I work for a school.
American students should not go back to "school-as-normal" this fall.
Life is not "normal" right now.
College sports started practicing, and Oh! students tested positive for COVID.
A couple of cheerleaders for a local high school were diagnosed yesterday. They've been practicing.
I wonder ... if school starts back as normal, will people get sick?
So we (America) can do one of two things: we can pretend like we know what's going on (quite literally I work for a school and have little to no idea what they're planning), OR we can adapt.
Darwin: survival of those most willing to adapt.
If you keep doing the same thing in this pandemic, you will: (potentially)
- Be fine. Nothing happens to you.
- Be fine. You have been infected, but you were able to heal yourself.
- Get diagnosed by a doctor and have to choose whether or not your insurance is good enough - or if you have enough money - to be treated, because you are symptomatic.
- You then cannot go to work. Your medical bills are outrageous.
- You get it and succumb. You die.
*Of the above options, I choose all but the third.
The government throws money at people "for COVID', as a stimulus, but it does not help those people who cannot afford to be either be off work or go to a doctor. The stimulus is so temporary, that it simply gave some demographics of people the time to breathe, before those people had to make life choices about work and child care and school and ... well, everything, pertaining to day-to-day life.
We can be better. Our society and systems can improve.
Peace and love.
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