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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the teachers don't want to die while the parents just want childcare.

C'mon, man, read any of the 29034723 threads on this topic that exist already. [/quote]

But this doesn’t make sense because the kids are probably more likely to get Covid tha. The teachers are, and they can transmit it to their family members. [/quote]

Oh my God.  Are you stupid or just willfully obtuse?  Adults have a MUCH higher risk of serious outcomes or death from COVID than young children.  Many teachers are older and have risk-heightening health conditions (many -- the fiction that schools are full of healthy 20-something adults is a myth).  Adults shut in enclosed classrooms all day with kids who won't comply with masks, who won't distance, who won't cover their coughs and sneezes.  Come ON.  Use your brain.[/quote]

Yeah the kids won’t get very sick, but they can still pass it on to their parents. That’s the point. Why aren’t large numbers of parents “fearing for their lives” at the prospect of their kids getting Covid at school and bringing  it home? And yes, teachers are in a room with 20+ kids who won’t cover their sneezes, but so are the other kids, and there will be kids who sit much closer to the offenders, and can’t get up and move away. Teachers are up and moving around. They don’t spend much time within close vicinity of any particular kid. The kids are in a much more precarious position of getting the virus than the teachers are. And no, not all teachers are 60 and over. Most are in their 30s. I’m close to 50 and I’m not worried about it.

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