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Originally Posted by Armybrat
Sorry to hear that Jdawg, but best wishes for a complete recovery.
Maybe if 299 had the same experience, they wouldn’t be so dismissive.
And us old folks have just as much right to live our lives too. EVERYBODY should take precautions, no matter what age or status..... as we get on with our lives.
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Well said. What many of us have a hard time understanding is that what we all do now effects all of us. It's collective action, basic human community stuff. One of the things that's really been mind-blowing during this time is finding out exactly how many of my fellow Americans have either forgotten or never knew how to be in a community with one another. I have a lot of suspicions why that is, but suffice to say it's imperative that we rediscover how to cooperate again, and stat.
For me, I'm wrestling with whether to send my 7 and 11 yr olds back to school next month. Actually, the wrestling part is mostly done -- my wife and I have decided to keep them home at least for the first grading period, which ends in October.
Reopening schools is going to be a clusterf*ck of the highest order, and will end up a meat grinder for kids and teachers and parents alike. And we're only focused on public schools; reopening UT and higher ed in general is going to be another completely awful event. We've had the luxury so far of not having to deal with some of the worst choices during pandemic -- I can't imagine the folks (like teachers, or foreign students, etc) who are in between the rockiest rocks and the hardest hard places.