As a teacher in Houston, Texas we are still seeing flu, Covid, and all the “unknown snot causes”. Hoping the rodeo and spring break don’t help us go up!
I would caution against becoming "the boy who cried wolf" where even during good health stretches the message is "Be vigilant. It may look clear but I wouldn't be so confident. And even if it is clear now what about next month?" It is what has happened with the economy the past 8 months where we are clearly in a good place yet negativity is the rule. At some point people tune you out (I believe this happened, unfortunately, with most of the country on Covid 2 years back already).
I am cognizant of this issue and it’s why the headline is pretty carefully balanced. I’m not screaming Armageddon, but I am also doing what I promise to always do which is to report when my ground experience differs from the data. And with that, I am very careful to say that what I’m seeing could be variance or could be real. The key is to neither downplay nor stoke fear. I think many of my colleagues get clicks by exaggerating those extremes. I try not to do that.
As a teacher in Houston, Texas we are still seeing flu, Covid, and all the “unknown snot causes”. Hoping the rodeo and spring break don’t help us go up!
I would caution against becoming "the boy who cried wolf" where even during good health stretches the message is "Be vigilant. It may look clear but I wouldn't be so confident. And even if it is clear now what about next month?" It is what has happened with the economy the past 8 months where we are clearly in a good place yet negativity is the rule. At some point people tune you out (I believe this happened, unfortunately, with most of the country on Covid 2 years back already).
I am cognizant of this issue and it’s why the headline is pretty carefully balanced. I’m not screaming Armageddon, but I am also doing what I promise to always do which is to report when my ground experience differs from the data. And with that, I am very careful to say that what I’m seeing could be variance or could be real. The key is to neither downplay nor stoke fear. I think many of my colleagues get clicks by exaggerating those extremes. I try not to do that.