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PROTECT OUR TEACHERS: There are 3.2 million teachers in the U.S. and they are rightfully concerned of contracting COVID from in-person learning, when preventative measures such as N95 masks and vaccines exist. 1/12
In addition to teachers, millions of education support staff such as bus drivers, cafeteria workers, janitors, administrators etc work together to educate students of all ages. 2/12
An important question is: Can you still transmit COVID after vaccination?
WE DON’T KNOW YET, but HOPEFULLY the virus DIES in the person who is vaccinated and does not spread. That would be the BEST scenario! 3/12
WE DON’T KNOW YET, but HOPEFULLY the virus DIES in the person who is vaccinated and does not spread. That would be the BEST scenario! 3/12
Over the next months, as more people are vaccinated, we will be able to contact trace outbreaks. By the end of January many healthcare workers will have received BOTH doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and be fully vaccinated, so by FEBRUARY we should have an idea. 4/12
BAD NEWS: If VACCINATED people can still transmit COVID, then our immediate loved ones would STILL need to be vaccinated because WE could still infect them, EVEN IF we are vaccinated. Therefore vaccinated people would still need to wear masks, social distance, etc. 5/12
GOOD NEWS: If the COVID vaccine behaves like the measles vaccine and decreases viral transmission we will be in a good place. 
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In MEASLES 97% of people are protected, whereas 3 out of 100 people who get two doses of MMR vaccine will get measles if exposed to the virus. However, they are more likely to have a MILDER illness, and LESS LIKELY to spread the disease to other people. 7/12
Home schooling is hard and school creates a sense of normalcy, but with a vaccine available there is no reason to endanger our teachers by pressuring them into in-person learning. 8/12
In addition, if educator support staff get sick and survive then they still risk exorbitant hospital charges when admitted. 9/12
Make no mistake, there are 1000s of education support staff of ALL AGES hospitalized and dead from COVID. Of the ones that made the news, @LostToCovid has documented 641. 10/12
Importantly, cloth masks ALONE will not protect against COVID. Our teachers are working indoors with students that may or may not wear masks, therefore teachers should have N95 masks if indoors. 11/12
To sum, teachers work countless unpaid hours to provide our children the best education during a pandemic. Let's support TEACHERS & EDUCATION SUPPORT STAFF by calling school boards to ensure in-person learning is cancelled and education support staff are vaccinated soon! /end
