I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
I think I&#x27;m getting something different from this than what the author intended.<p>* They mention their study hall as a &quot;super spreader event&quot;.  This feels...hysterical to me.  Not just because it worries me that this kid is thinking about this in the way they are, but also because it&#x27;s <i>wrong</i>.  The risk this person faces is much more likely from the HVAC system in the school, not the study hall.<p>* The way they talk about the other kid asking questions &quot;with their mask down&quot;.  To be obsessed with this sort of minutiae as a kid is scary to me.<p>* Kids thinking about test...and apparently being given something like 5 tests in <i>a single day</i>?  This seems wasteful <i>and</i> hysterical on behalf of the school.<p>* Begin upset at kids for taking these tests in the bathroom instead of at home.<p>It just seems like there is a whole realm of paranoia that this kid is trying to fit on top of their life, and I don&#x27;t think this sort of paranoia is in any way reasonable.<p>I think that teaching kids to think about their world with this framing, and at a formative age, is and already has done major damage to their development.