From a political standpoint, I'm ok with this. However, I'm not going to pretend that there's a factual or scientific basis for it, because there isn't. It's a matter of greasing the squeaky wheel and taking away reasons for teacher unions to keep their members going to work at the expense of taxpayers and children. I'm willing to pay the extortion money.
The reality is that moving heaven and earth to vaccinate a group is something you do for people who are at an unusually high risk of getting Covid at work and dying from it. I haven't seen any evidence that this is true of teachers.
If politics were removed from vaccine priority, we'd prioritize largely according to age, and a 34 year old woman who works with kids who are wearing masks and hand sanitizing several times a day wouldn't be especially high on the list. She wouldn't be at the bottom, but she wouldn't be near the top. A 70 year old teacher with hypertension and diabetes? That's another matter.
Last edited: Mar 10, 2021