Thursday, June 10, 2021
Political Mayhem Thursday: School in the Fall... Normal?
I'm a teacher. That's the biggest and most important part of my job, the center of my vocation, and what I love to do. I want to be very clear: it will be best for everyone if we all teach and learn in person this fall, and the best way to do that is to make sure everyone gets vaccinated.
That could require make vaccination mandatory-- and if so, that should be ok. I'm baffled by people who claim their "religion" bars them from getting a vaccination, when I know they are Lutheran... I mean, are you just making stuff up on the fly? Because you don't want to do something doesn't make it a religious belief.
For some, it seems that getting vaccinated is somehow being disloyal to Trump-- a view that makes no sense at all, given that he got vaccinated right quick himself (even after he got COVID).
For Black Americans, there is the legitimate memory of things like the Tuskegee study in the 1930's, where people were used as unknowing subjects of a cruel experiment. Hopefully, the fact that all groups are being given the same vaccines will help allay those concerns.
In the end, getting students back in school is the most important thing once the virus is under control. Online learning has been a disaster whose full extent won't be known for years, as the true cost of too many students losing a year of school is known.
But in the end, vaccination should not be political-- it should just be a moral choice to protect those around us.
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I did some research and analysis regarding social epidemics (and pandemics), where some idea takes hold and spreads from person to person to group to more groups. That is the way someone like Trump becomes worshipped and adored, and whether he is what he says becomes irrelevant. The same thing is how the anti-vax and anti-mask movements spread, to the likely consequence of more illness and death. It also explains the lines at gas stations with cars burning gasoline waiting to buy a couple of gallons they would not normally buy for several days or a week or two, a study that I did in the early 1980s!!!.
The excuse I hear most is this vaccine is experimental. Remember it only has "emergency use" status. The faster the FDA approves the vaccines and changes the status the faster some of these people will lose this excuse.
My cousin is waiting for them to 'fine tune' the vaccine. In the mean time she runs around with people maskless as if there never was a pandemic. I can only assume that she had an asymptomatic case at some point.
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My cousin is waiting for them to 'fine tune' the vaccine. In the mean time she runs around with people maskless as if there never was a pandemic. I can only assume that she had an asymptomatic case at some point.
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