Today is quite cold, so they're not having outdoor recess at all. They're staying inside. Eating inside. Maybe your school district has different policies?
I've been on this website for about a decade, but this account I use now is only 10 months old.
Regarding "as of today, there is no end in sight for these rules": there has been a plan in place for months outlining the key dates when mandates will be relaxed. Just hours before OPs comment, the Ontario government announced they will be accelerating that schedule by 4 days, and the vaccine passport will be retired in just 2 weeks.[2]
Your comments re: new accounts are fair, but given the above I don't believe there is any truth to OPs comment, so I personally believe the account is intentionally created to spread FUD about the pandemic response in Canada and to create sympathy towards the convoy and its arguments.
[1] https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/furey-school-board-ni...
[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/8617879/ontario-covid-restriction...
I wasn't aware that only people who work in the tech industry were allowed to post on Hacker News.
If you think someone is trolling, then email dang.
If she was remote learning she knows her teacher's face. If she isn't remote now she knows her teacher's face
My 4 years old at the kindergarden doesn't wear a mask and neither does her classmates. She eats indoor every day.
My 7 years old in first grade wears a mask indoor but not outdoor. She eats inside with all of her classmates, unmasked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_plague_uprising
The powers-to-be, civil and military, had great "business" going because of the quarantine by pillaging most of the funds the government provided for the city supplies (as the normal trade and supply was broken by the quarantine) while population was starving. The military doctors responsible for the quarantine received pay several folds higher than their usual pay. To maintain the supposed epidemic, ie. to generate sufficient number of deaths which were all chalked to plague even though in reality there weren't any plague cases, they for example forced people to sit in the sea in winter supposedly for public hygiene purposes, and naturally the malnourished population was getting ill and died in numbers. Anybody who showed any signs of any illness would be put into total quarantine into a hospital building with especially bad conditions which all but guaranteed the death.
Don't just drop comments like this without backing up your assertions, because it's false. Is it ideal for the kids right now? Fuck no. None of us want this. But to sell the narrative that there's a whole class of parents/teachers/administrators who are not trying their goddamned hardest to make this as easy on kids as possible, while stradling the line of what's responsible during a pandemic, is just belittling all of the effort being done for no discernable purpose at all.
I cant speak of your nieces.
EDIT:
[1] The year is correct, 2020.
What school district? This is nothing like what I've seen in the Toronto schools which tend to be more cautious due to population density here.
I'm willing to believe this isn't a made up story, but am interested in details as this is very different from what I've heard or seen in Ontario.
Also why can't your child see their friend's faces outside of school? This is all quite confusing.
I assume the premier's kids are going through the exact same restrictions. Socialized healthcare means you are all in this together right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_Haynes https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-anti-vac...
I have 11 nieces and nephews in 5 different school boards in Ontario, and not one of them has these restrictions. They eat indoors, they can take their masks off at lunch, and during gym class. Their teachers regularly post videos for students to watch, with their masks off, so that they can have that level of interaction with their students.
We still do play dates with kids too. And birthday parties, where we can opt to go maskless if everyone is tested and comfortable with it.
>In Quebec in January 22, we've locked up kids aged 6 to 10 years old for up to ten days in windowless rooms. Kids who tested negative, who had no symptoms, who came in contact though, with someone who had the virus.
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In Ontario, we were asked to isolate at home if there was any close contact with COVID at school and use remote learning if it was available for your class.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/in-jail-teenagers-spent-10-days-...
It may have been an emergency where parents for some reason refuse to stay home with their kids and no alternative had been set up yet; but it absolutely is not the protocol.