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Anonymous wrote:Kids have only been back for a few days. It takes time for #s to build. Check back in 2-3 weeks.

Please. We’ve heard “2 weeks” a million times before. Give it up already.

I'm sorry you struggle with the concept of exponential growth.

If we do have a "surge" it won't be a few days later. It takes time for case #s to grow.

Please bookmark this page and come back in TWO WEEKS and let me know what kind of EXPONENTIAL GROWTH we have had that caused a tremendous SURGE.

Ain’t gonna happen.

You, me, and everyone who's posted to this thread will be dead from covid in two weeks.

Thanks for correcting me. I believe you’re right. See you on the other side, brother!

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Anonymous wrote:The threat to the immunocompromised (an extremely broad category) has also been inflated in the media:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-vaccine-is-effective-immunocompromised/629596/

Chemo patient here, I agree with you actually! But if I contract covid my (hopefully) life-prolonging treatments have to be suspended for 20 days, non negotiable. So we aren’t all in the same situation.

Yes, that is the point. "Immunocompromised" is a very broad label, and chemo or transplant patients are certainly in a precarious situation (as they have been prior to Covid since a simple cold can be a serious threat to them), but they represent a tiny minority of those who today declare themselves at "high risk" from Covid despite vaccines.

I wish you the best in your recovery.

PP has STAGE 4 cancer - she will not have a "recovery." She is doing chemo to prolong her life - she requires it to stay alive. And I bet she'd like to be able to go out occasionally without worrying that she'll catch a super-contagious disease that might kill her. Which part of that do you not understand?

Which part of what I wrote makes you think I don't understand her situation? The word "recovery"? Yes, I was thinking that was maybe euphemistic (although I do know someone who had stage IV breast cancer and is alive 20 years later). Apologies for not using a more accurate term, but it's hard to know what the right word is not knowing her exact situation.

Cancer patient here - it's all good! I accept all good wishes. I am not likely to make a full recovery; the best we are hoping for at this point is a remission, but that could be months or even a few years if I am very very lucky.

The painful irony about this conversation is that the surgery that could have saved my life last summer was deemed "elective" due to the pandemic health emergency, so what would have been routine under normal circumstances wasn't an option and I am surely paying the price now. This is one of the myriad ways the pandemic has devastated lives far beyond the simple calculation of "did you catch it and did you wind up in the hospital or dead?"

Peace.

Those of us who left the area for break can confirm that Covid precautions are literally non existent except here. This area is so weird.

According to WaPo tracker, cases in DC are now decreasing.

Anonymous wrote:Kids have only been back for a few days. It takes time for #s to build. Check back in 2-3 weeks.

Some districts have been back longer than that. FCPS had their break the first week of April. Stafford was at the end of March I believe. It varies.

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Anonymous wrote:No one is testing anymore. We've received several emails about cases in my kids' schools.

Our last reported case was in February. We are now a week and a half past spring break.

Where are you?

We have a huge spike.

Fairfax County. I’m an ES teacher. We are a two teacher household and neither school has any recently reported cases.

Check the FCPS dashboard. Cases are definitely up and that’s an underreporting since people are testing at home and not reporting or not testing at all. Our two FCPS schools have sent notices of cases nearly every day since spring break. It’s such a change from before spring break.

Sorry. I should have specified to say our school's last reported case was in February (I double checked the dashboard).

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Anonymous wrote:How's this possible. Shouldn't there be a spike like every holiday.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I know it’s hard to comprehend when the narrative you’ve been fed doesn’t prove to be true.

Thoughts and prayers.

There is a huge spike in cases in the northeast and DC. I know several people who have covid right now. Yes, it’s been mild for them, but it hasn’t disappeared. It’s continuing to mutate. I wish like hell it would go away because I’m going through chemo for stage 4 cancer and would prefer not to die of covid while I’m fighting the cancer.

Yeah, you can put your "thoughts and prayers" in your dark void.

I hope its clear I meant THAT for the sarcastic PP who posted about thoughts and prayers.

Smug people like that have no empathy for anyone other than themselves, and in fact do not have thoughts or prayers about other people who are vulnerable.

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Anonymous wrote:How's this possible. Shouldn't there be a spike like every holiday.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I know it’s hard to comprehend when the narrative you’ve been fed doesn’t prove to be true.

Thoughts and prayers.

There is a huge spike in cases in the northeast and DC. I know several people who have covid right now. Yes, it’s been mild for them, but it hasn’t disappeared. It’s continuing to mutate. I wish like hell it would go away because I’m going through chemo for stage 4 cancer and would prefer not to die of covid while I’m fighting the cancer.

Yeah, you can put your "thoughts and prayers" in your dark void.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have only been back for a few days. It takes time for #s to build. Check back in 2-3 weeks.

Please. We’ve heard “2 weeks” a million times before. Give it up already.

I'm sorry you struggle with the concept of exponential growth.

If we do have a "surge" it won't be a few days later. It takes time for case #s to grow.

Please bookmark this page and come back in TWO WEEKS and let me know what kind of EXPONENTIAL GROWTH we have had that caused a tremendous SURGE.

Ain’t gonna happen.

You, me, and everyone who's posted to this thread will be dead from covid in two weeks.

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A surge in cases and hospitalizations is inevitable, but we'll weather it, and we'll weather many other surges in the next few years. I hope you can all see your way to masking indoors again when numbers spike. Thank you doing your part. Enjoy your lives.

No, most people are not going to go back to masking.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have only been back for a few days. It takes time for #s to build. Check back in 2-3 weeks.

Please. We’ve heard “2 weeks” a million times before. Give it up already.

I'm sorry you struggle with the concept of exponential growth.

If we do have a "surge" it won't be a few days later. It takes time for case #s to grow.

Please bookmark this page and come back in TWO WEEKS and let me know what kind of EXPONENTIAL GROWTH we have had that caused a tremendous SURGE.

Ain’t gonna happen.

May is literally right around the corner. We were already supposed to be in the height of this new "surge". So far, it's a big "meh". Nobody is even talking about this outside these boards.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have only been back for a few days. It takes time for #s to build. Check back in 2-3 weeks.

Please. We’ve heard “2 weeks” a million times before. Give it up already.

I'm sorry you struggle with the concept of exponential growth.

If we do have a "surge" it won't be a few days later. It takes time for case #s to grow.

Please bookmark this page and come back in TWO WEEKS and let me know what kind of EXPONENTIAL GROWTH we have had that caused a tremendous SURGE.

Ain’t gonna happen.

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Anonymous wrote:The threat to the immunocompromised (an extremely broad category) has also been inflated in the media:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-vaccine-is-effective-immunocompromised/629596/

Chemo patient here, I agree with you actually! But if I contract covid my (hopefully) life-prolonging treatments have to be suspended for 20 days, non negotiable. So we aren’t all in the same situation.

Yes, that is the point. "Immunocompromised" is a very broad label, and chemo or transplant patients are certainly in a precarious situation (as they have been prior to Covid since a simple cold can be a serious threat to them), but they represent a tiny minority of those who today declare themselves at "high risk" from Covid despite vaccines.

I wish you the best in your recovery.

PP has STAGE 4 cancer - she will not have a "recovery." She is doing chemo to prolong her life - she requires it to stay alive. And I bet she'd like to be able to go out occasionally without worrying that she'll catch a super-contagious disease that might kill her. Which part of that do you not understand?

Which part of what I wrote makes you think I don't understand her situation? The word "recovery"? Yes, I was thinking that was maybe euphemistic (although I do know someone who had stage IV breast cancer and is alive 20 years later). Apologies for not using a more accurate term, but it's hard to know what the right word is not knowing her exact situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have only been back for a few days. It takes time for #s to build. Check back in 2-3 weeks.

Please. We’ve heard “2 weeks” a million times before. Give it up already.

I'm sorry you struggle with the concept of exponential growth.

If we do have a "surge" it won't be a few days later. It takes time for case #s to grow.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The threat to the immunocompromised (an extremely broad category) has also been inflated in the media:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-vaccine-is-effective-immunocompromised/629596/

Chemo patient here, I agree with you actually! But if I contract covid my (hopefully) life-prolonging treatments have to be suspended for 20 days, non negotiable. So we aren’t all in the same situation.

Yes, that is the point. "Immunocompromised" is a very broad label, and chemo or transplant patients are certainly in a precarious situation (as they have been prior to Covid since a simple cold can be a serious threat to them), but they represent a tiny minority of those who today declare themselves at "high risk" from Covid despite vaccines.

I wish you the best in your recovery.

PP has STAGE 4 cancer - she will not have a "recovery." She is doing chemo to prolong her life - she requires it to stay alive. And I bet she'd like to be able to go out occasionally without worrying that she'll catch a super-contagious disease that might kill her. Which part of that do you not understand?