Please don't bring your conspiracy theories in here. I'm being serious.
Covid19 is spreading worse than ever with 101k new cases yesterday. I'm not really that worried about myself, but I am high risk. I've had Type 1 diabetes basically my whole life, and now I have kidney disease. I'm taking vitamin D (my body doesn't work right with vitamin D due to my kidneys) and zinc every day to try to mitigate what would happen should I catch it. There is at least a moderate chance that a blood disorder that I also have could make me immune to Covid, but they don't know this for certain. But I feel like I'd be okay given the precautions I'm taking. Who I'm mostly worried about are my father and my mother-in-law, who are in high risk age groups and who want to see the kids fairly regularly.
My son stayed home this semester and did well grade-wise, but he's a teenager and he needs to be around other teenagers (no one actually needs to be around teenagers, but you know what I mean). I'm strongly leaning toward letting him go back, but there are so many intangibles right now. We could literally be having 200k or more new cases a day by the time school starts. But then again, we could be vaccinating people like my mother-in-law by then as well.
The biggest thing concerning me is you can't change your mind. If I say 'yes' now, he has to be in-person all next semester. That's the thing that's holding me back. I want him to go, but not being able to change your mind even if the conditions become ridiculous makes me nervous. I guess I could always home school him one semester if things got really, really bad. And I told him that chances were that everything was going to be shut down on 1/20 anyway. I just don't know.
Any thoughts that don't include political bias?
Covid19 is spreading worse than ever with 101k new cases yesterday. I'm not really that worried about myself, but I am high risk. I've had Type 1 diabetes basically my whole life, and now I have kidney disease. I'm taking vitamin D (my body doesn't work right with vitamin D due to my kidneys) and zinc every day to try to mitigate what would happen should I catch it. There is at least a moderate chance that a blood disorder that I also have could make me immune to Covid, but they don't know this for certain. But I feel like I'd be okay given the precautions I'm taking. Who I'm mostly worried about are my father and my mother-in-law, who are in high risk age groups and who want to see the kids fairly regularly.
My son stayed home this semester and did well grade-wise, but he's a teenager and he needs to be around other teenagers (no one actually needs to be around teenagers, but you know what I mean). I'm strongly leaning toward letting him go back, but there are so many intangibles right now. We could literally be having 200k or more new cases a day by the time school starts. But then again, we could be vaccinating people like my mother-in-law by then as well.
The biggest thing concerning me is you can't change your mind. If I say 'yes' now, he has to be in-person all next semester. That's the thing that's holding me back. I want him to go, but not being able to change your mind even if the conditions become ridiculous makes me nervous. I guess I could always home school him one semester if things got really, really bad. And I told him that chances were that everything was going to be shut down on 1/20 anyway. I just don't know.
Any thoughts that don't include political bias?
