Now that daylight savings time has officially started, Iâve sent out my annual memo to the dogs, cat and chickens to âshut-up already and deal with it!â â like that ever helps. The adjustment around here takes awhile as morning schedules are modified and start times for just about everything get ignored, although I still get to school when itâs dark so not much has changed that way. Things will even out soon enough, though, and Iâll be back to procrastinating stuff just as much as before.
Iâm wandering about here in my classroom, having dismissed the kids for the afternoon, reflecting on the events of last year about this time when our world was forcefully âturned upside down.â I recall listening to a health official explaining over the radio back then that this particular virus was causing deep concern because people could become infected âcarriersâ and pass the virus to others before showing any symptoms of their own for up to 10 days. How many people, I wondered, do I come in contact with over a 10-day period? How many people pass through the worldâs airports over a 10-day period? The thought was sobering and frightening. I turned to Lynda and said âThis is going to be a big problem.â