Kris's Covid Pandemic Blog

Year 2! As promised, I've stopped numbering days. At least in part because it's very clear there's going to be a definitive end to this, just a very slow and drawn out fadeout. So a lot of conversation has happened about schools since I last wrote. Our school made a plan for returning kids to in person school and literally the same day they announced this the governor came out with a directive about in person school and it was all lovely chaos. We had 48 hours to decide if we wanted to send James back to in person school, which is...not long enough to make big decisions, but it is what it is. I'll spare you the long story but here's the upshot. James is participating in what are called "bridge weeks" this week and next week. Each grade K-3 is divided in half and half of the kids from that grade who are returning to in person learning (there is a stay all remote option, not sure how many kids are going to do that) come for a 2 hour session once per each bri...

Dude, I don't know what to say. A year ago was James's last day of school. He is currently scheduled to start "bridge weeks," where he will go to school one day a week to do some orientation and rules introduction stuff, the week of March 22 and back to school 2 days a week after spring break. That's the current schedule, but I'm not counting on it yet. I've learned enough to know better than to count on things before they happen. For most of the country, the anniversary of the shutdown is about a week from now but for me and my family it's tomorrow. March 5 was the first day school was closed in our district and also the day we moved my husband out of his office and into his remote work space, while listening on the radio to a press conference happening at a nursing home that had been the site of the nation's first outbreak. The nursing home was down the street from the hospital where we used to volunteer. March 6 was my last day of work. I don...