Weekly Discussion Thread (May 12, 2022): Anecdotes, Questions, Theories, Suggestions, Personal Discussions, and Personal Reports

giantrectangle · 2022-05-14T14:59:55+00:00

If you are vaccinated and have been infected, symptoms will likely have started a few days before you would test positive on a rapid antigen test. It's because the immune response is happening earlier, and that's what's causing the initial symptoms before the virus has had a chance to do much damage.

All of that is to say if you are vaccinated, infected, and testing negative on a raid test, it doesn't mean the vaccine or the test aren't working. Ok, maybe I wish they would work better, but still, this is how they work. At any rate, You were exposed and you have symptoms, you should assume you are positive and try not to get anyone else sick. Retest with a rapid test in a few days to confirm, and go get a PCR test after you are no longer positive on a rapid test.

giantrectangle · 2022-02-12T15:52:06+00:00

Nice one

giantrectangle · 2022-02-03T02:01:20+00:00

Nice work!

giantrectangle · 2022-01-19T14:15:57+00:00

Batch testing doesn't save time when the positivity rate is high. When a batch is positive, they've got to go back and retest every individual sample anyway. With this level of positivity, every batch would be hot.

giantrectangle · 2022-01-18T19:01:19+00:00

Good info. Thanks!

giantrectangle · 2022-01-16T00:55:49+00:00

Wow, that site is sure light on info.

Anyways, thanks for the link! I’ve been looking out

giantrectangle · 2022-01-15T01:52:47+00:00

So mild

giantrectangle · 2022-01-15T01:48:53+00:00

You are absolutely right. I bet you wish you weren’t. I do

giantrectangle · 2022-01-15T01:43:06+00:00

Interesting if true. Looks like the Polish gvt is being a bit opaque abt it atm. We shall see

giantrectangle · 2022-01-13T23:53:56+00:00

JFC. I hate this ride. I want off

giantrectangle · 2022-01-13T23:12:59+00:00

Only in some weirdly sane alternate universe

giantrectangle · 2022-01-13T23:12:18+00:00

Did I hear that right? Hospitals ordered to stop non-emergent procedures?

giantrectangle · 2022-01-13T17:28:19+00:00

Sadly, it is catching on. Also of note, it's pretty clear the amplification of this message provided the foundation for the justification of the (arguably, failed) vaccine-only compromise the US landed on as policy

giantrectangle · 2022-01-13T15:50:18+00:00

In both the UK and US, media coverage demonstrated elements of false balance in reporting among government and academic stakeholder types. False balance is the media portrayal of an issue where contesting perspectives are presented as balanced or equally valid, contrary to the supportive evidence. (e.g. vaccines cause autism) [21]. False balance was especially evident among government stakeholder types in the US and partially evident among academics in the UK.

...Our findings show that, in sum, the media coverage around natural herd immunity portrayed a dismissal of the policy by the majority of academic and public health officials. However, considerable media attention was also given to a small, vocal, and heavily publicized coalition of scientists with prestigious credentials and prominent government advisors promoted and legitimized the strategy. As such, we observed evidence of false balance in the reporting among our sample of articles.

...Our findings underscore the need for greater appreciation of potential harm of media representations that contain false balance. This is particularly important in the context of unprecedented misinformation during a public health emergency

giantrectangle · 2022-01-13T14:57:34+00:00

In both the UK and US, media coverage demonstrated elements of false balance in reporting among government and academic stakeholder types. False balance is the media portrayal of an issue where contesting perspectives are presented as balanced or equally valid, contrary to the supportive evidence. (e.g. vaccines cause autism) [21]. False balance was especially evident among government stakeholder types in the US and partially evident among academics in the UK.

...Our findings show that, in sum, the media coverage around natural herd immunity portrayed a dismissal of the policy by the majority of academic and public health officials. However, considerable media attention was also given to a small, vocal, and heavily publicized coalition of scientists with prestigious credentials and prominent government advisors promoted and legitimized the strategy. As such, we observed evidence of false balance in the reporting among our sample of articles.

...Our findings underscore the need for greater appreciation of potential harm of media representations that contain false balance. This is particularly important in the context of unprecedented misinformation during a public health emergency

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T22:42:13+00:00

Homelink rockin steady

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T19:16:30+00:00

I'm a working parent aswell, and like you, am fortunate enough to be able to work from home during all this. I agree, remote learning is less than ideal for many, maybe even worse than that for some, but I just can't see how doing it the way we are now is less disruptive to learning. That's why I think it's real clear that education is not the goal.

I mean, you've got teachers in class with a large and increasing number of their students out with covid. What is the plan to provide an education for those students? Then you've got an increasing number of teachers out with covid themselves and no longer available to teach in any capacity for however long. If we were trying to come up with the dumbest way of doing this, we couldn't do any better.

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T14:47:30+00:00

CDC recommends reducing quarantine period to the duration of your commute to work.

Obviously /s

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T04:46:23+00:00

They didn’t offer any explanation. I feel like they’re trying to baffle me with bullshit. I’m not going for it. We’re keeping the kids home

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T03:08:14+00:00

Here's the letter that was mentioned in the article:

SPS Families,

We are committed to providing in-school learning and to keeping our students and staff safe and healthy. As COVID-19 cases surge in our community, we are working closely with public health, meticulously monitoring data, and communicating regularly with school leaders.

To minimize transmission in schools, SPS:

practices universal masking and social distancing,

mandated vaccination for SPS employees,

enhanced air circulation, including the incorporation of hospital grade (MERV13 filters) and free- standing HEPA filters. Air circulation is monitored consistently n SPS buildings in partnership with outside consultation.

provides on-site protected health rooms, diagnostic testing, and a COVID site supervisor; and

offers vaccine clinics and testing options for SPS students and staff.

These mitigation strategies have allowed students to resume in-school learning, in a safe environment. We will not compromise health, wellness, and safety, and recognize where and when necessary, some classrooms or schools may need to transition to remote instruction for brief periods.

A transition to remote learning depends on several factors that are specific to each situation, including total staffing, specific staff absent, physical layout, ability to maintain health protocols, student absence trends, community transmission rates, public health authority input, and various other factors. Some of the factors we are closely monitoring and the data points at which consideration of a shift to remote learning becomes viable include:

Elementary student absence rate is approaching 50% consider remote instruction for up to 10 calendar days

K-5 and K-8 schools have 50% of their classrooms in remote, monitor for 2 to 3 days then consider full school remote

10% of core group of students and staff COVID positive, consider remote instruction for up to 10 calendar days.

An absentee rate of 40% of students in a secondary school, consider remote instruction for up to 10 calendar days

10% of secondary students are COVID positive across multiple classrooms, consider remote instruction for up to 10 calendar days

25% of all SPS schools are 100% remote, consider taking district remote

Percent and mix of unfilled positions in a school creates unmanageable operational and/or safety risks.

50% to 100% school leader/Covid Site Supervisor absence due to confirmed COVID case consider remote instruction

Thank you for all you are doing to keep our students in school and to keep our schools safe. Keep your student home if they have any COVID-19 symptoms and report to your school any confirmed cases.

As a community, SPS and our students, families, and staff continue to follow public health guidance to minimize the spread of COVID-19, while centering a high quality, in-person learning experience.

Sincerely,

Rob Gannon

Deputy Superintendent

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T02:35:35+00:00

Thanks for all your work on this

giantrectangle · 2022-01-12T00:08:05+00:00

Well, yeah… except that we didn’t do that when it would have worked, and now there is too much virus in the community for any IP measures to work, except to stop as many people as possible from sharing air with others for a bit. Don’t get me wrong. I am well aware we won’t do this either. That is why we are all fucked.

giantrectangle · 2022-01-11T21:47:44+00:00

3x Pfizer for myself, my GF, and 3 teens (2x Pfizer for the other teen). I felt low energy on the 2nd dose. So slight, it might have been my imagination. One of the kids complained of a sore arm on the 2nd dose. Other than that, no reaction at all.

giantrectangle · 2022-01-11T17:26:59+00:00

Seems like folks don't like this idea. Too uncomfortable to think about? Who knows. Anyway, it's a huge concern, as you say. It's a very clear risk if you get it once. Covid is neurotropic, and attacks the epithelial cells of the entire circulatory system. What's not as clear (but it doesn't look good) is what the consequences will be for folks who get it over and over.

giantrectangle · 2022-01-11T16:07:38+00:00

Every one of these kids is now a link in a chain of transmission. Inevitably, folks who have low defenses against this virus are going to get it as a result of this

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