We’re not just failing to protect kids from Covid - we’re normalizing sickness in schools.

Kids are being encouraged to go to school with lice, diarrhea & more. We’re reversing decades old peanut bans despite more kids having life threatening allergies.

Chronically ill kids or those who mask are experiencing bullying - many are being pressured into removing their masks by ADULTS.

The kids are NOT alright.

Can we do better? How do we convince our institutions, governments and public health of the need for clean air in schools, paid time off for education staff and the importance of not punishing kids for staying home when sick?

How can we help other adults realize that bullying kids for masking or otherwise protecting their health is NOT the answer?

I think it starts with acknowledging there’s a problem. We should all remember “Cara”… the young girl who masked for her mom who was undergoing chemotherapy. She was pressured to remove her mask at school, caught covid and gave it to her Mom who subsequently died. Cara’s life - like the lives of so many children who’ve lost parents to Covid - will be forever altered. She will never be the same again.

We should be encouraging kids to protect themselves and others. Help teach them that they’re not an island and that being part of a community means looking out for other people.

Society crumbles when we don’t take care of one another.

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