Hi. Thank You Off Your Support.
We were right in asking for a three month buffer period after safe levels had been reached… Because we foresaw the chaos that would ensue once the tide seemed to turn in our favour against this virus and people seemed to get overly happy because they thought they saw the end of the tunnel…
When were still mired down in the battle against it . Most traffic accidents happen five minutes from home because people get over anxious and overzealous and start making mistakes…
And that is exactly what is happening now with the vaccine roll out… And this urge to get back to class… Without looking at the timetable that the scientific facts and reality lays out for us .
We have tried… And by we I mean our opponents in the Trump admiinistration first and now in the Biden administration and Newsom Administration and all across this country they have tried to put a human timetable on this virus… And tell the virus when it’s going to be gone…
Which, on the one hand, has produced an experimental vaccine which seems very effective… And relatively safe… But which does not determine the end to this process .
What our scientific and human efforts tell us that we can do is the following… We can vaccinate those who want to be vaccinated now in the next two or three months by July… We can obtain a pediatric vaccine by early September… And we can look to having everybody vaccinated by Fall…
This is a real scientific timetable…
It stands to reason… That if we get 70 million adults vaccinated two months or three months… That the numbers will go down drastically… And that by August September we could be looking at possibilities of planning a safe return… So why do they want to do it now? !?!?!
Why the insistence that it be four or five months ahead of time in a precipitated an orderly fashion…?!?
Ego. In this case the ego of Biden‘s first 100 days.
Why are grocery store workers not the first ones to get this vaccine… Along with the elderly… Why are we reading about actors and actresses in private school people getting this vaccine before the people who have been providing us with food for the last 10 months?
After we go to the bathroom in the morning the first thing most of us do is eat… Those are primary necessities… Sewage, cleanliness, and food.
Educators are not on the front line, nor do we have to be… We are essential but we are not on the front line we can stay virtual… My virtual class is going better than any class I’ve had up to now… Because I said a high goal for myself and I have people buying it… No I do teach in a privileged area… With lots of parental support… But if you approach things with the attitude that is going to be less then… You were going to come out with that result.
Every parent, every person who is protesting to get schools re-opened should be protesting for more money for families, for more safety in contact tracing… And testing for more enforcement of people who violate these things.
And they should be protesting for vaccinations for their grocery store worker acquaintances family and friends… And they should realize that after any storm has passed through town… We need to assess… And move safely to pick up the pieces… Not rush to make everything look like this never happened….
All of this happened…and it needs to be examined and remedied.. We had a horrible response to this pandemic… Our president at the time… President Trump… Was self-serving and egotistical and try to overthrow our nation… he didn’t care about the 500,000 Americans he basically left dead…
Our country needs fixing in deeper ways than a simple vaccine will cure… Or a simple return to school…
Thrre are positives: we’ve seen more funding for schools than ever: Why now? Why not before?
At the same time we spent more money on public things in the last year then we had in the previous 20… I’m teaching with two additional teachers in my room virtually.
We have a ratio of 1 to 9 teachers to students in my classroom now… That comes from emergency funding… That could be the way it is in American life throughout this country all the time… This is what parents should be calling for… for the future and outraged about the fact that it hasn’t happened before...
Parents should not br pushing people back to die… Because they want to return to a normal that wasn’t functioning before… Addition of people half of which did not want to put on a simple mask… Has real problems and that’s the real cause of this and that’s what we have to deal with…
And we need to deal with it, from a position of calm, humility and safety… Not the same egotistical rush that caused this country to come to this point. Of misguided, self serving inaction and misdeed.