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[quote=Anonymous]In most jobs where people were forced to go back to work in-person, companies were at least trying to observe safety protocols in a reasonable fashion.

I have a couple of friends in construction and they had masks and face shields were available for when guys were working indoors.  Most of the time that people were working indoors, it was maybe 5-8 guys working in fairly large rooms or 1-3 guys working in smaller rooms.

Grocery store workers had plastic shields set up between them and the customers.  PPE was provided.  Cleaning solutions were provided and replentished by stores, so that they could wipe down frequently touched surfaces.

Schools on the other hand, provided the teachers with very little.  I have friends in three different local school districts that have returned to work.  There are times that there are 15-20 kids in a classroom with a teacher.  Many classrooms did not have space to keep the kids  6 feet apart and they were lucky if kids were kept 3 feet apart.  No plastic shields for teachers.  Half were given face shields hand-made from page protectors.  The others were not give face shields at all.  I know three teachers who were given enough cleaning solutions to last the first week of class.  When they asked for more, they were told that was all that was available.  And they were given a long list of times they were supposed to clean surfaces which was multiple times a day.  Teachers in 2 of the 3 school districts were explicitly told they were not allowed to ask parents of their students to augment cleaning supplies since there is a pandemic and they were not supposed to make the FARMS and lower income families feel guilty.  So essentially they are expected to pay for cleaning supplies out of their own pockets. So the school districts have been lying about "adequate" cleaning supplies are being provided to the teaching staff.  They are also lying about following CDC guidelines (or they were until a few days ago when the CDC guidelines were revised to allow 3 feet separation).  Basically the school boards cannot be trusted to actually enforce health and safety.  They are just saying whatever they need to say to get the schools open at the risk of students and faculty.

I am not a teacher, but have a lot of sympathy.  I have actually amazon'ed shipments of wipes, cleaning supplies and paper towels to 5 teachers in the last 2 weeks.  At least I have a stable job from an employer that cares about my health and safety.  And I am a lot more financially stable than most teachers, so I provide them what support I can.  And we are fortunate that we can keep our kids virtual until we, the parents, are vaccinated.  We'll reconsider whether to send out kids back to school after we're both fully vaccinated (which may or may not happen during the school year).
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