Predicting the future as school classes resume

Dr. Bonnie Henry says “we cannot predict the future” in regard to sending school students back in September in the face of the pandemic.

Is she just clearly wrong, or is she looking for wiggle room when the inevitable happens?

In the case of COVID-19 and school, we can safely make predictions:

1. Some B.C. students of all ages will contract COVID-19.

2. Some B.C. teachers will contract the virus.

3. School “cohorts” will implode the family bubble at home created with such hard work over the summer.

4. Moms and dads will contract the virus from their children and be forced to quarantine.

5. Grandparent(s) will breathe in the virus from COVID-19 transmitting children and get sick. Some will die. Those grandchildren will have to live with the fact they had a hand in those deaths

6. Smart, but tragically sad, grandparents will not see their families for much longer than last March to June.

7. Having large groups of children congregating inside a school will have the same “spreading” result as large groups of people meeting at a bar, a houseboat, a funeral, or dining.

I could go on. If Dr. Henry wanted to be entirely honest, she would add to her comment “this has not been an easy task” to decide to send children back to school and that “the transmitting of COVID-19 and the sickness and deaths that will occur is a price we’ve decided we are willing to pay for the education of our children.”

Just to be clear.

Hal Gray Courtenay