Pandemic Pessimism

Hey, sorry about the New Year’s Eve party post. I wrote that back in January, same with the Halloween post. I was just trying to get some work done ahead of time for periods when I’m usually really busy. Please make sure you don’t host super-spreader events!

A closed Cambridge, MA playground, wrapped in excessive caution tape.  Early in the pandemic, the playgrounds were closed to prevent kids spreading Covid-19 among each other.
April 2020, right after they closed the playgrounds.

Alas, the pandemic came, and turned all our lives upside down. I stopped homeschooling and stopped keeping up with this blog. Basically it’s been one long nervous breakdown that gets more or less intense depending on the stressors.

According to an article I read recently, 37,000 students left the public schools in Massachusetts this school year. Anyone on homeschool groups could see the the tidal wave of families that joined the homeschooling community. Alas, in this like everything else, I find myself moving contrarywise. For so many, public school at home didn’t work. For me, pandemic meant I couldn’t cope with homeschooling at home. Our flavor of homeschooling was predominantly about being out of the house.

Hopefully the coming of the vaccine means life will get back to some sense of normalcy. For now, it feels like it will never end.

5 homemade cloth masks, fanned out on a table, all made from the same peach-colored fabric with palm trees and poodles on it.  The ear bands are navy, fold-over-elastic.
Wear a mask, sneeze and cough into your elbow, wash your hands, drive safely, share, take turns, be a decent human being!

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