Let’s make one thing clear: SoulCycle instructors, no matter how many Instagram fans they have, are not teachers.
While parents and teachers nationwide are experiencing perpetual consternation over the reopening of schools, a New York influencer said she received a COVID-19 vaccine last week ahead of many other public teachers in the Big Apple.
Stacey Griffith, a famous 52-year-old ‘founding’ coach at the bougie fitness empire, drove an hour outside her neighborhood to get the vaccine. It was a ride that, according to her, was “worth every minute.” “It takes a town,” reads her report.
After a serious setback from her comment base, she told the Daily Beast, who made the news known: ” If I get vaccinated, it could stop the short spread within groups! ‘
“In my profession of health and wellness as a teacher,” she added, “it is my priority to make my community and their respiratory systems work at full capacity so that they can beat this virus if infected by it.”
She also insisted that she would not pay or earn any favors, despite the fact that she would mark several people making her efforts to help the vaccine in the now remote position.
A memo from the newly appointed CEO of SoulCycle, Evelyn Webster, obtained by Vox Reporter Alex Abad-Santos, a chronicler of the internal unrest in the company, rejected her comments.
“SoulCycle instructors do not qualify as educators to receive the vaccine solely on the basis of their roles at SoulCycle and should not attempt to receive the vaccine unless they are otherwise eligible to do so, based on applicable government regulations,” read Webster’s memo.
SoulCycle did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE.