NYC teachers with vaccine exemptions are being treated like pariahs
This looks to be what’s coming to Philadelphia in the next few weeks. In Philadelphia, currently, city employees who are “unvaccinated” must mark themselves with a double mask while their co-workers, who are deemed safe, are at liberty to show their faces.
It is yet to be seen if this openly discriminatory and stigmatizing policy will manifest itself into a standard by businesses and within our schools. Like the New York City Department of Education had done some business are ordering employees to continue to work from home if they have exemptions from taking the shots.
They are unvaccinated and shunned.
New York City educators granted medical or religious exemptions from the required COVID-19 vaccination were mandated to report to school buildings Monday where some said they were treated like pariahs.
The teachers and other staffers who showed up at a building on Ocean Avenue in Flatbush were met with hostility from vaccinated DOE workers already at the site. The unjabbed were directed to one stairwell — forbidden to walk down the first-floor corridor where the vaccinated staff work, and forbidden from using their restroom.
Upstairs, those with exemptions made do with only a single toilet that flushed irregularly, or tiny children’s toilets, staffers told The Post. The kiddie commodes were replaced Wednesday night after they complained.
“The whole thing just reeks of discrimination and segregation. I never in my life have ever experienced something like this,” said a teacher who normally works on Staten Island and has a medical exemption for the vaccine.