This morning, Tammy and I wake up not knowing what to expect in September. Yesterday, Calgary City Council passed a bylaw mandating masks in indoor public spaces. The number of COVID-19 cases in Alberta and in Calgary in particular have been going up in younger demographics. It’s not as bad as the States, but it’s much worse than it should be.
And yet in the evening, the provincial government announced that schools will re-open with near-normal operations in September.
One of these is wrong, and I’m pretty sure it’s the second one. Remember, the kids got sent home when there were only about 100 cases in all of Canada. Now we’re at over 100 cases per day in Alberta and most are in the Calgary region. 🧐
Tammy, the kids and I have been doing a good job of isolating in the past 129 days. We’ve been making decisions to not have the kids playing in each others’ houses and enforcing masks when we go out. To suddenly have the kids in classrooms with inadequate protections seems an awfully stupid thing to do.
As parents, I’m not sure what we can do about it. Wait and see?
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And it begins: the push back. Like I said, wait and see. When you have the teachers saying that they are updating their wills in anticipation of going back, this is not going to go well.
I don’t have any answers either.