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Why COVID Has Me So Confused
And frustrated by all the inconsistency.
My son is scheduled to leave for college next weekend. His University’s policy is to test each of the approximately 60,000 incoming students when they arrive. I’m comforted that the school administrators are going to such great lengths to ensure the safety of the student body. At the same time, this morning I listened to a news report about how some states are still experiencing a shortage of COVID tests, and many people are still going untested even if they’re showing mild symptoms or have been knowingly exposed. Please reconcile these two scenarios for me. How can we be testing so many people without symptoms that are in the lowest risk category but denying those with real concerns the opportunity to find out whether they’re COVID-positive?
Our family has already experienced COVID-19 first-hand as our daughter tested positive last month. When the results came back, we weren’t surprised as she had what we now know are classic symptoms. Fever. Cough. Headache. Loss of taste. She’s twenty-four and in otherwise good health, so her illness was very manageable, and she recovered long before her quarantine period was over.
Hunkered down in her apartment alone for fourteen days, she may have had too much time on her hands after she felt better. She spent much of that time pondering…
