"We had been hearing from many of our front-line members working in schools across the province that, frankly, they were afraid to be at work without mask mandates in place," Gil McGowan said.
He says schools have been and continue to be places of "very high infection" in AB.
If you see an anti-public safety rally here’s what you do.
1. Don’t go near it, keep a safe distance.
2. Don’t shout back, ignore it.
3. Don’t stand and take pictures of it.
4. Don’t talk about it on social media.
#nspoli
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*On abandoning physical distancing in reopening #nsed schools*
NSians should know that the original plan for "scenario 1" included physically distanced/cohorted/reduced size classes for P-9 & blended learning for high school b/c cohorting in HS doesn't work. /1
I have colleagues where both parents are teachers, in different schools, whose children attend different schools.
Or a teacher working in 2 schools whose 3 children attend 3 different schools with a spouse who works in a hospital.
It’s not as simple as “this school is a bubble”
“what happened in schools is just too much gathering, day after day, and kids come home and infect mom and dad. The top numbers of new infections were in kids.”
Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains https://t.co/xYS5yusEjf