A couple of weeks ago, our younger kid’s preschool, which also operates our older kid’s after-school program, temporarily closed with 12 hours’ notice because of a concurrent outbreak of RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and hand, foot, and mouth disease along with lice cases, which aren’t dangerous but definitely don’t help. After months of closures and rebuilding and safety protocols and constant COVID-19 exposures and flares, the staff is now dealing with other illnesses that are spiking well above normal seasonal rates around the country.
