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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. [b]They also get to wear protective equipment, have access to testing, and make much more money than teachers. [/b]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]

As it happened, doctors and nurses were pitching fits because they didn't get to wear protective equipment and also didn't have access to testing.

As for money - home health care aides earn about $12/hour.[/quote]
Right, and everyone was outraged. Yet people don’t understand why teachers are now demanding protections for OUR safety be put in place. I don’t remember people complaining about all the health care providers (dermatologists, gynecologists, even GPs) providing telehealth appointments during the height of the pandemic, either.
Home health aides don’t have degrees, also not comparable to a teacher with a masters degree.  [/quote]

The outcomes of a doctors visit can be fully achieved in a televisit. That’s just not true for school on any front. If you’re telling me that 40 minutes of Zoom equates to a full day of education, I call BS. And I also wonder what the heck teachers are getting paid for if that’s the case.

As for PPE and protocols, teachers are in the same boat as many other professions. I work with the public and am expected to buy my own masks. No big deal. I don’t look for my employer to buy these for me. The entitlement of teachers has really become apparent during the last three months.

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That is ridiculous. You think video chatting with a gynecologist is equivalent to an office visit? Okay then. Why are doctors paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, then? 
It actually is possible to get an education online. It’s just not possible to babysit virtually, which is the big sticking point. 
If you sit at a desk, isolated, all day, then your job has nowhere near the level of exposure that teachers are facing. Do you also have to clean your office every day and purchase your own supplies to do so? I already spend over a thousand dollars on supplies and materials for my class every year. Do you pay for your office supplies, too? We teach in cramped conditions with people who think social distancing is a funny joke and whose parents send them to school sick. I don’t care about a cloth mask! I have my own. I care about cleaning supplies being regularly sent to my classroom, the bathrooms being outfitted with soap, and a comprehensive sick child policy being put in place. I care about a plan to have children wear masks or to enforce social distancing. I care about windows that don’t open and ventilation systems that are thirty years out of date. [/quote]

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