Every afternoon, rain or shine, she stands outside my children's Catholic school, wearing a mask and bearing a megaphone. Her name is Loretta Favret, and she's the school principal. She's memorized every car and what child belongs in it. As cars snake through the carpool line she calls the students by name, and they sprint to cars lined up according to the family's assigned time slot. The kids are released in timed cohorts to minimize crowding and potential cross-cohort contamination in the event of a positive COVID case at school. Some seven months into the school year, there hasn't been a single case yet.
