Flash forward 5 weeks. Your kid gets the sniffles, like they do every change-of-season. Being responsible, you don’t want to send them to school if they could infect their classmates. You’d like a test to see whether it's COVID or allergies. But we’re not testing anymore. WWYD?
https://twitter.com/shayeganam/status/1420572109210755074
If last year was any indication, this scene will play out multiple times with multiple kids in thousands of households. Only this time, we won’t have the authority to isolate the sick. Not that it matters much, because we don’t know whether they’ve got COVID anyway.
Which leaves responsible parents - most often moms - to stay home with sniffly kiddos, or risk putting their classmates at risk.
Testing would bring some modicum of sanity to this system. Masking the young and unvaccinated seems a minimal sacrifice to keep more kids in school.
Testing would bring some modicum of sanity to this system. Masking the young and unvaccinated seems a minimal sacrifice to keep more kids in school.
None of this involves lockdowns. In fact, it preserves the freedom of kids and working parents. More than that, it's the least we can do for today's most vulnerable generation that has sacrificed so much during the pandemic. #COVID19AB
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