Earlier in the week, my wife and I could not attend our oldest daughter’s holiday performance at school because no guests were allowed. This is the absurdity of today’s COVID-19 theater.
They would be puzzled to hear how my daughter’s cafeteria has rows of TV trays set up next to tables so students all
face one direction at lunch. I've seen it myself. Because school administrators apparently know a secret about air circulation.
Sbm
Re-reading this article about “draconian” laws and “Covid-19 theater,” I’m getting frustrated all over again.
I know this father loves his children, but really IMO he’s putting their comfort ahead of their safety, as well as the safety of the rest of the community.
What if he and his wife could not attend their daughter’s performance, not because guests aren’t allowed, but because the parents were in the ICU, or dead? This pandemic has orphaned so many children around the world.
Also, I take issue with his smarmy remark about “school administrators apparently know a secret about air circulation.”
Educators have twisted themselves into knots trying to keep children safe while still educating them. In the cafeteria, where he bemoans that the children have to face one direction, he should understand that this is a socially undesirable but currently necessary safety precaution.
Children have to remove their masks to eat. It is for their own health that they are not chewing and breathing directly into each other’s faces at a table.
I imagine this father insists that his kids wear seatbelts, bike helmets, life jackets on a boat, safety bars on an amusement ride and so on. When I was a kid we climbed around the back seats in the car, and especially in a station wagon, happily sat at the back window to wave at cars behind us.
By the time I was 24 and a new mother, these rules were changing. By the time I was 47 and a new grandmother, these previous behaviors were unthinkable.
Imo if this father took a different tactic and explained to his kids how wonderful it is that their safety is foremost, they’d have a good understanding as to why things have become uncomfortable but necessary. Like all other things that keep us safe.
JMO
