Let’s face it: We’re fucked.
This week, the president and vice president, the First Lady, the education secretary, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and several Fox News hosts called on America’s schools to fully reopen next month. It reminded me of February 25, the day the White House put out a singular message: Coronavirus was "under control." President Trump and his advisors telling everyone not to panic drove me to panic-buy six bottles of hand sanitizer and a giant pack of toilet paper, and pay close attention to COVID-19 case numbers. Three million cases and nearly 130,000 bodies later, it's clear it wasn't contained. The talk about reopening schools has given me this bad feeling again, except running out to CVS to buy six more bottles of hand sanitizer won’t help assuage my fears.
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