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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at a local private. We are lucky to have a few long-term subs on campus everyday. However, we still don’t have enough subs to cover for everyone who’s been sick, experiencing mild symptoms but awaiting PCR test results (3-4 days in DC), or home with a sick or quarantined child. Our division heads and admin staffers are covering classes and duties. It’s meant that we don’t always have people available when a child needs to be sent to the office or school counselor. It’s meant canceling parent meetings or attending them for just a few minutes so that teaching staff can substitute for absent staff. That’s sustainable for a week or two, but if post-break absences are any higher than they were throughout December, sustaining operations will be difficult. We can’t magic up more personnel, no matter how many angry letters the HoS gets.[/quote]

The same staffing constraints are what is driving the 1000's of airline flight cancellations. There simply aren't enough Covid negative pilots left to fly planes or flight crew to staff the plane.

But the good news is that with infections that high, it peaks quickly and then dramatically drops off.

Give it 6 weeks from Mid- December and we will be coming out of this- at least on East Coast.[/quote]

There are in fact very many able pilots flying. What percentage of flights was cancelled in last few weeks due to staffing and not weather? I don’t know the number but I doubt it is very high. You might hear that 1,000 flights cancelled on one day seems high, but if over 5 days that is a small percentage of flights and everyone  gets on a new flight in 1-2 days it is a frustration but not the end of the world. They are not stopping all flights due to this.

Schools should remain open.[/quote]

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