To say that our collective experiences were anything less than scarring is, I feel, an understatement. And we need to start talking about it, about what happened and is happening still, because even if we don’t, we’ll still hear something in the silence.
In the face of continued concerns and unanswered questions about the health effects of COVID-19 reinfections, especially for disabled or immunocompromised individuals, it does not make sense to treat all respiratory viruses as equals. Princeton’s current protocols are not unique to — and therefore not appropriate for — addressing and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
To a still COVID-cautious student witnessing the rise in classroom illness as winter quarter unfolds, the recent updates to California’s Department of Public Health COVID-19 guidance seem to have come at a strange time.