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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][quote=Anonymous]Very few people except for the nervous nellies on DCUM care anymore. Most people have work and other aspects of their child's well-being to worry about and just accept we will all get COVID at some point and will likely be fine. I really don't care about these numbers apart from the possible disruption caused by a child being home from school due to a closure or quarantine.[/quote]

+1000. Many of us who work are back in the office, traveling for work, having happy hours with coworkers and clients etc. our kids are playing sports and being kids. We’ve just filed covid away as another (small) risk we choose to undertake everyday in exchange for living a normal full joyful life. DCUM is not real life. [/quote]

Except the risks you take impact all of us.  But, clearly you don’t care.  [/quote]

You are correct. I do not care. It’s not up to me to keep you safe from an invisible ubiquitous virus that apparently I could have and not know about. That’s very entitled by the way. I don’t know anyone who actually is such a narcissist in real life. But even if I cared deeply about you, I can’t protect you from covid. It will find you eventually regardless of whether I suck the joy out of my life in solidarity or not. [/quote]

Its not anxious if you actually have real health issues and understand what long term health issues really ar.

Its too bad you are the one spreading this and so self absurd that you stopped caring.  Worse is you are raising the next generation just like you and then will complain how selfish they are without realizing you are the reason why.
I have to agree with this. The majority of the country is going about their daily life, quite normally. Yet there is this subset of overly anxious people who clearly can’t run and efficient risk benefit analysis, and insist we stay home to keep them safe. Yet they think we are the selfish ones. It’s bizarre. [/quote][/quote]

Last time I looked at mcps numbers, they continued to be on the rise and no I am not overly anxious but I don’t want to get Covid from you.  So, yes, you are selfish. [/quote]

What are you looking for? People aren’t going to keep covid measures up forever. Nor is covid going to be eradicated. So what's your plan? Are you going to keep isolating yourself and your kids? Or are you going to take steps to protect yourself so you can interact with others?[/quote]

The discussion is about Covid in MCPS.  Honestly I have no interest in interacting with others as I don't want covid.  Its not about it being eradicated but since people refuse to use common sense and stay home when sick, we are now seeing outbreaks in MCPS schools and that's an issue.  [/quote]

There are always going to be cases in MCPS. Vaccines and infection don’t confer lasting immunity against subsequent infections.[/quote]

Yes, but a lot more can be done to keep them OUT of MCPS.[/quote]

Play that out.

Set aside the cost and lack of human resources. Suppose MCPS could frequent PCR and/or antibody testing and extended isolation and quarantine periods. You’re still not going to completely keep covid out, but to the extent you can keep that up, you’ll be able to keep some of those cases out of school. Now, we don’t know whether that would actually have an impact on the number of cases in MCPS students, since most of the cases are almost certainly picked up off-campus. But let's ignore that.

Then what? You're not going to keep that up forever. At some point you'd have to stop it, and covid is still going to be around. We already have vaccines and therapies are highly effective at preventing serious illness, so this is about as good as it's going to get.
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That's a mischaracterization if the vaccine and you know it.  And the treatment is not as widely available as you think.  Plus we are seeing more and more long term effects from "mild" cases, even in the vaccinated.  I have no interest in getting covid or having my kids get covid.  You can take that gamble but I will not.[/quote]

Well, you're not going to get the Shanghai Protocol here because it's a fool's errand. Everything else is just window dressing. If you're not going to "take the gamble", it sounds like your kids won't be eligible for parole until they're 18.[/quote]

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