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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the teacher doesn’t think the vaccine works then why did she take one based on her status as a teacher?

I feel like despite all of the evidence that it would save the most lives to vaccinate in order of age/health status rather than how we have done it this is the path we went down. Unfortunately having to go back in the classroom is the other side of the coin. [/quote]

If doctors would quit telling their patients that their family members aren’t protected, people would fee a lot better. [/quote]

Nope.  It is always better to tell the truth and not hide the truth.  ALWAYS.  Even when the truth about life-and-death issues hurts.[/quote]

But the truth is that the vaccines are about 90% effective at preventing transmission from a vaccinated person to an unvaccinated person, so that's really, really good![/quote]

Maybe some of the teachers have health-related anxieties so that 10% really churns in their head.

Think about how fixated and irrational some parents are about teachers and “teachers’ unions” (demonstrated countless times here on DCUM). Maybe teachers are suffering mentally as well.

Cut them some slack.

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I wasn't arguing about health related anxieties (though it's only somewhere between a 6% chance 2 weeks after the first dose and a 4% chance a week after the second dose of actually getting COVID yourself, 10% chance of passing it on). I was simply saying doctors should tell the truth about how amazing the vaccine is.

I'm going in as a classroom monitor part-time. Won't get my first dose of the vaccine until 10 days after I start because I applied late. Even though I'm healthy and I've read all the good COVID-in-schools news (as well as whatever of the bad as I could find, just to be balanced), I still have a gut level nervousness. I get it. I had the same gut-level nervousness when returning to my other part-time job in spring after a few weeks at home. It's just something you have to force yourself to do, and then it gets easier. This article puts it well:

[quote]Sleeper [a teacher] knows it will be hard for teachers to return. "I have had a lot of teachers in the district who were opposed in the beginning of the year and not because we don't love kids, but because there was that real feeling they themselves were going to get sick."

What's made the difference for her is seeing what has happened with the protocols set by the district and their enforcement.

"The only way to see it is to live through it. And I know that's hard 'cause you have to get over that fear to get into the classroom," Sleeper said.[/quote]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/education-ohio-high-school-open-wellness/index.html
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