The COVID Anomaly That Is Utah
This Red State’s response to the pandemic was kind of astonishing until now.
I live in Salt Lake County. I have two kids that are in school. They went to school all last year, too, and then we all followed protocol. The schools followed protocol. By the end of the last school year, the infection rate was 0.029%. The numbers tell us that everyone here did their job.
Masks were required to be worn by everyone at school. My kids were fine with the masks. We gave them emotional support for wearing the masks. We went to the bus stop with the kids every day that there was school. We picked them up. I took time off work or adjusted my work schedule whenever there was drama. We worked through every problem that came up.
Both of my kids are under 12 so they can’t get vaccinated. That’s my main worry. They’ve both done well at school last year, and this year, they will both attend school full time. But this year is different.
Utah passed a law to ban mask mandates. That means that schools can only encourage masks, they can’t require them. Clearly, there are people in this state who actually think that the virus is fake, or that it’s not really that dangerous.
But I only need to look at states like Texas and Florida to see that hospitals are filling…
