Just thought I’d share a “need more coffee” moment; I read the thread title ever so briefly as “Literals also say and do stupid shit” and suddenly had a SNL-style skit playing out in my head where someone didn’t comprehend figurative speech.
ShivaX
4032
God, I forgot about Sean Penn’s word salad from last week.
I honestly can’t understand that well enough to tell the difference between “stupid liberal shit” and “just plain stupid shit.”
ShivaX
4037
There is no context. He’s responding to this:
Which is, somehow, Jake Tapper’s hatred of teachers incarnate or something. No idea.
Scuzz
4038
Special interests rule all even in death.
Dr. Ngwa appears to have deleted the tweet.
ShivaX
4040
I still have it cached it seems.
Oh, I can see it as quoted by Tapper, just when I clicked directly on it I got ‘this tweet is no longer available.’ I’d been curious to read the dunkings that presumably ensued…
Tapper has been going on and on about how teachers need to get back to the classroom asap in recent days.
Ah, there’s some context, anyway.
I still haven’t quite figured out what the objection is to vaccinating teachers as a priority in order to open schools more quickly. Has anyone seen a good argument against it?
Aceris
4045
My understanding is that it doesn’t substantially reduce transmission via schools, and although teachers are at higher risk than the general population because they are more likely to be infected via school transmission, the differences in risk based on age or preexisting conditions are much larger. So diverting doses from people who have a significantly higher age or preexisting condition based risk to teachers is likely to lead to more deaths in the end.
Strollen
4047
My understanding is that Wisconsin study and another state NC, IRCC showed that transmission rates traced to k-8 schools were below community transmission rates. Which makes sense if you think about m being locked in a room for 5 hours with kids who don’t transmit the disease makes you less likely to get Covid than being in a office, a retail environment, or sadly the large number of American who don’t aren’t practice social distancing.
So as you saying, diverting vaccination to grease the squeaky wheel , aka teachers union, is bad public health policy.
Aceris
4048
My comment about higher risk of infection via school transmission was based on the UK scenario, where offices and retail environments are largely closed and people largely are practicing social distancing, but schools will be fully open from 8th March. Should have been clearer.
