Last week
Satoshi, an eighth grader, and Takahashi-sensei, the math teacher, had the
flu. Now Tomoya, another eighth grader
has it. The staff are in such a panic,
you’d think it was tuberculosis or something.
Everyone is wearing masks and spraying rubbing alcohol on students’
hands before lunch. There was even talk
of postponing the afternoon’s Uta-garuta poetry card competition. Back in October, when everyone (students and
staff) lined up to get free flu shots, they thought I was odd for opting
out. Now I think they’re odd for not
having any faith in the shots they received.
While
everyone is strapping on masks with religious fervor, handwashing has not
increased or improved. The only two
people who regularly and thoroughly wash their hands are the custodian and
nurse. Everyone else just wets their
fingers for 2.6 seconds and ignores the soap.
January 2019
It’s funny
and ironic to read this. Who knew that a year later the world would be seized
by something much worse than influenza?
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