Anonymous wrote:Who takes responsibility if my kid will contract the CV at school and ends up having a lung problems for life? The CV might not be deadly to kids but surely leaves some with all kinds of health complications.
Also what with the ton of children with asthma and other health issues. We are clearly exposing all of them and our families through the possible contraction at school to the deadly virus.

You take the responsibility. If you think your child is in that much danger, keep them at home.

Today, Friday, March 6, 2020 at 10 a.m., Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich will Give an Update on Coronavirus Cases in Montgomery County. 
Streamed live on the CCM homepage at montgomerycountymd.gov/ccm/  and on the Montgomery County Government Facebook page at www.facebook.com/montgomerycountyinfo.

Anonymous wrote:A co-worker went on a trip to Korea, came back last week and showed up in the office last Friday. The people were in shock.

She is not Asian, BTW.

Since this was a business trip, I'm guessing she went to Seoul. Chances are she's fine. My parents live in Seoul so I've been reading the Korean news daily. About 4700 of the 6600 infections as of today are in the city of Daegu, 3+ hours away from Seoul, which currently has 105, in a city of over 10 million, yes 10 million. Seoul has taken aggressive measures to control and contain.

Hopefully this helps you feel less freaked out.

For all those who keep saying kids don't get it, kids don't die from it here is a wake up data...

The mortality in the 0 to 9 years old is zero.
The mortality in the age group 9 to 19 is NOT ZERO, it is 0.2 %... that is not nothing.. that is 2 people in 1000.

Let me bring it home for you:

MCPS has how many students?: 162,680

With this in mind.. remember 2 kids in one thousand would die.. potentially.. So if we have 162 thousands students..
and all or the most vulnerable will get sick then potentially the loss of life can be as great as 324.

Considering all children with immune issues, I am pretty sure you will easily find 324 kids needing nebulizer. It is
not that all kids will get sick but chances are the ones with already underlying problems might.

So NOT zero but 324 children's lives are at stake..

Whoever tells you there is no risks.. kindly share the table:..



WHO CDC and other institutions supporting this data site and providing all the info that is in the cited source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Anonymous wrote:According to the press conference, they returned on Feb. 20, showed symptoms on March 3, were tested on the 4th, and then confirmed for COVID-19 on the 6th. The only good news is that the test seemed to have turned around quickly.

Now they are trying to retrace what the three did and where they went on a daily basis for the two weeks they were in the area.

They were probably only contagious for a couple days.

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Anonymous wrote:For all those who keep saying kids don't get it, kids don't die from it here is a wake up data...

The mortality in the 0 to 9 years old is zero.
The mortality in the age group 9 to 19 is NOT ZERO, it is 0.2 %... that is not nothing.. that is 2 people in 1000.

Let me bring it home for you:

MCPS has how many students?: 162,680

With this in mind.. remember 2 kids in one thousand would die.. potentially.. So if we have 162 thousands students..
and all or the most vulnerable will get sick then potentially the loss of life can be as great as 324.

Considering all children with immune issues, I am pretty sure you will easily find 324 kids needing nebulizer. It is
not that all kids will get sick but chances are the ones with already underlying problems might.

So NOT zero but 324 children's lives are at stake..

Whoever tells you there is no risks.. kindly share the table:..



WHO CDC and other institutions supporting this data site and providing all the info that is in the cited source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

so you're saying......there's a chance to reduce some overcrowding?

Boomer target rather

Who are you?

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Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/03/montgomery-county-schools-prepare-in-case-coronavirus-requires-closings/?fbclid=IwAR3sUz2j7V6gFfqeX8_rlEGIs3jpv8aQYAU0Vz92uyUiZ4POltTXY6-Y6pk
Montgomery County schools prepare in case coronavirus requires closings

MCPS plans - What a joke! I guess they can mail off packets to kids w/o computer access.

Montgomery County, Maryland’s public school system continues normal operations, and school and health officials say they are preparing should that change.

Montgomery County Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Monifa McKnight said plans for remote instruction and hard copy lessons would be ready should schools have to close due to the coronavirus. She was repeating a message delivered in a briefing Tuesday with county officials.

It's March for F's sake. Kids can afford to not be instructed for two months. Their brains won't rot. My GOD!

+1000 if schools close it will be a national emergency and all students will be in the same boat. They will still get into college as everyone’s isn’t going through the same thing.

In a way it is a war.

Maybe enough stress on kids as is and give them a break.

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Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/03/montgomery-county-schools-prepare-in-case-coronavirus-requires-closings/?fbclid=IwAR3sUz2j7V6gFfqeX8_rlEGIs3jpv8aQYAU0Vz92uyUiZ4POltTXY6-Y6pk
Montgomery County schools prepare in case coronavirus requires closings

MCPS plans - What a joke! I guess they can mail off packets to kids w/o computer access.

Montgomery County, Maryland’s public school system continues normal operations, and school and health officials say they are preparing should that change.

Montgomery County Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Monifa McKnight said plans for remote instruction and hard copy lessons would be ready should schools have to close due to the coronavirus. She was repeating a message delivered in a briefing Tuesday with county officials.

It's March for F's sake. Kids can afford to not be instructed for two months. Their brains won't rot. My GOD!

+1000 if schools close it will be a national emergency and all students will be in the same boat. They will still get into college as everyone’s isn’t going through the same thing.

What’s wrong with internet and TV broadcast schooling? Even radio broadcast school lessons can be done. There are plenty of alternatives. Half of what they do in school can be skipped like art and PE and lunch hour. They can just do exercises in the living room to a tv instruction PE teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/03/montgomery-county-schools-prepare-in-case-coronavirus-requires-closings/?fbclid=IwAR3sUz2j7V6gFfqeX8_rlEGIs3jpv8aQYAU0Vz92uyUiZ4POltTXY6-Y6pk
Montgomery County schools prepare in case coronavirus requires closings

MCPS plans - What a joke! I guess they can mail off packets to kids w/o computer access.

Montgomery County, Maryland’s public school system continues normal operations, and school and health officials say they are preparing should that change.

Montgomery County Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Monifa McKnight said plans for remote instruction and hard copy lessons would be ready should schools have to close due to the coronavirus. She was repeating a message delivered in a briefing Tuesday with county officials.

It's March for F's sake. Kids can afford to not be instructed for two months. Their brains won't rot. My GOD!

+1000 if schools close it will be a national emergency and all students will be in the same boat. They will still get into college as everyone’s isn’t going through the same thing.

In a way it is a war.

Ugh sorry for the typos^

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Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/03/montgomery-county-schools-prepare-in-case-coronavirus-requires-closings/?fbclid=IwAR3sUz2j7V6gFfqeX8_rlEGIs3jpv8aQYAU0Vz92uyUiZ4POltTXY6-Y6pk
Montgomery County schools prepare in case coronavirus requires closings

MCPS plans - What a joke! I guess they can mail off packets to kids w/o computer access.

Montgomery County, Maryland’s public school system continues normal operations, and school and health officials say they are preparing should that change.

Montgomery County Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Monifa McKnight said plans for remote instruction and hard copy lessons would be ready should schools have to close due to the coronavirus. She was repeating a message delivered in a briefing Tuesday with county officials.

It's March for F's sake. Kids can afford to not be instructed for two months. Their brains won't rot. My GOD!

+1000 if schools close it will be a national emergency and all students will be in the same boat. They will still get into college as everyone’s isn’t going through the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is most Americans are too hopped up on their freedoms to do what’s best. Most wont self-quarantine or stay home for 2 weeks. I just talked to a friend (not sure I’d call her that now) traveling to a level 3 country with her family who got mad at me when I said (citing CDC’s travel page for said country) her family should stay home for 2 weeks upon return. She’s not going to.

That's not Americans hopped up on their freedom. That's just arrogance and stupidity.

During the epidemics society changes rules. Freedom nice thing but..goverment has rights to impose rules and they should keep us safe from sick people hopping about making others sick.

It will never happen. This is an election year.

Dude... precisely why!!!
If this continues as is there will be NO ONE LEFT TO VOTE!!!

People will be mad that this thing is left to grow.. and it surely does not look like we are stopping it. Where are the tests? Why sick people are roaming freely? Why publick is not told where sick people mingled??

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Anonymous wrote:Bring it on. The only ones dying are old and immuno compromised people. This will feel like a bad chest cold. Let me develop some antibodies now, get two weeks off work, and build some tolerance before it mutates into something worse

I suggest you read the accounts of young people who developed it in Wuhan China. It made a flu sound like a walk in the park. Bad chest cold is now how it is in some people. The 80% have mild colds may or may not be accurate.

Here is a first person description from a healthy 25 year old. It does sound pretty much like a flu.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/First-British-victim-25-describes-coronavirus.html

Well that guy probably would have been better sooner if he didn't drink the whiskey every night. Alcohol lowers your immune system. Funny how he got worse the day after he drank the whiskey.

The whiskey seems to be the only thing that kept him alive! Or at least it's the only thing that gave him any relief.

Whiskey actually raises your immune system - I might need to run out and stock up! Quite a few articles about it.

https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/colds-flu-cocktails-2016-9

I don’t know enough to refute this, but can some doctor confirm for me the, i think, obvious proposition that there’s no indication whiskey fights viruses?

It's alcohol and alcohol kills virus. So I would imagine there could be some beneficial effects. I know a shot of whiskey when I have a cold really does help.

Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/03/montgomery-county-schools-prepare-in-case-coronavirus-requires-closings/?fbclid=IwAR3sUz2j7V6gFfqeX8_rlEGIs3jpv8aQYAU0Vz92uyUiZ4POltTXY6-Y6pk
Montgomery County schools prepare in case coronavirus requires closings

MCPS plans - What a joke! I guess they can mail off packets to kids w/o computer access.

Montgomery County, Maryland’s public school system continues normal operations, and school and health officials say they are preparing should that change.

Montgomery County Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Monifa McKnight said plans for remote instruction and hard copy lessons would be ready should schools have to close due to the coronavirus. She was repeating a message delivered in a briefing Tuesday with county officials.

It's March for F's sake. Kids can afford to not be instructed for two months. Their brains won't rot. My GOD!

Anonymous wrote:A Hong Kong study released today estimated that the true number of cases is at least twice as many as what is being reported, simply due to lack of testing.

Community transmission is virtually guaranteed to happen in most metro areas. It's already happened in NYC and I expect it will become apparent that it's happening in the DC area soon.

Agreed, but we are seeing clusters, not widespread right now. And I'm going to venture a guess that it weakens as it becomes more widespread.