Not a day goes by now that I don't get an email from the school district announcing positive covid cases. It's literally every day now. 11 kids yesterday alone were positive. I asked my son if these kids are wearing masks. He says a bunch don't. I asked if the teachers yell at them and he says they do, but the kids just keep skirting the system.
I'm not surprised in the least. I'm a fish out of water in my area. Vax rates still suck in my county.
EDIT: Just got today's email. Another several positive cases.
Look, not a skeptic; I have been vaccinated, including booster, and I am a mask maniac (at least when I travel). I carry disposable ones in my car, and I have a couple of cloth ones I wear when traveling or wearing one for a longer time (they fog my glasses less). But those "emails" (but their emails!) are misleading and inflammatory. My state - leading the nation (at least at one point if not right this moment) in vaccination rates for it's population, and with many towns with mask mandates remaining in place, and our "positivity rate" seems to bounce like a mosh pit between about 1.9 and as high as 8 percent earlier this week.
I've flown 12 times in the last two months, and have gotten not one notification (contact trace) on anyone getting sick, and no media reports of "super spreader"-type events from flying. All I'm saying here is that I don't think we should panic, and I don't think we can stick with the simple "masks on, not sick, masks off, sick" or "vaccine, not sick, no vaxx, sick" narrative any longer. We're two years almost into this and the virus has defied those easy narratives the entire way and seems to continue to do so. I'm still going to reduce my odds, no question, but that's all I'm doing, is reducing my odds.
Now you sound like me...
I've said it...Humans have a false belief they control the world. This is proof that Humans do not and will never control the world. There's loads of things that we share this world with, and nature itself can easily wipe us all away if it wants to. We humans are doing things to this planet to speed up that process of killing ourselves.
You have to think, why are we humans so unhealthy that we panic when mass sickness arrives. So the only thing one can and should do is worry about themselves first and foremost. Because you could take the vaccine to prevent grandma from catching it, but then grandma decides she wants to go to the store or to live her life in happiness by seeing the world. Lots of Elderly are depressed because they can't go anywhere.
The trade-off of being so fearful we need to secure ourselves is it's effecting the mentality of a lot of people. It caused humans to be afraid of one another.
My issue with all of this pandemic is the blame. Why must people place blame on someone for causing turmoil to them,especially a sickness where it's difficult to pinpoint the exact cause. If you want to play the blame game, who is to blame? Yourself for not taking care of your health that now your susceptible to easy illness, or the person out there who has no clue to who you are and what your health issues are? Who's responsibility is it to take care of being healthy?
I can place blame on anyone, but yet, the only one that matters is me, and anything that happens to me is the cause of my actions, decisions, and choices. I do not have to emotionally respond to others, but when I do, actions happen such as fighting due to anger, releasing the tension of depression, or balling my eyes out because of a sad song.