Posted on 02/24/2021 10:48:21 AM PST by Vendome
As the vast majority of California students approach one year of distance learning, Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed Tuesday that classrooms will reopen “very, very shortly.” But his forecast was called into question by Los Angeles teachers who continue to insist that the state's largest school district won't open without more vaccinations.
“The pressure building to return to schools is political. It is not science,” the United Teachers Los Angeles said in a statement. The union said it will vote next week to refuse resuming in-person classes unless certain demands are met, including that all returning staff get access to vaccinations and COVID-19 case numbers in the county continue to decrease.
At a news conference Tuesday where Newsom signed a $7.6 billion stimulus package, the most pressing questions focused on reopening schools. Would he consider forcing schools to reopen and or using his emergency powers to suspend local bargaining? Why do teachers unions have so much say when firefighters and grocery workers have to report to work in person? When specifically will schools reopen, and who is to blame for their failure to resume in-person classes so far?
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The Teachers Union owns him. ...and he likely has a forced election coming up.
So the science says kids are very less likely to succumb to the virus, to catch it or to spread it. So for 9.99 out of 10 students, going to school is safe. Their problem is they are afraid of each other.
Next, they will make vaccinations a requirement to enter school property. Except for children because the vaccines are not approved for children.
Don’t try to convince me the teacher’s care about their students. Some of course do. By the 80/20 rule and the exit exam test results it is clear most do not.
Ditto here in WA state. Gov Dimslee has been pushing for schools re-opening knowing damn well the WEA won't allow it until they get hazardous duty pay. Some schools have gone to "hybrid" operations but are now having rolling "protests".
These are strike actions, not concerns for the kids. And with a strike. the unions want "something"
Some California counties/cities have reopened their schools at least part time with zero problems.
The big teacher unions in LA, Silly con valley and the Sacramento area, are letting their teachers stay home, get paid and enjoy their health benefits.
recall
I think it’s good that parents start to see that the impediment to educating their children is the teachers union. A teachable moment at hand.
A “deal” is always “close.” They are buying time til summer.
And then fall will be part-time school only, at best.
Meanwhile parents in our area started the process of recalling our school board. We have more than half the signatures we need already. The threat of recall alone has helped inch things along. Finally K-6 is back, last week (just 2 days a week though).
All Californians: recall your school board members, replace them with non-socialists and those who aren’t in the pockets of the unions.
Unions probably want that new system where they teach from home via video while minimum-wage “monitors” take attendance and enforce discipline in the classroom.
Hard-wired into the contract, in perpetuity.
They’ll probably get it, too.
What happens first in California; bullet trains or schools opening again?
Gotta say, I think it’s gonna be bullet trains....
No.
The part about the “monitors” in class is a built in raise.
The government will appropriate the monies to support the assistants and when the “teachers” no longer find them useful they monies spent on the temps will be given as raises to the “teachers” and the temps let go.
POOR PLANNING ON HOW TO STOP VACCINE LINE-JUMPERS
CALIFORNIA FOCUS
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021, OR THEREAFTER
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS
“POOR PLANNING ON HOW TO STOP VACCINE LINE-JUMPERS”
There was a wide sense of relief when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the other day that people aged 16 to 65 who suffer from certain severe underlying health conditions will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting on the Ides of March.
Starting March 15, if you’re in a wheelchair, on a walker, need oxygen, take immune-suppressing anti-rejection drugs to preserve an organ transplant, suffer from coronary artery disease or heart failure or deal with chronic kidney or lung disease – you can sign up to get either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines shot in your arm.
State health officials estimate this will add between 4 million and 6 million folks to the list of those eligible for shots – between 10 percent and 15 percent of all Californians. Overall, about half the populace will then be entitled to inoculations.
That’s good, if supplies arrive. But planning for this phase has been less than good. In fact, the start of this new phase of the vaccine rollout figures to be about as confused as the opening of Phase 2, when people over 65 joined health workers on the eligibility list.
Back then – only about six weeks ago– Newsom proclaimed over-65s could begin getting shots and some grocery-based drugstores began Internet signups. But when those people turned up for appointments the next day, almost all were turned away. It developed there was no coordination between state and county health departments, so the drugstores could not give shots. This bait-and-switch affected tens of thousands of seniors. It wasn’t fixed until days later, a few hours after this column reported what happened.
At the time there were no mass drive-through vaccination centers. There were few places to get vaccinated. The situation began to improve when some large testing sites quickly converted to giving shots.
The planning flaw for the newest large expansion of the eligibility pool is different, affecting verification rather than availability – especially with more large centers opening across California.
What’s undetermined now is how the soon-to-be-eligible will prove it. Most diabetics and folks with transplants don’t carry special IDs. Neither do heart attack veterans or kidney patients.
In helping Newsom announce the new eligibility categories, state Health Secretary Mark Ghaly said his agency would spend the next four weeks figuring out what kind of verification would be used to keep imposters from jumping the line and getting vaccines long before their turn, along with the freedom and feeling of health security this brings.
Like the confusion leading to the bait-and-switch of late January and the overloaded Web-based sign-up sites that followed, this problem was easy to anticipate.
The real question is what health officials at both state and county levels were doing all fall, while awareness grew that coronavirus vaccines were about to arrive. Like most people, they knew that while some skeptics would refuse or delay getting vaccinated, the vast majority of Californians would eagerly accept the shots.
In fact, the jabs quickly became the hottest commodity going. Planning for the phase-in was an obvious need, even while officials were also occupied with imposing shutdowns, lockdowns, masking, distancing and other anti-pandemic measures.
But it did not happen, as was made clear by Ghaly’s admission that the state will develop seat-of-pants rules for folks to prove they are among the newly eligible. Will they need notes from their doctors, a la grammar school kids? Will their providers have to devise and hand out special cards to prove they have the conditions they claim?
None of this will be much of a problem for patients at some of the state’s largest health care systems which did the requisite planning and possess the needed patient information. In the earlier phases, people regularly cared for by the UC Health system, the Providence hospital system and a few others were notified of their eligibility and invited via email to sign up for appointments. They’ll be OK in the new phase, too.
Millions more will not have this benefit. They have no idea what documents, if any, they’ll need once they can start vaccination signups.
It’s a plain dereliction of duty by Newsom’s administration, which knew this was coming but did not plan for it.
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
Posted by California Focusat 7:28 AM
http://www.californiafocus.net/2021/02/poor-planning-on-how-to-stop-vaccine.html
So the science says kids are very less likely to succumb to the virus, to catch it or to spread it. So for 99.999% out of students, going to school is safe.
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