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Valid concerns. Having personally encountered two occasions where COVID booster was required for online-only teaching positions leaves two possibilities: 1) I missed the groundbreaking discovery of viral transmissions via internet or 2) there was a typo in job requirements. Any other explanation is difficult to contemplate……

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Your fourth paragraph references Nature's 2021 surveys, which I provide links to below. Later in your essay, the sentence that begins "Some are required to discriminate ..." links to the last link listed below which focuses on DEI, which was one of your two topics. To those like me who would find your essay too polemical, I suggest that they read the free-text responses selected by the Nature article's author for inclusion at the end of the article because those comments rather uniformly reiterate your claim of a malaise from the perception of the unfairness and the ineffectiveness of current practices, from many different respondents worldwide. Caveats: the author of the Nature article appears to be an older white male, and the 3200 respondents were self-selected.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03040-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03041-0

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03042-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03043-y

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