Pausing extracurriculars makes absolutely zero sense

Re ‘It has a big impact’: Toronto students upset as extracurriculars suspended, while Peel, Durham, York go ahead, Sept. 9

Well, the optimism surrounding the return to school lasted less than one day in the city of Toronto. Once again the office of Toronto medical officer of health Eileen DeVilla has wielded it’s trusty lockdown sledgehammer with a blanket shutdown of school sports and extracurricular activities before they even got started.

Is there nobody in the TPH with a creative bone in their body? Has it occurred to any of them that there may be solutions to these kinds of questions other than total prohibition? How about requiring proof of vaccination as a prerequisite for participation in high school sports? Maybe even proof of the parents’ vaccination status if it’s their health that’s the concern.

Every other public health unit in the GTA has shown today that they’re prepared to consider another way. DeVilla just seems bereft of ideas and our youth are the ones to suffer once more. Alan Jones, Toronto