2021/2022 School Year

rowdypanther12 said:It's been 14 days since the contact, yeah.

So, we're looking at 14 days of zero activity. 🤦
Schools, daycare centers, and nursing homes are pretty much the only places where epidemiologists actually track self-isolation cases. That's it.
Most people just don't mention their contacts unless they really can't stand working from home—and even then, employers usually only allow remote work if you're officially in isolation.

I have a few colleagues who find it easier to just take sick leave to care for their kids. It’s a total headache if they have to keep doing it every time their little ones end up in isolation, especially when it's perfectly healthy kids being kept home by parents.🤦

Who actually finds it worth it to work from home while looking after a school-aged kid?
, for most people in that situation, it’s just not financially viable to do both.

Anyway, I'm curious—how do they even plan on checking if the kids are actually home?
They can't seriously expect children to run to the door and answer the bell, right? 😂
And then what happens? Someone shows up for a check, the kid doesn't open up, and you get hit with a fine?

They don't seem to care at all about where the kids actually end up being, as long as they aren't sitting in a classroom, which is why they want everything for both elementary and high school to move online as quickly as possible.

You'll need to provide an address; I can send someone out to perform checks at the location you specify for each period of isolation.

There really isn't any chance they'll actually be checking things. I made about five trips over to Canada last year, and I never ran into a single check or inspection.

rowdypanther12 said:Who actually finds it worth it to work from home while looking after a school-aged kid?
, for most people in that situation, it’s just not financially viable to do both.

Anyway, I'm curious—how do they even plan on checking if the kids are actually home?
They can't seriously expect children to run to the door and answer the bell, right? 😂
And then what happens? Someone shows up for a check, the kid doesn't open up, and you get hit with a fine?

For some folks, working from home really does make sense (it’s not just about the money; having more free time matters too, especially when someone else handles the heavy lifting at the office regardless).

There aren't any inspections coming. They haven't been doing that for a while now.
The real downside is that it makes it tough for kids to get to their sports practices.

rowdypanther12 said:You'll need to provide an address; I can send someone out to perform checks at the location you specify for each period of isolation.

They could, but honestly, they don't have enough people on staff to pull that off. They aren't even sending inspectors to weddings, and apparently, everyone is expected to show proof of vaccination like it's some mandatory rule. 👎
Imagine 200 people. Two hundred! All in super close contact, and nobody is wearing masks because they don't want to ruin their makeup.

Plus, when you start squeezing the healthcare system about vaccine cards, all it does is cause massive backlash, which will just lead to everyone calling in sick en masse.

Susan James said:Well... what exactly haven't you recovered from yet?
Even if your immunity has technically worn off, there's still a chance it holds up. It seems silly to force people into isolation, and it also seems silly to insist on vaccination.

In places like Seattle, where they don't get much sun, immunity usually lasts about 12 months.
If schools were hit hard last fall, those kids should still have some lingering protection today.
Plus, it's not like you won't catch something if you have minimal exposure, but at least you have some resistance. 🤔
This whole idea of forced isolation, especially for kids, really needs to end.
If you're sick, stay home. If you're fine, get out there.

Anyone who was worried could have protected themselves with the vaccine. Look at Florida—it's a huge hotspot, but it's still packed with tourists. The only ones I see stuck in isolation are students.
(And even those poor students sitting in cafes right outside their school! Someone really needs to tell them to move a block or two down the street.)

Personally, I have been. But I know plenty of others who either haven't caught it or maybe did asymptomatically and don't even realize it; they don't want the shots, so they can't comply with the restrictions.
I just hope they leave the kids alone.

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hiddendriver34 said:From where I’m standing, I’m pretty convinced those types don't even exist—and if they do, they’re definitely some kind of weirdo.

Every single professor I personally know seems to be dealing with some sort of digital-age burnout from all that remote learning.

Honestly, it might even suit some of them since they don't have to deal with parents anymore—but let's be real, both the kids and the parents are traumatized too.

coastalorca43 said:And they are—mostly through sheer laziness.
Instead of actually assessing the situation on the ground through real contact tracing, testing, and looking at the clinical symptoms of students to make informed decisions, they fight the pandemic with bureaucratic red tape like these COVID passes.

They expect healthy children to endure ten days of total solitude.
Because "isolation" is supposed to mean being alone, but that's not how it works in reality. These students are just cut off from the world while still having constant contact with everyone else in their household. Someone actually thinks it's possible to maintain true isolation in a 600-square-foot apartment with multiple people living there.
But hey, as long as they follow the protocol. If they started testing all other gathering spots—shopping malls, retail chains, government offices, sports clubs, military bases, police stations—absolutely everything would be locked down if they applied the same laziness and flawed logic used by these school epidemiologists.

Their primary goal seems to be inflating their own importance and manipulating the public, all while having the political machine backing them up. Honestly, doesn't it feel like some of them are exhibiting textbook sociopathic tendencies?

Children are the most vulnerable among us, and right now, they are the ones being most recklessly exposed. Even parents who want to support their kids by letting them go without masks are being met with threats from social services.

While some might mistakenly believe that children will just find ways to stay entertained while in isolation, aren't many people gravely mistaken? We are, at our very core, social creatures who fundamentally require communication, emotional support, love, and physical touch—like a simple hug.

Chris Grant3 said:Honestly, it might even suit some of them since they don't have to deal with parents anymore—but let's be real, both the kids and the parents are traumatized too.

That just doesn't hold water. We spent the entire last year without any parent-teacher social stuff, and classes were mostly remote anyway.

I work in the school system, and from where I sit, the biggest culprits behind these mass isolations are the school doctors—specifically those handling student health. They tend to send everyone into isolation just because... well, they're kids. They aren't working, so there's no need to worry about paying out sick leave or benefits; it’s easier to just have them stay home "just in case." It's a funny thing—I have quite a few retirees in my family, and I've noticed general practitioners always push them into isolation, too. But when it comes to actual employees, they suddenly become very selective about who counts as a "close contact," presumably to save a buck on those disability payouts.

We've seen some truly bizarre situations at my school. For instance, we had a German teacher test positive, and instead of managing it logically, they sent the entire class into isolation—even the students who were only in that teacher's English period. When people tried to point out how nonsensical this was, the doctors wouldn't hear a word of it. They literally told us that with the current pressure of COVID-19, they are practically begging to be relieved of their duties; they claimed they simply don't have the time to babysit every single child's specific situation. If a teacher is infected, the whole class goes home, and that's that.

There was another instance where a student spent an entire week in isolation because his brother tested positive. That student was supposed to return to school the following Monday, but in the meantime, his entire class ended up being ordered into isolation because of yet another student. Of course, the isolation mandate applied even to the kid who had been stuck at home all previous week without any contact with the infected individual. The doctor gave us the same old line: they don't have the bandwidth to deal with cases individually, so it's better if everyone stays home "just in case."😵😵😵.

On the flip side, whenever a student actually tests positive, us teachers are conveniently spared from isolation. They conduct these incredibly detailed investigations into our level of contact, and everything somehow gets classified as a "non-close contact." The logic? "You're adults, you wear masks, we know you're being careful." In other words, they go out of their way to ensure a teacher doesn't have to isolate—likely to prevent a total system collapse that would force the entire school into remote learning.

The daycare staff and elementary teachers usually end up in isolation because of their students, but I honestly can't name a single teacher who was forced into isolation due to a middle schooler or a high schooler. Apparently, since we maintain some semblance of distance from the older kids, we're suddenly exempt from the chaos.

It’s the exact same deal at my school here.
Everything basically boils down to whatever the school nurse decides, almost like an epidemiologist wouldn't have any say in what happens to the kids.

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I made sure to officially file for my leave when my little one was in the ICU—you know, on parental leave.

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mellowskipper said:I made sure to officially file for my leave when my little one was in the ICU—you know, on parental leave.

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Taking care of a 6th grader who isn't even sick? That's just... 🙏
The sheer amount we all pour into our taxes and insurance contributions—honestly, even Monty Python and Kafka couldn't dream up a scenario this absurd.

Michelle Nelson4 said:Taking care of a 6th grader who isn't even sick? That's just... 🙏
The sheer amount we all pour into our taxes and insurance contributions—honestly, even Monty Python and Kafka couldn't dream up a scenario this absurd.

Exactly...🙄

Michelle Nelson4 said:Taking care of a 6th grader who isn't even sick? That's just... 🙏
The sheer amount we all pour into our taxes and insurance contributions—honestly, even Monty Python and Kafka couldn't dream up a scenario this absurd.

She managed to figure it out. 👍

Did they at least drop twenty bucks for coffee and some pastries for the "wonderful" doctor (lol)?

* A good doctor is one who actually gives me a sick note and prescribes antibiotics. A bad doctor is someone who refuses to give you antibiotics and always makes things difficult whenever I want to take medical leave.

placidnomad87 said:She managed to figure it out. 👍

That’s just how it goes. I honestly hope you’re prepared to shell out 👍 next time you have to pay out of pocket for private healthcare—services you’re technically entitled to through your mandatory coverage, but can't actually access because the wait times are endless or your doctor simply refuses to give you a referral. 😉

Michelle Nelson4 said:That’s just how it goes. I honestly hope you’re prepared to shell out 👍 next time you have to pay out of pocket for private healthcare—services you’re technically entitled to through your mandatory coverage, but can't actually access because the wait times are endless or your doctor simply refuses to give you a referral. 😉

Personally, I’ve completely abandoned that whole theory, especially living in this country. My mindset now is simply to earn my money and figure out how to navigate life on my own terms. That’s really what all this endless bureaucracy and systemic corruption at every turn has taught me. 😁

I end up going to private providers for almost everything, except for those routine visits to my primary care physician.

At the end of the day, you just can't allow yourself to suffer because of a broken healthcare system; you have to have some savings set aside for emergencies. If you're facing something as serious as cancer and you're told you have to wait a full year just to be seen, how is that even acceptable to me? Complaining isn't going to overhaul the entire medical infrastructure.

Even with all these glaring flaws, our healthcare system isn't necessarily terrible when you consider that there are people who have never worked a day in their lives yet still receive a certain level of care. Is that model actually sustainable in the long run? Only time will tell.