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More Covid-19 Insanity
This is one of the most bizarre and ridiculous displays of Covid-19 fear that I have seen. In order to protect students who sang or played in the band, Wenatchee School District High School put children in pods. They were intended to lessen the exposure to the virus. The fact that children are the least likely to contract or pass on the virus is irrelevant. Heaven help the kid with a sousaphone or anyone who is claustrophobic. Here is how this decision was explained:
‘Wenatchee has a history of ingenuity and creative problem-solving. The music pods are an innovative mitigation solution to allow music to continue safety in our schools despite the coronavirus pandemic,’ Diana Haglund, communications director for the Wenatchee School District, told the Washington Examiner. ‘Wenatchee has award-winning music programs from our nationally-recognized Mariachi, to our acclaimed Golden Apple Marching band and our outstanding choir. Based on restrictive Washington State Department of Health Theatre and Performing Arts COVID 19 requirements, Wenatchee music teachers developed a creative mitigation method using music pods to safely allow choir and music practice to resume at Wenatchee High School.’
This decision was not about protecting the children or creativity or ingenuity. It was about ignorance about the science, paranoia, and virtue signaling.
At least the kids didn’t have to try to sing or play with masks on. Right.
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This is one hilarious post!!!
I keep bouncing between rage and hilarity. I hope it doesn’t mean permanent brain damage, Steven.
We live in “interesting” times, Susan!
Kids in cages.
Those are known as shelters now. I’m sure it says so in someone’s style book.
Did you get this from the Onion or the Babylon Bee? I mean, it can’t possibly be real, right?
So sorry.
Wow. You wanna talk about pod people?
On a more sober note (no pun intended).
My elderly aunt, a woman I love dearly, is undergoing open heart surgery this very moment, for the replacement of an infected valve. She has been in the hospital for more than a week, during which time neither her husband nor her daughters have been allowed to visit her. From the moment she stepped into the Emergency Room a week ago until she entered surgery this morning, she hasn’t seen her family and they haven’t seen her. Because Covid.
She and her husband have both been vaccinated.
What’s makes matters worse is that the hospital, the staff of which I don’t doubt is medically competent and has the best of intentions, appears to have made no provisions, in the year since this idiocy began, to allow the family to participate in consultations or otherwise remain informed. They’ve simply closed their doors. The fact that both daughters have medical powers of attorney, etc., is irrelevant.
I don’t swear much, but this sets me off.
That’s pretty bad. Some of these restrictions make no scientific sense whatsoever. My mother underwent hip replacement surgery at a major hospital at the beginning of November when restrictions were just getting tighter. So I was lucky that they let me visit with her both before and after her surgery, though their limit was one family member per patient.
Oh, Hank, that’s terrible! Unbelievable! Sending lots of prayers.
This is exactly why my wife won’t get the knee surgeries she needs.
I keep thinking about a dear lady who went to the hospital with some difficulties. To this day nobody, even the nurses on duty, know how it happened that with some egregious violations of strict , unviolable policies and procedures that are otherwise always followed she was brought home in an ambulance to spend her last twelve hours with her husband, children and grandchildren.
The wondrous grace of G-d.
Move to Texas. Or Mississippi, Or North Dakota.