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Anonymous wrote:my 7 year tested positive. He's sick with a high fever.

Me, DW and DD are all negative.

The frustrating thing is WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! We told people we were in contact with and are staying home for a week. But this is more our own judgment than anything out there because the guidance is contradictory (esp. in Virginia).

It is about to get VERY BAD. Stay home and be safe folks. This version of covid flying around DC (much of congress that tested apparently have it).

Much of Congress?!

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-04-07/pelosi-tests-positive-for-covid-19-as-cases-rise-among-lawmakers-government-officials

And this is only the people who are admitting/reporting covid exposure in congress/government. It is likely much worse because many don't feel the need to report it or test, etc.

Anonymous wrote:my 7 year tested positive. He's sick with a high fever.

Me, DW and DD are all negative.

The frustrating thing is WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! We told people we were in contact with and are staying home for a week. But this is more our own judgment than anything out there because the guidance is contradictory (esp. in Virginia).

It is about to get VERY BAD. Stay home and be safe folks. This version of covid flying around DC (much of congress that tested apparently have it).

Much of Congress?!

There is an uptick in our area. In fact, Maryland is in the top 10 nationwide for infection rate. Fortunately, our cases are still relatively low, and we haven't seen much of an increase in hospitalizations.

For anyone trying to avoid or delay getting COVID as long as possible, you should look at the CDC community transmission map. Unlike the new framework, this is a more accurate look at the level of community spread. Note that Montgomery County is an area of substantial spread, so it is not surprising so many of us have COVID illness in our circles. As was the case with the first Omicron variant, cases have ticked up in the Northeast and are spreading south.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Maryland&data-type=Risk&null=Risk

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Anonymous wrote:my 7 year tested positive. He's sick with a high fever.

Me, DW and DD are all negative.

The frustrating thing is WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! We told people we were in contact with and are staying home for a week. But this is more our own judgment than anything out there because the guidance is contradictory (esp. in Virginia).

It is about to get VERY BAD. Stay home and be safe folks. This version of covid flying around DC (much of congress that tested apparently have it).

I'm sorry that your child is sick.

But what do you need someone to tell you to do? Go to the doctor if it warrants it. Stay home if you are ill. Follow the CDC guidance on close contacts. Why is this hard?

Because.

1. The CDC guidelines are full of dead links that are supposed to have specific guidance as to what we should do in circumstances where someone is positive in a household and symptomatic and the rest are negative and show no symptoms.

2. The county has vague guidance referring to the CDC.

3. The schools refer to the county.

4. We called our ped but they haven't called us back and honestly this is a waste of their time. We shouldn't have to bother a provider to figure out what do. I am baffled by the public health failure that seems almost systemically organize to confuse and piss people off. It is almost like the plan was to sow discord and get people in corners on masks/no masks blah blah instead of just telling us what to do and we simply follow it. I HATE how vague and confusing everything is. It is almost by design so anyone can interpret things in a manner they see fit (which is inconsistent).

Anonymous wrote:my 7 year tested positive. He's sick with a high fever.

Me, DW and DD are all negative.

The frustrating thing is WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! We told people we were in contact with and are staying home for a week. But this is more our own judgment than anything out there because the guidance is contradictory (esp. in Virginia).

It is about to get VERY BAD. Stay home and be safe folks. This version of covid flying around DC (much of congress that tested apparently have it).

I'm sorry that your child is sick.

But what do you need someone to tell you to do? Go to the doctor if it warrants it. Stay home if you are ill. Follow the CDC guidance on close contacts. Why is this hard?

my 7 year tested positive. He's sick with a high fever.

Me, DW and DD are all negative.

The frustrating thing is WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! We told people we were in contact with and are staying home for a week. But this is more our own judgment than anything out there because the guidance is contradictory (esp. in Virginia).

It is about to get VERY BAD. Stay home and be safe folks. This version of covid flying around DC (much of congress that tested apparently have it).

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Anonymous wrote:9 new cases at our MCPS elementary school.

And I’ve heard from several super covid safe friends that they recently tested positive.

Anyone else seeing an uptick?

Note that the January spike quietly killed 100,000 people. It probably killed more people than Russia has killed in Ukraine.

Now, Wash. U., Georgetown and Johns Hopkins all have big outbreaks. I think that means we already have a big, national surge but nobody is testing.

So, if January killed 100,000, maybe this spike will kill 150,000.

My 81 year old father had COVID (for the first time) a few weeks ago. He was vaxxed, but not boosted. My mom just tested positive for the first time (vaxxed and boosted, but past six months) early last week. The woman she got it from, who SWORE up and down she just had a cold at an outing, just died of COVID this morning.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

Sounds like a personal choice. Nobody forced you to do these things yet you are acting like you need a badge of honor for how much you have given up. You still have your kids in virtual?? Why are you doing this to them?

Why wouldn’t we? Be thankful you don’t have my health issues. My kids already lost one parent, isn’t that enough? Will you take them? Of course not! So, it’s in their bests interest for me to stay alive.

With that thinking though you would have to stay home/keep them in virtual school forever. Because there are other things that can kill someone other than Covid (it's amazing how people seem to forget that people got sick before 2020). So is it just Covid you are scared of? Because that's anxiety. It's not rational.
- signed someone who's entire vaccinated family got Covid TWICE (including a baby) and just had the stomach virus a couple weeks ago and would take Covid over that every single time.

Someone in deep denial about how they've just exposed their baby to a life of debilitating microclots.

What happened to you to make you like this?

We just like triggering you. It works and is entertaining

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Anonymous wrote:I know of 4-5 people, all in the DC area, who got positive tests this weekend. All are pretty miserable-- high fevers and body aches. So while no one yet is on their way to the hospital (and hopefully will stay that way), it's not been just a cold for them. And these are all young people--mid-20s to mid-40s. All boosted.

I think a lot of people have forgotten what typical illnesses are like.

When one of our family had a positive PCR, we received a phone call from a contract tracer who noted that others in our family had tested positive via an at home test. I’m assuming those were then reported to the state even if it wasn’t documented in a lab or doctor’s office.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

Sounds like a personal choice. Nobody forced you to do these things yet you are acting like you need a badge of honor for how much you have given up. You still have your kids in virtual?? Why are you doing this to them?

Why wouldn’t we? Be thankful you don’t have my health issues. My kids already lost one parent, isn’t that enough? Will you take them? Of course not! So, it’s in their bests interest for me to stay alive.

With that thinking though you would have to stay home/keep them in virtual school forever. Because there are other things that can kill someone other than Covid (it's amazing how people seem to forget that people got sick before 2020). So is it just Covid you are scared of? Because that's anxiety. It's not rational.
- signed someone who's entire vaccinated family got Covid TWICE (including a baby) and just had the stomach virus a couple weeks ago and would take Covid over that every single time.

Someone in deep denial about how they've just exposed their baby to a life of debilitating microclots.

Do you have a link that actually shows a study with a sample size of an actual reasonable amount of people to show this happens? Or are you just hoping people's kids die?

Anonymous wrote:I know of 4-5 people, all in the DC area, who got positive tests this weekend. All are pretty miserable-- high fevers and body aches. So while no one yet is on their way to the hospital (and hopefully will stay that way), it's not been just a cold for them. And these are all young people--mid-20s to mid-40s. All boosted.

Exactly.

I know of 4-5 people, all in the DC area, who got positive tests this weekend. All are pretty miserable-- high fevers and body aches. So while no one yet is on their way to the hospital (and hopefully will stay that way), it's not been just a cold for them. And these are all young people--mid-20s to mid-40s. All boosted.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

Sounds like a personal choice. Nobody forced you to do these things yet you are acting like you need a badge of honor for how much you have given up. You still have your kids in virtual?? Why are you doing this to them?

Why wouldn’t we? Be thankful you don’t have my health issues. My kids already lost one parent, isn’t that enough? Will you take them? Of course not! So, it’s in their bests interest for me to stay alive.

With that thinking though you would have to stay home/keep them in virtual school forever. Because there are other things that can kill someone other than Covid (it's amazing how people seem to forget that people got sick before 2020). So is it just Covid you are scared of? Because that's anxiety. It's not rational.
- signed someone who's entire vaccinated family got Covid TWICE (including a baby) and just had the stomach virus a couple weeks ago and would take Covid over that every single time.

Someone in deep denial about how they've just exposed their baby to a life of debilitating microclots.

What happened to you to make you like this?

We just like triggering you. It works and is entertaining

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. And people are treating it like it’s a cold or a flu. The school is not is freaking out or demanding quarantines if exposed. Living with Covid has commenced and it’s working out just fine.

…unless you need a negative test to travel.

Then you need to make sacrifices for a week or so before your international trip. Sorry.

What countries are still requiring negative test to enter? Other than the US? Ots getting COVID while on vacation and being unable to return that is the big worry.