No “live via Zoom” virtual learning at all in FL public schools this year. Florida Virtual is available to some but it is completely separate from kids’ chosen schools. Limited to no options for specialized programs such as IB, AICE etc.
Try living here. Not exactly fun right now. Tragically it wasn’t always like this here.
We might just be willing to trade your insanity for ours. No mask mandates and none allowed. No social distancing in classrooms. As well as the temper tantrums you unfortunately had to face. (Edited to add: and fewer than 30% of eligible kids vaccinated. Ugh.)
Liking and doing are different things. I don't see you like the person on the plane who was removed for not wearing a mask. I don't like them either as I think it's more theater, so I just pay my Pre-Check to avoid it all.
Oh I totally agree. Why masks and distancing ever became political I don’t know.
Oh no I’ll follow the TSA and Disney Security procedures. I just 100% disagree with them.
Good luck! I was reading about Florida and it's a mess. A bunch of friends who live down there are struggling. Good people though. We may not have distancing in the classrooms but 6' down to 3' is about what we get now. Like I said my city is well vaccinated and with masks my worry for my own is minimal.We might just be willing to trade your insanity for ours. No mask mandates and none allowed. No social distancing in classrooms. As well as the temper tantrums you unfortunately had to face. Hug your kids and tell them to continue the good fight. And if they’re brave enough to come to Florida, my boys are fully vaccinated and would probably enjoy a good game of D&D.
IF you ever make it up to the crazy world that's Ohio, we have a few one day campaigns we do with family Really best wishes as you deal with this. It's no fun!
Agreed! Like I said there's a reason why I do pre-check. That and to avoid extra screenings I seem to get. (it's a name thing, nothing more). I like keeping my sweatshirts on and shoes too. Bottles don't have to come out. Since MCO is an airport I fly into often even while visiting family, it's well worth it to pay for me to do it.
Short term, yes. Long term herd immunity and/or elimination is still the goal. We may never achieve it or it may take quite a while but it should be the goal. Measles was eliminated in the US but it took decades from the time the first person got a measles vaccine. I’m not suggesting things will be like today for decades either, but assuming covid sticks around worldwide and doesn’t pull a disappearing act like SARS we may see outbreaks pop up for a long time until most of the world is vaccinated and that will take years.
They literally are an attack on the freedom not to be uncomfortable by wearing an uncomfortable and annoying mask. Whatever they do or don't do to slow the spread of COVID, many people (myself included) find wearing one uncomfortable. They make it more difficult to communicate, restrict breathing and cause you to smell your own breath after eating.
That is how my daughter's school district will be, except you can wear a mask if you want. Actually, they did this last year as well (we are new to the district this year), and had very few cases and no outbreaks.
Yeah, wearing one stinks. Completely agree. But maybe as grownups we can give up just a little comfort for the greater good. A lot of our ancestors made sacrifices on a regular basis for this country that make complaining about mask wearing seem petty and downright ridiculous by comparison.
I also think it is more of a philosophical difference than a political one. But I am also a rule follower for the most part so will not push businesses too much on it, at least for now.
To clarify, no mask mandates allowed by the Governor but a few districts are challenging that. But kids are welcome to wear masks if they choose and thankfully some are. But there’s absolutely no sense of urgency to take precautions like we did last year and the COVID situation here is far worse. The official line on this sadly from top leadership is to prevent local officials from doing what they think is right based on conditions on the ground. There are no mandates— or even any encouragement— urging local governments to do the right thing. Only roadblocks preventing reasonable safety measures that were in place last year and helped keep cases at bay.
I get why this could upset some people. We have a similar rule in my state that is also be challenged by some.
I know we know what our ancestors did. But I’m not convinced we know they did it without complaining.
I'm no constitutuonal scholar, but I'm pretty sure there is no such inscribed or implied freedom.
Sending the kids back to school this morning kind of felt like we were sending them outside in the middle of a thunderstorm with golf clubs. At least they’re vaccinated and masked. But that’s the reality here right now. So here we are.
