how do you weigh the safety of teachers who have had every opportunity to be vaccinated and most of them have, thank goodness, with the well-being of children? well, let me just be clear. this issue is much less about teachers as it is about our entire communities. there s a whole bunch of people who are still concerned that omicron or the virus is spreading and that these masks i have a kn94, that these masks have helped to stop transmission. you have in an elementary school kids you know, you can t really social distance in an elementary school. so the question really becomes have the masks helped. there s a lot of evidence this is the only place i disagree with lucy, there s a lot of evidence that the masks have helped stop transmission, but i agree with lucy that, you
concern over safety for teachers and kids obviously, but take chicago a few weeks ago which the teachers were out for a few days. 90 percent of the teachers in that union there were vaccinated. with those vaccination rates, what dr. mcbride just told us about masks not particularly being effective for teacher, what is the argument against taking off masks in schools? well, the argument is that you have let me just say this. i am in favor of an off ramp on masks. right. the real issue becomes are is the spread low enough so that there s no dissemination or transmission in schools. it is not the teachers transmitting to kids. it is more kids, and kids particularly in elementary schools right now. and so the question really becomes do we have that s why i like what massachusetts has done, because what they ve said is that on a school-by-school
telling it for a while now. why do you feel so strongly that you are running for office? right, well, first of all, thank you for having me, sandra. and it s not just masks but the masks are the most glaring example of how during this pandemic our kids are being put last. their education, mental health, physical fitness is all last. we know the masks are not at this point helping us stop transmission. we have just taken the masks off adults who are at higher risk of covid here in new york but the kids have to wear them. it s not fair, not right, and for anyone who watched the super bowl as i did, with four other families and 18 kids among us, you know, our kids ran around together and had a normal sunday evening and then they have to go into school masked, they know and we know that this is theater and that it s not for their
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