Less than two weeks into the school year, a Kentucky school district has canceled in-person classes for the rest of the week after nearly a fifth of its students came down with Covid, strep throat, the flu and other illnesses.
The Lee County School District, which has just under 900 students, began classes Aug. 9 but noticed attendance drop to about 82% on Friday, Superintendent Earl Ray Schuler said.
By Monday, the rate dipped to 81%, and 14 staff members called in sick, Schuler said.
It's immunity debt from those strict never-ending kentucky lockdowns, right? Or maybe they all forgot how to wash their hands?
Yeah, I doubt there's a lot of flu going around or actually being tested for, but who knows? With the kinds of damage covid can do to the immune system people might just get sicker sooner and for longer every season.
Oh, absolutely. I have no doubt that this year and every year after is just going to be a more and more hedonistic orgy of virulence and opportunistic infections.