First Day of School!

The start of a new school year looks a little different than normal.  Casey and Lexi started their Senior year of college with some online classes and some small in person classes.  Yes, COVID is still here.  Wearing a mask is now required whenever you are inside ANY and EVERY business.  But after about a week and a half of classes and some Frat parties where no masks were worn, about 150 cases showed up on UNC campus.  So all classes got moved to online.  
At Wilmington, Kyle has most classes online except a small lab class for Chemistry that is in person.  And since classes for them started about a week later than Chapel Hill we won't be surprised if/when that lab class gets moved to online also.  
Thomas goes to school only on TH.  Oh yeah, and all college, high school, middle school and elementary school kids have to wear a mask all day.  They sit one child to a table, everyone is spread 6 feet apart, even when walking in the hallways.  And Thomas goes only on TH because the kids are sent alphabetical so they all don't go on one day, they are all split up each day so not to crowd the schools.  The kids say it's lonely being there.  Sports kept getting pushed back and pushed back.  Fall sports won't start now until Nov. 4th so each season gets pushed back and shortened.  Winter track got completely canceled and Football got moved until February 8th of 2021.  
It is crazy what is still going on in our country.  Masks everywhere, people 6 ft apart and back away when you walk past them, some people still afraid to go out to a restaurant, the COVID cases are thankfully declining.  Small business's are struggling, mental illness and suicide is at a high right now, child sex trafficking is through the roof, yet we still are not allowed to have church, send kids to school full time, masks are mandatory, professional sports are being played with no fans allowed.  Is it all worth it?  When any of you look back and read this I wonder after the many years what the outcome of it all will be and how it will have changed us all.  Right now I admit I am sick of it all, I think it is over played.  However, I am grateful to God for our health.  None of us have had it so far.  Some cases of it are mild with little to no symptoms, others of course are very bad.  So one of us may have had but not aware.  All we can do right now is live our lives the best we can.