Patient cancelled this afternoon. High school student (and their entire family) sick with #COVID19. To politicians/leaders who assert “let’s return to normal,” do you see that this is NOT normal?? Students and staff miss more school and they risk #LongCovid with (re)infections.
My wife was working with a high school student recently who needs to get ready for end of course exams in a few months, but they're continually going weeks without doing any work. She's not ignorant, as many teachers are, that this is likely COVID related, and sure enough the mom tells her "This is just the way the world is now. There's nothing we can do about it. It's up to the school to figure out how to teach students who are always out sick."
And I kind of felt like that nicely summed up the whole mess.
