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We had been getting those emails, increasingly frequent before break. Now they just post the numbers on the website and you have to check. A new post for each day with the new count for the day.
Being out caused a blow up. Likewise, as some have suggested break should have been longer, that likely would have just caused a bigger blow up as more people traveled and interacted with people they don't normally interact with.
If we want to create a circuit breaker type action, we would need people to stay home, stop interacting with external groups, and wait out the incubation time. A planned virtual week might have done that, or people might have just done virtual from far flung locations. Last year, everyone got good at that. There's no easy answer, and even those type of mini isolations needs lots of planning and support. It's not like everyone could just take an extra week off for a staycation. Even if we found a way to encourage them to stay.
The at school mitigations (masks, ventilation, lots and lots of ventilation, space, school testing) probably work just as well at slowing spread as trying to get everyone to isolate for a week.
"Winn-Dixie’s parent company will give out more than 2 million N95 masks to customers across its three grocery store chains starting as early as Friday.
The Winn-Dixie giveaway is just a fraction of the 400 million N95 masks being made available to pharmacies across the nation by the Biden administration. They are considered an important tool in the fight against COVID-19, especially against the highly contagious omicron variant, because they provide more protection than cloth and surgical masks, experts say.
Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, which also owns Fresco y Más and Harveys Supermarket, will distribute the masks at all of its in-store pharmacies, the company revealed in a news release Monday.
There will be a three-mask per person limit and masks will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last, the release said."
www.orlandosentinel.com
The Winn-Dixie giveaway is just a fraction of the 400 million N95 masks being made available to pharmacies across the nation by the Biden administration. They are considered an important tool in the fight against COVID-19, especially against the highly contagious omicron variant, because they provide more protection than cloth and surgical masks, experts say.
Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, which also owns Fresco y Más and Harveys Supermarket, will distribute the masks at all of its in-store pharmacies, the company revealed in a news release Monday.
There will be a three-mask per person limit and masks will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last, the release said."
Winn-Dixie, other pharmacies to give away millions of N95 masks coming from D.C.
Winn-Dixie’s parent company, Southeastern Grocers, will give out more than 2 million N95 masks to customers across its three grocery store chains starting as early as Friday — the first…
www.orlandosentinel.com
correcaminos
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I believe they are required legally to disclose here. We definitely were lucky in that cases in schools did not occur until after break. Probably dumb luck here. Cleveland was getting hammered right before we went on break. We were just a week or so behind.
I do not believe that break being longer would have helped either. I know better and I don't know that it would've caused a bigger blow up to be longer, but I know darn well that being in school wouldn't have made it worse.
Since I know we are not going to break that circle, I'm just going to hope for the best. Our schools no longer can isolate as before. The only thing my district did was finally say to the students and parents that it doesn't matter, if at a school function or at school or whatever you have to wear masks all the time. That was never a rule before either. After seeing the report on a study in MI I can say masking at least at my kid's age feels right.
I talk to my kid often about school and masks and such. They're doing okay and I am really more hopeful that this eventually will burn out. Unlike some I don't believe this is forever - not even close. We'll get there some day.
Looks like a Winn-Winn!"Winn-Dixie’s parent company will give out more than 2 million N95 masks to customers across its three grocery store chains starting as early as Friday.
The Winn-Dixie giveaway is just a fraction of the 400 million N95 masks being made available to pharmacies across the nation by the Biden administration. They are considered an important tool in the fight against COVID-19, especially against the highly contagious omicron variant, because they provide more protection than cloth and surgical masks, experts say.
Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, which also owns Fresco y Más and Harveys Supermarket, will distribute the masks at all of its in-store pharmacies, the company revealed in a news release Monday.
There will be a three-mask per person limit and masks will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last, the release said."
Winn-Dixie, other pharmacies to give away millions of N95 masks coming from D.C.
Winn-Dixie’s parent company, Southeastern Grocers, will give out more than 2 million N95 masks to customers across its three grocery store chains starting as early as Friday — the first…
Polkadotdress
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From the Orlando Sentinel:
“Orange County Public Schools reported about 28,500 student absences on Tuesday, an improvement from the 40,000 absences reported Wednesday, Jan. 5 but still more than double the 12,600 reported on Wednesday, Dec. 8., before the recent surge, OCPS figures show.”
We will still get direct close contact notices, it's the general "Someone at school tested positive, you're not a close contact you don't have to do anything" emails that stopped. They still publish the daily number, you just have to look for it instead of an email.
We've been masked all year. The only real distance is when eating lunch. Mostly they just took over more space to spread out the tables or have the kids eating in multiple locations. The rest of the times, masks have completely replaced distance.
My kids don't seem to mind the masks as much as many adults complain. They seem to get more angry at me asking if they remembered their mask more than actually wearing it.
The younger one would like some with a better fit is all. Finally got some Well Before size "Ages 9-12" masks to try out this week.
correcaminos
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We had masks in school but after hours they weren't required. So games or plays we went without. That's our big change.
I do think our daily numbers were required to give to us too. I only get the school. District are only updated weekly and not divided by school easily.
I have a kid sized head and I have issues myself. I have cloth ones that work great and stumbled on some gray and white masks that really are more tween sized. I have a huge stash of those from the play. Had to make sure small kids could fit but not be too big for adult sized kids. I wear my cloth over those now or tuck and fold if only doing paper. Earlier I actually didn't car as much tbh.
willtravel
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Doesn't anyone just get the flu, sore throat, common cold, bronchitis, sinus infection, chest cold anymore?
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Kevin_W
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Yep, my daugher did. Since it was while I was in quarantine for Covid, we tested her frequently.
Chip Chipperson
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4 kids (all under the age of 5, 3 of whom were infants) have died in the past 4 weeks from COVID-19 in NJ. That's 25% of the total COVID-19 deaths among kids in NJ since the start of the pandemic.
www.nj.com
4 N.J. children with COVID have died since Christmas, officials say
Three of the four children were infants, state officials said Monday.
www.nj.com
correcaminos
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Yep, we still get that too. Influenza was decently high for a while among other respiratory viruses.
Yes and if they have those issues, they better get tested for covid.
DC0703
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Ditto - we're going at the tail end of April as well. We rented DVC points last year during that period in June when vaccines were flowing, numbers were falling, and seemed like the end was in site. Now I'm watching those case counts and hoping things drop back to a minimal number by then (which seems possible if the projections hold up). Especially because we are staying at the Poly for the first time, and I'm hoping for an awesome trip!
StarWarsGirl
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We've been on five trips to WDW since the pandemic began and none of us have ever caught Covid. Hopefully it works out for you as well.
StarWarsGirl
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My cousin told me that he will not get vaccinated and neither will his children because he doesn't trust it or the government. Then he proceeded to tell our 82 year old grandmother (she doesn't want to get her booster because she got really sick from the first two shots, so did I) that she needs to get it because she's old.
I don't understand their logic sometimes...
StarWarsGirl
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Another vaccine we should all be getting...
correcaminos
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One I definitely do. Have since my mom's oncologist ordered us to do when I was a teen. Seems to help enough so far (knock on wood). Since H1N1 it was a massive priority for my kid, and that turned my spouse to do it too.
Kudos to the FL Dept of Health by ordering all FL antibody treatment sites to be closed immediately following the FDA pulling the authorization! If Regeneron according to medical experts don't combat Omicron effectively then why peddle this snake oil?
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Bob Harlem
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Delta still exists
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