“When the hospitals start to fill up, then we have to do something a little more extreme.” Deonandan knows that lockdowns aren’t popular. “Nobody wants them,” he said. “It s just that if you re going to do them, do them well, do them long enough and make sure you spend the time constructively.” Students like Jasmine Renee Singh, a 13-year-old from Whitby, Ontario, do feel lonely during shutdown, but she said the number of cases happening are much sadder. “It s almost like heartbreaking to see all of these cases happening that it s happening a second time now,” said Jasmine. How to get through distance learning