# Private School in Miami warns staff to not get COVID-19 vaccine **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839 "2021-04-27T06:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/121 "2021-04-30T08:48:55Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It doesn’t surprise me at all that there are parents who are against the vaccine schedule for kids but are not against vaccines entirely. Valid point, although it’s just a matter of familiarity and fashion. We have got used to anti-vaxxers trotting out the schedule thing now, but don’t forget it only came along as “the latest excuse” after other anti-vax rationalizations got knocked down. Give it a while and the “vaccines can affect other people” rationalization will become mainstream anti-vaxxer thought. You can seen trends in anti-vax rationalization develop and flow through the anti-vax community as their former positions get trashed. The point that unvaccinated people aren’t merely endangering themselves (as they like to argue) but are disease vectors who can endanger others has hit home. So the idea that vaccinated people are dangerous has got traction in the anti-vax movement because it gives them a counter - a mental _tu quoque_ - against the suggestion they are being irresponsible towards others. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/122 "2021-05-01T15:20:17Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Secondly their clothes were expensive high quality English made brands but old and worn. And thirdly they drove a battered Landrover. Yes. Some years (decades, actually) ago, I had a long-term relationship with a woman from the American version of that class. My glimpse into that world was fascinating. I’d never seen anything like it (being a middle-class kid from Queens). Greenwich, Connecticut, Hunt Club, debutante balls, unbelievably expensive private schools, etc. But ostentation was seriously frowned upon. Houses were beautiful, but they weren’t flashy McMansions. You wouldn’t see Cadillacs and Mercedeses in the driveways, but you might see Buicks and Volvos. Clothing was top-notch high quality stuff, but often old and worn. And definitely not flashy. There’s an old joke – Two old Emma Willard classmates, Buffy and Muffy, are meeting for lunch after not having seen each other for years. Muffy walks in and she’s decked out from head to toe in expensive designer clothes and about ten pounds of jewelry. Buffy is astounded, and asks Muffy how she can afford all this stuff. Muffy says, “well, you may be shocked by this, but I’ve been working as a prostitute for the past ten years. A very expensive prostitute. And it’s worked out pretty well for me.” Buffy says “Oh, thank God. I was afraid you’d dipped into capital.” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/123 "2021-05-01T20:20:24Z")
Speaking of a glimpse inside, check out [this report of the “school”](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article250973204.html): > Long before Miami’s Centner Academy ignited a national uproar by telling teachers not to get COVID-19 vaccinations, contrary to all credible scientific advice, the school’s husband-and-wife founders were determined to do things exactly as they pleased, for better or worse. > It began with the academy’s first open house when David and Leila Centner asked guests not just to wipe their feet but to swaddle the soles of their shoes in Saran wrap. And it continued with an impassioned pledge to mold students into “emotional ninjas,” and with the coverings over the windows to ward off potential radiation from 5G cell towers. Much more lunacy described at the link. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/124 "2021-05-01T20:51:14Z")
And still they had sufficient customers to operate this apparently profitable scam. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/125 "2021-05-01T22:14:07Z")
And cults _ **LOVE** _ Trump. Remember, two of the most Trump biased news outlets, the Washington Times and Epoch Times, are cult owned businesses. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/126 "2021-05-01T23:11:43Z")
Could you tell me more about the Washington Times being owned by a cult? (I knew about the Epoch Times beforehand.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/127 "2021-05-01T23:13:55Z")
The Moonies. > **[The Washington Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and in parts of Maryland and Virginia. A weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience is also published. The Washington Times was one of the first American broadsheets to publish i... ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/128 "2021-05-01T23:33:47Z")
I should be surprised that a major newspaper is owned by a cult, but _sigh_ I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/129 "2021-05-02T00:20:13Z")
Please do not confuse the Washington Times and the Washington Post. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/130 "2021-05-02T00:29:50Z")
The Washington Times is not a major newspaper to anyone except members of one of two cults. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/131 "2021-05-02T00:34:02Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Please do not confuse the Washington Times and the Washington Post. That’s worse than confusing the New York Times and New York Post. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/132 "2021-05-02T01:19:06Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > The Washington Times is not a major newspaper to anyone except members of one of two cults While this is completely accurate, unfortunately the Washington Times still gets picked up in the Google news feeds (and likely others) at a distressing rate, and plenty of people seeing it don’t realize the difference between the Wash Times and the Wash Post. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/133 "2021-05-02T02:18:29Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Please do not confuse the Washington Times and the Washington Post. > [@Atamasama](#): > > That’s worse than confusing the New York Times and New York Post. Yes. Never mix these up. In Washington, the Post is the liberal paper and the Times is the conservative paper. In New York, the Post is the conservative paper and the Times is the liberal paper. (Well, mostly, I suppose.) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/134 "2021-05-02T02:27:50Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > In New York, the Post is the conservative paper and the Times is the liberal paper In New York, The NY Times is a paper. The Post is not. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/135 "2021-05-02T02:29:40Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > In New York, The NY Times is a paper. The Post is not.   Is the NY Post on-line only? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/136 "2021-05-02T02:34:24Z")
My failed attempt at humor. I was trying to imply that The Post isn’t a newspaper in any format. Unless you were whooshing the whoosher? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/137 "2021-05-02T02:36:46Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I was trying to imply that The Post isn’t a newspaper in any format. Well I wasn’t sure. I was thinking maybe you meant NYP wasn’t worthy of being called a news-communication in any format, but I wasn’t sure if they’ve simply gone on-line only. Ambiguity rules the day! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/138 "2021-05-02T02:39:49Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > In New York, The NY Times is a paper. The Post is not. - The Post does have a talent for headlines. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-school-in-miami-warns-staff-to-not-get-covid-19-vaccine/940839/139 "2021-05-03T00:46:59Z")
So does a corduroy pillowcase. ---
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