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I have severe asthma. Received accommodation for my f2f class, 2 other classes were already scheduled as fully online. B/c the @BORUSG is determined to pack the dorms, my f2f class remains f2f with a Grad Asst facilitating the tech to have me zoom in from a remote location. 1/n https://twitter.com/czeltsman/status/1293557855329689604
Almost didn’t take the accommodation. Wrote chair to say that my shitty lungs shouldn’t imperil someone else. I couldn’t live w/myself if someone got ill b/c of my accommodation. Husband & daughter begged me to take it. My kid has had too much death already in her young life. 2/n
W/less than a week before classes, GAs got their assignments. They were just told that the super cool jobs working in museums & archives have been cancelled & they r to work as classroom faciltators, effectively putting them on the front lines of teaching during a pandemic. 3/n
Why couldn’t I, an experienced online prof, just teach my f2f class as an online class? Because of @corvias and companies like them who put pressure on the @BORUSG to pack the dorms so they could continue to be profitable thru a global pandemic. 4/n
My university has three campuses in three GA counties. All are currently experiencing high rates of community transmission and hospitals are at or near capacity with record deaths recorded yesterday. 5/n
Many faculty spent their entire summers trying to convince the powers that be that we need to protect students and our faculty and staff colleagues by at least beginning the semester online. Cases are so much worse than when we closed campuses in March. 6/n
Despite letters and meetings, petitions and die-ins, students, staff, and faculty are being compelled, against both their will and the science, to put themselves at greater risk for Covid because @Corvias wants to continue to make $$. http://m.golocalworcester.com/news/ris-picerne-and-other-military-housing-violators-targeted-by-presidential-c 7/n
So now I’m sitting in front of my computer, trying to finish a syllabus thru a waterfall of tears. We already lost a dept chair to Covid. Thinking of the additional deaths and long-term damage for those who survive has me gutted. I feel utterly powerless. 8/8
