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[quote=Anonymous][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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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.[/quote]

I just want to point out that you're suggesting that viral spread has nothing to do with people congregating together indoors and that teachers and/or students do not carry whatever viruses that they have been exposed to in their "home communities" inside a school building. This is the definition of magical thinking. Very much like Covita and Justice Covid Barrett singing "don't cry for me, District of Columbia" on the White House balcony last night. Kudos![/quote]

Hey wow it's funny you said all of these things, because although it all sounds like common sense to you, the science basically says the opposite. But hey, that's why we listen to experts and not whatever might seem plausible to us at the moment.

I realize that the distinction here might mean nothing to you but here goes:

1. Social gatherings are the current drivers of community spread. Not schools. They're very different in terms of how people interact and what precautions they are taking.
2. If the teachers aren't going to social gatherings in their communities, then they're at much lower risk of contracting the virus. 
3. Young children seem to be at less risk of contracting or spreading the virus.
4. Transmission in schools has been very low
5. Schools are not sites of superspreading events
6. Therefore children are not likely to infect their teachers. The major risk of transmission comes from teachers doing risky things and then maybe transferring that to a child or two.

So either teachers are the source of risk, and that's because they're doing irresponsible things, or teachers are being quite responsible, and the overall risk of coronavirus transmission as it relates to school is very low.[/quote]

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