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Today my employer changed the rules about who has to isolate again. Now, if you are awaiting Covid test results due to a probably exposure and are asymptomatic, your household doesn’t have to isolate with you while you wait for results. 1/
They have also defined close contact in such a way that ignores aerosol transmission and places the blame on personal failure to maintain space or perfect PPE use. (Definition follows) 2/
*Close contact means being coughed or sneezed on; or being less than 2 metres from someone with COVID-19 for 15 minutes cumulatively without consistent and proper use of a medical mask and eye protection. 3/
I cannot believe this is based on science. This is a direct result of an inadequate testing system that leaves schools scrambling to have enough staff to cover classes. 4/
Many teachers are parents. We are isolating due to exposures in our own classes and our children’s classes, and even though case counts and deaths continue to rise, they are loosening restrictions instead of paying for supply teachers. 5/
While Public Health may have approved this new plan, they haven’t been adequately communicating isolation requirements to students and families. 6/
Students of mine who were supposed to be isolating came to school. Students with COVID + parents come to school. The system is failing and changing the rules every two weeks is making it worse. 7/
We’ve got a long way to go. We need better communication, accessible communication, in multiple languages with one on one conversations instead of emails that bounce back and synervoices that go to full or broken voicemails. And we need it now. 8/
If we want schools to stay open, we have to do better. At this rate, with these gaps, we should be closed. 9/9
