About 85 teachers in the UK have expressed an interest in joining the action
  • @JacktheladEnglish
    3•23 days ago

    But a top barrister representing medics in a similar case warned it would be difficult for teachers to prove they caught coronavirus in the classroom.

    Indeed. I’ve had COVID twice. Fuck knows who and where I caught it from.

    • @BJHanssen
      6•22 days ago

      At the same time, when you are repeatedly exposed to the single most contagion-ridden work environment in the country outside of actual medical facilities, and you can point at stats like 56% increase in sickness rates, you would have to be actively dry humping the letter of the law to not just go ‘well… yeah that’s fair’.

      • TheEmpireStrikesDak
        3•23 days ago

        When my nephew caught covid, the school told his parents to keep sending his two siblings to school. My niece tested positive for covid a day or two later.