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I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

I am not either PP, but if all 12+ persons in our city (DC) got vaccinated, how likely would it be that masked and post travel quarantining elementary kids would catch Covid? The fact is, black and brown people (whose vaccination rates in DC are shockingly low) have a role to play in preventing not only their own children but all city children getting sick.

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Exactly. Those of us who have gotten vaccinated can and should be arguing that the "black and brown" families refusing vaccination aren't just threatening their own lives, but actively undermining the health of everyone in this city by encouraging the development of further variants (to say nothing of the economic damage of forcing further lockdowns and closures b/c they are getting COVID). I don't care one bit if that's not PC to say. From a public health perspective, they are just as much of a danger to others and morally reprehensible as the MAGA anti-vaxxers doing the same thing down south.

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I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

I am not either PP, but if all 12+ persons in our city (DC) got vaccinated, how likely would it be that masked and post travel quarantining elementary kids would catch Covid? The fact is, black and brown people (whose vaccination rates in DC are shockingly low) have a role to play in preventing not only their own children but all city children getting sick.

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I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

So, no children have died in DC from covid, and the delta variant isn't being shown to be more of a mortality risk to children than the prior variants. So, so far data doesn't suggest that any kids will die. We can't operate in the "what if" land of school closures due to delta concerns, as that world actually does greater harms to the exact kids that you are concerned about than those of 'my ilk'.

If my child gets sick -- and trust that I think about this a lot -- they are likely to have cold-like symptoms that go away in three days. Since everyone is saying that delta is going to infect all of the unvaccinated, I guess that's going to happen with or without school. I'd rather have my kid have school and covid than have NO school and covid.

But I do think that DCPS needs to learn from the rest of the country and many other countries on how to stay open, and my hope is that they will do so this year.

I also never said anything about no mitigation or contingency plans. That's a beef you should take up with someone else.

Contingency planning is, by definition, planning for what it's. So if school closures and quarantines are not permissible what ifs, then by definition that is a lot of contingency planning that you are throwing out right from the start.

Or the middle, depending on how you want to phrase it.

Also, I am well aware of the impact that school closures have on the students I teach east of the river. Schools need to be open, but there also need to be plans and protocols in place for if things get worse. Because it will not be ok with me to have the mayor declaring everything is fine, because NW schools are doing well, while my students watch their parent and grandparents die.

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I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

I am not either PP, but if all 12+ persons in our city (DC) got vaccinated, how likely would it be that masked and post travel quarantining elementary kids would catch Covid? The fact is, black and brown people (whose vaccination rates in DC are shockingly low) have a role to play in preventing not only their own children but all city children getting sick.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

So, no children have died in DC from covid, and the delta variant isn't being shown to be more of a mortality risk to children than the prior variants. So, so far data doesn't suggest that any kids will die. We can't operate in the "what if" land of school closures due to delta concerns, as that world actually does greater harms to the exact kids that you are concerned about than those of 'my ilk'.

If my child gets sick -- and trust that I think about this a lot -- they are likely to have cold-like symptoms that go away in three days. Since everyone is saying that delta is going to infect all of the unvaccinated, I guess that's going to happen with or without school. I'd rather have my kid have school and covid than have NO school and covid.

But I do think that DCPS needs to learn from the rest of the country and many other countries on how to stay open, and my hope is that they will do so this year.

I also never said anything about no mitigation or contingency plans. That's a beef you should take up with someone else.

Contingency planning is, by definition, planning for what it's. So if school closures and quarantines are not permissible what ifs, then by definition that is a lot of contingency planning that you are throwing out right from the start.

Or the middle, depending on how you want to phrase it.

Also, I am well aware of the impact that school closures have on the students I teach east of the river. Schools need to be open, but there also need to be plans and protocols in place for if things get worse. Because it will not be ok with me to have the mayor declaring everything is fine, because NW schools are doing well, while my students watch their parent and grandparents die.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

So, no children have died in DC from covid, and the delta variant isn't being shown to be more of a mortality risk to children than the prior variants. So, so far data doesn't suggest that any kids will die. We can't operate in the "what if" land of school closures due to delta concerns, as that world actually does greater harms to the exact kids that you are concerned about than those of 'my ilk'.

If my child gets sick -- and trust that I think about this a lot -- they are likely to have cold-like symptoms that go away in three days. Since everyone is saying that delta is going to infect all of the unvaccinated, I guess that's going to happen with or without school. I'd rather have my kid have school and covid than have NO school and covid.

But I do think that DCPS needs to learn from the rest of the country and many other countries on how to stay open, and my hope is that they will do so this year.

I also never said anything about no mitigation or contingency plans. That's a beef you should take up with someone else.

Contingency planning is, by definition, planning for what it's. So if school closures and quarantines are not permissible what ifs, then by definition that is a lot of contingency planning that you are throwing out right from the start.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

So, no children have died in DC from covid, and the delta variant isn't being shown to be more of a mortality risk to children than the prior variants. So, so far data doesn't suggest that any kids will die. We can't operate in the "what if" land of school closures due to delta concerns, as that world actually does greater harms to the exact kids that you are concerned about than those of 'my ilk'.

If my child gets sick -- and trust that I think about this a lot -- they are likely to have cold-like symptoms that go away in three days. Since everyone is saying that delta is going to infect all of the unvaccinated, I guess that's going to happen with or without school. I'd rather have my kid have school and covid than have NO school and covid.

But I do think that DCPS needs to learn from the rest of the country and many other countries on how to stay open, and my hope is that they will do so this year.

I also never said anything about no mitigation or contingency plans. That's a beef you should take up with someone else.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

I am not either PP, but if all 12+ persons in our city (DC) got vaccinated, how likely would it be that masked and post travel quarantining elementary kids would catch Covid? The fact is, black and brown people (whose vaccination rates in DC are shockingly low) have a role to play in preventing not only their own children but all city children getting sick.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

I'm so glad it was soothing to you (/s). My point, since you obviously missed it, is that if things get worse, black and brown kids will be getting sick and, gd forbid, dying, with the city changing little. I'm sure you and your ilk will be totally fine with it as long as schools stay open for your child. You might feel differently if it is, gd forbid, YOUR child or the child of one of your friends who dies. Maybe none of that will happen, and that would be WONDERFUL. But for you all to want, apparently, no mitigation strategies and no contingency planning for in case a future variant does have a greater impact on children, is absurd and, frankly, cruel to the people who will have to experience the brunt of your callousness.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open

I know maybe you didn't mean it this way, but this was incredibly soothing.

Anonymous wrote:

I am increasingly convinced that schools are going to open as normal, we will see what happens, but even if, gd forbid, kids do start to get sick, things will stay open