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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what comes of being determined to stay open.[/quote]

This is what comes of everything else being a higher priority to stay open: Gyms, restaurants, sporting events, concerts, malls, bars, airports and movie theaters are all wide open. Teachers aren't getting covid at school - they are getting it at non-essential services. Close everything else and keep schools - a vital service - open.

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Wow. People really still believe this.

-a teacher with covid who goes nowhere else[/quote]

I hope they're trolls, Teacher. The problem is that influential people with letters after their name have gone on social media to say that schools don't spread Covid, and their posts are repeated ad nauseam by desperate parents who will grab on to any straw, however illogical, to keep their jobs and keep their children in school (I feel for them). It's unconscionable, since obviously the maskless lunches are Covid spreaders. It works when cases are low, and doesn't when cases are high. That's a mathematical fact. Disinformation is rife and as usual, teachers bear the brunt of it.

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Disinformation is rife, and you're spreading it. Schools have not been shown to be major vectors for COVID, and given the mildness of the Omicron variant (and the fact that we are likely to see it drop precipitously as it has in other countries already) the panic displayed on this thread and is completely irrational. The only people who should be fearful are the unvaccinated. If you're immunocompromised, you've already had to be extra cautious throughout the pandemic, and shouldn't stop now, but the vast majority of kids, including the unvaccinated kids, are not going to experience this variant as anything more than a cold. What we do know to be harmful are school closures and the attendant mental health issues and learning loss. That actively harms children. The only thing teachers should "bear the brunt" of is their own (and their union's) unscientific efforts to keep DC schools closed for as long as they did. They bear responsibility for the harm they caused children in this city. Parent's haven't forgotten that.

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