They won't even pay tenured educators (10+ years) more than new ones, they definitely won't do anything to fix their lack of job protection.
it's not a question of 'job protection'. It's a simple math problem that the union negotiated for X number of sick days per year, and the school budgeted accordingly. If the school doesn't have to incur additional expense for exceeding the number of sick days, they can hold the job open for as long as a temporary teacher can fill in.
The union would not negotiate for 60+ days of PTO/sick time. They attempt to be fair, yet still reasonable.
Merica!
Most unions negotiate for long term disability benefits.
They have tenured elementary school teachers? Oh, Jesus.
i'm not asking the union to renegotiate the contract. I'm saying that if the FedGov put a trillion into long-term disability for teachers who got COVID, her healthcare would be taken care of and she'd have a job when she recovered.
it's not a question of 'resources' (fake money), it's a question of priorities
You really don't see how short sighted this thinking is?
if it were up to me, we wouldn't be printing money in the first place - if we're quantifying "short-sightedness" blame.
Printing money has nothing to do with it. You're trying to create public policy in a piecemeal manner. The union should be negotiating protections for their members off of work for all illness. Treating this as a covid issue is incredibly short sighted.
you don't have to solve all the problems to solve this COVID problem.
Thank you for defining "short sighted" for the class.
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My mom was able to book vaccine appointments for her, my stepdad, and my grandfather before the state website crashed (again). The state is now not booking new appointments, as all available vaccines have been reserved through March. I'm sure this will change as the state gets more access to vaccines.
They finna be vaccinated (Pfizer) this Wednesday though.
They finna be vaccinated (Pfizer) this Wednesday though.
Did he have any underlying conditions?
You're right, people who get every other major illness can fuck off because covid. Instead of easily addressing all issues we should only address your personal boogeyman.you keep your goalposts on casters
Excellent misuse of goalpost moving though. You're on a roll for misusing terms today.
We're back in lockdown.
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"don't fix anything unless it fixes everything forever"
If you're fixing things anyways, fix them properly. Don't pretend that "If it only saves one life!!!" ever leads to thought out, rational decisions.
Covid variant in South Africa is ‘more of a problem’ than the one in UK, official says
A variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa is more problematic than the mutation found in the U.K., Britain’s health minister said Monday, as both strains spread rapidly.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC the variant found in South Africa was especially concerning.
“I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant, and that’s why we took the action that we did to restrict all flights from South Africa,” he told the BBC’s “Today” program.
“This is a very, very significant problem ... and it’s even more of a problem than the U.K. new variant.”
Both countries are struggling with a surge in Covid-19 infections, which have been attributed in large part to mutations in the virus that make it more transmissible.
The U.K.’s new variant was first identified in Kent, southeast England, in December. The U.K. authorities alerted the World Health Organization to its emergence.
Experts note that while the new variant spreads more easily, it does not appear to make it deadlier. Nonetheless, the U.K.’s hospitals are under pressure from a dramatic rise in infections and admissions.
Vaccine effectiveness
Questions have been raised over how the coronavirus vaccines will work against the new variants.
Several experts have said they expect vaccines — such as those from Pfizer and BioNTech, and the Oxford University/AstraZeneca — to protect against the new strains.
Earlier in December, WHO chief scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan tried to allay fears over the variants, telling the BBC it was “very unlikely” that the latest mutations would cause the current vaccines not to work. The WHO has said further investigations are required “to understand the impact of specific mutations on viral properties and the effectiveness of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.”
Dr. John Bell of Oxford University said Sunday the variant identified in South Africa was worrisome in this regard, however.
“They both have multiple, different mutations in them, so they’re not a single mutation,” he told Times Radio. “And the mutations associated with the South African form are really pretty substantial changes in the structure of the (virus’ spike) protein.”
He said there were questions as to whether the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccines would be “disabled” in the presence of such mutations.
The team behind the Oxford University inoculation was investigating the effect of the variants on its vaccine, he said, adding that his gut feeling was that it would still be effective against the strain identified in the U.K., but he was more uncertain about the one identified in South Africa.
However, he told the radio station that if the vaccine did not work on this variant, then it was likely the vaccines could be adapted and that would not take as long as a year.
More lockdowns
Coronavirus vaccines are the only bright spot in a pandemic that continues to rage in the West. On Monday, the U.K. began its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after starting to deploy the Pfizer/BioNTech shot in December.
In the meantime, restrictions on public life continue and the U.K.’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hinted that more restrictions could be introduced in England. Many parts of the country are already effectively under lockdown, with all but essential shops closed and people told to stay at home as much as possible. Still, further restrictions could be introduced in parts of the country with more relaxed measures.
The U.K. has now recorded over 2.6 million cases of the virus, and over 75,000 deaths to date, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, and the new variant has prompted a surge in infections in London and the South East and is starting to appear in other parts of the country.
In South Africa, over 1.1 million cases have been recorded, and almost 30,000 deaths. The new strain has become dominant in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
The variant originally identified in the U.K. has also been discovered in some European countries and the U.S., prompting many nations to ban flights from the U.K. For its part, the U.K. has banned visitors from South Africa
A variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa is more problematic than the mutation found in the U.K., Britain’s health minister said Monday, as both strains spread rapidly.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC the variant found in South Africa was especially concerning.
“I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant, and that’s why we took the action that we did to restrict all flights from South Africa,” he told the BBC’s “Today” program.
“This is a very, very significant problem ... and it’s even more of a problem than the U.K. new variant.”
Both countries are struggling with a surge in Covid-19 infections, which have been attributed in large part to mutations in the virus that make it more transmissible.
The U.K.’s new variant was first identified in Kent, southeast England, in December. The U.K. authorities alerted the World Health Organization to its emergence.
Experts note that while the new variant spreads more easily, it does not appear to make it deadlier. Nonetheless, the U.K.’s hospitals are under pressure from a dramatic rise in infections and admissions.
Vaccine effectiveness
Questions have been raised over how the coronavirus vaccines will work against the new variants.
Several experts have said they expect vaccines — such as those from Pfizer and BioNTech, and the Oxford University/AstraZeneca — to protect against the new strains.
Earlier in December, WHO chief scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan tried to allay fears over the variants, telling the BBC it was “very unlikely” that the latest mutations would cause the current vaccines not to work. The WHO has said further investigations are required “to understand the impact of specific mutations on viral properties and the effectiveness of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.”
Dr. John Bell of Oxford University said Sunday the variant identified in South Africa was worrisome in this regard, however.
“They both have multiple, different mutations in them, so they’re not a single mutation,” he told Times Radio. “And the mutations associated with the South African form are really pretty substantial changes in the structure of the (virus’ spike) protein.”
He said there were questions as to whether the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccines would be “disabled” in the presence of such mutations.
The team behind the Oxford University inoculation was investigating the effect of the variants on its vaccine, he said, adding that his gut feeling was that it would still be effective against the strain identified in the U.K., but he was more uncertain about the one identified in South Africa.
However, he told the radio station that if the vaccine did not work on this variant, then it was likely the vaccines could be adapted and that would not take as long as a year.
More lockdowns
Coronavirus vaccines are the only bright spot in a pandemic that continues to rage in the West. On Monday, the U.K. began its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after starting to deploy the Pfizer/BioNTech shot in December.
In the meantime, restrictions on public life continue and the U.K.’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hinted that more restrictions could be introduced in England. Many parts of the country are already effectively under lockdown, with all but essential shops closed and people told to stay at home as much as possible. Still, further restrictions could be introduced in parts of the country with more relaxed measures.
The U.K. has now recorded over 2.6 million cases of the virus, and over 75,000 deaths to date, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, and the new variant has prompted a surge in infections in London and the South East and is starting to appear in other parts of the country.
In South Africa, over 1.1 million cases have been recorded, and almost 30,000 deaths. The new strain has become dominant in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
The variant originally identified in the U.K. has also been discovered in some European countries and the U.S., prompting many nations to ban flights from the U.K. For its part, the U.K. has banned visitors from South Africa
Well, "U.K. Variant" is okay, "China Virus" is not. Somehow I don't see the "African strain" holding up to the rigors of modern media.
