Anonymous wrote:As much as they want to advertise it and tell you its happening, strict mask wearing and social distancing is not happening at any camp. Kids get up in each others faces with masks on and when they’re down to eat, swim, whatever

ITA, and I'm still not pulling my kids from camp. She's going next week too. (Her camp advertises strict mask wearing, which I know is not happening. Social distancing is not advertised at all -- thankfully kiddos are free to play, hug, etc. as usual. )

This is the last week of camp for DD.
I considered pulling her out, but ultimately decided against it.
She will be back in preschool in the fall, which doesn't start until mid September. I'm hoping things are looking a bit better then

Anonymous wrote:For those of you pulling your kids from camp - will you send them to school in person?

I asked MCPS to organize lunches outdoors. There's little hope they'll do it, but if enough of us pressure them, they might.
On another thread (I think for FCPS), posters said things like: "the kids are going to track goose poo in the building if they eat outside!" and "but the kids will throw litter on the ground!" and "but when it rains it will be a mud fest!" so if this is how MCPS administrators react as well, then we'll just have rampant viral spread at every lunch period.

Seriously. Hmm, let's weigh the risks here. Goose poo, most assuredly highly contagious and will send people to hospital! Versus the Delta variant, which can infect unmasked people in a couple of minutes.

HMMMMM. ***Hard choice***.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you pulling your kids from camp - will you send them to school in person?

Maybe. MCPS.

You don’t have a choice if you want to stay public.

Right. That’s why I’m wondering why people are pulling kids out of camp if they’re going to send them to school in a few weeks. Seems like the same risk - at least for our camp and school.

But I understand what the PP above said about not being happy with camp protocols like they are with school protocols. I hadn’t thought of that.

No. This isn’t going away, and I know we can’t survive another lockdown. So we won’t lockdown and will mitigate instead. (Masks, vaccinate in October, outside as much as we can.).

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you pulling your kids from camp - will you send them to school in person?

Maybe. MCPS.

You don’t have a choice if you want to stay public.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone in the Nova area had positive cases from camp this summer? I haven't heard of any, which kind of surprises me honestly. I'd like to know if anyone encountered it.

We have only done two weeks of rec center camp, and are doing two more between now and school starting. I feel a little anxious about it, but not anxious enough to pull them out, because we don't have other child care options at this point.

Also, we'll be doing school in person, so it seems silly to worry about camp.

Congo had about 5 cases. Three were within one cohort (evidence it spread at camp). Since the outbreak they’ve been more strict about requiring kids outside staying 6 ft apart during mask breaks. All of the cases happened within about one week. There haven’t been any more since then. I’m not worried at all. School will be much more risky than camp and they are going in person.

No. Camp is outside and especially if school is going to be restricted, they need non-screen, active fun while they can.

Has anyone in the Nova area had positive cases from camp this summer? I haven't heard of any, which kind of surprises me honestly. I'd like to know if anyone encountered it.

We have only done two weeks of rec center camp, and are doing two more between now and school starting. I feel a little anxious about it, but not anxious enough to pull them out, because we don't have other child care options at this point.

Also, we'll be doing school in person, so it seems silly to worry about camp.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m debating whether to send mine the rest of the week.

Delta is just covid that spreads faster. Your kids are at no greater risk than they were before.

Why are you so certain of this? I keep reading articles that say most scientists now believe it’s likely to be more dangerous. You seem awfully confident they are wrong.

What percentage of the time were they right before they were wrong since this thing started?

The scientists were right far far more than any Republican.
Because the GOP strategy was to lie their faces off during COVID.

In fact, lying appears to be the one central principle of today’s GOP.

Anonymous wrote:For those of you pulling your kids from camp - will you send them to school in person?

Maybe. MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:For those of you pulling your kids from camp - will you send them to school in person?

Yes. They're returning to the privates they were in last year that did a good job.

They've been telling us what goes on at camp. Not good enough.

For those of you pulling your kids from camp - will you send them to school in person?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m debating whether to send mine the rest of the week.

Delta is just covid that spreads faster. Your kids are at no greater risk than they were before.

Why are you so certain of this? I keep reading articles that say most scientists now believe it’s likely to be more dangerous. You seem awfully confident they are wrong.

What percentage of the time were they right before they were wrong since this thing started?

For some reason I can’t post. Read this in yesterday’s NYT

‘This Is Really Scary’: Kids Struggle With Long Covid