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Anonymous wrote:I get that MCPS is not going to use the 5% rule and that they’re only going to close if they absolutely have to due to staffing issues, but they need to keep updating the dashboard so that each family has the information they need to make their own risk/benefit analysis of sending their children to school. I’m concerned that they will no longer share up-to-date information on the percent of unrelated staff and students at each school who have tested positive in the last 14 days because they no longer have a specified threshold that triggers any action.

They are definitely not.

Guessing their attorneys are advising them not to? It could be used as evidence of poor decision making and intent not to honor their policy.

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Anonymous wrote:I get that MCPS is not going to use the 5% rule and that they’re only going to close if they absolutely have to due to staffing issues, but they need to keep updating the dashboard so that each family has the information they need to make their own risk/benefit analysis of sending their children to school. I’m concerned that they will no longer share up-to-date information on the percent of unrelated staff and students at each school who have tested positive in the last 14 days because they no longer have a specified threshold that triggers any action.

They are definitely not.

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Anonymous wrote:The rate of death during this wave is a lot smaller than any previous wave. In addition, the majority of hospitalized are unvaccinated. But I know that you don’t care about facts. You are impervious to new information, kinda like the “the election was stolen” crowd.

The majority of kids in MoCo ages 5-12 are still unvaccinated. Do I think that's dumb? CHRIST yes! Do I think any of those kids deserve to die, be hospitalized, or deal with long-COVID because their parents are dumb? CHRIST no! And that's not even considering their younger siblings who *can't* be vaccinated, or their elderly relatives who might be vaccinated but still be vulnerable - all of whom deserve consideration. Our family doesn't really fall into any of these categories either, so I get that it's easy to feel safe and assume that everyone should just get with your program. But this is public school. It exists to serve a large community, including people in vastly different circumstances. If you're only able to take your own circumstances into account, maybe YOU'RE the one who should "just homeschool."

5-11 are 9% of the population,5% is now fully vaccinated. So more than half of 5-11 are vaccinated. 12-15 year olds almost 100% vaccinated. Where are you getting your information from ? https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiZDUxZTUzNWMtMjk1MS00ZjAyLTliMWYtMDdlMjY0MmQ5ZTc3IiwidCI6IjZlMDFiMWY5LWIxZTUtNDA3My1hYzk3LTc3ODA2OWEwYWQ2NCJ9&pageName=ReportSection81710217dba9873d424d


92% fully vaccinated for 12 and over https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/nearly-30000-young-children-vaccinated-in-montgomery-county/amp/

Like I said, you are impervious to facts.

Uh, I really don’t think you know how to read these charts. That’s not what that link is saying.

Really? Why don’t you educate me?

Anonymous wrote:I get that MCPS is not going to use the 5% rule and that they’re only going to close if they absolutely have to due to staffing issues, but they need to keep updating the dashboard so that each family has the information they need to make their own risk/benefit analysis of sending their children to school. I’m concerned that they will no longer share up-to-date information on the percent of unrelated staff and students at each school who have tested positive in the last 14 days because they no longer have a specified threshold that triggers any action.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The rate of death during this wave is a lot smaller than any previous wave. In addition, the majority of hospitalized are unvaccinated. But I know that you don’t care about facts. You are impervious to new information, kinda like the “the election was stolen” crowd.

The majority of kids in MoCo ages 5-12 are still unvaccinated. Do I think that's dumb? CHRIST yes! Do I think any of those kids deserve to die, be hospitalized, or deal with long-COVID because their parents are dumb? CHRIST no! And that's not even considering their younger siblings who *can't* be vaccinated, or their elderly relatives who might be vaccinated but still be vulnerable - all of whom deserve consideration. Our family doesn't really fall into any of these categories either, so I get that it's easy to feel safe and assume that everyone should just get with your program. But this is public school. It exists to serve a large community, including people in vastly different circumstances. If you're only able to take your own circumstances into account, maybe YOU'RE the one who should "just homeschool."

5-11 are 9% of the population,5% is now fully vaccinated. So more than half of 5-11 are vaccinated. 12-15 year olds almost 100% vaccinated. Where are you getting your information from ? https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiZDUxZTUzNWMtMjk1MS00ZjAyLTliMWYtMDdlMjY0MmQ5ZTc3IiwidCI6IjZlMDFiMWY5LWIxZTUtNDA3My1hYzk3LTc3ODA2OWEwYWQ2NCJ9&pageName=ReportSection81710217dba9873d424d


92% fully vaccinated for 12 and over https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/nearly-30000-young-children-vaccinated-in-montgomery-county/amp/

Like I said, you are impervious to facts.

Uh, I really don’t think you know how to read these charts. That’s not what that link is saying.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rate of death during this wave is a lot smaller than any previous wave. In addition, the majority of hospitalized are unvaccinated. But I know that you don’t care about facts. You are impervious to new information, kinda like the “the election was stolen” crowd.

The majority of kids in MoCo ages 5-12 are still unvaccinated. Do I think that's dumb? CHRIST yes! Do I think any of those kids deserve to die, be hospitalized, or deal with long-COVID because their parents are dumb? CHRIST no! And that's not even considering their younger siblings who *can't* be vaccinated, or their elderly relatives who might be vaccinated but still be vulnerable - all of whom deserve consideration. Our family doesn't really fall into any of these categories either, so I get that it's easy to feel safe and assume that everyone should just get with your program. But this is public school. It exists to serve a large community, including people in vastly different circumstances. If you're only able to take your own circumstances into account, maybe YOU'RE the one who should "just homeschool."

5-11 are 9% of the population,5% is now fully vaccinated. So more than half of 5-11 are vaccinated. 12-15 year olds almost 100% vaccinated. Where are you getting your information from ? https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiZDUxZTUzNWMtMjk1MS00ZjAyLTliMWYtMDdlMjY0MmQ5ZTc3IiwidCI6IjZlMDFiMWY5LWIxZTUtNDA3My1hYzk3LTc3ODA2OWEwYWQ2NCJ9&pageName=ReportSection81710217dba9873d424d


92% fully vaccinated for 12 and over https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/nearly-30000-young-children-vaccinated-in-montgomery-county/amp/

Like I said, you are impervious to facts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rate of death during this wave is a lot smaller than any previous wave. In addition, the majority of hospitalized are unvaccinated. But I know that you don’t care about facts. You are impervious to new information, kinda like the “the election was stolen” crowd.

The majority of kids in MoCo ages 5-12 are still unvaccinated. Do I think that's dumb? CHRIST yes! Do I think any of those kids deserve to die, be hospitalized, or deal with long-COVID because their parents are dumb? CHRIST no! And that's not even considering their younger siblings who *can't* be vaccinated, or their elderly relatives who might be vaccinated but still be vulnerable - all of whom deserve consideration. Our family doesn't really fall into any of these categories either, so I get that it's easy to feel safe and assume that everyone should just get with your program. But this is public school. It exists to serve a large community, including people in vastly different circumstances. If you're only able to take your own circumstances into account, maybe YOU'RE the one who should "just homeschool."

Anonymous wrote:The rate of death during this wave is a lot smaller than any previous wave. In addition, the majority of hospitalized are unvaccinated. But I know that you don’t care about facts. You are impervious to new information, kinda like the “the election was stolen” crowd.

Anonymous wrote:One of my points is, if you got your head out of your ass long enough to actually get to know people in your community, you'd realize the waves of disinformation don't stop with the white trumpeters you now consider disposable. I know an astonishing number of black, educated, professional families who are suspicious of vaccinations. And I'm not even going outside my own bubble to find them. Try looking in Texas or Mississippi or Georgia and the numbers climb higher

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Anonymous wrote:I just spoke with an old friend today, our kids were in elementary together. They are a FARMS family with limited access to transportation or healthcare in a high-density part of the county.

She said they weren't vaccinated because she wasn't sure it was safe. I gave her an earful. She said she would consider if when they got some spare cash.

That's right. She didn't know it was free to get vaccinated.

You can blame my friend for her ignorance. I'm sure most of you would. I blame myself for not reaching out sooner. But mostly I blame our community for being so siloed that some people never even get the information they need. This is a woman whose eyesight is failing. She doesn't own a computer. She lives in an apartment complex with hundreds of people and apparently no one even bothered to do outreach to them. The pharmacy within walking distance doesn't do vaccines. Etc.

I'm driving her to a vaccination site this weekend. But this breaks me. How are we failing so many Americans like this? I get the reopener's perspective: they just want people like my friend to disappear.

Oh FFS.

Wow. This is the silliest take in a thread full of bad takes (on both sides). You win (I guess?)

To clarify, the disappearing friend = open schools PP.

Exactly 4 kids ages 0-9 died in Maryland since March 2020. Even if the reopeners wanted anyone to disappear, practically speaking it is not going to happen. We are just flattening out with the omicron wave and slowing down with hospital admissions. There are a total of 60 kids hospitalized in the entire state, and only 12 of them are in the ICU.