This is from the Guardian the other day, my old disingenuous friend
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It does not take a huge leap of intelligence to realise that, in the last 12 months, teachers have been exposed to the full risk of COVID for only 13 weeks. That isn't their fault, it is the government locking schools down.
It is therefore perhaps slightly more credible to imagine that teachers have less chance of having antibodies because they have spent a sizable portion of the last 52 weeks having to stay in their homes to teach and only a minority of the time actually at the full risk. But, as shown above, when exposed to the full risk they are understandably more likely than most to contract it.
That is surely more likely than your theory that fairies use magic dust to protect teachers in exactly the kind of environment the virus thrives.
And I see you are still incapable of moving on from talking exclusively about the death rate.
This is your most dishonest post yet.
I think police have more importance to society than any of the other groups we have mentioned. You might remember that I called for NHS to be vaccinated before anybody else. As a woke warrior you presumably want to defund the police, but I personally see the economy opening at a time when police are stretched due to self isolating colleagues to be something of a bad thing.
If ever I thought I had any human worth whatsoever, a conversation with you, Woanz and a few others would serve to thoroughly disabuse me of that notion. But I happen to have heard a lot of talk by politicians in the last few weeks about the absolutely national necessity of having schools open and children in classrooms. I have been consistently making the point (which you consistently misrepresent) that if that really is a national priority then it makes sense to ensure it can be delivered; which is helped by staff not having to self isolate. I have pointed out how easy it is to organise this. Instead, you prefer to present it as teachers being craven. Fine.
I am perfectly entitled to be anxious about wearing a masks due to a legitimate diagnosed mental health issue. I have never once refused to wear a mask where it is mandated nor refused to socially distance. Uncalled for IMO.
You could understand A Levels. Could you actually teach them? Do you have the patience and understanding?
Would you know what to say to and do for a child that told you they were contemplating suicide, as one told me today?
I'll accept that as your admission that teaching is an extremely difficult job that is hard to be good at.
You have flipped over to talking simply about deaths again. This isn't about the value of life. The discussion has been about allowing services to get up and running again. You keep switching it to be about deaths when you want to get on a high horse because you have no argument.
If one student gets COVID, that could, on a bad day, wipe out 4-5 teachers. If one teacher gets it, on a bad day it could wipe out 7-8 teachers for 10 days. Those teachers are replaceable by a body in the classroom but not by someone who can do the same job.
If a supermarket worker gets COVID and has to self isolate, they are replaced by another supermarket worker or a temp and there is no disruption in service. That is the nature of low skilled work. It's not a discussion about deaths; you responded to my argument by claiming that individual supermarket workers were just as vital to their businesses as a policeman is to theirs; but they are not. As soon as you realised that argument was nonsense you switched over to talking about deaths again.
This entire debate started with me pointing out how easy and non-disruptive it could be to vaccinate three groups alongside the 40's group (police, prison officers, teachers). You have then expanded that, and seemed to manufacture some sort of offence to the point that you are now effectively claiming that teachers are worthless to society.
That is your prerogative and I'm sorry if a simple debate has upset you so much.