Anonymous wrote:Maryland hospitals are filling up. One already has no beds available for the first time in its history. How do you think this might affect other people, like someone suffering a heart attack or a person injured in a car accident? Not to mention completely overwhelmed and burned out front line workers? People in denial about the stress Omicron is putting on the health care system are just plain selfish at this point. And, again, we have some suggesting it doesn’t matter if elderly, obese, or immunocompromised people suffer or die.

Check the HHS portal. MD has plenty of hospital and ICU beds. Beds and ICUs are typically 80% filled in non-surge, non-flu seasons. Right now, MD is 82% on hospital beds and 74% on ICU beds (ICU beds is less than normal, non-surge times!).

Pure misinformation and fearmongering.

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Anonymous wrote:Those APE open uppers released a press release yesterday that school needs to stay open:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmshBNjuYcp48nlI-Y1SUJVIvmcIUcnHavZPv5Qy4To/edit

Schools should stay open. Stupid timing tho on the sports angle on the heels of the YHS superspreader game last week. What we’re they thinking to push that now. Wait until everyone has forgotten about it next week.

Sports are a fundamental part of school. And the whole team was vaccinated!

SB1303 has specific criteria for outbreaks. Those should apply to extracurriculars too.

This bs excuse to shut down extracurriculars to prevent outbreaks is the same thing the closed schoolers pushed last year to close schools. It's ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Those APE open uppers released a press release yesterday that school needs to stay open:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmshBNjuYcp48nlI-Y1SUJVIvmcIUcnHavZPv5Qy4To/edit

Yes, they do need to stay open unless there is high spread within the building as described in SB 1303. This is not controversial at all.

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I don't understand the purpose of the press release up to the point where they say they will lobby to make the law permanent. We know what the law says, so what's the point? Why are they fretting that schools will close?

Anonymous wrote:Those APE open uppers released a press release yesterday that school needs to stay open:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmshBNjuYcp48nlI-Y1SUJVIvmcIUcnHavZPv5Qy4To/edit

Yes, they do need to stay open unless there is high spread within the building as described in SB 1303. This is not controversial at all.

Anonymous wrote:Those APE open uppers released a press release yesterday that school needs to stay open:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmshBNjuYcp48nlI-Y1SUJVIvmcIUcnHavZPv5Qy4To/edit

Schools should stay open. Stupid timing tho on the sports angle on the heels of the YHS superspreader game last week. What we’re they thinking to push that now. Wait until everyone has forgotten about it next week.

Those APE open uppers released a press release yesterday that school needs to stay open:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmshBNjuYcp48nlI-Y1SUJVIvmcIUcnHavZPv5Qy4To/edit

The closed schoolers are once again pushing closed schools and fearmongering on it. You see it with ArlStar and Smart Restart Twitter pages.

There's open enrollment for the virtual program right now. Ventilation Woman, Lunch Petitioner, Military Wife and the handful of other people in Smart Restart should put their kids in the virtual program if they think in person school is that dangerous. Obviously they don't since they're not putting their kids in the virtual prgram.

This is the same thing that happened last year - complete FOMO. They know in-person is a much superior form of education and they don't want other kids getting ahead of theirs. They'd prefer their kids be virtual, but can't tolerate the idea of other Arlington kids getting ahead of theirs.

So they just fearmonger on AEM, Twitter and DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland hospitals are filling up. One already has no beds available for the first time in its history. How do you think this might affect other people, like someone suffering a heart attack or a person injured in a car accident? Not to mention completely overwhelmed and burned out front line workers? People in denial about the stress Omicron is putting on the health care system are just plain selfish at this point. And, again, we have some suggesting it doesn’t matter if elderly, obese, or immunocompromised people suffer or die.

I think this bolded problem is solved if hospitals have a set number of beds reserved for unvaccinated Covid patients (hmmm... like maybe 20% of their beds?). Once those beds are filled up, then the unvaccinated Covid patients and their family members just have to deal with it on their own. They could stay at home, they could try to drive to other hospitals, etc. I feel that the burden should be on them.

Totally agree!

What % do you think COVID hospitalizations are? In VA, less than 10% of all hospitalizations right now. You seem to think "hospitals are full" means it's all COVID patients. It's not at all (and they're not full).

Plus, hospitals and ICUs are typically 70-80% full in non-surge, pre-COVID times (otherwise, they don't make money). During flu seasons, they often fill up. The government had 2 years to expand hospital capacity and billions of $ - interesting they have chose not do to so.

If you're going to turn people away, it needs to be obese people first. They take up way more hospital capacity and it's their fault they lived such a lifestyle. We can also exclude alcoholics and smokers too while we're at it.

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Anonymous wrote:See more stupid calls by Teachers Union Man Child on AEM to test every child. Nope.

Are we surveillance testing everyone who goes into a grocery store, pharmacy, restaurant or bar?

No. These nuts on AEM are wanting a Zero COVID environment that is not being applied to anywhere else in our community. COVID will never be eradicated. Why should our children be the soldiers in a fruitless battle while the adults live normally?!?

Don't test your asymptomatic kids. COVID is never going away. The NFL is not testing asymptomatic people anymore either. Is your kids' education less important to you than professional football?

Hold the phone: is the standard what professional sports leagues are doing? Does that mean it's okay to stop school for a week like that NHL has done with its season? Good to know.

Great. Let’s do it! Thanks, PP.

In the NFL you can return while positive as long as your viral load is below a certain threshold.

The NFL isn't even testing anymore if asymptomatic. But lets not kid ourselves that this is because they care about their players or anyone's health. They are doing it because they were cancelling games and running out of times to reschedule and they were at risk to lose money. If we are going to hold up any professional sports league as an example of how we should treat out kids lets NOT hold up the one that continues to hide the frequency and impact of brain damage from typical play.

No, the players chose this too. Missing games was too important to them too.

Kids missing school is too important as well. Parents can decide.

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland hospitals are filling up. One already has no beds available for the first time in its history. How do you think this might affect other people, like someone suffering a heart attack or a person injured in a car accident? Not to mention completely overwhelmed and burned out front line workers? People in denial about the stress Omicron is putting on the health care system are just plain selfish at this point. And, again, we have some suggesting it doesn’t matter if elderly, obese, or immunocompromised people suffer or die.

I think this bolded problem is solved if hospitals have a set number of beds reserved for unvaccinated Covid patients (hmmm... like maybe 20% of their beds?). Once those beds are filled up, then the unvaccinated Covid patients and their family members just have to deal with it on their own. They could stay at home, they could try to drive to other hospitals, etc. I feel that the burden should be on them.

Totally agree!

Anonymous wrote:Maryland hospitals are filling up. One already has no beds available for the first time in its history. How do you think this might affect other people, like someone suffering a heart attack or a person injured in a car accident? Not to mention completely overwhelmed and burned out front line workers? People in denial about the stress Omicron is putting on the health care system are just plain selfish at this point. And, again, we have some suggesting it doesn’t matter if elderly, obese, or immunocompromised people suffer or die.

Fully vaccinated people are not going to be filling up the hospital. Truly there's nothing we can do at this point. The people who should be hearing your message don't give a F and are going to be getting sick either way.

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Anonymous wrote:See more stupid calls by Teachers Union Man Child on AEM to test every child. Nope.

Are we surveillance testing everyone who goes into a grocery store, pharmacy, restaurant or bar?

No. These nuts on AEM are wanting a Zero COVID environment that is not being applied to anywhere else in our community. COVID will never be eradicated. Why should our children be the soldiers in a fruitless battle while the adults live normally?!?

Don't test your asymptomatic kids. COVID is never going away. The NFL is not testing asymptomatic people anymore either. Is your kids' education less important to you than professional football?

Hold the phone: is the standard what professional sports leagues are doing? Does that mean it's okay to stop school for a week like that NHL has done with its season? Good to know.

Great. Let’s do it! Thanks, PP.

In the NFL you can return while positive as long as your viral load is below a certain threshold.

The NFL isn't even testing anymore if asymptomatic. But lets not kid ourselves that this is because they care about their players or anyone's health. They are doing it because they were cancelling games and running out of times to reschedule and they were at risk to lose money. If we are going to hold up any professional sports league as an example of how we should treat out kids lets NOT hold up the one that continues to hide the frequency and impact of brain damage from typical play.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See more stupid calls by Teachers Union Man Child on AEM to test every child. Nope.

Are we surveillance testing everyone who goes into a grocery store, pharmacy, restaurant or bar?

No. These nuts on AEM are wanting a Zero COVID environment that is not being applied to anywhere else in our community. COVID will never be eradicated. Why should our children be the soldiers in a fruitless battle while the adults live normally?!?

Don't test your asymptomatic kids. COVID is never going away. The NFL is not testing asymptomatic people anymore either. Is your kids' education less important to you than professional football?

Hold the phone: is the standard what professional sports leagues are doing? Does that mean it's okay to stop school for a week like that NHL has done with its season? Good to know.

Great. Let’s do it! Thanks, PP.

In the NFL you can return while positive as long as your viral load is below a certain threshold.

Anonymous wrote:Maryland hospitals are filling up. One already has no beds available for the first time in its history. How do you think this might affect other people, like someone suffering a heart attack or a person injured in a car accident? Not to mention completely overwhelmed and burned out front line workers? People in denial about the stress Omicron is putting on the health care system are just plain selfish at this point. And, again, we have some suggesting it doesn’t matter if elderly, obese, or immunocompromised people suffer or die.

I think this bolded problem is solved if hospitals have a set number of beds reserved for unvaccinated Covid patients (hmmm... like maybe 20% of their beds?). Once those beds are filled up, then the unvaccinated Covid patients and their family members just have to deal with it on their own. They could stay at home, they could try to drive to other hospitals, etc. I feel that the burden should be on them.

Maryland hospitals are filling up. One already has no beds available for the first time in its history. How do you think this might affect other people, like someone suffering a heart attack or a person injured in a car accident? Not to mention completely overwhelmed and burned out front line workers? People in denial about the stress Omicron is putting on the health care system are just plain selfish at this point. And, again, we have some suggesting it doesn’t matter if elderly, obese, or immunocompromised people suffer or die.