For @mcgillu students who believe their health to be compromised by an instructor removing their mask while teaching, one workaround may be to sit within 2 m of them. Instructors are not permitted to remove masks unless 2 m away and can be reported to campus security. #McGill200
As @mcgillu does not require social distancing in classrooms, instructors cannot require that students relocate away from a closer seat to allow for mask removal. It is unfortunate that students must now protect themselves against unsafe #McGill200 protocols, but here we are.
Research shows that Covid is transmitted principally through aerosol particles that can circulate throughout an entire classroom for hours and are not limited to 2 m. One instructor without a mask can fill an entire classroom with particles.
@mcgillu does not require instructors to be vaccinated and will not be testing thus permitting asymptomatic transmission. Instead, instructors are asked to fill out a self-report symptom checklist that will not catch asymptomatic ppl or increasing numbers who don’t complete it.
These @mcgillu self-report symptom checklists are also not being adequately enforced. If I as an instructor do not complete the form, I can reasonably expect to still come in and teach with no repercussions. If I indicate having symptoms to get out of teaching, no one would know.
This is why mandatory testing or vaccine passports, and indoor masking at all times for all, are necessary and make existing #McGill200 measures comparatively ineffective in preventing transmission.
These checklists are useful mainly for delayed contract tracing to determine how Covid was transmitted and to penalize offenders long after everyone is already sick, and to cover liability re: occupational health requirements. They do not prevent transmission or keep campus safe.
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