LIFE IN THE WAR ZONE SCHOOL NOT COOL

I'm confused.

Nearly 600 school workers in Miami Dade County tested positive for Covid 19, according to an article in The Miami Herald today.

This, incidentally, was written on the first day in which local students went back to the classroom. Well, virtually that is. Phew.  Think of this, all of you parents -- six hundred school workers.

On a national level, we've all been mesmerized by TV reports showing boatloads of college students all over the country gathering in close proximity just a couple of days after starting class. Many are sorority and fraternity parties, a typical right of passage for a lot of people who begin their college days.

Yep, die for a beer, you dimwits.

The situation is so bad that schools like the University of Notre Dame and The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill moved undergrad classes back online. Some schools are telling the students to go back home. And still other students in dorms are in quarantine as a result. 

It's anyone's guess as to how long it will take before Covid 19 whips through the schools and forces a lot of them to shut down and ship everyone out. 

Meanwhile the Florida Education Association, the state's largest teacher's union, is embroiled in a legal battle to stop all the schools from physically reopening. 

It's clear to anyone paying even the smallest amount of attention that schools are proving to be a particularly sticky wicket as a result of the pandemic. I mean, who wants to send their kids into a petri dish? And what about the parents who cannot afford to stay home to "home school" their children? 

Clearly, these are questions with no easy answers. But what is easy to figure out is this -- cramming a bunch of young people into classrooms and school buildings with reduced ventilation and crowded hallways isn't a good idea. TV reports show students walking in those buildings without masks to boot.

And while we are at it, look at all those college students completely ignoring all the warnings that this Covid 19 thing is a really, really serious thing which could kill them. This is the generation that will eventually take over the planet. Think about that if you want to have nightmares.

As if Floridians don't have enough on their plates as a result of this, let's try to ignore the three storms brewing in the area of the Caribbean. There's not a mask big enough to contain those puppies if they pick up steam.

Wear the masks, people, wear the masks.