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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

That’s fine, but it’s the risk you take. My DC is a Senior in HS, and we’ve missed many trips we’d planned to take during these last two years, but we can’t risk DC getting stuck in a foreign country with a + Covid test. So we’re taking a road trip. It’s not ideal. But it’ll be fine. You’ve made a different risk calculation, and that’s ok, too. (FWIW, I have an acquaintance who flew all day, only to get quarantined in a hotel in the layover city, get back on a plane and come home. That was enough to convince me to stay in the US.)

Everyone is testing with home tests now. The official counts aren’t accurate anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

What school district is still doing virtual instruction?

Mcps has virtual academy as an option this year. Guessing that's what they mean.

Virtual Virginia has been around for ages. Plus there are virtual charters in Dc.

I think the person who asked the question doesn’t want actual facts; just wants to be difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

What school district is still doing virtual instruction?

Mcps has virtual academy as an option this year. Guessing that's what they mean.

Virtual Virginia has been around for ages. Plus there are virtual charters in Dc.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

What school district is still doing virtual instruction?

Mcps has virtual academy as an option this year. Guessing that's what they mean.

Anonymous wrote:My family of five ALL tested positive Wednesday and are all symptomatic to varying degrees. Two vaccinated and boosted adults, one vaccinated elementary kid, two in daycare. My husband is the only one who went to the doctor, so his case will be the only one reported. There doesn’t seem to be a system in place at this point to report positives from home tests. I put very little trust in the official case numbers.

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Do you have a sense of all five of you were exposed? I wonder if it is dose specific -- like were you exposed to someone in a confined space like a car or something, where you all had a lot of exposure? Just wondering why some people have no symptoms and only 1 family member gets it but others have everyone in the family quite ill.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

Tell that to people who haven't seen their family in over 2 years. Except for our nuclear family everybody is abroad. But I guess being able to see family means nothing to you.

I have not seen my family. I rarely see anyone s I cannot risk Covid. Except groceries or pharmacy, I have been home. My kids are in virtual. I have lost far more than most.

What school district is still doing virtual instruction?

Anonymous wrote:My family of five ALL tested positive Wednesday and are all symptomatic to varying degrees. Two vaccinated and boosted adults, one vaccinated elementary kid, two in daycare. My husband is the only one who went to the doctor, so his case will be the only one reported. There doesn’t seem to be a system in place at this point to report positives from home tests. I put very little trust in the official case numbers.

What area do you live in?

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Anonymous wrote:Covid is such a farce, people are not getting sick , it's the positive tests inconveniencing everyone. CDC needs to update the guidelines to symptom free, no tests needed

My kids are pretty sick with covid right now. The vaccines are a farce. And don't tell me how much worse it would be without the shots.

I’m sorry your kids are sick. The vaccines didn’t work well in your experience and that sucks, but that’s not data. That’s an anecdote.

+1. My unvaccinated kids had zero symptoms. We all have anecdotes.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid is such a farce, people are not getting sick , it's the positive tests inconveniencing everyone. CDC needs to update the guidelines to symptom free, no tests needed

My kids are pretty sick with covid right now. The vaccines are a farce. And don't tell me how much worse it would be without the shots.

I’m sorry your kids are sick. The vaccines didn’t work well in your experience and that sucks, but that’s not data. That’s an anecdote.

My family of five ALL tested positive Wednesday and are all symptomatic to varying degrees. Two vaccinated and boosted adults, one vaccinated elementary kid, two in daycare. My husband is the only one who went to the doctor, so his case will be the only one reported. There doesn’t seem to be a system in place at this point to report positives from home tests. I put very little trust in the official case numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

This. It took me decades of illness to be diagnosed with celiac and still feel sick half the time. And now pregnant after many fertility treatments and a loss, not worth risking it.

This +1000. I have so many other autoimmune problems that cause pain and constant lifestyle modifications that I don't want to have another one.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

This. It took me decades of illness to be diagnosed with celiac and still feel sick half the time. And now pregnant after many fertility treatments and a loss, not worth risking it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people even discussing anecdotes when public health data could not be easier to get?!

Fairfax county April 1, 7 day average: 104.

Yesterday it was 127.

This data likely doesn't include home rapid tests. . . .

And in DC is only updated weekly

This. And that data is lagged by a week. So the numbers you see for DC are now two weeks old. Cases are rising again. That’s a fact. Do with it what you will.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people even discussing anecdotes when public health data could not be easier to get?!

Fairfax county April 1, 7 day average: 104.

Yesterday it was 127.

This data likely doesn't include home rapid tests. . . .

And in DC is only updated weekly