It's back to school time and it’s also anxious time. For students, their parents and their grandparents.
A year and a half now since the start of the pandemic, the worries over the COVID virus continue and so does the pandemic. Having two grandkids already back in school, and two others going back to class next week and three others who live in Texas where local schools have been forced to defy their Governor in order to wear masks, leaving parents unsure what to do, the worrying is a reality.
But things are better than they were in early 2020. And it is important for all of us to remember that, despite the raging Delta variant, among mostly only unvaccinated people, a lot of people are fully vaccinated, and more are getting the shots every day,
But there are still a lot of unvaccinated people. And the vaccines are not yet approved for kids under 12 but are expected to be within a few weeks or so. So, things should get better and there should be less worrying in the months ahead.
California now requiring all teachers and all school staff to be vaccinated or face mandatory COVID testing at least every week, our state is ahead of ones like Texas and Florida, where cases are raging and so is the battle over masks and vaccinations.
We all know how politicized the pandemic has been pretty much from the start and sadly, still is.
And all kids in school are caught in the middle of it. What we should hope for is that as kids go back to school, they learn something a lot of adults have not learned; how to not make their health and safety political issues and that it takes adults working together as adults and not like children squabbling on a playground.
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