Three years in, the #pandemicIsntOver. My spouse and I tested positive for COVID today and I’m pretty sure my kids have it too. (Swabbing a toddler’s nose is up there with giving pills to a cat as a difficult and dangerous task)
I’m so mad. We’ve said No to so many things, we’ve kept on masking, we’ve been cautious and asked the people in our lives to be cautious too. And still we got it
My 3 year old has some special needs and gets quite a lot of in-home therapy. All the therapists wear masks (at our request), and we do too. The 3 year old recently joined a playgroup for kids with developmental delays. It hasn’t met for long, but already it’s been so helpful for working on social skills
BUT Almost nobody masks at playgroup (and most of the kids, including ours, can’t). And now we all have COVID
My 3 year old spent the first week of life in the NICU, including a few days on a ventilator. It was the scariest week of my life. Since March 2020 I have been terrified that COVID could bring me back to that hospital room, with a precious little one struggling to breathe.
I have done a lot and sacrificed a lot to keep my kids safe from COVID, and it makes me so angry that it still wasn’t enough.
It shouldn’t be this way. Public health is not just a collection of individual choices. Leadership should be making choices and policies that serve all of us. Promoting the general welfare, you might say
B Haas