It's funny, Anne Arundel and PG have been able to go virtual, but MCPS have not.

I already know two 50+ vaxxed adults who have caught Covid from their their vaxxed teenagers in MCPS just since the beginning of school. Fortunately, they seem ok, but we will see who ends up with long Covid and who doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:I live in Maryland and I’m not very plugged into local politics and am not affiliated with either party. I always open anti Hogan threads with interest. I have yet to think Hogan detractors are making a good point.

It’s so stupidly partisan.

Anonymous wrote:I'm glad we a Republican governor to moderate the crazy school closers in Montgomery County.

-A Democrat

+1. I have never been so grateful to Hogan.

-also a democrat

Anonymous wrote:I'm glad we a Republican governor to moderate the crazy school closers in Montgomery County.

-A Democrat

Agreed. A former Democrat that turned Independent because of this administration.

Anonymous wrote:The damage is done. Omicron is so infectious you've pretty much all given it to your children. Thank you for your contribution to medical research. I am hoping that with the sharp peak and now the decline in infection rates that will be enough for my child and family to avoid catching it when my child returns to school next week for the first time since Christmas break.

It's not the solution I wanted. It exposed a lot of vulnerable people and I can't even imagine the cost for some of your teachers and staff... But it's the world we live in. A world full of careless sociopaths.

Huh. I wonder why all three of my elementary kids have tested negative on their weekly PCRs at school, every week since October (minus Winter Break). Funny. Could it be their vaccines working? That schools aren’t the COVID death traps you were hoping they would be?

Truly, anyone who pushed last year for prolonged closures: staying open now is on you. You refused to yield when you should have, and now even the most reasonable of us know better than to give you an inch. Oh well. The good news is that Omicron is typically very mild in vaccinated children and boosted adults. Since those are options for everyone in the MCPS system, we’re good, right? Right.

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Anonymous wrote:The damage is done. Omicron is so infectious you've pretty much all given it to your children. Thank you for your contribution to medical research. I am hoping that with the sharp peak and now the decline in infection rates that will be enough for my child and family to avoid catching it when my child returns to school next week for the first time since Christmas break.

It's not the solution I wanted. It exposed a lot of vulnerable people and I can't even imagine the cost for some of your teachers and staff... But it's the world we live in. A world full of careless sociopaths.

Per Fauci, it's a matter of time for everyone to be exposed. Good luck on your lockdown in your house forever. Covid is here to stay.

We can thank you for why it is here to stay.

Common sense is to let entitled people like you get it first and hope that it slowly reduces in symptoms and severity making it safer for the rest of us.

Anonymous wrote:This post sounds like it’s from a month ago. No one is closing going forward. Cases are falling rapidly

We've also had a lot of snow/holidays so we'll see what happens when we have a week of full school.

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We always knew where he stood, OP. Haven't you been paying attention? It's all about where he goes next, and he needs to prove that he "bravely prevented schools from closing", without closing businesses or anything else.

Result? Patients suffering because their surgeries have been canceled, hospitals under considerable strain, healthcare workers with PTSD, families scrambling with quarantines and no continuity of learning.

He's a political hack and nothing else. No respect for this guy.

Those of us on military insurance cannot even get appointments because they are deploying the military to other areas. Forget a surgery. We cannot even get primary care appointments within a few weeks, often 6-8 weeks. Forget speciality appointments. (except residents who know very little).

Anonymous wrote:This post sounds like it’s from a month ago. No one is closing going forward. Cases are falling rapidly

"but it's still 'high transmission'. We must go virtual now."

BTW, the # of total cases per is now trending towards the same rate as right before the break. # of new cases continues to show rapid decline.

This post sounds like it’s from a month ago. No one is closing going forward. Cases are falling rapidly

And I'm not necessarily anti-Hogan at all. I just think that on this one issue, he's dropped the ball.

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Anonymous wrote:The damage is done. Omicron is so infectious you've pretty much all given it to your children. Thank you for your contribution to medical research. I am hoping that with the sharp peak and now the decline in infection rates that will be enough for my child and family to avoid catching it when my child returns to school next week for the first time since Christmas break.

It's not the solution I wanted. It exposed a lot of vulnerable people and I can't even imagine the cost for some of your teachers and staff... But it's the world we live in. A world full of careless sociopaths.

Per Fauci, it's a matter of time for everyone to be exposed. Good luck on your lockdown in your house forever. Covid is here to stay.

I love Fauci and even have his baseball card. I just didn't find where he said everyone will be exposed? If anything, Fauci warned a worst case scenario is possible that a variant eludes vaccines?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fauci-worst-case-scenario-for-2022-is-variant-that-eludes-vaccine-protection-194015191.html

There are also warnings about how easy it is for covid to mutate.

"work done by scientists in Durban has shown how COVID can mutate inside the bodies of those with untreated HIV. In one case, they traced a coronavirus sample to a 36-year-old HIV patient who was struggling to adhere to her antiretroviral treatment regime. Over the course of her seven-month COVID infection, the virus acquired 32 mutations. The risk is clear. New variants of concern could evolve - and be transmitted - by those with weakened immune systems."

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-south-african-doctors-fear-new-coronavirus-variants-could-evolve-in-untreated-hiv-population-12522430

“The faster Omicron spreads, the more opportunities there are for mutation, potentially leading to more variants,” said Leonardo Martinez, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Boston University."

"Along with keeping comparatively healthy people out of work and school, the ease with which the variant spreads increases the odds that the virus will infect and linger inside people with weakened immune systems — giving it more time to develop potent mutations."

“It’s the longer, persistent infections that seem to be the most likely breeding grounds for new variants,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. “It’s only when you have very widespread infection that you’re going to provide the opportunity for that to occur.”

“These huge unvaccinated swaths in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere are basically variant factories,”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-01-18/expect-more-worrisome-variants-after-omicron-scientists-warn

I live in Maryland and I’m not very plugged into local politics and am not affiliated with either party. I always open anti Hogan threads with interest. I have yet to think Hogan detractors are making a good point.

Anonymous wrote:The damage is done. Omicron is so infectious you've pretty much all given it to your children. Thank you for your contribution to medical research. I am hoping that with the sharp peak and now the decline in infection rates that will be enough for my child and family to avoid catching it when my child returns to school next week for the first time since Christmas break.

It's not the solution I wanted. It exposed a lot of vulnerable people and I can't even imagine the cost for some of your teachers and staff... But it's the world we live in. A world full of careless sociopaths.

Per Fauci, it's a matter of time for everyone to be exposed. Good luck on your lockdown in your house forever. Covid is here to stay.

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Anonymous wrote:An anti-mask mom threatened to bring a loaded gun during a Virginia school board meeting, saying 'see you all on Monday'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/parent-opposed-mask-mandates-threatened-182520778.html


I don't think having a leader catering to people like this is "fortunate"

Last I checked, Hogan was gov of MD, not VA. Maybe you are in the wrong school forum?

Oh yes. I forgot. Maryland and Montgomery County in particular is a magical land where no crazy Republican's live. We have mystic anti-cra-cra barriers on the boundaries of 485 and 270 to ensure such a thing does not exist here. My bad.

Your poor grammar reveals how little you value education, and how much you would benefit from it.

You also profoundly misread the current political climate. Even very liberal parents like myself are horrified by the closure of schools for so long, and the last thing we want to see is a repeat of this. I am even willing to vote Republican if necessary to see the schools remain open, something I never thought I would say.

The fact is that omicron poses close to zero risk for children, and is not much worse than the flu for everyone else. Closing schools while everything else remains open would be criminally stupid.

On the contrary. I'm not for permanent virtual-learning at all. But I am for temporary virtual learning when school outbreaks occur.

As far as "misreading the current political climate", what I see are a few very angry people dominating the more reasonable majority. It seems as if the in-person crowd had to withdraw their petition? I couldn't find it anymore. Could it be since in-person was only around 1K and the virtual petition was at 20K?
https://www.change.org/p/mcps-board-of-education-we-need-virtual-learning-right-now

Ohhhh, this makes sense...you're crazy petition poster. Just look at the VA Governor election to see how the real world works.

Yeah, a bunch of non melinated suburban moms in NoVA who can't stand their kids voted for Youngin so their kids could stay in a covid school cesspool while moms could resume brunch