Klara’s school is going mask-optional starting tomorrow. The county health department finally desisted from its plan to shut down every classroom that defied the governor’s endless mandates.
I don’t fully recognize this feeling – have we won? Is this finally over? I feel numb because it seemed at times that this would never end.
If you are not a parent of a small child in a blue state, you won’t understand. What we had to do to give our children a semblance of a normal childhood when every authority conspired to punish us nobody will understand who hasn’t been in it with us.
Two years. When the shock passes, I’ll probably cry for an hour.

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