It’s not so much the three weeks of new COVID-19 restrictions that’s depressing. It’s knowing that it probably won’t be just three weeks, and knowing what that could mean for exhausted restaurant owners and employees who’ve scraped by this long and for high school athletes in the midst of magical postseason runs.

And knowing that it didn’t have to be this way.

If we give a damn about our local brewpubs and breakfast joints, if we care about the mental health and dreams of high school kids, if we can be bothered to be concerned about healthcare workers and teachers, if we can see our community beyond our own little lives …

Source: Whitmer made the call, but this Michigan COVID-19 shutdown is on us

As COVID-19 rates skyrocket in North Carolina and more educators lose their lives to the virus, an unmistakable trend is starting to emerge: school districts falling all over themselves to claim the infected employee didn’t get the virus at work.

Source: Can we stop blaming educators for getting COVID? | Charlotte Observer

“Just this morning he told me that he wishes he had his mom back and he just wanted her back,” Raiden Gonzalez’s grandmother said. “I just told him that they’re now angels watching over us.”

Source: Covid kills 4-year-old boy’s mom and dad in San Antonio

LANSING — Michigan is expected to shut indoor bars, restaurant dining rooms, high school classrooms and colleges for three weeks starting Wednesday as part of a new push to fight the surging coronavirus.

Source: High schools, colleges, indoor restaurants, theaters closed 3 weeks by | Bridge Michigan

An official announcement is expected at 6:00 p.m. eastern time Sunday.

Source: Sources: Whitmer administration to announce new coronavirus restrictions