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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a great way to start off teacher appreciation week, but completely ignoring the risks that teachers are going to face EVERY DAY if schools reopen in the fall. Teachers are elderly, have pre existing conditions, live with roommates or family. They would still be exposed to all 25-30 kids A WEEK.

The only way schools are going to reopen safely is when there is a vaccine. Kids will and should have to have it and then get their temperature taken before they enter the building. This is why rapid testing is so important. [/quote]

Don’t be ridiculous. There may never be a vaccine. What just no more school forever? Teachers who don’t want to take the risk — mitigated to the greatest extent possible while still having actual in-person classes — can switch jobs. I favor robust disability and unemployment benefits for teachers who have to take this root or choose to, respectively, but it can’t be that nurses, supermarket checkers, policemen, firemen, doctors, janitors, etc all have to go to work just like they have been throughout and we hold all kids’ education hostage indefinitely because teachers might be at risk. At some point, we’re just going to have to get back to a sustainable new normal.[/quote]

+1. We have no idea what this is going to look like (various statins etc). [/quote]

I think the point is there was supposed to be a test/track/isolate thing. We haven’t done that. Now people are thinking they’d like to telework forever, because there is no test/track/isolate (you know, the thing that was supposed to make it at least seem safe to reopen).[/quote]

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