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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]False! Plenty (all?) public/quasi-public sector essential workers are unionized and are on the job. Who else do you think are running utilities, trash pickup, transit, safety ... not to mention unionized private employees like nurses, truckers, longshoremen. All on the job.  Teachers are unique in cowardly refusing to work n
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C'mon - the vast majority of those employees don't work face to face, in a closed setting, with a static cohort, for 6 hours a day. Whatever the merits of opening v DL, schools are a unique setting.

The closest thing, I guess, would be a hospital, where PPE use is baked into the system. Well, that or a cruise ship.  :roll: [/quote]

Do you know how many staff are in hospitals in prolonged contact with the public and each other?  So many!  And your comment also shows your ignorance.  A "static cohort" is actually safer because it reduces the number of people you're exposed to, as opposed to settings where you are exposed to many different people constantly.  Schools are indeed a "unique setting" in that they are an essential function serving a constituency that is apparently not valued by the powers-that-be around here.  Unlike EVERY OTHER essential function, they've been deemed optional.  [/quote]

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