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I am very conflicted and frustrated by all of this.
I have 3 kids (5, 7, 10), and my wife has a 'pre-existing condition' (hospitalized twice because of an immune response, almost didn't make it out once) also of note, we live in the SF Bay Area, while 'we' have not been hit really hard by the 'Rona it is around.
We have been part of a very good private school that the kids love. The school is going hard to reopen, doing everything you can imagine, they bought a disinfecting robot for around $90k, going to keep the kids in 'pods' of about 10, etc. If anyone can do it right they can, they have the resources, and the space.
I was shocked that my wife was ready to send them back to school, we have been quarantining pretty aggressively, I go to work (my own small office/shop) but that is it.
At the last minute she got cold feet about the whole idea of sending the kids back, and long story short the school will not offer an online only learning program for the year (we were willing to 'over pay' for it for a year so we didn't lose our spot).
She didn't want to be part of the 'experiment' and we know there will be start and stop, and if anyone is exposed there will be a 2 week quarantine etc, she also has a friend who works at the health department in another county, who said the cases in children are higher then we would be lead to believe (with unknown long term effects), and she is keeping her kids out of school.
At the end of the day, what the kids will be missing out on is the experience, but with masks/distancing/no interaction they won't be getting the experience that we want for them even if they are in school.
On a personal level, I support anyone who want to get back to 'normal' don't be foolish, but live your life. For now, we can't hangout, we have a condition in our house that requires extra caution. Hopefully we can all get on the other side of this thing soon. 2020 can eat sh*t.
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