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Yes. Except they probably should have daily tested everyone for two weeks solid.

That might be nice but is hardly realistic. The worst of this wave of covid is behind us (if you don't believe me, look at the Montgomery county covid data) and the simultaneous testing earlier this week has been really helpful for helping us ride this wave.
So many people I've talked to think we're all going to end up catching Omicron. Maybe they're right. I'm no longer so afraid.

Good for you!

I've never been afraid. I just don't want to catch it. And more than that, I don't want to catch it twice. Or three times. Or six.

I feel like I keep repeating this until I am as blue in the face as your grandmother with covid, but here we go again:

1.) Deaths and hospitalizations are lagging indicators. We may be past the holiday omicron peak of rising infections, but there's still a lot of tragedy ahead for a lot of people who will need support. Some of those people are your children's friends and some of them teach and help them. It's not just about little Larla not missing school.

2.) We are in Maryland, near DC. Cases *here" may be peaking, but there's a whole lot of hurt coming for a lot of unvaccinated people in all the states surrounding us. Some of those outbreaks could easily trigger another outbreak here.

3.) Studies are somewhat optimistic that omicron provides some immunity to Delta. But this is far from a done deal. Studies are less optimistic it provides immunity to omicron.

I'm sending my kid to school next week. But I am doing it cautiously and with outdoor lunch and masks. And should numbers spike, should I hear about teacher absences, classes in cafeterias... Any sign of their school being under strain... We will go virtual again.

Again, this isn't fear. I'm just trying to do the least harm and the most good during this time as I can.

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Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.

My guess is that CCES didn’t have any cases Friday, not that they didn’t report. The case rate has been fairly low overall this week and the rapids probably caught whatever cases there were earlier in the week.

You are right though that cases have been falling over the course of the week. They caught the brunt of cases at the beginning of the week using the rapids and quarantines them

You really think that??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.

My guess is that CCES didn’t have any cases Friday, not that they didn’t report. The case rate has been fairly low overall this week and the rapids probably caught whatever cases there were earlier in the week.

You are right though that cases have been falling over the course of the week. They caught the brunt of cases at the beginning of the week using the rapids and quarantines them

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yes. Except they probably should have daily tested everyone for two weeks solid.

That might be nice but is hardly realistic. The worst of this wave of covid is behind us (if you don't believe me, look at the Montgomery county covid data) and the simultaneous testing earlier this week has been really helpful for helping us ride this wave.
So many people I've talked to think we're all going to end up catching Omicron. Maybe they're right. I'm no longer so afraid.

Anonymous wrote:
Yes. Except they probably should have daily tested everyone for two weeks solid.

Anonymous wrote:True, but by taking so many covid positive students out of the schools at once, spread should have been contained to a great extent. Timing is important.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.

My guess is that CCES didn’t have any cases Friday, not that they didn’t report. The case rate has been fairly low overall this week and the rapids probably caught whatever cases there were earlier in the week.

You are right though that cases have been falling over the course of the week. They caught the brunt of cases at the beginning of the week using the rapids and quarantines them

Hopefully.

Logically, everyone used their tests up and so you caught everyone who was contagious and tested on those first two days. Everyone else didn't have a test on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday... So they you're only seeing the severely symptomatic results for those days. From the people concerned enough to report.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.

My guess is that CCES didn’t have any cases Friday, not that they didn’t report. The case rate has been fairly low overall this week and the rapids probably caught whatever cases there were earlier in the week.

You are right though that cases have been falling over the course of the week. They caught the brunt of cases at the beginning of the week using the rapids and quarantines them

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.

My guess is that CCES didn’t have any cases Friday, not that they didn’t report. The case rate has been fairly low overall this week and the rapids probably caught whatever cases there were earlier in the week.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.

My guess is that CCES didn’t have any cases Friday, not that they didn’t report. The case rate has been fairly low overall this week and the rapids probably caught whatever cases there were earlier in the week.

Anonymous wrote:they should be included in the daily reports that mcps releases, though on Friday our school (Chevy Chase ES) was not included in the list.