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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]African-American women are disproportionately like to a) get; b) die from COVID. There are also twice as likely as white people to be caring for elderly parents/relatives. Many white parents on DCUM use poor children (who they couldn't give zero effs about, normally) as a shield for their racist and misogynistic response to African-American teachers and the WTU. It is not laziness and a lack of caring for children that makes teacher skeptical about  DCPS/DCPCS back to in-person school plans. It's fear and distrust. You have to counter fear and distrust with confidence building-measures like rapid testing and isolating students within the school building like they do in Scandinavia. [/quote]

It also helps to focus on facts. Not very many people in DC die from coronavirus -- the numbers have fallen dramatically over the past six months. Only 14 people died in October, which is close to the number who typically die in car accidents each month. Of those who've died, they are disproportionately elderly. 60 percent were at least 70 years old. [/quote]

Well, you are culling facts that serve your agenda. Long-haul COVID is real and brutal: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/long-haul-covid-patients/2020/10/23/ab7c5324-0712-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html. Cases are surging in VA and MD where many DC teachers live: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/coronavirus-in-dc-maryland-virginia-what-to-know-on-oct-26/2454044/.

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[b]I just want to point out that if you're suggesting that DC teachers are at COVID risk from their home communities, then the problem is there and not in DC schools.[/b][/quote]

This X 1000.

LAMB leaders make this argument a lot, and it makes no sense.

The school is in DC, where rates are very low. All of the students live in DC, where rates are very low. Why do we care if some teachers happen to live in areas where the rates are higher? Are things that have nothing to do with the actual school now fair game? What if some teachers live in areas that have very low coronavirus rates? Are we going to average out the rates of the areas in which teachers live? Why stop at where teachers happen to live? How about where teachers (or students) happen to visit? What if a student visits a grandmother in Pennsylvania, where rates are much higher? Is that going to be part of LAMB's calculations? [/quote]

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