One of the most ominous aspects of kids going back to school is we’re sending them into the classrooms of a teacher workforce that’s 79% White at a time when White people are the least likely to wear a mask consistently & get vaccinated. yahoo.com/lifestyle/whit…
Receipt 🧾: Public school teachers much less racially diverse than students in US | via @pewresearch pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…
Receipt 🧾: White conservatives are the most staunchly resistant to vaccines in the US, a new poll shows businessinsider.com/white-conserva…
If we don’t immediately start requiring masks and vaccination (or frequent COVID testing) of teachers and school/bus staff, we’re at risk of super spreader outbreak events that originate in thousands of classrooms across every corner of this country.
It also has the makings of a few racial health disparities because we’re exposing a predominately not-White student body to a system that’s already prone to prioritizing White freedom/choice/grievance above the health and safety of people of color. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
A June 2021 UT-Austin study showed that 56% of White Texans don’t wear masks in public vs. 12% of Black Texans and 28% of Hispanic Texans. The unparalleled freedom to choose personal irresponsibility is a lethal White privilege that puts us ALL at risk. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/response-c… 
As opposition to mitigation efforts among White Americans has grown, so has their rate of COVID hospitalization & death. It’s NOT a mystery or surprise and we shouldn’t be giving society’s most radical anti-mask/vaxxers a license to become COVID suicide bombers in our schools.
https://twitter.com/EbonyJHilton_MD/status/1425489450897973250
Proud Boys Are Teaming Up With Anti-Maskers to Threaten School Boards | via @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/proud-boys-are…
Delta’s ripping through red states (especially in the rural Deep South) because refusing masks/vaccines/lockdowns has become a proxy for White Republican identity. They’re peer pressuring themselves into catching/spreading Covid, overdosing on Ivermectin and dying of Whiteness.
https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/943616492163256320
Much of the White peer pressure to refuse all Covid prevention strategies ignited after early reports showed Blacks/Hispanics/Natives were disproportionately dying from it. Now despite 58% of deaths occurring amongst Whites, many still presume both superiority and invincibility.
https://twitter.com/wihorne/status/1429122833779675141
cc @DanPatrick White Republicans are refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine more than any other demographic group in Texas | via @TexasTribune texastribune.org/2021/03/23/cov…
67% of Texas Republicans don’t wear masks in public. 86% of Texas Democrats DO wear masks in public. For every finger @GregAbbott_TX and @DanPatrick point at the border and Black people, 3 fingers point right back at the Texas GOP. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/response-c…
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