People are asking - if not going to have an #UrgencyOfNormal now, what should we do? Mask forever? Keep kids muzzled and isolated?
No. Of course not.
Here is what makes sense (as it appears that #COVID19 isn't going anywhere....
No. Of course not.
Here is what makes sense (as it appears that #COVID19 isn't going anywhere....
1. Get vaccines to everyone including kids, using an #UrgencyOfEquity
2. Upgrade all school facilities so they have good ventilation and windows
3. Universal masking when high community transmission
4. Don't close schools unless major outbreaks at a particular school
2. Upgrade all school facilities so they have good ventilation and windows
3. Universal masking when high community transmission
4. Don't close schools unless major outbreaks at a particular school
5. Let kids play outside and congregate
6. Make sure schools have the flexibility for kids who cannot attend to receive high quality virtual education (e.g. immunocompromised) when it's needed (major outbreaks)
7. Provide social workers and mental health services for all
6. Make sure schools have the flexibility for kids who cannot attend to receive high quality virtual education (e.g. immunocompromised) when it's needed (major outbreaks)
7. Provide social workers and mental health services for all
Once community transmission is lowered from people being considerate of others, getting vaccinated and making good decisions during outbreaks, masks can be removed from schools. But we can't have no masks, no vaccines, and no mitigation measures with current transmission rates.
You just can't get back to "normal" when 2000 people a day are dying and hospitals are at capacity. Endemicity has to do with rate, we are still at epidemic rates. Maybe that will change once Omicron blows through, and if it does, lets use that time to make things better for all.
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