We're two years into this damn pandemic, and you would think we'd have it down by now.

Masks, vaccines, tests, and all that.

But across K-12 classrooms, the chaos that the Omicron variant has rot, man, it ain't pretty.

Parents, teachers, school administrators, the CDC, and practically all the adults are trying to figure all this out.

But they better do it fast.

Because to paraphrase the old who song, the kids aren't all right.

I'm Gustavo Ariano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.

It's Thursday, January 27, 2022.

Thank you. Daily News from the LA Times. It's Thursday, January 27th, 2022. How are my peas? Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, a peck of pickled peppers,

Peter Piper Picked. Well, it seems fine there, but it comes out in the recordings more than the Zoom.

For our listeners, Mario Diaz is our engineer. He makes sure I sound great. The podcast sounds great.

It's the meromero cantonero of this here podcast, aka our rock, our foundation, our badass.

Bingea, Mario.

Ah, what's up, man? And Mario, I know you've been working from home since the time started,

and you have three kids in school. So how have they been during this whole PINCHA pandemic?

Well, they've been good. I mean, we all have the stresses of being at home, working from home, trying to be safe.

And it's kind of the same thing for them, maybe a little bit more exaggerated

because we keep them from socializing as much as possible.

We have to let them do stuff, but, you know, we're all trying to be safe.

And it's hard for you folks because you have three children, obviously different ages,

but they are all at different levels of this pandemic.

Talk about Maurice.

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