you have just decided to get vaxxed after listening to Biden on TV.  No one is going to argue with you because you are confirming a stereotype and that is a blind spot for most people.

And Boosters work. Moderna is the best, but Pfizer works almost as well. Our DC was boosted mid- November and mid- December his college room mate in his tiny dorm room the size of a prison cell tested positive. The room mate was double vaxxed, but no booster. Our son tested negative despite sleeping less than 6 feet away in a non-ventillated room.

The reason: he was boosted 4 weeks before [/quote]

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