There aren’t any plans in place yet for school for my little ones that’s supposed to start next month. I’ve been told the likelihood of a hybrid program — some distance learning, and some time spent at the school, but no confirmation on how the scheduling would work. Maybe some days some students are at school for a couple of weeks, then the following couple of weeks, they stay home while another group goes in for class. Or maybe half the students come in the morning and the other half comes in the afternoon.

There must be many other variables involved to prepare adequately for schools to reopen, especially since we’re in California and we could be totally shut down again. It’s been this crazy waiting game for months on so many levels. It’s been going on for so long that I want to believe the virus should be gone by now. We flattened the curve! What second wave? But here we are again, and even worse than before.

California has caught up to the state of New York with the number of infected cases. Thankfully, we’re not even close to the number of deaths they’ve experienced, just about a quarter of their over 32,000. Also, the population of California is twice that of New York’s 19 million people so we could be a lot worse, though we need to quickly get a grip on this situation. The virus spreads so easily and fast, and not just to one person at a time. A full room of people can be infected by one single carrier. One.

What’s been scarier lately is more younger people have been suffering from this illness, some even dying. It’s like I can’t seem to see the end of all this. How are we all going to survive through this???