User blog:Nathan Mapping/Trashbin (2): COVID in Hungary aka how shit a school can be there

Hello there, I'm once again here to rant about something, to be exact, I'm gonna rant about how weak our defense is against COVID, at least in my school.

As some of you may know, the second wave of this pandemic had just hit my homeland very hardly, with roughly 700-800 cases being confirmed on a daily basis. The number of deaths had recently started to rise rapidly, however still hasn't reached the highest confirmed number of deaths back in March, when the number was 17. With all these things being known, I'd like to point out that, as the government had planned, schools are still on with the students visiting classes, meeting up with each other and so on. I mean okay, it is good and we have some restrictions that could somewhat weaken this second wave, however there are still a fuckton of things that really need to be fixed. So today I'd like to point out one of these things.

As some of you may know, I'm studying in a pretty strong school in the city of Székesfehérvár. It has been pretty chill despite all the restrictions and all the obligatory measures there (so like we're obliged to wear face masks on the hallways and in the public areas such as the toilet, and we must also sanitize our desk after the lesson is finished). My school has been standing strong for quite a while as no COVID tests had turned out to be positive, and only some students had been sent home due to suspection of the infectious disease, even though they only had the common cold. Hand sanitizers had been put everywhere so that we can use them on our hands and kill this virus. However, yesterday I have gotten the news that a guy in our school had tested positive on Wednesday, meaning that he's the first COVID case there. Unluckily, I have some connection to him as 4 of my best friends are his classmates, plus a classmate of mine is his sister. So on Thursday, none of them came to school because of this (just to clarify, the guy got COVID from one of his teammates as he's playing football in the local team). According to the restrictions, the whole class should have went into quarantine and in case anyone else was tested positive, the school would close and we would restart online school. Despite being clear with all these things and the possible consequences, our principal decided not to inform a lot of people, as she only told the infected guy's form teacher, who then informed her class where I have gotten this from. So nobody out of roughly 600 students know about this case asides a teacher and ~33 other students including me.

As you may see, the principal had basically broken the border of sanity, and her actions had really made me and many other students mad at her as it seems like she's not enough cautious of the case, and our school can easily become the center of a cluster in the region, and even beyond the ccounty's borders as many pupils in our school is coming from other cities, including me coming from a bordering county, not to mention that we're already in the second wave of this pandemic with our daily cases being between 500 and 1,000 (just for example, there have been 941 cases only today). Of course, the school's fame is important and stuff, but in my opinion the health of people is more important than a fucking school, plus I'd rather do online school again than go to a school where there could be a lot more children infected.

So with this post I just wanted to point out how a bad decision could cause everything to collapse and how rational thinking could end this whole shit that has been ongoing for the past ~10 months. In case you have an opinion about this case that you'd like to voice, then the comment section is an open space for you, but please keep the norms of expressing a personal opinion, so like don't rant at people thinking something else.

That's all from me for today. Stay safe, stay strong and keep healthy.

UPDATE: The first case was officially confirmed today, even though it was a girl from a completely different class, which was sent into quarantine ofc according to the safety measures. Although it's kinda funny because the girl came to school last Friday and her test came back on the next day.