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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1000.  The WTU has its own agenda, weaponizing Covid fear-mongering to hem, haw and drag feet.

The WTU could just as easily have supported innovating to reopen elementary schools as safely as possible.  That's being done all around the country and the world.
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I don’t agree. I think DCPS teachers are very high risk for getting very sick. With that said, I think kids will be back in school in the Fall.[/quote]

Why do you think this? The data show teachers who teach in person are at no higher risk of infection than the general population.[/quote]

What’s the risk for the “general population”? I work from home, I have a much lower risk than someone who works in a grocery store or a hospital.[/quote]

And why do you think it's ok for teachers to demand a lower risk than other essential workers?[/quote]

I didn’t say that I thought it was okay. I was just asking what you meant by the risk of infection for the general population. Obviously one’s job, exposure level, regional location, etc. will change someone’s exposure risk. Just pointing out a bad argument on your part.[/quote]

It's not a bad argument, it's an argument based on statistics. Obviously, if you compare teachers to one specific group of the population that has either a particularly high or a particularly low risk, you will get varying results. But on the population level, you can look at the risk of teachers compared to the general population. If the Covid infection numbers among teachers who are teaching in person is 400 per 100.000 people and that matches the infection rates among the 20 to 65 age group within the general population, teachers have comparable risk to the average risk of the population overall.

This is what they found in Germany (sorry, I don't have an English-language link): https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/corona-infektionsrisiko-lehrer-erzieher-100.html

In Scotland, they even found that teachers are at less risk than other people of working age: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-in-scotland-teachers-are-less-at-risk-than-other-workers-sg3gg9xjc

In Sweden, they also found teachers' risk to be lower than average: https://www.thelocal.se/20200625/study-these-are-the-professions-which-are-over-represented-in-swedens-coronavirus-statistics[/quote]

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