I would think teachers would count as front line workers. Kids are little germ factories, you know this though. The quicker we get teachers vaccinated, the faster kids are back in school, faster parents can more easily earn a living and/or not have to pay for extra care they normally wouldn't have to.
I’m very lucky in the fact that I have free childcare and my son is killing it in virtual school. All the cases at my son’s school are staff members and there have been a ton in the last month. Most of the teachers on quarantine teach from home, but those kids in classrooms have to go somewhere and the teachers still in the school have to take them on. One grade level only has four teachers because one quit at the beginning of the year (there is a hiring freeze), they each have 12-16 kids in person, and when three of the four were quarantined, teaching from home, the one left had to supervise all the kids. If they were vaccinated, this wouldn’t be an issue.
If you can work from home, you're not a frontline worker. It's shouldn't be a controversial statement to say that vaccinations should be offered to those most at risk, and those required to be out of their homes to keep society functioning before it should be going to anyone else. School teachers fall into neither of those categories, so they can kick rocks.
I disagree to an extent, but I understand your point of view.
That's a really dumb thing to say.
How? I'm not being a smart ass, I honestly don't see what there is to disagree with. The priority should be to protect those most likely to die from covid, not people who don't like working from home.
so short sighted .
I outlined my opinion earlier, but basically if we vaccinate teachers it's gets kids back in school, which frees up parents to work more and spend less money on child care that they normally don't have to pay for.
Teachers can go back to school without being vaccinated ahead of people who need it more.
Give me a reason why it's a really dumb thing to say beyond an emotional response.
Well as you and I both know, kids are germ factories, so vaccinating the teachers is probably a good thing.
It’s not that teachers don’t like working from home, it’s that in some areas, they literally aren’t allowed to work from home. My aunt is a cancer survivor on medication that severely impacts her immune system, and she had to appeal three times to be able to teach from home, and then last month, they told her she had to return to school or go on an extended leave of absence.
Neither kids, not teachers under a certain age are likely to die from covid.
I think this is a conversation
@ThatOneDude and I will not fully agree with you on, no matter what any of us say.
Is death the only outcome? Isn't it more valuable to us all if teachers are in the classroom teaching instead of home sick with the rona?
just break it down.
Death is the most significant outcome. Don't be obtuse.
No, it isn't. If it were they would have been deemed essential last year like the essential workers who are once again being treated as Rona-fodder. Food is more important than education.
That's fine, I disagree and think teachers should be included in the early stages.
I'll never understand the justifications being given for not protecting the most vulnerable as a priority.
You can't guilt trip me, I'm Jewish, I've had people try to guilt trip me my whole life.
It's not a guilt trip, it's an honest statement. If I have one vaccine, and 2 people. 1 likely to die if they get covid, and 1 not. I'm giving it to the one more likely to die even if it's inconvenient for me.
I think due to how fucked this whole thing has been handled we need to do the most good in terms of getting society back to normal.
