This is objectively wrong. It's not 'hyperbole and hysterics', it's the fact that people simply cannot work when sick. Every discussion around covid, about returning to work, about trying to return to normalcy ignores that even among people that are vaccinated covid can and does still hit you hard and can prevent you from working anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Especially if it spreads to other family members that you then also have to take care of.
The way that it spreads like wildfire is precisely the issue because there are multiple school systems where half or more of teachers are out or unable to teach due to being sick. If your solution is to force them to work then you're going to get poorly ran classrooms at best and at worst you're going to see the next 'Great Resignation' but this time among teachers.
I have multiple friends in the schooling system and this is exactly what's happening.
>The way that it spreads like wildfire is precisely the issue because there are multiple school systems where half or more of teachers are out or unable to teach due to being sick.
Half the staff isn’t out sick with Covid. The staff is out due to absurd contact tracing quarantine rules. The staff is also out due to extreme misplaced Covid fears.
…but if half the staff was truly out sick with Covid that would mean we are 1-2 days away from full herd immunity at the school. And so this “crisis” should permanently abate in 1-2 weeks.
I’d expect a full return to normal at these schools by the end of January if what you’re saying is true!
> at worst you're going to see the next 'Great Resignation' but this time among teachers
This will be a controversial comment, but after decades of teachers telling to public on how “essential” they are to society (a point in which I agree), I have watched teachers and their unions spend the last 2 years pushing how “non-essential” they are due to pandemic fears. If a bunch want to resign, so be it. I would rather have the ones who want to be there, realize how essential they are, and willing to risk a virus to provide that essential service.
The way that it spreads like wildfire is precisely the issue because there are multiple school systems where half or more of teachers are out or unable to teach due to being sick. If your solution is to force them to work then you're going to get poorly ran classrooms at best and at worst you're going to see the next 'Great Resignation' but this time among teachers.
I have multiple friends in the schooling system and this is exactly what's happening.