Letters to the Editor 12-9-21
Thanks to trusted trustees Dear ER: My 81 year old father ,and US Army veteran has a message for the Manhattan Beach Unified School District Trustees: thank you for the protocols that stopped the spread of COVID before it got to him. My father was sitting in my living room on a Sunday morning, enjoying much needed time with his grandchildren before his scheduled cancer surgery, when the Meadows Elementary School principal called to say my daughter sat next to a child who tested positive for Covid. Too young at the time to be vaccinated, she could have unknowingly brought Covid home to the grandfather she loves so much. We all know how this could have gone. Despite testing my family for COVID prior to my parents’ visit, a recent verified exposure to COVID means my daughter’s negative test could turn into a positive test in a few days. My father, whose cancer is but one of a couple comorbidities he has that put vaccinated older people in a scary category for COVID, could have been exposed. Masks work to stop the spread of COVID, and masks stopped the spread in this case, too. No one in my daughter’s class brought COVID home to their vulnerable relatives. Never in his life did my…
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