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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sick and tired of parents saying that schools should be the only institutions to open up at full capacity without any infection control protocols in place. Parents aren’t special. If you can’t care for your children, then you should surrender them.
See how that works both ways? [/quote]

Nobody said anything about them doing back without any infection control protocols. The discourse I am hearing as that pretty much nothing will be acceptable to teachers no matter what the protocols are. They want 100% DL or nothing.

There have been numerous articles showing data that kids not only don't spread it to each other but don't spread it to adults. [/quote]

Districts are all putting loopholes in the language about precautions so they can shrug innocently when the first day of school rolls around and there’s almost nothing in place. I expect to receive a “cute” cloth masks with a cheesy teaching theme print, a single large bottle of sanitizer, and class rosters of 30-35 students, plus my advisory and home room above 35 students. [/quote]

If only there were something you could do, using materials you already have anyway, if you considered the employer-provided masks to be inadequate.[/quote]

Why should teachers —once again— pay out of their own pockets for materials needed for work. Maybe we should make cops buy their own bullets?[/quote]

You don't have to pay out of your own pocket. All you have to do is wear the masks you already have.[/quote]

What if teachers don’t already own washable cloth masks? I don’t. I have a couple boxes of N95 that we share as a family of four. We reuse the masks until they get gross, but the truth is that we sheltered in place largely. Those masks would go much faster with daily use.[/quote]

Well I’m a Doctor and I have three n95 masks. Total. So if you have a few boxes, as a teacher, you’re well ahead of many emergency room workers.[/quote]

Are you caring for COVID patients?[/quote]

not PP but yes this is standard among many physicians treating covid patients. I'm in moco. 1 or 2 is standard, some hospitals I asked while working with PUI and they did not give me one. [/quote]

And I'm going to go ahead and guess that you can't just pitch a fit and say "you don't feel safe" returning to work am I right? [/quote]
So when health care providers around the country were striking,  writing articles and speaking to the press about lack of access to protective equipment and protocols you felt they were “pitching a fit”? Doctors and nurses are literally paid to care for sick people. They also get to wear protective equipment, have access to testing, and make much more money than teachers. There’s also no expectation that they go home and continue working on their own time. The jobs have nothing in common in terms of expectations and compensation. They work with one patient and then move on-they aren’t expected to hang out with a big group of unmasked patients in a small room all day, entertaining them and teaching through their masks. [/quote]

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