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My friend's daughter is a school nurse..she showed up at the elementary school like any other day..nowhere near Kirkland...doors are padlocked shut.
Kids were being loaded into school buses to be sent home .she spent 20 minutes trying to call..got no answers.
So in Puyallup wa, (in this school),kids were sent home with no notice ..hope they all had keys..
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)If we had a functioning organization of people specializing in how to deal with epidemics YOU KNOW, THE WAY WE USED TO, these miseries could possibly be avoided
This is a sad story, I hope it doesnt happen again anywhere - ever -
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)The Bad News is that the Trump Administration and the various agencies (HHS and CDC) do NOT have a handle on the COVID-19 outbreak and some of it even made worse by them (i.e.. the test kit fiasco, the sending of HHS staff to greet the Diamond Princess evacuees, the de-funding and failure to staff the proper agency staff).
The Good News - Gov. Jay Inslee and the King County and various other county and WA State Public Health and Education agencies do know what they are doing and clearly are taking measures to mitigate and try to contain the spread.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Someone dropped the ball..someone should have been on site to at least tell people what was going on..you know that lots of these kids' parents had no idea the school was locked down before they sent their kids to school...
riversedge
(70,299 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)Several schools closed in WA in fact. Mix up someplace. I hope the kids had sitters or someone to care for them.
.............https://q13fox.com/2020/03/01/two-western-washington-high-schools-to-close-monday-over-coronavirus-concerns/