They should send one home to each student to test on Saturday/Sunday prior to returning from the February break.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, easy pickup, easy test, easy upload. I think it's mostly Covid theater but if it calms people's nerves, so be it.

Why is it theater to test kids before they return? Frankly, we should test every morning before we send kids to school, like they do in the UK.

I think some people think it is theater because they want zero risk, and this protocol (or any protocol, or anything) will provide it.

Ok. I am decidedly not in that camp. Zero risk is sitting in your house and having no contact with the outside world. Daily testing plus masking and outdoor eating all seem like reasonable measures to take.

I am the PP who made the Covid theater comment. I think it is theater because you would need to test the day of in order for it to be meaningful, but I am in the opposite camp of "zero risk". I am assuming my vaccinated kids will catch Omicron at the some point and it will be their booster. I don't think that frequently testing asymptomatic, vaccinated kids is a wise use of resources, and I don't think that trying to prevent spread among kids in schools will make a meaningful impact on the overall trajectory of the pandemic. The UK with their abundant testing being a case in point.

Anonymous wrote:It's really nice when the system works.

It worked so well maybe they will even do it again next week -on Fridays send each kid home with a rapid test to take on Sunday.

I would LOVE this. This is how we should be utilizing the increased availability of rapid tests. It’s an actual *public health* approach to the pandemic instead of just asking everyone to independently assess their own risk and purchase all their own tests and masks and hope for the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, easy pickup, easy test, easy upload. I think it's mostly Covid theater but if it calms people's nerves, so be it.

Why is it theater to test kids before they return? Frankly, we should test every morning before we send kids to school, like they do in the UK.

I think some people think it is theater because they want zero risk, and this protocol (or any protocol, or anything) will provide it.

Ok. I am decidedly not in that camp. Zero risk is sitting in your house and having no contact with the outside world. Daily testing plus masking and outdoor eating all seem like reasonable measures to take.

^^"No protocol" not "this protocol"

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, easy pickup, easy test, easy upload. I think it's mostly Covid theater but if it calms people's nerves, so be it.

Why is it theater to test kids before they return? Frankly, we should test every morning before we send kids to school, like they do in the UK.

I think some people think it is theater because they want zero risk, and this protocol (or any protocol, or anything) will provide it.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, easy pickup, easy test, easy upload. I think it's mostly Covid theater but if it calms people's nerves, so be it.

Why is it theater to test kids before they return? Frankly, we should test every morning before we send kids to school, like they do in the UK.

Anonymous wrote:It's really nice when the system works.

It worked so well maybe they will even do it again next week -on Fridays send each kid home with a rapid test to take on Sunday.

And be subjected again to the intense mob of screaming complainers, here and on Twitter? Really?

It's really nice when the system works.

It worked so well maybe they will even do it again next week -on Fridays send each kid home with a rapid test to take on Sunday.

Well, one of my kid's friends just tested positive on the DCPS rapid. No symptoms at all. Parents don't suck and reported the test and won't send their kid to school... as the vast majority of parents would react. Kid is at an age where majority of his class isn't vaxxed, so this rapid test may have just stopped a class quarantine. Seems like the system worked at least in my anecdotal case.

So when do you think we hear of our school had enough staff to open tomorrow?

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student and staff submission sites are two different sites. Staff site crashed and looks like it’s still down.

I wonder if the student site is even doing anything. No confirmation email and our school has reached out to us a zillion times today trying to confirm that we uploaded. Makes me wonder is anyone will ever look at this data.

Now you are mad that it WORKED? *shaking my head*

Looks like the student and staff submission sites are two different sites. Staff site crashed and looks like it’s still down.

I wonder if the student site is even doing anything. No confirmation email and our school has reached out to us a zillion times today trying to confirm that we uploaded. Makes me wonder is anyone will ever look at this data.

Yes, easy pickup, easy test, easy upload. I think it's mostly Covid theater but if it calms people's nerves, so be it.

Yeah I hate saying this but wow DCPS.