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The teachers will work themselves into an early grave just to help the kids. Nobody's doing that for teachers. Teachers are more at risk of actually dying when
by peterwwillis 6y ago
The teachers will work themselves into an early grave just to help the kids. Nobody's doing that for teachers. Teachers are more at risk of actually dying when in-person learning is forced on them as some school districts have done. And they have their livelihood to think about (many live a little more than paycheck to paycheck).
Comparatively, the kids aren't dying, they don't have bills to pay, they don't work overtime. Their parents may even be able to pull them from school, or homeschool. Worst case they might be held back a year.
The students will survive this, but the teachers literally might not.
- iso1631 6y agohundereds of people a weel in the US die driving, many of them going to and from work.
- pessimizer 6y agoHundreds of working people also die from floods, too. I'm not sure why that's relevant here, though. Are you against traffic laws and flood control? Will not protecting teachers from covid somehow keep them from getting in traffic accidents? I suspect the opposite is true.
- iso1631 6y agoThe point is we accept a certain level of risk in going to work.
- peterwwillis 6y agoThe point you've just tried to make is that it's fine to force teachers to risk death in a classroom, because they might also get hit by a car driving into work? You need to work on your rhetoric.
- iso1631 6y agoWe force people to risk death driving to work, why is covid different?
- peterwwillis 6y agoBecause people shouldn't have to increase their risk of death significantly just to have the privilege of having housing and food. The comparison is ridiculous. It's like saying, you already have a low risk of death by colon cancer, so why not eat things that dramatically increase your risk of cancer. Do you want them to die?
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoThis is almost a hysterical response, there are so many more dangerous jobs where people actually die but because they are not academics no one literally ever cared. Thinking covid is some grave danger to teachers now when we know about the disease is insane.