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On September 14, between 8:00 and 9:30 in the morning, we will all be there again, with joy and overwhelming energy, in front of the school. According to the provisions of the institutes, we will wait for the call of the individual teachers, or the entrance to the playground and then we will see the children and adolescents converge, shouting, in the classroom. For many it is no longer the same in design, architecture, design, attractiveness. The teachers who will be there, whether they have taken the voluntary tests or not, will welcome our children to the school. After more than six months. The desks old or new, large or small, placed against or in favor of chairs and legs, with or without wheels, unimaginative surgical masks, that many of them will lower after taking roll as long as they are not in a chicken coop classroom, will be new or obstacles that will not stop the joy of returning. And the first day will be devoted everywhere to freedom: facing the past, waiting for the future, in a real but mimetic presence and, therefore, somewhat surreal.
Remote meetings
In those same hours, a day or two later, class meetings will be held. Mostly they will be remotely and will be discussed for a long time. Parents will pour out anxieties, restless questions, more or less feasible proposals. They will ask for uniformity, transparency and clarity in the information. Because they will be on the front line. Together with teachers, school principals, students, doctors and pediatricians, and Ats technicians who will be in charge of receiving and attending to the requests for tampons from local doctors with exponential growth in relation to climatic conditions, the spread of the first diseases and epidemics. and the seasonal illnesses that have always accompanied our school health routines.
This year everything will be different
This year everything will be different, we know it, and maybe never again like before. Firstly, because this year there will be a much more insidious entry enemy than Covid itself: the compatible symptom. The Higher Institute of Health lists several of them: fever, headache, diarrhea, cough and others, all also individually and alternatively to be considered as alarm bells in the triages, almost all by phone, that families will ask each tomorrow to pediatricians and doctors. Because every morning the families, between breakfast and the clothing of the children and young people, will feel fever. When they are not among those who are suspended with a shy 37.2, but may include a round 37.5, or a non-circumstantial headache, a cough that moves away from the simple and isolated cough, a visit to the bathroom less rushed than it usual, they will call the family pediatrician. Or they will write emails, sms, watthsapps. Until you receive availability for a triage. If all goes well the day of the announcement of the symptom. The pediatrician, if he considers it so, will request a swab from the health center who will then contact the family.
The greater the mobility, the more students and teachers will be under examination
Are we optimistic? No less than three or four days will pass between the symptom and the definitive tampon. In the meantime, the family will have notified the school and will be placed in fiduciary isolation, including any babysitters. In addition to the school (or schools in the case of more children), employers will be alerted. Always presumably in the perspective that everyone has implemented the protocols to secure students, teachers, aides, employees and managers. Otherwise, drastic measures would be immediately mandatory. Therefore, estimate a time of three to four days (in the most efficient areas) between the appearance of the single symptom and the result of the examination, in the most critical periods between mid-October and February, in which the symptom process will multiply -travel-exam Exponentially, we can imagine many absences from school and the workplace waiting for answers, possibly turning them into quarantine. With network effects difficult to predict and contain: are the classes isolated or not in the interval and in the dining room? Do teachers and professors have multiple classes and therefore move between classrooms during the day? The greater the mobility in the institution, the greater the number of students, teachers and parents under observation and scrutiny.
The season of compatible symptoms is still far away
And we are ‘only’ in the stage of compatible symptoms, which can fill clinics and diagnostic centers and empty classrooms. Who, as far as possible, will use distance learning. When the positive result of the swab triggers the red alert, with the possible quarantine of classes and institutes, everything will involve hundreds of families, entrepreneurs, with a diffusion network that is difficult to contain and predictable. Of course, some schools abroad have already been closed and the situation has not been dramatic, but the season for compatible symptoms is still far off.
We remain optimistic
Meanwhile, perhaps even more could happen: more than one pediatrician hopes that some families, who can no longer bear their children’s frequent absences from school due to various symptoms with fiduciary isolations and difficulties at work, can ‘loosen up their control ‘over Guard levels. And instead of going to the doctor for each Covid-like symptom, they prefer to have their children at home (when the idea of sending them to class does not prevail) without triggering the Covid procedure while they wait for the situation to stabilize, for better or for worse. . These would not be new categories of slanderers or deniers, or crafty, but just exasperated people who no longer know what to do. A general panorama to be evaluated in the light, as well as the sensitivity, emotionality, awareness of the families summoned each morning to the preliminary temperature screening, the effective capacities of the territorial health network to provide triage, place tampons, act promptly. We remain optimistic, perhaps thinking about the adoption of new rapid tests that will give us sustainable certainties in a few hours. And we hope that the difficulties destined to multiply on the Internet do not acquire such proportions that families want a new school closure: at least to be more certain of how to organize daily life (and the economy). It would be a defeat.
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