Anonymous wrote:Most of us don’t fit into these categories. I understood several things:

-it was probably safe at the beginning of the year for hybrid but all the districts had dickered around too much all summer to have it actually planned and operational. Full in was not safe so DL it was

-it definitely wasn’t safe from Halloween-February when our numbers were horrendous

-it became very safe in February when numbers dropped and vaccines widely distributed

-it is incredibly safe now and I feel terrible for the kids and staff now stuck at home based on choices they made when things were not safe

Most of us adapted our viewpoint with the information we had at the time. Only the people who were rigidly in one camp the entire time lost out IMO. The never open people lost out on the opportunity to experience safe in person school now and the “open now” people spent a year being frothing and angry. The rest of made the best of it, changed our stance when needed, and are doing fine.

That's right.

Most of us don’t fit into these categories. I understood several things:

-it was probably safe at the beginning of the year for hybrid but all the districts had dickered around too much all summer to have it actually planned and operational. Full in was not safe so DL it was

-it definitely wasn’t safe from Halloween-February when our numbers were horrendous

-it became very safe in February when numbers dropped and vaccines widely distributed

-it is incredibly safe now and I feel terrible for the kids and staff now stuck at home based on choices they made when things were not safe

Most of us adapted our viewpoint with the information we had at the time. Only the people who were rigidly in one camp the entire time lost out IMO. The never open people lost out on the opportunity to experience safe in person school now and the “open now” people spent a year being frothing and angry. The rest of made the best of it, changed our stance when needed, and are doing fine.

Nope. I think it was the right choice. 500,000 Americans died from Covid. If all mass gathering public facilities hadn't closed we'd be India and cresting 1 million deaths today. If Trump was still President I fear the same outcome.

I am so grateful that local leadership and state leadership did what national leadership refused to do. They stepped into the void and took up the challenge. They led us through with courage and never wavered nor did they try to hide how bad our trying times were.

F the anti-vaxxers. F the anti-maskers. F the anti-schools closed individuals.

I still feel very strongly that schools shouldn't be closed unless bars and gyms are also closed. It's shameful how kids were treated. Even outdoor playgrounds were closed for months longer than gyms. So shameful.

Some folks frequently traveled long distances by air and car, ate routinely at restaurants, attended large events (i.e., Coney Barrett ceremony, WH holiday parties), and wore their masks under their noses and were fine. To each their own. Of course there is a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking - there were a lot of unknowns throughout the pandemic. I laugh at the early days of disinfecting doorknobs and quarantining the mail. But all in all, no regrets about taking precautions.

i definitely see a different level of fear based on peoples personal experience. I know 3 people who died of covid, 2 family members and 1 close family friend. Yes they were elderly. But covid is what killed them. It changes how you see it. Look at India.

My house hasn’t caught on fire, but I don’t regret having working smoke detectors. I’ve never been in a serious car accident, but I don’t regret decades of wearing a seatbelt. I’ve never had an unintended pregnancy, but I don’t regret having used birth control. I took precautions to avoid covid. Maybe I wouldn’t have contracted it even if I wasn’t cautious, but that doesn’t make me regret the precautions. I make the best choices I can based on the information I have.

Finding out that a young coworker died of Covid spooked me early on. I have no regrets about keeping my kids virtual. They have severe asthma and were hospitalized with pneumonia. It just gave me peace of mind. We know families who were just as cautious and those who did not adjust from pre-pandemic life too much. It just depends on each family's risk calculation and tolerance. Some families are comfortable having multiple guns and certain breeds of dogs in the same home as their small children. If they are abiding by the law, who are we to judge? It is their own risk tolerance.

Anonymous wrote:I know people whose kids got Covid in school. I don’t regret it.

Same including my own. Barely a sniffle for mine and the others I know. Sure you could have been the anomaly but that’s the case with everything. We were super careful generally in that we did not travel or have indoor socializing. But our kids were in school 5 days and we did outdoor sports and socializing. Now my husband and I are vaccinated and will socialize indoors with other vaccinated couples and I’m eat inside restaurants but I’m not ready go to concerts or shows or anything that is packed indoors. I would travel domestically but not ready for international since I am worried about variants and we have unvaccinated kids. Best decision I made this pandemic was withdrawing from APS when I saw how they handled last spring and enroll in parochial.

all of those carefree families probably unknowingly spread COVID all over town. Who knows how many people they killed but hey they don’t have to worry about that.

I know people whose kids got Covid in school. I don’t regret it.

Anonymous wrote:I have zero regrets staying cautious and not sending my kids back in person. I think Biden doing what he is doing is an embarrassment. It is really sad how selfish people are.

LoL my body my choice. Right?

I have zero regrets staying cautious and not sending my kids back in person. I think Biden doing what he is doing is an embarrassment. It is really sad how selfish people are.

We think we did the right thing and that our caution was warranted. In fact there are some things that are happening right now that we think are coming too fast. So we'll keep on keeping on like we have been and let consequences come if that is a result of some of the changes. We have no regrets over our choices.

Do you look back now and think that your fear was unwarranted? Do you feel you made the choice based on politics and not wanting to be viewed as supporting Trump?

Personally I regret being too cautious for way too long. I look at friends who traveled, whose kids went back in person to private school, played sports and so on and nothing happened. Not a single one so much as for a sniffle or a cold. I think I just wasted time sitting at home for nothing. And the last couple of months I really regret that my child isn’t in school at least four days a week