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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's hard to believe this is even a discussion. You get priority for a vaccine, you go back to work: period. I don't want to hear about "first step of many..." or the ludicrous idea of not working in classrooms until every kid gets vaccinated.

Schools across the country have gone back in person. Not small towns either, but major school districts like Dallas ISD and Miami-Dade ISD. Districts with a comparable number of students and issues to districts like Fairfax County & Arlington. Denver brought its kids back on campus a couple weeks ago. Where are the stories of large numbers of teachers and kids becoming seriously ill, or dying? Has it really been out of line with any other professions? Nurses have died from Covid. So have people at meat plants, office workers, stay at home moms and relatively healthy people who simply were in the wrong place when a family member was shedding virus.

The message I'm hearing from some teachers' unions here is: No risk is too small. But 25 million Americans have contracted Covid. Hundreds of thousands of people test positive every day. The risk is pervasive, in every corner of society. And yet, people go to work: at airlines, grocery stores, factories, etc. This virus isn't going anywhere, and even after mass vaccinations, we'll have to learn to live with it. [b]So will teachers[/b]. [/quote]

I’m not getting the impression that most teachers in this area plan to learn to live with the virus.  They seem to be in the zero covid group [/quote]

Not zero.  I’m fine with a 5 percent risk.  I just don’t want to die alone in a hospital or get bankrupted by a long stay at one... or get long covid.  [/quote]

Neither do the folks who stock & sell your groceries. Or the airline workers who keep all those Amazon shipments humming along. But society cannot shut down completely while you're waiting to be reassured. And if it's relatively low risk you're looking for, the CDC suggests teaching in a classroom is exactly that. [/quote]

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