My work has had a second staff member test positive (not at my location) and the HAVOC just one positive test wreaks on staffing is immense. They closed the location for a day, and are trying to continue staffing with people who did not work with the positive. (People who did work with the positive are to get a test and quarantine 14 days even if it's negative.) We are very quickly going to run out of staff and have to close locations.
Now imagine if we were a public high school with 3000 students and hundreds of teachers and staff. The mind boggles.
My current issue is I see no way out of my anxiety.
I am trying to mantra myself with - I can only control how I react and what I do - .
Meditation helps me somewhat -- because it sure doesn't fix the source of the anxiety, and it doesn't really make the anxiety go away, but it does help dial the anxiety down for a while, and at this point in the hellscape that is our lives, I'm taking "a little less anxiety for a little while" as a win.
The meditation app I use is called MyLife (it used to be called Stop, Breathe, and Think -- I have no idea why they changed it).
I am doing a combo of sleep meditations and sleep training things every night.
I gave feedback to the reopening plan for the schools here and I had 2 "what the actual fuck?" moments:
1)Apparently, while people who have travelled have to self-quarantine at home, other people in the household are free to go about their lives.
2)They're planning on treating classes as cohorts or families, with reduced distancing within that unit. But if someone tests positive, only that person has to self-quarantine. The rest of the class can carry on as usual. I registered my concern about this policy (as well as questions about staff who work in classrooms, but not just one class and substitute teachers)
school seems so fraught. I do not see how it can work.
I'm starting to try to get used to the idea that ltc may not be going to school in the Fall.
The thing I keep saying is that we could have had schools reopen, but it would have had to have been the priority. Instead, we chose restaurants, beaches, and bars. Choices have consequences, so enjoy that dine-in experience.
Our district is toying with the idea of full on k-6 in person, but 7-12 will be a mix of online/in person education. Part of the classes attend two days, part of the classes attend another two days, with a cleaning day in between.
Not sure about masks and social distancing. As miserably as my kids did with e-learning, I'm hoping for in person check ins with teachers at least once a week--I'm just not sure how to do it safely.
Ugh.
Not having school or daycare is a huge issue for so many. I haven't heard any good solutions.
