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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

It's not beyond mild. People who have it and are symptomatic (not everyone, but some) need to sleep for a couple of days and recover. That's never happened to me with a "mild cold". Sure it's not as bad sounding as previous variants, but please don't claim that it's a mild cold for the symptomatic. I's rather schools closed for a week or moved to virtual...even if you feel sick for "2 days", if you are a teacher or a student and it passes around your whole family that is a lot of wear and tear. Who will be manning the ship?

Plus scientists are not yet sure about whether omicron will result in much long term COVID - many people with Delta variant reported mild initial symptoms and then had serious long term symptoms later (chronic fatigue and cognitive fog).

It is really hopeful that omicron appears more mild but thank god our school leaders are being cautious since we don’t know the long term patterns yet.

it is also sounds way more contagious than a common cold--one person in a classroom can equal a lot of people knocked off their feet for a couple days. We KNOW persons with Omnicron and/or Delta will be in classrooms if school starts this week. it's just a fact. Many will slip through the net of "pre-testing" because it wasn't quite full-blown yet and then Omnicron will tear through school settings resulting in lots of folks spending the start to the spring school year symptomatic or asyptomatic, AND in quarantine. I don't see how that's better than waiting it out a week or two.

Exactly!

Dr. Fauci said on 1/2 that they have found that Omicron -- even mild cases of Omicron -- can still lead to long covid in ten to over thirty percent of all symptomatic cases. (So if you are asymptomatic, I think you probably will not get long covid.) He also said that it is having this effect even in children. So the whole "let her rip" strategy is great if you're feeling lucky.

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

SFE reported a 5% positivity rate and return to school Wed.

Our school tested over the weekend and we got individual results today but not overall percentages. Tomorrow is a snow day and we don’t know yet about Wed. Any sense of how long it takes to get the results for the whole school?

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

It's not beyond mild. People who have it and are symptomatic (not everyone, but some) need to sleep for a couple of days and recover. That's never happened to me with a "mild cold". Sure it's not as bad sounding as previous variants, but please don't claim that it's a mild cold for the symptomatic. I's rather schools closed for a week or moved to virtual...even if you feel sick for "2 days", if you are a teacher or a student and it passes around your whole family that is a lot of wear and tear. Who will be manning the ship?

Plus scientists are not yet sure about whether omicron will result in much long term COVID - many people with Delta variant reported mild initial symptoms and then had serious long term symptoms later (chronic fatigue and cognitive fog).

It is really hopeful that omicron appears more mild but thank god our school leaders are being cautious since we don’t know the long term patterns yet.

it is also sounds way more contagious than a common cold--one person in a classroom can equal a lot of people knocked off their feet for a couple days. We KNOW persons with Omnicron and/or Delta will be in classrooms if school starts this week. it's just a fact. Many will slip through the net of "pre-testing" because it wasn't quite full-blown yet and then Omnicron will tear through school settings resulting in lots of folks spending the start to the spring school year symptomatic or asyptomatic, AND in quarantine. I don't see how that's better than waiting it out a week or two.

Exactly!

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Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

Because no private school parents ever post here wanting to get the gossip about other private schools?

Are you new here?

That’s the point. They’re private school parents, not public school parents. Private school parents don’t care about what happened in the public schools why were they?

Would

There are questions from private school parents about public schools in this thread. Ask them.

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Anonymous wrote:SSSS did whole school testing yesterday (1/2) and, based on those results, is continuing with virtual for the week (Monday 1/3 was a scheduled virtual day). Return to in-person will be on Monday 1/10. There will be another whole school testing day on Thursday (1/5) to isolate any positive cases not caught by the 1/2 testing. Apparently, of the 1,214 people (students and staff) tested on 1/2, there were 135 positive results.

Sorry, that's SSSAS.

With an 11% positivity rate that seems like a reasonable approach, because this is measuring the entire school population, not a sample. The 20%+ numbers reported by state or local governments are based on a self-selected sample so they can't be directly compared to a measure of the entire population (the results reported by states are people who sought a test because they felt sick or were traveling and so can be expected to be higher in general). A second test on Thursday will help establish how much ongoing community spread there is.

I heard that over 100 students didn’t test. At least the test later in the week should catch cases from New Years celebrations

Anonymous wrote:WES - testing tomorrow, results Monday, school Tuesday. KN95s and 94s required for all and lunch outside. After school programs still available.

Now I’m just picturing all the kids huddled together in the snow eating their sandwiches. What is the new lunch plan?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

Because no private school parents ever post here wanting to get the gossip about other private schools?

Are you new here?

Notice how they didn’t deny it. Good spotting.

You can always tell who is public school parent posting on this thread. It’s like you can see the chip on their shoulder in the post.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

Because no private school parents ever post here wanting to get the gossip about other private schools?

Are you new here?

Notice how they didn’t deny it. Good spotting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

Because no private school parents ever post here wanting to get the gossip about other private schools?

Are you new here?

That’s the point. They’re private school parents, not public school parents. Private school parents don’t care about what happened in the public schools why were they?

Would

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

Because no private school parents ever post here wanting to get the gossip about other private schools?

Are you new here?

That’s the point. They’re private school parents, not public school parents. Private school parents don’t care about what happened in the public schools why were they?

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm just going to say it. Schools need to stay closed this week DMV is a Covid hotspot, snow tomorrow, families coming back from travels and reunions, teachers who may have it, kids indoors. They say this will peak Jan 9. Just keep the schools closed and the hospitals out of meltdown.

Yeah, two weeks to slow the spread. Three years later…

THIS

2 years later, but I feel 'ya

Actually Covid was in the United States well before spring it was here in November and December of ‘19 prior to the outbreak in the spring of 20.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm just going to say it. Schools need to stay closed this week DMV is a Covid hotspot, snow tomorrow, families coming back from travels and reunions, teachers who may have it, kids indoors. They say this will peak Jan 9. Just keep the schools closed and the hospitals out of meltdown.

Yeah, two weeks to slow the spread. Three years later…

THIS

2 years later, but I feel 'ya

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Anonymous wrote:Have any schools sent testing results to parents?

We tested this afternoon and got our results this evening. Thankfully, negative.

Which school?

Burgundy Farm.

Same-- Burgundy Farm family, both kids tested negative. Curious to hear the results but considering we have not yet heard, I'm assuming we are not going back on campus on Weds. Sending a "see you Weds" email would be much simpler than an email announcing virtual learning for the week, which would require much more planning etc. before comms went out. Also, if the SSSAS numbers reported here are true, I would expect similar numbers from Burgundy.

I'm conflicted on what I think schools should do, and I guess it depends on the objective. If the objective is to minimize Covid spread and a potential outbreak, absolutely close. But, for how long? Until this entire wave passes? I just don't know-- Covid is not good for staff & faculty, nor is it good for students and their families. But weeks-long school closures aren't good for students and their families, either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

Because no private school parents ever post here wanting to get the gossip about other private schools?

Are you new here?