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stevenpiziks) wrote2020-11-16 02:45 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2020-11-16 02:45 pm
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The Pandemic Clamps Down
Here in Michigan, the pandemic is clamping down hard. Hospitals are filling up and predicting they'll be unable to take more patients in just a few days. Governor Whitmer announced yesterday that we're going back to the restrictions we had last spring. Everyone who can work from home, MUST work from home. Secondary school buildings are closed. Elementary school buildings are open if the individual district decides to keep it open. Restaurants are closed to on-site dining--takeout and curb-side only. Movie theaters and other gathering places are closed. No public gatherings of more than 10 people. Private gatherings should be limited to members of two households. This includes Thanksgiving.
The Wherever School District had already taken its secondary schools to virtual learning only. Elementary schools were closed until last week, when they had in-person instruction for the first time. But they said if a certain percentage of students or staff tested positive for COVID-19, the individual school would go back to virtual learning. Three days into in-person learning, TWO elementary schools had to close. A day later, a third had to close. That's three schools closing in three days. The board moved up its bi-monthly meeting to tomorrow in order to discuss closing the rest of the elementary schools. I have the feeling they're going to do it.
I feel I should point out that several school districts around Wherever have been doing in-person learning or hybrid learning (half the students come to school on a given day and spend the other days with distance learning). A passel of parents bitched and moaned that Wherever had elected virtual learning for all its schools when they opened this fall, and these parents enrolled their children in West Bloomfield and Huron Valley and Novi. Now it turns out those schools will have to go virtual as well, which means that the parents now have to deal with virtual learning AND the fact that their kids are enrolled in a distant district. Huh. Who knew?
Already online I'm seeing people who claim that the governor is a despot, that they're going to have Thanksgiving no matter what, that they'll do everything in their power to ignore this. My normal thought is, "Well, let them get the disease, then," but of course, these people will also spread it to everyone around them, including people who are following the rules.
Weeks ago, my family discussed Thanksgiving and Christmas. We decided to cancel both. We can live without them for one year so that we can attend them in the future. We don't want to say next year, "And we miss our dead loved ones so much" during the Thanksgiving prayer.
The pandemic is getting worse because people aren't taking basic precautions. It WILL affect you and your family eventually if we don't all act. Please follow the precautions.
The Wherever School District had already taken its secondary schools to virtual learning only. Elementary schools were closed until last week, when they had in-person instruction for the first time. But they said if a certain percentage of students or staff tested positive for COVID-19, the individual school would go back to virtual learning. Three days into in-person learning, TWO elementary schools had to close. A day later, a third had to close. That's three schools closing in three days. The board moved up its bi-monthly meeting to tomorrow in order to discuss closing the rest of the elementary schools. I have the feeling they're going to do it.
I feel I should point out that several school districts around Wherever have been doing in-person learning or hybrid learning (half the students come to school on a given day and spend the other days with distance learning). A passel of parents bitched and moaned that Wherever had elected virtual learning for all its schools when they opened this fall, and these parents enrolled their children in West Bloomfield and Huron Valley and Novi. Now it turns out those schools will have to go virtual as well, which means that the parents now have to deal with virtual learning AND the fact that their kids are enrolled in a distant district. Huh. Who knew?
Already online I'm seeing people who claim that the governor is a despot, that they're going to have Thanksgiving no matter what, that they'll do everything in their power to ignore this. My normal thought is, "Well, let them get the disease, then," but of course, these people will also spread it to everyone around them, including people who are following the rules.
Weeks ago, my family discussed Thanksgiving and Christmas. We decided to cancel both. We can live without them for one year so that we can attend them in the future. We don't want to say next year, "And we miss our dead loved ones so much" during the Thanksgiving prayer.
The pandemic is getting worse because people aren't taking basic precautions. It WILL affect you and your family eventually if we don't all act. Please follow the precautions.