Washington does not have a handle on covid virus

[SoCalDem]

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]

1. Oh what terrible *stress* this has caused, so sorry for all concerned

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 doesn’t happen again anywhere - ever -

[Pachamama]

2. Bad News and Good News in your story....

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]

3. We are better than the feds,but in this case

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]

5. Buses were working also. BIG mix up that is for sure.

[riversedge]

4. This article says the school was closed............

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/