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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

This week the pandemic has affected my life in that I have spent most of my time at work catching flak from parents who are cranky that the school district wants their kids to have a COVID test and stay home for several days after being called in sick, as per county health department guidelines. The pushback comes largely from parents of students with a history of frequent absences and no accompanying doctor's note. I don't believe these students have COVID, nor that they were necessarily symptomatic, nor that keeping them home and testing them for COVID will have a measurable effect on public safety - but I also have zero sympathy for the trouble that this causes the parents and zero inclination to argue for a more lenient interpretation of public health guidelines.