shut down schools, again, as if you had no idea that we were having winter break. every kid in america should have been going home, the friday of winter break, with a covid rapid test. a couple of them, so that we knew when we were going back to school on monday morning, you take your test, you re negative, you re good to go on the school bus. that s just common sense. it s as if we had no idea that winter break was going to happen and that we were going to have a covid surge. i m not an epidemiologist, i m a mom of five little boys and i had a pretty good idea we were going to have a covid surge whether or not we have a variant for not because we ve learned lessons about how this pandemic works. mine are older than yours, we have four, three of them boys, our daughter is launched, married and mom of her own. what concerns me, not only those still in school, but those on the verge of or should have launched by now. they, too, are getting screwed in this process because in the