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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

If you cannot understand the severity of covid, maybe you should get your mental health checked. Moving on shows a clear lack of judgement and in MCPS basic precautions are needed.

You've moved on so much that we are experiencing a surge. So, we have you to thank for spreading covid to the rest of us.

There’s no “surge.” This is just what endemic covid looks like. And it looks fine.

Yes, there is a surge right now. It does not look or feel fine. Denial must be wonderful for you.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

Sorry, but I think what some of us are saying is yes, we get that people will catch it and there will be transmission and things need to run normally. BUT, we wish people would not knowingly undermine others and would make an effort to keep their germs to themselves at times when they know full well they are sick/possibly contagious/what have you. The issue I have is this. People who, for example, know they are on day 6 or whatever and can’t be respectful enough to put a mask on when they are in public/school, etc. That they deserve to be somewhere maskless while infectious so that anyone else who is there just has to deal with it if infected. It’s this attitude that is upsetting and problematic. Go where you want/do what you want when you are healthy. Be at least respectful when you are not.

Maybe some of you need to be flexible and adapt.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

If you cannot understand the severity of covid, maybe you should get your mental health checked. Moving on shows a clear lack of judgement and in MCPS basic precautions are needed.

You've moved on so much that we are experiencing a surge. So, we have you to thank for spreading covid to the rest of us.

There’s no “surge.” This is just what endemic covid looks like. And it looks fine.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid had it this spring/summer, then you should realize it’s NBD.

Kids and staff will get sick.

There will be peaks with lots of absences. You might consider pulling your (little) kid out when covid surges through your school—especially the week before any travel or big family event (thanksgiving, winter break, spring break).

Give your kid a mask, but recognize they probably won’t wear it.

Everyone needs to live with this now. It’s the new normal. MCPS won’t shut down unless the state does.

Its hard to live with something when it makes you sick for weeks for some of us... what does live with it mean? Pretend it isn't existing? Denial must be a great thing.

Did your kid have it yet? Recently?

Most kids barely register symptoms.

My kids have asthma, so we were over the top careful for 2 years. Then my kid with the worst asthma got it over winter break and he didn’t even need his inhaler. Flu hit him much harder pre-covid. Covid in JAN 2022 was nbd for him. And nobody else in our family got it.

That’s right: the rest of our family still hasn’t gotten it. We no longer mask unless on airplanes (we’ve flown several times; heck, we’ve cruised!).

My in-laws are pushing 90 and they got back to living their lives in public.

Covid is here to stay. Take precautions, but don’t hunker down unless you are strategically isolating before a big trip or family event. We did that before covid.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

Sorry, but I think what some of us are saying is yes, we get that people will catch it and there will be transmission and things need to run normally. BUT, we wish people would not knowingly undermine others and would make an effort to keep their germs to themselves at times when they know full well they are sick/possibly contagious/what have you. The issue I have is this. People who, for example, know they are on day 6 or whatever and can’t be respectful enough to put a mask on when they are in public/school, etc. That they deserve to be somewhere maskless while infectious so that anyone else who is there just has to deal with it if infected. It’s this attitude that is upsetting and problematic. Go where you want/do what you want when you are healthy. Be at least respectful when you are not.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid had it this spring/summer, then you should realize it’s NBD.

Kids and staff will get sick.

There will be peaks with lots of absences. You might consider pulling your (little) kid out when covid surges through your school—especially the week before any travel or big family event (thanksgiving, winter break, spring break).

Give your kid a mask, but recognize they probably won’t wear it.

Everyone needs to live with this now. It’s the new normal. MCPS won’t shut down unless the state does.

Its hard to live with something when it makes you sick for weeks for some of us... what does live with it mean? Pretend it isn't existing? Denial must be a great thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

If you cannot understand the severity of covid, maybe you should get your mental health checked. Moving on shows a clear lack of judgement and in MCPS basic precautions are needed.

You've moved on so much that we are experiencing a surge. So, we have you to thank for spreading covid to the rest of us.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

I don't know why it's so hard for PP to understand that locally, regionally, and nationally...things have moved on. Pretty much everything is back to business-as-usual to the point of annoying overcrowding everywhere you go. Neither the media or the general public is obsessing over Covid counts anymore. People get sick, stay home, and get better. Just like it's always been since the beginning of time.

People aren't staying home and spreading it. Covid is not a normal illness.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

That would be a win-win, but I don't think it's logistically feasible to segregate the hypochondriacs and whiners like that.

Isn’t that why MCPS offers the Virtual Academy? Anyone who feels that we should not ‘move on’ should happily sign their kids up for VA.

The rest of us can move on. This is not 2020 anymore.

According to this board, the VA is terrible and no kids should be in virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

I don't know why it's so hard for PP to understand that locally, regionally, and nationally...things have moved on. Pretty much everything is back to business-as-usual to the point of annoying overcrowding everywhere you go. Neither the media or the general public is obsessing over Covid counts anymore. People get sick, stay home, and get better. Just like it's always been since the beginning of time.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

What does moving on mean? Being selfish and not caring about anyone but yourself. Not caring who you pass covid onto and the impact it has on someone else. MCPS clearly failed with their mental health seminars in terms of empathy.

Nope. It means understanding that people will catch and transmit Covid regardless of what mitigation efforts are occurring. Even with vaccines, testing, masks - people still catch Covid.

You are right that some posters here do appear to need to some help with their anxiety and mental health issues. It’s been hard when people have been in fear since 2020 - it is hard to realize that the US has indeed ‘moved on’.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

That would be a win-win, but I don't think it's logistically feasible to segregate the hypochondriacs and whiners like that.

Isn’t that why MCPS offers the Virtual Academy? Anyone who feels that we should not ‘move on’ should happily sign their kids up for VA.

The rest of us can move on. This is not 2020 anymore.