Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
Well I guess if they shut down all food shops, all public transport, taxi's, hospitals GP surgery's etc. then people would slightly more aggrieved than they are over school closures.

Thats where your logic falls down a little, all the workers in those occupations have daily close contact with hundreds of a people a day from almost anywhere. Plus the risk assessment and stats to date show teachers at greater risk than those workers.

So a strategy of vaccinating those most at risk and working through them is to me entirely logical, and in order of risk one would do medical staff, transport staff, shop workers, police, before teaches, that being the case its going to take time before they get to teachers.

because by the same logic your using if society wants to be able to shop for food, visit hospital travel by public transport, then the workers in those occupations should be vaccinated first.

That covers a fair few people, which cohort would you suggest stand back and allow teachers to be vaccinated first and why?
I haven’t at any time suggested anyone should ‘stand back and allow teachers to be vaccinated first’.

I completely agree that those such as shop workers, hospital workers and transport workers are equally deserving and I’ve both made and acknowledged that point myself.

This part of the debate however is about the possibility of reopening schools by March 8th. It is my opinion that, for that to happen, teachers need to be in the forefront of the vaccination process.

Doubtless we can all make a case for a ‘preferred’ occupation to go to the front of the queue. I’m not actually engaging in a competition, simply making the point that very few have to actually share the same air as thirty(ish) others, in a confined environment, for an extended period of time in the way that teachers do.

You don’t agree...that’s fine too.