What are we to believe with all the mixed messaging on Covid safety in schools?

How can parents have full trust when public health authorities are not looking closely at what is happening in schools anymore?

At a time when the virus is utterly rampant in the community, parents will tell you they frequently don’t know how many cases are in a class. File picture

If the concept of the primary school parents’ WhatsApp group had not been invented before now, tens of thousands of them would have sprung into life over the past few weeks.

The frenzy of messages are relating to the often fruitless attempts to piece together the Covid scenario in a particular school. After all, parents all over the country have found themselves subject to the mushroom approach of being kept in the dark and fed plenty of you-know-what.