How do you feel about coming back to work?

@Elessar In my opinion online teaching (at least until university) is shortchanging for students, and re-opening schools has to be tried, but under certain conditions. Large crowds have to be avoided, and environment must be ventilated. Measures like the installation of HEPS filters or webcams (half of the class may be present, the other half would stream class from home) could have been a solution, but of course they mean money.

About the vaccines, I really doubt that in 4-6 months we will have reliable vaccines. 4-6 years looks like a more reasonable time lapse.

@Cierzo Online can be good at lower levels in my opinion if implemented well, but definitely not if improvised like this year. If I recall correctly in some countries (Australia?) it was already a thing long before this pandemic, and I haven't read the quality of service to be significantly lower. The could've also taken a chance to modernize the current education system that (for us in Italy at least) is 50-years behind. Recorded lessons (not live-streamed, but recorded - so that you can rewatch, pause, and skip parts of them) would be a pretty good practice even *after* the pandemic (think of those who go to school with 39°C temperatures not to miss out on something), platforms like Moodle and alike, or something like a Discord/Slack thing to allow discussions/deepening of topics on a on-demand, case-by-case basis (and retain the discussion for later consultation), too. And yeah, all the measures you've suggested, first and foremost the re-circulation of air, and even bringing students more often out of those Petri dishes that are classrooms (I think I've read they do it min North Europe, when winter temperatures are even lower, paradoxically).

About the vaccine(s), for at least critical workers (healthcare, police, etc.) and high-risk populations (65 and older with two or more co-morbidities) it will come out long before than that, also keep in min keep in mind that in ordinary times clinical trials and mass production are performed sequentially and in this order, in this dire situation mass-production has already began in parallel, and if clinical trials go bad they'll have to throw away a few million doses (and invested euros/pounds/dollars) and start from scratch. Also, there are multiple candidates based on multiple technologies/platforms, for many of which the safety profile is known, it's effectiveness (neutralizing) and the risk of ADE is what they're studying at the moment (and for both of which, preliminary studies look promising), as far as I know.

@JustNik I will try my best. I am not scared. Going to work is my duty, and a necessity to keep our society, or what remains of it, working. I feel neglected, feel that neither education nor our health really matter.

@Cierzo p.s. Another fact, if we want to try to see more positively and not imply that the 70% of people are helpless political wh*res, is that a non quantifiable portion of the population doesn't feel represented. And end up not voting, voting for the perceived "less disastrous" choice, or rarely founding movements/parties that initially even start well but eventually rot and become part of the problem (you probably heard of our "M5S")

@Elessar I belong in that group. Those parties or movements act like vaccines. You vote one of them thinking it is different, until you are proven wrong, and you end up not voting again.

@Cierzo They give you neutralizing immunity from the intention to vote 😅

@Mugin16 There are things I cannot do anything about, like the number of students I will have in my classrooms.

@Mugin16 If I did not pay the high taxes I pay, I would get my own air purifier and bring it with me to every classroom, among other things.