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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]well, why is there a great debate of whether or not to bring teachers back?

Put them in masks and send them back.  Our healthcare providers are taking care of actual Covid patients wearing 50 cents masks for a week.  Teachers have a MUCH MUCH lower risk of contracting Covid.

I don't know why there is even a question of sending teachers back. 
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I’m a teacher and I’m not worries but I don’t have kids and my parents and elderly family are states away. I’m not worried about going back. I live with someone who works in healthcare and their coworkers have had the virus, so I could get it anyway. I’m young so I’m still cautious but I’m not super worried for myself.

I am worried for others though. What if my roommate gets it and then I do? What if I don’t know and then I end up infecting kids in my class and one dies (rare with kids, I know), or what if (more likely) I pass it to my students who bring it home? Many have older parents and many live with grandparents. Then what if their parents or grandparents dies? Hospitals have strict rules and staff are still getting it. Can we be sure the kids will be fine? Or maybe my coworkers are older or live with people who are older and then they get really sick...

I’m not too worried about myself getting this but I do worry about getting it and not knowing and passing it to others who aren’t young and/or healthy. They say many who get very sick are obese. Many Americans are obese... I’m not but I don’t want to get anyone else sick.

I guess it’s not necessarily that people are scared to send teachers back. I mean I’ve hears some teachers whine on Facebook about their life being put at risk and sort of roll my eyes, but it’s about making sure the virus doesn’t spread from the healthy (someone like me) to the fragile (my students’ 60 year old dad, sister with low immunity, mom with cancer, elderly grandparents, etc.). A lot of teachers are in fact young, healthy, and at low risk. But we are more likely to have it without knowing.

Phew. It’s exhausting trying to think of all the ways this virus can be bad. [/quote]

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