NEW YORK (RPT) – As pharmaceutical companies prepare to release vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, they have met resistance from some university professors who are anxious - not about the science behind the vaccines - but rather about how the rollout of the vaccine will affect their newly established lifestyles. “I don’t want to leave my beach house,” one over-priveleged Full Professor told RPT. Other professors have cited concerns about “having to talk to people again,” and “being required to wear pants.”
Some professors, on the other hand, are looking forward to in-person work again. “It’s hard to really properly berate my graduate students over Zoom and I can’t go into the staff office to tell them my jokes and steal their coffee,” one professor told RPT. Other professors have mixed feelings centered around Zoom meetings as well, “I don’t love Zoom meetings, but I also don’t hate being able to mute myself and secretly binge watch Schitt’s Creek in the middle of one.”
With a return to in-person activities likely in coming months, some professors worry that they will once again lose touch with their families, at least until the next pandemic forces them to work from home again. Others look forward to the return to unnecessary in-person meetings, “once we’re back to having long and mostly worthless in-person meetings, I’ll feel like everything is right again.”
