An Arizona mom's worst fear came true when her 5-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks after her school year started.
Kim homeschooled both of her children during the 2020 school year due to Arizona's high COVID-19 rates and to protect close friends and family that were high risk for COVID-19. This year, Kim and her husband made the decision to send their children to school on July 21 in hopes that a vaccine would soon be available for children and allow for Kim to return to work.
"I dropped them off at school and I just cried and not because of things that you should normally be feeling when you send your youngest kid off to kindergarten," Kim said. "I cried because I felt like I was sending her into a petri dish." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reversed its mask guidance and recommended that schools embrace universal masks, backtracking on an earlier recommendation that vaccinated students and staff could go without masks indoors. Several Arizona districts have opted to make masks mandatory.
Two weeks after her first day of school, Kim noticed Irene was acting out of character. She would fall asleep doing everyday activities and soon she was running a 103 fever. Kim brought her to get a COVID-19 test and confirmed that the 5-year-old had contracted the virus."I'd like to be honest, I'm angry," Kim said. "And of course I'm sad. And I feel guilty, because I had felt so conflicted about sending her back in the first place.
"It is heartbreaking to learn of a child being infected with COVID-19. It is equally as frustrating knowing that Arizona public schools have lost the authority to fully implement proven mitigation strategies recommended by public health experts like universal and correct use of masks," Hoffman said. "In June, Governor Ducey signed a law prohibiting schools' ability to implement mask requirements, undercutting local school authority.
then home school
Parents will drop off kids at school and never get to see them alive again. The virus is just that deadly for kids 11 and younger. Can we handle that truth? Protection starts with the adults...get vaccinated. Children's lives are at risk.
If it makes you cry you shouldn’t send them.
Seriously note to ALL Americans STOP allowing people who don’t give a rats arse about who the F you are other than a fund raising $ sign make decisions or sway you into decisions that will impact your lives forever FFS think for your own grown arse selves
Parents have options. They can homeschool their children for whatever reason. There is no need to feel like you have no options.
STOP taking them to school putting them into situations that could either kill them or yourselves or give them life long health complications Make a stand all American 🇺🇸 Mothers make a definitive stand against these self entitled middle aged white men making rules that kill 😐
How many kids have to suffer and/or die before we face up to the facts? We - as a country - are not ready to have our children in classrooms where they can easily contract the COVID.
Fear porn. That mom wouldn’t flinch if her kid had the flu.
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