Let’s get one thing straight: SoulCycle instructors, no matter how many Instagram followers they have, are not teachers.
While parents and teachers across the country are experiencing perpetual dismay at the reopening of schools, a New York City influencer shared that she received a COVID-19 vaccine last week, ahead of many other public school teachers in the Big Apple. .
Stacey Griffith, a famous 52-year-old “founding” trainer from the bougie fitness empire, drove an hour outside her neighborhood to get the vaccine. It was a trip that, she said, “was worth every minute!” “It takes a village,” said his post.
After severe reactions from her commentator base, she told the Daily Beast, who was the first to break the news: “” Having me vaccinated can stop the short spread within groups! “
“In my profession as a health and wellness teacher,” she added, “it is my daily priority to keep my community and its respiratory systems operating at full capacity so that they can fight this virus if they become infected with it.”
She also insisted that she did not pay or receive any favors, despite appointing several people who helped in her efforts to obtain the vaccine in the now deleted post.
A memo from the newly appointed CEO of SoulCycle, Evelyn Webster, obtained by Vox reporter Alex Abad-Santos, a chronicler of internal turmoil within the company, rejected his comments.
“SoulCycle instructors do not qualify as educators to receive the vaccine based solely on their roles at SoulCycle and should not attempt to receive the vaccine unless they are eligible to do so, based on appropriate state regulations,” said the Webster’s memo.
SoulCycle did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE.