Why aren't they vaccinating teachers now?

[Dingdong99]

I just can't get my head around this

Surely if they vaccinate all the school staff, schools can reopen, kids can get on with their education

A lot of kids are really struggling now (and their parents). I just don't understand why they aren't prioritising schools reopening by vaccinating teachers

Am I missing something?

I teach around 100 teenagers a day, they spend a long time in contact with me, facing me. Exposure involves duration as well so I do think teachers have more of this than supermarket workers who have very fleeting interactions, and usually in a far bigger space than a modern classroom.
I would like to see all public facing roles prioritised.

I also fhink you’ve missed quite a lot of the news op

Firstly they are vaccinating the people most likely to die from it. Teachers are way down this list
Secondly it’s not official schools are shut till summer term

Where are you watching your news? It’s hard to understand how you’re so ill informed?

@Abstractedobstructed

"Nobody (that I know) is saying that teachers and other school staff are at higher risk of death. But we are at greater risk of exposure. Death is not the only outcome of COVID infection, several colleagues who have had it are still not 100% weeks later and one has severe and permanent lung damage"

That is awful, I am sorry. But are you really at greater risk of exposure? Than the police, who have to literally manhandle adults day in day out? Than social workers? Than factory workers sat on machines all day in windowless rooms? Than bus drivers or supermarket workers, perched behind a piece of perspex like covid is a solid that can't travel around in air currents while hundreds of adults interact with them each day? Are you? Do we have stats on that?

No I don't and I really would like to see them! I can absolutely believe that other key workers are high risk.

The argument was, are teaching staff at greater risk than the general public, and I think we are - along with other front line workers and the people manning the checkouts at Asda.