He said, "We've had more cases in the last two days just in Moose Jaw and Caronport than we've had in the entire school division in the month before that...It's really obvious to us that this is so much more transmissible than the COVID we were managing a month ago because...once it's in a classroom, it's everywhere - staff, kids, support staff..." 

Tony Baldwin, Director of Education for the Prairie South School Division, made those comments Friday shortly after announcing that all schools in Moose Jaw and Caronport Elementary would make the move to remote learning starting today. 

The COVID variants are here at home.  Last Wednesday, we had 50 active cases in the local South Central region.  Yesterday, the SHA told us we were up to 99 active cases on the weekend. 

Local people are sick.  Local people have died.  And on Friday, the Moose Jaw Police Service were called to a local grocery store where there was a man who refused to wear a mask.   

There was optimism a couple of weeks ago and now that has been quelled.  The light at the end of the tunnel just got a little dimmer, didn't it?