With
(1) increasing long Covid suffering (and sudden death from heart attacks) and
(2) tripledemic with other infections overflowing children hospitals (immune effects)
we have (a) more masking (high quality is best).
There should also be (b) more clean air (e.g. HEPA filtration), (c) more testing, and (d) avoiding in-person meetings.
Important to spread the word that this is happening and we have the ability to take action to prevent infections, and this matters.
@yaneerbaryam agree for the filtration, but for the rest, we cannot live in a perpertual state of emergency, not without dangerously altering the very fabric of society. Covid is here to stay, let's trust the vaccines, accept the sad reality, and move on.
@yaneerbaryam @barbaracassani My spouse and I work in public schools but not for much longer. Spouse has long covid after twice getting infected by sick kids who are allowed to come to school and stay without testing. Schools giving up on all mitigations led to chronic illness in our family and the end of our careers. Go ahead and explain to me how we are supposed to "accept the sad reality, and move on."
@pixplz @yaneerbaryam @barbaracassani
I wish you and your spouse all the best in whatever's next for you, and thank you for your service in schools.
My wife left the public school classroom a couple of years ago after over 15 years and all of her former colleagues who stayed are continually sick, their kids are suffering and by in large they can't figure out why. It's tragic to watch. What's going on is not sustainable, you are correct.
@BE Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. Sounds as though your wife made a wise decision.
We know that the ideal conditions for the spread of covid are exactly what we find in schools, and we know that children and adults are catching covid in schools. The return to fully in-person learning without layered mitigations could never be safe or sustainable.
So much sickness and death all because a handful of delusional policymakers insist on denying our shared reality. It's violence.