MBB: Covid

[87 Penn St8]

Hi fellow teacher. HS science/social studies teacher here! I'm surely not a medical expert, but my brother is a doctor and mother has her doctorate in nursing, and they are big supporters of the vaccine and mRNA. I just listen to what they tell me (I choose to listen to the experts who I know have my best interest in mind over trying to figure everything out myself without their background).

Basically, I agree with you that eventually most will get it. However, our vaccine (and boosters) will help shield us from major infection. I have a couple colleagues who refused the vaccine. The one ended up in the hospital with covid for a month in September... He had a hell of a time with it, but did eventually recover.

Godspeed to everyone when we contract it, but I wouldn't want to go about it without a vaccine lessening the impact.

Another colleague of mine in her 20s got it... Was out for a while and just got vaccinated now - in her words "any side effect this gives me will be a heck of a lot better than COVID was!"

Yeah, it has gone through quite a few teachers at my school. I've been good so far, though -- even if I was one of only 2 teachers in my grade for a bit bc of quarantining (THAT was an interesting time)!

Amen. With all the LOVE we've been getting, the reality is that we are in a Petrie dish every day. Without my vaccine I was feeling really vulnerable during Hybrid last year. Whether the vaccine made a difference or not I don't know for sure...but I felt better having it.

My ER cousin also thinks that our exceptionally mild cases may have been positively impacted by the vaccines/boosters. All I know is that at the start of this week I was really nervous, and tonight I feel better than I could ever imagine.

The lines at our Nurses office on Monday mornings and after Thanksgiving were crazy. I have a ton of non vaccinated kids who have to Teams in remotely after contact tracing. One nurse only deals with Covid every day for months. I have little say in all of that....but at the moment am feeling pretty fortunate.

 

[#1 Nittany in VA]

Bottom line….games should still be played. Sit the sick player. Novel concept, eh.

Common sense left the room a long time ago on this one.

 

[PSUEngineer89]

Bottom line….games should still be played. Sit the sick player. Novel concept, eh.

Common sense left the room a long time ago on this one.

If the infected player is simply infected, but can play effectively, he should play.

It makes no difference if he infects other healthy people.

It just means that those healthy people get Covid now, rather in March. That's it.

It was always true. Everyone knew it.

 

[Hotshoe]

That is irrelevant, and you are grasping at straws bc you feel attacked and do not have science on your side.

The fact is that, if the entire team was vaccinated right now, we would more likely be playing hoops at this time. However, they are not all, and we are not playing hoops. If they were vaccinated, would we 100% be playing hoops right now? No one can answer that, but we would be more likely to be playing - there could have still been a breakthrough case, but the chances of that are lower.

Cornell says hello, but nice shtick.